My Lil Movie Jukebox for The Popcorn Hour

This is one area where alot of people have problems.

First of all, .. the question is .. Where are your movie files located? an Internal Hard Drive? A USB hard drive? A SMB Netwrok Share? or an NFS Network Share?

Suppose you have an internal hard drive installed in your PCH. After you have formatted the hard drive in the PCH, ... it makes a folder called "Video", which is where you want to copy your movie files to.

Next, the internal hard drive of the PCH. ... has to be "seen" on your network and "Mapped" in as a drive letter....ie, .. you browse (ie, .. network connections) over to the PCH, .. then Right Click on the PCH, and Click on MAP NETWORK DRIVE, .. and then assign a drive letter to the PCH, ... say X: ... so now you have a location to copy your movie files to, ... which is X:\video. And this is the same for all storage locations that you can setup.

Which is what you enter into the PC Location #1 box, followed by a trailing backslash ie, ... X:\Video\

But what about entering the second entry, the NMT location?

If you Click on the SOURCE button of your Remote, .. you'll see a screen like below:

Here, you can see that I have three locations for movies in my system.

1. an internal hard drive	called HARD_DISK
2. an NFS Network Share	called QNAP::Qmultimedia
3. a SMB Network Share	called ALLEN:G DRIVE

Next, remember that the PCH runs Linux, and NOT Windows, ... so it doesn't know what X:\Video means.
Instead , the movie file location is made up of 5 parts ....

PART 1:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/ is used to describe a drive location. For simplicity. let's call this the
Linux preamble. It must ALWAYS be present when we want to call out a file in this NMT system.

PART 2:

Next, we have the Device Type. Choices here are:

DEVICE TYPE:	A-100, A110 w/ latest firmware	A110, or A100 w/ firmware before 8/22/08
Internal Hard Drive	HARD_DISK/	HARD_DISK/
USB Hard Drive	USB_DRIVE_A-1/	USB_DRIVE_A-1/
SMB Network Share	NETWORK_SHARE/	[SMB] (followed by spacebar)
NFS Network Share	NETWORK_SHARE/	[NFS] (followed by spacebar)

If you have an A100, A110, B110 with latest firmware, then use the middle column.
If you have an A110, B110 (firmware before 9/22), ... or an A110 with firmware before 8/22/08
then use the right column.

There is a change you will have to make if you have the C200....

When exporting ... over on the NMT Location Variables page, ...
If you have an internal hard drive installed in the C200 ....
OLD: (A100/110)
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/

NEW (C200)
Replace HARD_DISK with either SATA_DISK, SATA_DISK_A, or SATA_DISK_B
Whichever the case may be.

Do NOT use sata_disk ..... ie LINUX demands exact case!!! Ie ... SATA_DISK , etc....

soooooo, if you have the new C200, anywhere on these pages you're told to enter HARD_DISK ... you would instead enter SATA_DISK, SATA_DISK_A or SATA_DISK_B

PART 3:
Next, we have the ShareName, which is only used if "c" was selected in Part 2.
Otherwise, leave Part 3 blank.
The ShareName is always seen on the SOURCE Screen of the NMT. (as shown above)
so, ... for my case, .. Part 3 is QNAP::Qmultimedia for NFS and
ALLEN:G DRIVE for SMB.

PART 4:
Next, we have the Folder name. ie, ... Video/

PART 5:
Lastly, we have the Filename., ie, ... The.Godfather..avi

so. simply put all the parts together, ... and we have the correct answer!!!

sooooooooooo, .... what would I enter for the NMT Location box of the Media Location Variable tab...

A100 or A110 ... Internal Hard Drive with movies in the Video folder:
PART 1:	PART 2:	PART 3:	PART 4:	PART 5:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/	HARD_DISK/	(skip)	Video/	filename
ANSWER: (A100 or A110)
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/Video/filename

So what about a SMB share?

A100,A110,B110 (latest firmware) SMB, Hard Drive on PC with movies in folder named Movies:
PART 1:	PART 2:	PART 3:	PART 4:	PART 5:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/	NETWORK_SHARE/	ALLEN:G DRIVE/	Movies/	filename
ANSWER:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/ALLEN:G DRIVE/Movies/filename NOTE: to find "YOUR" correct entry for PART3, just press the SOURCE button on your remote!

So what about a NFS share?

A100,A110,B110 (latest firmware) NFS, Hard Drive on a QNAP NAS with movies in folder named Video2:
PART 1:	PART 2:	PART 3:	PART 4:	PART 5:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/	NETWORK_SHARE/	QNAP::Qmultimedia/	Video2/	filename
ANSWER:
file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/QNAP::Qmultimedia/Video2/filename NOTE: to find "YOUR" correct entry for PART3, just press the SOURCE button on your remote!

Also, do not use "passwords" with your network shares, .. ie get rid of them, ie, use simple file sharing.

To provide some EXTRA help with entering the correct values for the NMT variables, I've added a
LOCATOR button to this window - which will find the possible values for Part1,Part2 and Part3!!
for your setup. You'll need to know the IP Address of your NMT. (On the NMT Click on SETUP, then Click NETWORK
and you'll see the ip address. Now, .. back to the export!

The program will now look for your NMT and then find all the possible Media Locations.
Now , just copy and paste whichever entry you want into the NMT Locations box on the export page.
You'll still need to add PART 4 to this, .. but being able to Copy/Paste should prevent typos, etc... :)

What if you have 2 movie folders on the same hard drive?
Here's what GSBAKER had to say on the Networked Media Tank forums

The answer to what is entered for the NMT Location depends somewhat on what was entered for the PC Location variable. For example, in my set up I have the following:

a. Movies located on a network shared PC (named GANDALF) running Windows XP in a folder off the root directory called MOVIES (Each movie is in a separate folder within this MOVIES directory). At the same time I have my TV shows in a different folder off the root directory - called TV. Using Windows filesharing (SMB) I have "shared" the root directory with a sharename PCHmedia.

b. From the computer running MovieCollector - I have mapped to this shared drive as M:\ (so M:\ shows all files and directories off the GANDALF root directory, including the folder called MOVIES)

c. From the PCH I have browsed to this network share and named it "GANDALF"

Therefore, for me:

Part 1 = file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/
Part 2 = NETWORK_SHARE/
Part 3 = GANDALF/
Part 4 = MOVIES/ (for movie files) OR TV/ for TV shows
Part 5 = moviedirectory/moviename

With this setup:
- if I set my PC Media Location variable to M:\MOVIES\
then my NMT Media Location variable would be file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/GANDALF/MOVIES/ (i.e. part 4 but no part 5)

however this would only provide me access to the Movies and NOT the TV shows

- therefore I set my PC Media Location variable to M:\ and my NMT Media Location variable to

file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/GANDALF/ (i.e. NO part 4 or part 5)

The way I look at it - the PC Media Location variable is the amount the XSL template "strips off" the Windows based path name provided by MoC. The NMT Media Location variable puts back "exactly the same information" but in Linux - and as seen by the PCH. Therefore, it seems to me that what is necessary in Part 4 depends on what you have specified in the PC Media Location. In my case since I want access to both the MOVIES directory and the TV directory - I only have the XSL templates strip off the Windows path to the root (M:\) and therefore only need to specify parts 1, 2 and 3 in the NMT Media Location variable.