Windows MCE / Xbox - Separating Movies and TV Shows?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy all,

I'm trying to get my Xbox working via WIndows 7 MCE. I need a way to separate Movies from TV Shows and am wondering how that can be done.

I tried putting TV shows in Recorded TV but noting shows up so it seems MCE doesn't recognize all video formats in there. Is there some way to have Movies and TV shows separated? Also is it possible to have TV shows show up in a folder view by show?

Trying to get this setup so I can use my Xbox 360 as an extender to manage all my stuff.

Thanks.

 

[ciproxr]

I use tversity, i have different folders and i navigate to the folder through the xbox like you would if had set up windows media player to stream.

Dont know if that helps

 

[Kelemvor]

Does TVersity actually do the playing and streams the video to the Xbox or does the Xbox do the playing and TVersity just supplies the paths and such?

Currently I have my folders shared out and can access them from the Xbox directly by navigating to the folders but it sometimes has some lagging issues. I was looking at MCE since it does the playing and just streams the output so the processing is done by the PC...

 

[Gooberlx2]

IIRC, recorded tv will only pick up the shows MCE actually records. Better to put your tv shows in a "TV Shows" folder, and movies in a "movies" folder. Additionally, use something to generate dvdid.xml files, and separate folders, for each of your movies and make use of the "Movies" top level category.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11232-media-center-setup-movie-library.html

Regardless, imo, MCE is more hassle than it's worth with the limited format support.

I've found, so far, Plex Media Server works pretty well with the 360.

 

[Ferzerp]

Regardless, imo, MCE is more hassle than it's worth with the limited format support.

WMC does what it is inteded to do extremely well. It is a set top box and DVR replacement. What it isn't made for is to play your non-legitimately aquired videos (hence it doesn't support every file format that you're pirating with).

Don't bother claiming that your complaints of file formats are files you have obtained legitimately, or ones you've encoded yourself from physical media that you own.

Good luck trying to use a cablecard with *any* other application by the way.


When you DVR things, everything is dumped in recorded TV and sortable by date or show. Movies that you record get automatically displayed in the movies section as well so that they're easy to find.

Again, WMC is a set top box and DVR replacement, not just a video player.