Serviio

Hi,

I am running Serviio 1.4.1.2 on my Win 2008 R2 Sp1 server.

I have selected four (4) folders at the root of various drives. For Example "D:\".

Each drive contains anywhere from 10 - 70 folders at the root level. For example, all of my movies are sorted by Genre. All of my TV Shows by TItle. Basketball are sorted by Year/Season and Documentaries by Titles and categories.

Q1: I would like to be able to exclude one or two folders. Is there a way to exclude a single folder, or do I have to add all 300+ folders one by one and exclude the few that way.

Secondly, There are 6 categories of media files (Not counting music and photos which I don't want to share). Movies, TV Shows, Cancelled TV Shows, 3D Movies, Documentaries, and Basketball. Due to limitations with the alphabet I had to create hard symlinks (mklink /d). On each drive there are links to the other drives. In this way, on a PC I only have to map a couple of the drives (Eg 3D Movies are accessed via the link on Movies). But TV Shows, Basketball and documentaries are also accessible from Movies via a Link, as well as being Mapped. This gives needed flexibility for the various devices we use which include iPods, PS3's, PCs, laptops etc.

The problems I have specifically are:

(a). Some movies files will be called "action" (That is the folder the movie is located in). I have metadata ticked. I will see approximately 40 movies with the same name, which is about right - I'd have 40 action movies in that folder.
(b). Some items are called "1", and "4" and "100", which does not correspond to any file name in existence on the server. In the case of "100" there are about 250 of them listed in the library. I cannot for the life of me figure out where these names are generated from.
(c). It appears (though I cannot prove it), that when the folders are scanned the links are followed. So when movies are scanned it will see the "TV Shows" symlink, follow it, scan the files, see the movie symlink" then follow that, and re-add the same files. However, in many cases there are not multiple copies of the same movie in the library.

Lastly, there is about a half second sync issue with the audio on ALL files. I have ripped all of my DVDs and Blu-rays to MKV. I have used Handbrake, MakeMKV, DVDFab and a couple of others over the years. I have Transcoding enabled. How do I resolve the audio sync issue?

I can't make sense of it all. I'm hoping one of you guru's here might be able to offer some insight, and possibly even some solutions.

Many Thanks
Tanya

For the folders you wish to exclude, I would simply move them below the level of the Serviio folder. For example, none of my video hard drives are selected at the root (F:\). Instead, I have a base Serviio folder on each drive (F:\Video1). Any folders you don't want Serviio to access just move to the root of the drive. If you make a new Serviio folder and move all the desired folders into that one, you have what you desire I believe. If you stick with everything on the same drive, this won't take long, as you aren't actually moving any files, just changing the pointers in the hard drive file table.

Thanks @atc98082. That's a good idea.

I have much more work to do though. The names of the files are a mess in the library. They're fine on disk, but the names assigned to them by Serviio are in many cases quite bizarre. I have about 170 movies called "war". (I don't actually, but that's what Serviio called them). There are actually only 4 movies in the War folder. Then there are literally hundreds of movies assigned names that are not even close to the real title of the movie, about 320 called "100". One Movie, Revenge of the Sith, when added to the library came out as "Goodbye Charlie", a very old Tony Curtis Movie. Go figure...

I have about 80 TV episodes that were classified as movies, despite spending hours renaming them so Serviio would see them as TV series (following the docs for how Serviio identifies TV episodes).

Lol. I didn't think setting up a DLNA server would be so much work.

Hi Tanya - if you haven't already discovered it, Filebot can make this a lot easier. See my post here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10626&p=70544#p70544.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

Already installed Bulk Rename Utility to rename my TV series. But so many titles are being mis-labelled, and I have like nearly 10,000 files.

I have to tell you about this one - All my Basketball Home Movies my kids made are all being detected as Japanese Porn. So I have literally hundreds of porn movies. Of course, the kids saw them and had to click on them (like a wet paint sign). They were disappointed! Boys will be boys!

For your Home Movies the only way to really handle them is either:

• to move them to a separately shared folder and then turn off Metadata for that share. It means though that you will only ever find these files under the Folders Category in Serviio (ie. they won't appear under Movies, Titles, Directors, etc - all of which are populated based on Metadata). This is what I do - I have my Home Movies in a separate folder (with subfolders) called Home Movies, I share this with Metadata off whereas all of my commercial movies are in a folder simply called Movies, and that has Metadata set on (using online metatdata);
• create your own offline metadata for these files (.nfo files). Unfortunately this comes at a cost - at this stage if you use the offline metadata process you have to use it for all files, not just your home movies. This means you will also need to create, and maintain, metadata for your commercial backups as well (rather than using the online databases).