Combine videos in multiple directories

[dark_half]

Is there any chance of this? I currently have videos spread across 6 drives. It is really hard to find the movies when you have to navigate through all the directories in the stock video plug-in. I could try to move them around to put them in some order (like alphabetically) but then it makes it hard to add to in the future when a drive fills up. I currently use Revens My Video plug-in which does this. However this keeps me from upgrading past 96.12 because no skins except blue support his beta for 2.0. He makes a great plug-in but I do not use any of the additional features and would like to stick to the core plug-in.

Thanks,
Jeff

[replaytv]

Can you give Video Archive a trial with new user tab features? I also have too many folders to navigate, so I have use VA multiple users to log in different categories which will cut down the folders list, so it might work out for you.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=17945

Dan L.

[tipstir]

Not really hard to span through several drives, just set them up as:

M-Drama
M-Comedy
M-Horror
M-SCI-FI

You can add graphics to each folder using folder.jpg

Video Library can handle the job well the new one in 97.13 is better than the pass versions.

I use that and Recordings...

I connect to 4 PCs hold MPEG2 media over the network.

[dark_half]

I know it can be done this way but it makes it a little more difficult. I am currently using My Videos witch incorparates a virtual directory setup. I could reorganize them by genre or alpabetically but this makes it hard to manage in the long run when a drive fills up. Currently my moves span 6 drives and using My Videos I have them broken into 3 virtual diectories(Movies, Kids, TV Series.) Although this problem would exist regardless the other thing that makes this a little more complicated for me is that I also stream to and download from my 3 replaytv using dvarchive which causes me to add addtional directories to make catagories in the replay menu. I can do all this using the virtual directories in MY Videos. This is a great pluggin but I do not need all the addtional features and at this this time the new 2.0 beta is really not supported by any addtional skins other than blue. I could switch to blue but the real question I had was if sub had ever thought about adding this feature in the future to the core video plugin?

Thanks,
Jeff

[sub]

Sounds like a reasonable request, but I'll be honest, I'm probably not going to add it for the next release. There are plenty more higher priority changes on my plate.

[dark_half]

I understand and will hopefully see the addtion in the future. I think this is this best PVR software I have used. Keep up the good work.

Jeff

[Jeff]

The video archive plug-in will group files across disks into the same list based on sub directory name (e.g., show name). I have 6 differnt disks I use for storage right now and it works very well.

Jeff

[deepak]

Does your setup support DVD Rips as well? I have 4 external drives with DVD Rips that I cannot pull via XDVD and need another solution to play them. I don't want to convert to MPEG because I want to retain the original format in case GBPVR can support those details in the future.