Need help setting up sources!

[Hasselstrom]

I am a total newbie when it comes to XBMC. Never owned a Xbox or have ever set up a HTPC before.

Stumbled into this forums today at work and was blown away with XBMC and the Aeon skin in particular.
So when I got home I downloaded it and have been trying to set it up now for a while. Read the XBMC online manual and the readme for the Aeon skin but I can't get the basic folder configuration to work!

What is the preferred folder layout to easily set up Aeon?

Today it's arranged as this:

Media - Movies - DVDr - Transformers - ***.img
- DVDrip - Transformers - ***.avi
- HD - Transformers - ***.mkv

- Series - Heroes - Season 1 - ***.avi

You get the idea?

Tried to set up sources.xml like this..

For example:

<video>

<source>
<name>Movies</name>
<path>E:\Media\Movies\DVDrip</path>
</source>
</video>

The problem is that now when I enter "Movies" in Aeon, I see the "add **" button and the movie folder. I do not want to see the add button.
Tried to switch to Library. Got: "No scanned info for this view. Switch to files".
Also now when I set it up this way, when entering "TV Shows", I get "Add source" and "Movies".. I don't want to see the movies in the TV section.
Adding:
<video>

<source>
<name>TV Shows</name>
<path>E:\Media\Film\Serier</path>
<name>Movies</name>
<path>E:\Media\Film\DVDrip</path>
</source>
</video>
Didn't help.

Can someone please lay out the basic strategy for me because I'm getting frustrated!
How does your setup and source.xml look like?


..Never been this retarded computerwise as I am today

[Hasselstrom]

Sorry for the double but I see that my topic layout got abit crooked in the whole "folder layout" section.

(Also replace "film" with "movies" in the source code example) =)

Thank you

[kraqh3d]

instead of manually touching the sources.xml file, why dont you actually use the "add source" menu item?

you can remove the "add" button in settings -> appearance, after you've defined them.

the library only works once you've scanned. if you were to use the "add source" button, you would also be prompted to "set content".

your sources are incorrect:

<video>
 <source>
   <name>TV Shows</name>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\Series</path>
 </source>  <!-- u'r missing the close tag -->
 <source>  <!-- u'r missing the open tag --->
   <name>Movies</name>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\DVDrip</path>
 </source>
</video>

and you, if you wanted to, you could combine all the movies together like this:

<video>
 <source>
   <name>TV Shows</name>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\Series</path>
 </source>
 <source>
   <name>Movies</name>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\DVDr</path>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\DVDrip</path>
   <path>E:\Media\Film\HD</path>
 </source>
</video>

[Hasselstrom]

Thank you for your reply! I'll try go the internal way this time =)