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Green888

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« on: July 31, 2004, 03:14:00 PM »
i have my movies i several folders on my F: drive...but XBMP only find the ones in the E:/videos folder, why is that ?

how do i browse folders/drives with XBMP ?

thx in advance for helping me out.  :)

Regards
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bigga

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2004, 03:17:00 PM »
The best answer is to get XBMC, as this allows you to browse through you HDD.  You have to edit the config.xml file in notepad/wordpad on your pc then FTP it to your xbox to change the default video/music folders.
Get XB Media Centre as xbmp is getting old now and is not being updated anymore

This post has been edited by bigga on Jul 31 2004, 10:18 PM
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Green888

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2004, 09:02:00 PM »
thx for your input.
i have XBMC, but there are 1 movie (proberbly more) that XBMC cant play for some reason, but i play fine in XBMP, so i got both ! :)

any idea what to write in the config.xml ?
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blackdragon

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2004, 09:12:00 PM »
Ok, find this part of your config.xml

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<videos>
      <visible>true</visible>
      <share>
        <name>Network (XBMSP)</name>
        <url>xbmsp://192.168.1.2/videos</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share> 
      <share>
        <name>Network (XNS)</name>
        <url>c:\shared\[email protected]</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>Network (SMB)</name>
        <url>smb://username:password@workgroup/computer/share</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
      <share>
       <name>HDD</name>
       <url>f:\Video\</url>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>HDD</name>
        <url>f:\videos</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>Playlists</name>
        <url>e:\apps\xbmp\playlists</url>
        <cachesize>1024</cachesize>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
        <url>d:</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
        <url>iso9660:</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
    </videos>


and check if you have this in yours

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<share>
      <name>HDD</name>
      <url>f:\Video\</url>
      </share>
      <share>
        <name>HDD</name>
        <url>f:\videos</url>
        <cachesize>8192</cachesize>
      </share>
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Green888

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2004, 09:15:00 PM »
just got it

f:\video\

now it finds the right folders.

thx bro :D
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blackdragon

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Finding F: Drive With Xbmp
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2004, 09:31:00 PM »
Great  :beer:   <
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