Thread: Knots 2 - easy media streaming for most operating systems
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ukki is offline ukki
2010-05-01 , 10:16
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Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
2) Is there any way to add media in a folder but not media that are located in a folder underneath it?
Nope, there's no blacklisting, so you have to move the folders that you don't want scanned to a different place.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
3) I read that you can add image extensions to media to scan for but that they will be treated like '5 sec videos' - is there a chance that images will be given a more 'permanent' treatment in their own section in Knots?
As somewhat of a photographer I got hundreds upon hundred of photos I would LOVE to be able to 'stream' to my tablet
Well you can do it already with very little changes, but I could make it work by default. But I doubt I'm going to change how it works now, I will keep it VLC based.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
4) I assume that there is no 'auto-scan' on folders. If I add/remove any media to folders on my PC I will have to manually re-scan that folder right?
Yes. But you can do it from the client menu. That's why it's wise to add as many paths as possible so you don't have to rescan your whole collection every time. I haven't promoted latest diablo client to extras yet, so you need to get it from -devel if you want folder specific updating from client.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
5) Any chance of adjusting the volume on the tablet by using the zoom-keys like Vagalume does?
EDIT: I can do this when playing videos - but not when playing music.
It should work for both videos and music. I think dpad should change the mixer volume too.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
6) After 'adding missing covers' I get cover art on the actual song. But when browsing my music by album the folders doesn't show the album cover arts. Are cover arts only associated with individual songs and never at a higher level?
Images are tied to individual items and only album tag should show the art in its values (album names). But not when browsing by path for example.

Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
7) And now the newbiest question of them all...: How does it all really work? The server I'm running on my computer is viewed via a localhost:1978 page. Is the content that I sync actually stored somewhere else or is the localhost/server setup just creating an 'index' of media that the tablet accesses - and nothing 'leaves' my computer and gets saved somewhere else?
Knots is basically a web server. It stores everything (settings/info/images) into .config/knots2/knots.db. So by removing the .config directory inside knots folder you can revert to default settings again.

To get rid of it completely, you only need to delete the knots folder and the two menu items.

Knots only talks with the outside world when fetching lyrics/movie info/subtitles and if you use the remote discovery. It then updates your ip address every 6 hours to my public web server and uses that info to generate your sharing links and make sure your client can connect to your server without you having to know your public ip address.

So basically nothing will ever leave your machine unless you want to share it with people.
 

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