Media not displaying, but searchable

[lon22]

Hello,

Does anyone know why my media is searchable, but doesn't display in the media views, ie.. Videos, Audio, etc..

I just set up Linux MCE  running UI2 on a machine (Core/MD) with the following hardware config:

IBM NetVista 2.6Ghz
1GB Ram
ATI Radeon 9550
WinTV-PVR-150MCE
Sound Blaster 5.1

I have a Windows XP machine with several shared internal drives that I configured as Windows Shares on the Admin site. At one point the media did display in the media browser, but I haven't been able to get it to display henceforth.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope I gave enough details. Also I had to add the Windows Shares manually on the Admin site, so I didn't receive any prompts on the core as to how to use the shares.

Thanks

[lon22]

I figured out how to fix my problem.

To restate the problem again - I originally had to add my Windows shares using the Admin website by following this informative guide - http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Howto:_Using_Network_Shares. I could access all of my files doing a search in the orbiter, but they didn't display in the media viewer under Videos, Audio, etc..

After numerous attempts of trying to tweak the shares profiles in device tree on the Admin website, I decide to delete the entire File Server. A few seconds to a minute after I deleted the File Server, my Core system recognized the Windows shares and asked me how to set them up. I selected to use LMCE's file structure. This solve my problem. I did a resync and my files displayed in the media viewer.

I think the problem was that even though I had correctly manually set up the File server and the shares, there was no option to use LMCE's file structure.

Hope this helps anyone that may be experiencing this or similiar problems.

[lon22]

One other thing. When the Core recognized the shares, it would prompt me to add duplicate shares. For instance, I have a share called E, the core prompt me to use the E share and also a share called E$. It did this for all of my shares, but I only added the shares that didn't have the $ character appended to the name.

[colinjones]

Lon22 - the $ in a Windows share just means its hidden on the network (although you can still find them, as LMCE demonstrates!)

Windows systems create a number of administrative shares by default, eg ADMIN$, IPC$, and a $ share for every drive you have, hence C$, D$, E$, etc.... so LMCE is just detecting these. You are right to ignore them. Only tell it to pick shares that you specifically create for your media as this will stop LMCE from having to scan entire drives looking for, possibly, only a small amount of media....

Col.

[lon22]

Thanks col. It's nice to know that this isn't a LMCE bug.