Author Topic: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup (Read 231986 times)

coffeebeankat · **Reply #255 on:** September 07, 2012, 23:55:05 PM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #255 on: September 07, 2012, 23:55:05 PM

Quote from: birket on September 07, 2012, 11:08:20 AM

Quote from: coffeebeankat on September 07, 2012, 09:09:57 AM
Quote from: birket on September 06, 2012, 18:03:48 PM
I am using an ATI 5450 card, so that shouldn't be a problem. I have the latest ATI drivers installed. DXVA is enabled.

I am using the same card and had same issues with the video freezing up after a few seconds, sad to say im running hdmi and it was not different, i also had no sound to start with but after fiddling with the settings and restarting a few times i managed to get sound working, the sd quality movies work ok but the higher rez ones are still freezing

So do your HD movies play outside of XBMC?

do you mean on the server? i havent tried but they play on my laptop fine

birket · **Reply #256 on:** September 10, 2012, 09:31:20 AM

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Reply #256 on: September 10, 2012, 09:31:20 AM

System all running amazingly well considering I am completely new to this. Thanks to all on this thread for the guidance.

At the moment, I have an ISP package with 100GB allowance each month. I've never come close to using up all that before. However, in the last week, since leanring about usenet and setting up this system, I have already used about 80% of this months allowance

I have ordered a regrade to 200GB per month, but have also ordered an upgrade to Fibre broadband which should deliver sppeds of over 60MB (as opposed to 9 which I am on now). I realise that once the excitement wears off a bit, monthly useage might reduce again, and I will regrade accordingly. However, my work ISP (with the same provider) has 400GB monthly usage. We don't even come close to using all of that, perhaps only 60-100GB on average.

What steps would I need to take to have my downloads through sbanzdb optinally use my work connection when I am in work. Can I have it setup at work also and save downloads to a USB hard disk, then when I get home, copy the downloads into the appropriate sickbeard/couch potato/xbmc folders and have it organise everything for me automatically?

addictweb · **Reply #257 on:** September 10, 2012, 10:50:15 AM

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Reply #257 on: September 10, 2012, 10:50:15 AM

I would advise keeping this kind of activity to your home connection only, it's not really the kind of thing you should be doing in the work place.

Are you in the UK? There are plenty of 'unlimited' ISP packages, especially the majority of fibre ones (BT, Virgin)

birket · **Reply #258 on:** September 10, 2012, 15:29:43 PM

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Reply #258 on: September 10, 2012, 15:29:43 PM

Fair point.

I am downloading True Blood (seasons 3-5) as I have not seen them. Most episodes are coming down just fine, but a couple recently have given me the error in SABnzdb that 'repair failed, not enough repair blocks'. I'm guessing that this means one or more of the PAR files that are downloaded are problematic, and there aren't enough PAR to fill in the holes.

What is the best course of action when this happens? Is it just tough luck for me and we will have to miss those episodes?

addictweb · **Reply #259 on:** September 10, 2012, 15:36:10 PM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #259 on: September 10, 2012, 15:36:10 PM

Quote from: birket on September 10, 2012, 15:29:43 PM

Fair point.

I am downloading True Blood (seasons 3-5) as I have not seen them. Most episodes are coming down just fine, but a couple recently have given me the error in SABnzdb that 'repair failed, not enough repair blocks'. I'm guessing that this means one or more of the PAR files that are downloaded are problematic, and there aren't enough PAR to fill in the holes.

What is the best course of action when this happens? Is it just tough luck for me and we will have to miss those episodes?

That usually happen when files are very old on the newsgroup servers. It could also be that the files have become incomplete by some other means. I think you can click 'retry' on sabnzb and it will try and download the missing parts, but if that doesn't work your only real option when the par files aren't sufficient to repair the missing parts is to download a different version.

Leon · **Reply #260 on:** September 11, 2012, 09:01:52 AM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #260 on: September 11, 2012, 09:01:52 AM

Quote from: birket on September 10, 2012, 15:29:43 PM

Fair point.

I am downloading True Blood (seasons 3-5) as I have not seen them. Most episodes are coming down just fine, but a couple recently have given me the error in SABnzdb that 'repair failed, not enough repair blocks'. I'm guessing that this means one or more of the PAR files that are downloaded are problematic, and there aren't enough PAR to fill in the holes.

What is the best course of action when this happens? Is it just tough luck for me and we will have to miss those episodes?

Back from Canada (Man I'm knackered).... In this case you can retry within SAB or put it back as 'wanted' in SB however most of the time it will just fail again so just pop onto NZBmatrix, manually add the said episode to your list (different version) and set it as TV so that when it finishes it will get SB and XBMC to do its thing.

Allan · **Reply #261 on:** September 12, 2012, 12:50:13 PM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #261 on: September 12, 2012, 12:50:13 PM

Quote from: Leon on September 11, 2012, 09:01:52 AM

Quote from: birket on September 10, 2012, 15:29:43 PM
Fair point.

