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000_QuickStartGuide
A guide to using Media Browser for 1st time users.
IntroductionWelcome to Media Browser! This is a guide for new users to Media Browser(MB). The aim is to help users get up and running as fast as possible so you can enjoy your media. Adding Media to MBInitially MB expects all your video files to be in your user account’s “My Videos” directory. Example - C:\Users\JohnDoe\Videos\ If you do not wish to keep all your media in that directory you have a few options: Option 1 You can edit the InitialFolder option to change MB's startup location c:\programdata\mediabrowser\MediaBrowserXml.config . (Note: If you upgrade it is possible this option may default back to the original setting) Option 2 You can create simple windows shortcuts inside the “My Videos” directory pointing to your Media Folders. MB can recognize multiple shortcuts inside “My Videos” directory. Example - If your media folder is located at D:\Media\ then your “My Videos” should look like: C:\Users\JohnDoe\Videos\(Shortcut to D:\Media) Option 3 - ADVANCED: Displaying the Contents of Multiple Folders MB supports virtual folders. If you have media that span different hard-drive locations using .vf is very useful to group them together. For example, Blu-Ray rips are massive massive files so all your Blu-Ray movies may not fit on 1 hard-drive. In that case you may dedicate 2 or 3 different hard-drives to Blu-Ray movies. Instead of having 3 different folders showing up in Media Browser you can use Virtual Folders to combine all 3 physical directories into 1 virtual folder. Create a new text file in your "My Videos" directory with the ending '.vf' (not '.vf.txt'!), for example: 'BluRayMovies.vf' Inside this textfile, add one line for each directory you want to add using the ‘folder: ’ statement:folder: e:\bluraymovies\ folder: f:\bluraymovies\ folder: g:\bluraymovies\ When you start MB, the file ‘BluRayMovies.vf’ will show up like a regular directory. If you open it, you will see all the movies that are present in the three specified locations. To get MB to display a folder icon, you'll have to tell it manually using the ‘image:’ statement:image: d:\movies\folder.jpg folder: e:\bluraymovies\ folder: f:\bluraymovies\ folder: g:\bluraymovies\ Organizing Your Media for MBMB relies on a files and folder structure to determine your media types. In particular this means your media needs to have a specific directory structure to make best use of Media Browser's functionalities. Suggested Directory Structure for Movies In some cases one movie might be split in two or more files, therefore MB automatically creates a playlist and plays all the files in a directory in sequence. If the files really are separate movies, you will have to put them in separate directories.
Suggested Directory Structure for TV Shows In the case of tv shows, the files need to be grouped in a season folder inside the shows main folder:
Note: Media Browser supports the following naming conventions for individual episodes.
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