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Users / Adding ISO DVD files to media director after installation

« on: August 14, 2009, 01:15:02 am »

I have over 100 DVD ISO's I would like to add them to my Media director after I get it all setup.  I know I can use my MD as a DHCP server and let it auto detect all of the files, but I would rather store them locally since there are files I dont want it to find.  kinda want to avoid that fight...  not to mention sucking such larger files over the wireless.  does anyone have any recomendations for uploading them to the MD over the network?

THanks,

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Users / Updating DVD Information

« on: September 04, 2008, 08:18:28 am »

Hi all, I have been watching LinuxMCE for a while now, and well the wife finally caved let me setup a system.  I think she just got tired of constantly getting up and digging for the DVD she wanted. 

Ok now on to the question.  I copied a season of Robot Chicken to my system, and it didnt pull down any of the DVD info.  I know this feature works because several of my other discs have all the correct info.  Is there a file or location I can goto and edit the necessary information to have all the dvd info displayed? 

I dont mind manually inputting the info.  searching the forum and Wiki didnt turn up much on this either.  I am a windows nerd slowly venturing into the world of linux, so any help would be great.  I am also still kind of lost in the directory structure.  so if its some where buried if I could get the full path from root that would be awesome too.

Thanks for the help

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 11, 2007, 11:46:28 pm »

oh hey, I hadnt checked that out.  I will have to look at that tonight.  I just shared out the drives on my xp machine, then turned on MCE and it came right up.

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 11, 2007, 06:46:39 pm »

yah, I would imagine, that it wouldnt like a domain user account, unless of course you joined your MCE machine to your domain.  when you say device template are your refering to the screen that pops up saying linux found a new device?  because that that works well, so well it comes up every 15 minutes of course that could be something that I didnt set right.  I think that most linux flavors can read NTSF, I know that MCE was reading my drive which is NTFS.

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 11, 2007, 04:52:00 am »

Ok got it up and running, disabling the DHCP worked.  one of my shares has shown up but not the other.  your running a server so it shouldnt be on anyway but I turned off simple file sharing.  then I shared my D drive, and then my music folder.  I also created a user account on my xp system made them an admin, and it worked.  I still cant figure out why the other share has shown up. 

The new issue that I am having is MCE keeps coming up saying it has found a new share, I enter the login information, it says it wants to restart the router, then rebuild the orbiter.  I do all that let about 15 minutes go by and it will come up wanting me to repeat the process again. 

another thought I did set a password on the xp machine just because I dont like leaving a system wide open either.

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 11, 2007, 01:17:28 am »

No Problem I will keep you posted.

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:45:10 pm »

excellent, I really do appreciate all of the help on this.

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:39:16 pm »

Yah my linksys router is running DHCP for my wireless, but my xp system is running a static ip

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:33:53 pm »

cool thanks.  I really appreciate the help.  do you know if it MCE is still going to pull in media off my other systems as well?

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Installation issues / Re: DHCP

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:23:38 pm »

forgot to mention that.  it had two ip addesses, one was the 192.168.80 and the other was a 192.168.1 also it only has one nic
You will have to forgive me I am kinda of a Linux newbie I know enough to be annouying and thats about it.  I did goto to the kde desktop and opened up a terminal window but ifconfig isnt installed.

Also from the prompt I wasnt able to ping out.

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Installation issues / DHCP

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:06:56 pm »

Ok, so I managed to get MCE up and running last night.  I haven’t had much time to play with it yet but I am absolutely excited about it.  Any way during the setup it was coming up that MCE had detected a possible file server and wanted to know what to do about it.  The Ip that it provided though was 192.168.80.240 my internal network at home is using 192.168.1.1-255 Now initially this freaked me out thinking that someone had hacked my wireless.

Then I noticed that the flickr images weren’t being displayed.  This made me wonder if the system was broadcasting DHCP and it was freaking out my router. 

So basically is MCE still broadcasting DHCP, and is it still scanning the systems on the network to find media?

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Users / DHCP question

« on: September 10, 2007, 06:00:24 pm »

Ok, so I managed to get MCE up and running last night.  I haven’t had much time to play with it yet but I am absolutely excited about it.  Any way during the setup it was coming up that MCE had detected a possible file server and wanted to know what to do about it.  The Ip that it provided though was 192.168.80.240 my internal network at home is using 192.168.1.1-255 Now initially this freaked me out thinking that someone had hacked my wireless.

Then I noticed that the flickr images weren’t being displayed.  This made me wonder if the system was broadcasting DHCP and it was freaking out my router. 

So basically is MCE still broadcasting DHCP, and is it still scanning the systems on the network to find media?

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Installation issues / Re: desktop icon wont run

« on: May 29, 2007, 01:56:57 am »

Also I reinstalled the package file from the site after I edited the xorg.conf file.  and when I run it from the command line I still get nothing.

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Installation issues / Re: desktop icon wont run

« on: May 29, 2007, 01:48:55 am »

Thanks for the link.  I did the stuff recommended in that thread, and still get nothing, I click on the install icon, it asks for the password but then i get nothing.  I used Kate to edit the file instead of VI, and actually forgot what permissions the file had before so I gave everyone RWX on it, would that cause any problems?

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Installation issues / Re: desktop icon wont run

« on: May 28, 2007, 05:55:02 am »

ok got Kubuntu in and running. I downloaded the installer package, after I installed, the install linux mce icon still wouldnt work, even tried a reboot and still nothing.  I ran it from the command line and it said that it needed gksu installed.  I installed that, and still get nothing when I click the Icon from the command line  this is the message that I get.

test@test-desktop:~$ gksu /usr/share/mce-installer/mce-installer.sh
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode:  144
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode:  144
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
test@test-desktop:~$

I am also using the latest version of Kubuntu.  any help would be greatly appreciated.