Could somebody give me a totally blow by blow account of how to get videos to show up on XBMC when they are stored on an external drive connected to a Mac that's on the same network as the ATV2? I've got Rivet installed as it happens, for streaming to my Xbox, and so my media does show up via UPnP pretty painlessly - worth a try for folks having difficulty but Rivet isn't free - but I thought perhaps this method could be causing some problems and wanted to try a different way - I set my folders up for File Sharing as suggested but an SMB scan doesn't reveal anything in XBMC.
Anyway my two main problems are:
1) nothing is scraping. I set the folders up using the UPnP method described above and set them to TV or Movies with the right scrapers, autoscraping on, and so the folders show up in the Videos section but only as lists of files.
All my TV shows are generally: the.walking.dead.S01E03.XviD.avi for example. Movies are generally just the name of the movie, nothing else. The standard naming format, really. Plex can understand every single movie and TV show I have in my library, so any ideas why the XBMC scrapers aren't getting anything from them?
2) some skins have an extra couple of folders on the home screen - TV Shows and Movies. Despite being able to access my own TV and Movie folders via the Videos section (albeit without scraper info), these two extra folders never get populated with anything.
Any ideas? Many thanks
Anyway my two main problems are:
1) nothing is scraping. I set the folders up using the UPnP method described above and set them to TV or Movies with the right scrapers, autoscraping on, and so the folders show up in the Videos section but only as lists of files.
All my TV shows are generally: the.walking.dead.S01E03.XviD.avi for example. Movies are generally just the name of the movie, nothing else. The standard naming format, really. Plex can understand every single movie and TV show I have in my library, so any ideas why the XBMC scrapers aren't getting anything from them?
2) some skins have an extra couple of folders on the home screen - TV Shows and Movies. Despite being able to access my own TV and Movie folders via the Videos section (albeit without scraper info), these two extra folders never get populated with anything.
Any ideas? Many thanks