Serviio

Hello there,
First of all, thank you for this fantastic software. I am streaming videos only from a Win 7-based PC to an iPad running VLC. The only problem I have is I can't access my videos listed per genre after I choose to display the said category within the presentation tab of Serviio on my PC. The Genre folder that appears on my iPad contains a subfolder entitled Unknown in which there is a list of all my videos.
Can somebody help me out?
Thank you.

How are you getting your metadata? Is it from the Internet, or using NFO files, or something different? It sounds like Serviio isn't getting the metadata it needs to determine the genre.

I used a software called Mp3Tag to ascribe custom genres to my videos--I don't want to use metadata from the internet--.I can see these custom genres when I open the video files on iTunes or MediaMonkey. But I can't see them when I'm using Serviio.

It should work in 1.10 - at least for some file types, like mp4/mov.

All my videos are either in mp4 or m4v and none of their custom genres appear. Also, my library is quite extensive (3400+ videos whose size varies between under 1Go and 4Go max).

Do you mean I need to wait for the 1.10 version? If so, when it's planned for release?

Thank you.

yes. it's in beta testing atm. You can apply if you want to test this feature.

Not to be that guy but, mine's bigger



beta testing seems cool.

Where can I apply for the 1.10 Beta Testing?

Send a PM to Zip, or an email to zip (at) serviio.org

It's still on working with the 1.10 version: in the genre folder on my tablet, there is still one folder called Unknown that lists my whole library. As if none of my videos had genres--which is not the case. Any help?

Try to remove and add a file again. The files will have to be reindexed

Thank you it works! Only thing is there seems to be a problem with special characters and accents:
- it won't display the long dash "—" I use to index the release years of each of my films in its title: eg 2010—Inception (Christopher Nolan)
- foreign language-titled films with accents are all garbled: eg 1972—La Bête (XXX)

Should I do something in my parameters to get that corrected?

can you post the output of



which has the special characters?

First film on the picture below should be: 1949—Jour de fête (Jacques Tati) (problem wit the long dash "—" and the "ê")



The first genre on the picture below should read: ALLEMAGNE—Documentaire (problem with the long dash "—")



Last one: my folders are organized by decades and I get a "null/null" right after each folder name ie decade.



Thank you for your help!