XBMC Setup

[rayjay86]

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this so I apologize if that is the case.

I was recently at a friends place and they had XBMC running on their Windows PC and I was really impressed with the way it organized all of their downloaded tv shows and movies with thumbnails and plot descriptions, etc. I also really liked that an entire tv series was organized by season and even showed which episode you had watched so you could pick up where you left off.

I downloaded it for my mac and cannot seem to figure it out. I have season1 and 2 of breaking bad and S1/S2 of Rome and it doesn't recognize them. I just puts them into a folder called videos and I have to click the individual things myself, doesn't arrange them in the nice format they had. They couldn't help me much, a friend of a friend set it up for them and it's a PC as well.

Any help would be appreciated. I just liked how their tv shows were arranged by little banners. I have The Conspirator and Seabiscuit loaded in there and it shows the movie poster and plot info.

There is also no shortcut for "TV Shows", just "Videos" and "Movies"

I am using the PM3HD skin and was using the Confluence skin before.

 

[natethomas1]

Odds are you forgot to "set content" when you added the video source. That's a pretty crucial step.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_Quick_Start_Guide

 

[mike457]

You also need to be careful how you name the files. The first episode of Rome, for example, should be called Rome S01E01. I use separate folders for movies and TV shows, and this helps with the setting content step.

 

[rayjay86]

Thanks guys, both helpful points.

I thought I had set content but apparently it was a little more finicky than I thought. I also had to manually rename the files (I don't have a bath renamer) and that seemed to solve the problem for now.