movie sheet how to

[fits79]

How the movie sheets work on wd tv live in simple words.

A lot of thanks

[Buhric]

[SeaParrot]

Buhric,

Great job. Fantastic write-up! Thanks for taking the time to lay it out so well.
This will be very useful to people struggling to get MovieSheets working. Lots of great tips there.

SeaParrot

[NoSubstitute]

Buhric,
great guide, but i'd suggest your edit your post to clarify how you actually access your media files when "xmounting".
Not all users can be expected to know how to xmount or where to find the files. Else, insert a reference to where in the wiki that info can be found.

[Buhric]

Thanks,

I also updated it with more explanations for xmount

[Angel_de]

The way i understood it ... moviesheets have changed with brad's newest firmware (1.02.21_B-RAD.CC_EXT3-BOOT_LIVE-0.4.1.9-9.1 and later)

Is this correct? .. Or is the moviesheet manual still valid for the newest firmware ?

[Buhric]

@Angel_de

Well I din't install the latest betas from B-Rad,
BUt reading the post he made... it does look like he modified the "linksheets" script

Now, instead of scanning the full drive for the sheets at mount time,
it scan a folder at when you access that folder.
This makes to boot time of the WDTVLive a lot faster for users that have a lot of movies.
But all Moviesheets will need to be in the same folder as the movie, and all Folder Sheet also at the same level of the folder.

[b-rad.cc]

i haven't done this yet. it is planned very soon. When i do that though i will still leave you the option of central moviesheet repository location

[Buhric]

Thanks B-Rad...

I was actualyy looking at the forums again to see where exactly i read that... could'nt find it anymore.

So for now, v0.4.1.9-9.3 still has the same MovieSheets behaviours than 0.4.1.9-6 ?

[Socram]

I'm curious if the naming convention mentioned by Buhric holds true for every version of the WDTV. My Gen2 doesn't react to the "..._sheet.jpg"-scheme.
It only displays moviesheets for folders with a "wd-tv.jpg" (or similar, not at home atm) inside. This leads to the problem that I can't seem to connect a concrete movie file (i.e. xyz.mkv) to a moviesheet.