Purpose of "videos" under library for home photos and videos?

Channels DVR Server Feature Requests
#21

I'm going to have to look at this with a fresh head tomorrow. I must be doing something wrong. I went into the Figure Skating group, chose "Select All," then "Edit Metadata," then chose "Sports" under Genre, then hit Save. Checked a few individually to confirm it changed the genre. Went to Sources and refreshed my virtual channels. It's still just showing "Figure Skating" for each entry in the guide.

#22

Try with Sports event, not Sports
and I think he meant Categories, not Genres

#23

Correct. Category.

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#24

Still no luck with this. (Feel free to break this into its own topic so as not to hijack this thread). Here is how it shows in the guide (with a sporting event just above it, that shows in the desired way):

skating in guide
skating in guide1179×306 51.9 KB

Here is the metadata for one of the videos (they all show this, and I also tried removing the "Video" category; these are all under "Videos" in a subfolder called "Figure Skating"):

video metadata
video metadata996×1514 115 KB

And here is the virtual channel:

virtual channel
virtual channel1104×838 149 KB

I'm sure this is user error, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Do I need to manually go in and add an event title to each one (it was mentioned above that the channel should use the file name, though)?

#25

Yeah, I'd suggest filling in the "Event Title."

Please also capitalize the "S" in "Figure Skating" :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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#26

Thanks . . . I think that did it! I went through and changed a handful to add the event title to the metadata, and then scrolled through the guide, and some of them now have the title.

Feature request next — could we get the option to flip the title and group in the guide when a file is designated with a "concert" category? Or maybe a toggle in general? I have a virtual channel with concert videos for a rock band, and every concert shows up in the guide as "The Connells" (name of the folder/group) instead of, for example, "The Connells Live - The Cat's Cradle - 1998".

Yeah, I need to fix the s, too :smile: I actually have a ton of cleaning up and fine-tuning to do before I roll this out to the family, and possibly need to replace an older Apple TV on one of the TVs because of stuttering, but only on playback of recorded (not live) 1080p videos. I've been focusing on the infrastructure right now.