Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:19 pm
[SOLVED] Folder Tree on Sony Barvia xBar
Hi,
This is my first post on this forum, which I have joined as I have recently tried serviio on my Windows Home Server v1. Prior to serviio I have been using Twonky Server, which to be fair has been working fine with the exception of a niggle that I cant get to the bottom of. That is the way streaming servers display folders on the Sony XBar navigation.
I thought serviio was different as I installed it first on a Windows 7 pc serving up videos and the problem did not arise. However now I have installed serviio on my WHS it is the same as twonky
Bascially my niggle is the sub folders shown under each media type i.e. under Video on the Sony Xbar I get three subfolders, Audio, Image Video. Under Photos I again get get three subfolders, Audio, Image Video and of course the same applies to Music.
As you may know if a user selects Image folder under the Video media option nothing will display not Videos or even pictures. It becomes very confusing to have the two irrelevant folders listed under each media type some of which dont do anything.
Is this a requirement of a DLNA media server or just the way the renderer in the Sony TV displays the folders. On the Twonky forum lots of users are creating customised trees by editing an xml view file, and I have asked several times if these three default "root" folders are mandatory, but I cannot get an answer hence my move to serviio.
It must have something to do with which media is being served up. On the Windows 7 machine I only had video and therefore only selected video in the library option of serviio console. On the bravia it therefore only displays the Video folder, (albeit Video is listed under each media type on the XBar) which should have been a clue
On my live Home Server I have photos, music and video so have created links to each relevant share related to the media type.
So my questions are:-
1) Are these three folders mandatory?
2) If not is there an easy way of either removing or hiding them?
3) Is it possible to dispense with the three root folders all together and just have the sub folders i.e. Titles, Movies, Series, Folder etc.
I am fairly IT savvy and could edit an xml file given good instructions but I am not a programmer and much of the conversations on the Twonky forum went right over my head.
Any advice would be gladly accepted
Fozzie
This is my first post on this forum, which I have joined as I have recently tried serviio on my Windows Home Server v1. Prior to serviio I have been using Twonky Server, which to be fair has been working fine with the exception of a niggle that I cant get to the bottom of. That is the way streaming servers display folders on the Sony XBar navigation.
I thought serviio was different as I installed it first on a Windows 7 pc serving up videos and the problem did not arise. However now I have installed serviio on my WHS it is the same as twonky
Bascially my niggle is the sub folders shown under each media type i.e. under Video on the Sony Xbar I get three subfolders, Audio, Image Video. Under Photos I again get get three subfolders, Audio, Image Video and of course the same applies to Music.
As you may know if a user selects Image folder under the Video media option nothing will display not Videos or even pictures. It becomes very confusing to have the two irrelevant folders listed under each media type some of which dont do anything.
Is this a requirement of a DLNA media server or just the way the renderer in the Sony TV displays the folders. On the Twonky forum lots of users are creating customised trees by editing an xml view file, and I have asked several times if these three default "root" folders are mandatory, but I cannot get an answer hence my move to serviio.
It must have something to do with which media is being served up. On the Windows 7 machine I only had video and therefore only selected video in the library option of serviio console. On the bravia it therefore only displays the Video folder, (albeit Video is listed under each media type on the XBar) which should have been a clue
On my live Home Server I have photos, music and video so have created links to each relevant share related to the media type.So my questions are:-
1) Are these three folders mandatory?
2) If not is there an easy way of either removing or hiding them?
3) Is it possible to dispense with the three root folders all together and just have the sub folders i.e. Titles, Movies, Series, Folder etc.
I am fairly IT savvy and could edit an xml file given good instructions but I am not a programmer and much of the conversations on the Twonky forum went right over my head.
Any advice would be gladly accepted
Fozzie
. Great bit of software ........keep up the good work guys