Thread: A couple of Mediabox questions
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VulcanRidr is offline VulcanRidr
2009-07-31 , 08:45
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[QUOTE=pycage;307925]This is a good decision!

I like to think so...The interface was originally hard to get my head around.

MediaBox uses the filename extension for detecting filetypes (simply because this is the fastest way).
Extension .avi is recognized. Do these files have .avi as filename extension?
They do. For instance, some of the files that are currently in this directory include

ActionPoint.avi
Beverly_Hills_Cop_II.avi
Enemy_of_the_State.avi
Supremacy.wmv
The_Tuskegee_Airmen.avi
...etc.

Do they appear in MediaBox' file browser when browsing the local filesystem (Video Clips)?
No. I went into Video -> Browser. Under Local Videos (1 items), there is All Videos (0 items).


[quote]Go to the preferences view and select the mediascanner settings. There you can force a rescan of the files.[/qupte]

Under Media Indexing, the checkbox for Always update at Startup is checked and I had hit update index now.

Note: MediaBox only scan for media in the places that you specify. To add places to this library, go to the desired place with the filebrowser and press the [+] button when you are there. The "Library" tab in the filebrowser lists the folders that are selected for scanning. There you can specify for what media types (video, image, and audio) MediaBox should look for. By default, it scans for all three of them.
In my library I have

file:///home/user/MyDocs/.sounds
file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images
file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos
file:///media/mmc1/user/MyDocs

The last one should, on my system, point to the first three.

--vr