Are network paths permitted for Media folders?

[bgowland]

Just wondering.

For example I only use paths local to my npvr such as 'friendly' name "JukeBox" with a path of "D:\Music". is it possible for a user to have the path as "\\myserver\music" ?

Cheers,
Brian

[Jaggy]

Well here is a copy paste direct out of my config.xml

Code:

<LibraryDirectories>
    <HideFileExtensions>false</HideFileExtensions>
    <AllowVideoDelete>true</AllowVideoDelete>
    <MusicLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mp3|ogg|m3u|wma|aac|wav|m4a|fla|flac)$">
      <Directory name="Default">C:\</Directory>
      <Directory name="E-_Music">E:\_Music\</Directory>
      <Directory name="F _Music">F:\_Music\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Server Music">\\Pvr-server\Music\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Robert">\\Pvr-server\my book (i)\Music Library\</Directory>
      <Directory name="C CueArchive">C:\WR2-Data\CueFileArchive\</Directory>
      <Directory name="F_Drive Christmas(mod)">F:\_Music\Christmas(mod)\</Directory>
    </MusicLibrary>
    <VideoLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mpeg|mpg|m2v|avi|bdmv|ty|avs|ogm|mp4|mov|m2ts|wmv|cdg|iso|rm|dvr-ms|ts|mkv|vob|divx|flv|ratDVD|m4v|3gp|rmvb|wtv)$">
      <Directory name="Default">C:\</Directory>
      <Directory name="E-Recordings">E:\_Recordings\</Directory>
      <Directory name="F-Drive">F:\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Server-I USB-Drive">\\PVR-SERVER\My Book (I)</Directory>
    </VideoLibrary>
    <PictureLibrary extensions="^.+\.(bmp|jpg|png|tiff|tif)$">
      <Directory name="Default">C:\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Server _Photo">\\Pvr-server\_Photo\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Birds 2010">\\Pvr-server\G_Drv (G)\_Photo\Birds-10-11\</Directory>
      <Directory name="F Drv">F:\</Directory>
      <Directory name="E-_Photos">E:\_Photos\</Directory>
    </PictureLibrary>
  </LibraryDirectories>

[bgowland]

Well here is a copy paste direct out of my config.xml

lol, well that's a pretty conclusive answer.

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

Sometimes when streaming to the NMT\MVP or via NEWA those shared aren't available to the local system account in the same way as they would be to a user This can be either permissions or simply that the Master Browser isn't reporting the SMB Name (requiring you to you use \\IP\share notion.

As a workaround I did write a small utility Sharehelper http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=43067 Alternatively you could run the NPVR Recording Service as a named user and use their permissions.

You might have these same troubles with the nDroid Service.

Martin

[bgowland]

As a workaround I did write a small utility Sharehelper http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=43067

Thanks, I'll take a look.

You might have these same troubles with the nDroid Service.

How did you guess what I was thinking about?

Early days yet but I can now walk my Music and Videos folder trees with the current dev version of nDroid (blisteringly fast using JSON) and stream the content. It suddenly occurred to me that SMB shares might throw a spanner in the works.

I'll set up some shares on my wife's PC and add them to my media folders to see what happens.

Cheers,
Brian

[imilne]

Early days yet but I can now walk my Music and Videos folder trees with the current dev version of nDroid (blisteringly fast using JSON)

Do tell

Iain

[bgowland]

Do tell

Iain

Not much to tell really.

I decided against compiling a full list of the media folders and just request one level at a time similar to the npvr Music and Video plugins.

The nDroid app makes an HTTP request for D:\Music\<some-folder> (for example) and I use Directory.GetDirectories (and .GetFiles) with SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly at the nDroid Service end. The returned lists are parsed into a JSON object (using a JSON .NET library called NewtonSoft.Json) which is sent by return.

The nDroid app extracts the JSON object and updates the list on the screen. The update takes less time than it does for me to move my finger away from the screen - nice.

Cheers,
Brian

[imilne]

Ok, no worries. I was just intrigued by the 'blisteringly fast' comment and thought maybe you'd come up with an even-faster method for returning results over the network.

Iain

[bgowland]

Ok, no worries. I was just intrigued by the 'blisteringly fast' comment and thought maybe you'd come up with an even-faster method for returning results over the network.

Well only in the sense that JSON seems to be regarded as a very efficient way of transferring data in pseudo object form with minimal code. Bearing in mind I'm returning arrays of folder names/paths and media file names/paths which have to be reconstructed at the other end, it really is quite simple and efficient. I only just started using it a few days ago but I'm hooked.

Cheers,
Brian