MSHEETDIR migration guide

[KAD]

your msheetdir is clearly not set up correctly

first quote from first post

7. only needed if WDLXTV version is < 5.1.4
Now that your MSHEETDIR has been populated, you must delete your sheets located anywhere else on the system
This is very important that you do not have duplicate sheets located anywhere else, if you do next time you reboot linksheets will corrupt your MSHEETDIR rendering it useless Again Step 7, Not Needed on WDLXTV version >= 5.1.4

if it begins scanning when you first access drives/shares, this should only be long enough for to realize that you have no sheets on your shares
if you have sheets on your shares, this just corrupted your MSHEETDIR

also MSHEETDIR, when it's working, displays all sheets, instantly, no scaning

[wbs]

Thanks for highlighting that my msheetdir was not setup correctly. Deleted the msheetdir on my usb and repopulate them through cp command. Now my sheets are displayed instantly and only the thumbnails are not displayed when access through the media server.

Am I correct to say the we do not required the s00user-script and linksheets.pl when using fw 1.05.04 v0.5.1.1

Thanks again for the pointers.

PS - is there an upgrade version after 0.5.1.1 -> 5.1.4.

[KAD]

there is a version 5.1.4
it's in Area 51 - beta testing
it's also on svn

as for linksheets.pl and such
I would leave those in place
eventhough msheetdir bypasses linksheets completely
linksheets.pl is safer when used with msheetdir

while not tested linksheets.pl should not corrupt your msheet dir if it does find something
because linksheets.pl only creates a symlink if the symlink/file does not already exist

the older version of linksheets replaced already existing symlinks, which was part of the problem with corrupted msheetdir

[n3st@Z]

[n3st@Z]

[apwood]

I have this all working fine with moviesheets displayed form my .MSHEETDIR folder, but there is duplication of moviesheets I'd like to avoid if possible.

Mostly I have this structure, for example:

.. movies\Aeon Flux\Aeon Flux.mkv (location of the movie file)
.. movies\Aeon Flux\Aeon Flux.jpg (thumbnail for the movie file)
.. movies\Aeon Flux\folder.jpg (thumbnail for the Aeon Flux folder)
.. movies\Aeon Flux\* (various other files relating to the movie not needed by WDTV)

\.MSHEETDIR\Aeon Flux (moviesheet displayed when selecting the Aeon Flux folder)
\.MSHEETDIR\Aeon Flux.mkv (moviesheet displayed when selecting the Aeon Flux mkv file)


The two moviesheets above are identical, so that you see the same moviesheet if you select the Aeon Flux folder, and if you select the Aeon Flux mkv file.

In some cases I may have multiple movie / video files in a folder, all of which need to display the same moviesheet (or background image) when selected. So in that case, if there are 6 movie files, the same moviesheet needs duplicating in .MSHEETDIR a total of 7 times (once for each movie file and once for the folder).

Is there any way to avoid this? That is, to set a moviesheet jpg to be displayed for every file inside a folder as well as for the folder itself. Ideally I'd like this to happen UNLESS over-ridden by selecting a movie file that has its own moviesheet.

[mad_ady]

As far as I know it's not done automatically. You can create the symlinks yourself, but you'd have to manage them on your own.

[apwood]

Thanks but I think we're misunderstanding each other.

If I have, for example a series of files in a single folder, 1.mkv, 2.mkv, 3.mkv, 4.mkv, 5.mkv and 6.mkv ; then yes, if I also have jpgs called 1.mkv, 2.mkv etc in .MSHEETDIR - these jpgs do display automatically as moviesheets.

That means I'd need 6 of these jpgs plus another one for the folder - 7 identical jpgs in all.

What I want to be able to do is have a single jpg used for the folder and a single jpg used for all files inside the folder, EXCEPT where a specific jpg file (say 3.mkv) exists in .MSHEETDIR.

I don't think it's possible - but hoping someone can confirm if there is anyway to do this, thereby avoiding multiple copies of jpgs inside .MSHEETDIR (and the work to create / maintain them).

It's a bit like having a default moviesheet (which as far as I'm aware is not possible) but instead of (or in addition to) a system wide default, there would be a default for the contents of each folder.

[KAD]

the only way I can forsee you doing what you described is a custom version of the WDTVext Moviesheet plugin
which already allows for a general default sheet
you would have to add the code to differentiate general sheet for file or general sheet for folder on your own
off coarse this would not be specific to a series folder, it would be global, so still might not be what your looking for
and the plugin of coarse only works on 1.02.21 firmware, so ...

as for not needing a sheet to go with every file, I don't see any way around that

[apwood]

Thanks - that's helpful.