I am downloading True Blood (seasons 3-5) as I have not seen them. Most episodes are coming down just fine, but a couple recently have given me the error in SABnzdb that 'repair failed, not enough repair blocks'. I'm guessing that this means one or more of the PAR files that are downloaded are problematic, and there aren't enough PAR to fill in the holes.

What is the best course of action when this happens? Is it just tough luck for me and we will have to miss those episodes?

Back from Canada (Man I'm knackered).... In this case you can retry within SAB or put it back as 'wanted' in SB however most of the time it will just fail again so just pop onto NZBmatrix, manually add the said episode to your list (different version) and set it as TV so that when it finishes it will get SB and XBMC to do its thing.

First I'd like to thank Leon for such an awesome tutorial! I have been following your manual and it has worked with one exception.
I downloaded the AEON MQ2 and MQ3 and so far I have been unable to set this viewtype as seen in your picture.
I really love your view but I cannot find the setting to have it show up like that.

I only have these viewtypes available:

birket · **Reply #262 on:** September 12, 2012, 12:54:06 PM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #262 on: September 12, 2012, 12:54:06 PM

Quote from: Leon on September 11, 2012, 09:01:52 AM

Back from Canada (Man I'm knackered).... In this case you can retry within SAB or put it back as 'wanted' in SB however most of the time it will just fail again so just pop onto NZBmatrix, manually add the said episode to your list (different version) and set it as TV so that when it finishes it will get SB and XBMC to do its thing.

Worked a treat. Thanks Leon. Now I have all three complete seasons that I am missing! Joy.

Leon · **Reply #263 on:** September 12, 2012, 15:06:01 PM

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Reply #263 on: September 12, 2012, 15:06:01 PM

Allan I'm currently downloading MQ3 (Extremely slowly it seems) to take a look myself. Will get back to you in a bit.

Birket: Glad that worked

Leon · **Reply #264 on:** September 12, 2012, 15:27:28 PM

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Reply #264 on: September 12, 2012, 15:27:28 PM

Right took a while but I got MQ3 on this test XBMC - The view you want is Multiplex and you need to turn it on as a active view from Settings > Skin > Viewtypes > Multiplex

Ell223 · **Reply #265 on:** September 12, 2012, 16:55:24 PM

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Reply #265 on: September 12, 2012, 16:55:24 PM

I am interesting in building 2 HTPC's with XBMC installed on for two different rooms in my house. I would like these machines to be completely separate from each other I.E I can pick which shows/movies would go to each machine. I want this so I could have my own shows on one, and my housemate have his own shows movies on another WITHOUT them being synced. Is this possible to do using the same Astraweb details and using the same NZBMatrix account? Would I be able to pick and choose on what machine to store them on?

Thanks for the guide.

Leon · **Reply #266 on:** September 12, 2012, 17:12:21 PM

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Reply #266 on: September 12, 2012, 17:12:21 PM

Hmmm depends how you want to do it. Do you want things completely private from each other or do you not care if you can see what the other has but just don't want them mixed in each others XBMC?

Ell223 · **Reply #267 on:** September 12, 2012, 17:19:37 PM

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Reply #267 on: September 12, 2012, 17:19:37 PM

Seeing what each others has isn't a problem, I'd even like to be able to transfer between the two manually if that's possible (In case we both want the same stuff, to save redownloading). I just don't want his tv shows/movies to be added onto my XBMC or stored on my harddrives etc

Last Edit: September 12, 2012, 17:35:37 PM by Ell223 #187;

Leon · **Reply #268 on:** September 12, 2012, 19:37:34 PM

Re: [GUIDE] Automated Media Server & XBMC Setup

Reply #268 on: September 12, 2012, 19:37:34 PM

Ok it's a bit messy and given more thought there might be a better way of doing it but off the top of my head you could do something like the following:

Applications
Server One:
SAB
SB
CP
XBMC

Server Two:
CP
XBMC

Folder Structure
Server One:
Ell223 Movies
Ell223 TV Shows
Shared Movies
Shared TV Shows (or put this one on the other server to even disk usage?)

Server Two:
Flatmate Movies
Flatmate TV Shows

Settings

SickBeard
In this menu:

Have all 3 folders off the 2 servers listed (Ell223s, flatemates and shared) and depending on how you want the show select the correct folder for it to be moved into once downloaded.

Couch Potato
CP doesn't allow you to point to multiple movie folders so you would have to setup 2 instances of CP, one for you and one for him (maybe another for shared) each pointing to a different movies folder and working seperatly... its gets very messy at that point but as movies are much more sharable than TV shows I would just advise having one instance of CP for all movies, have them dump into a shared folder and if there is one or two you really don't want to share move it manually into a private folder.

XBMC
Easy part... Ell223's XBMC just add the Ell223 TV shows and Shared TV Shows to the video library and Flatemate does the same with their own.

Make kind of sense?

Eggtastico · **Reply #269 on:** September 12, 2012, 20:32:33 PM

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Reply #269 on: September 12, 2012, 20:32:33 PM

sounds like someone wants to hide their porn stash ;o)

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