Folder Formatting + Pogoplug

[Kat Clark]

Yes this is basic, but I dug around on the Roku Forums, and it's so
huge I couldn't find anything specific.

I have about 20 movies in my movie folder on my laptop. l've
handbraked them all and they play fine (except if they are over 5GB
and then crash!!). But, I'd like the movies to be accompanied by
covers. The only way to do this appears to make a folder for each
movie separately and then dump a .jpg in it. Right now the first jpg
that appears in alphabetical order is the cover of all 2 movies.
Confirm this is how to do this?

Second question. I just bought a P21 Pogo and while I like the idea of
being able to access my stuff out of the house, what I really want it
to do is be able to play via Roku. I have an 8TB RAID with a ton more
music/pictures/movies attached to the Pogo. So.... I know it is
possible to linux your pogoplug. But I wondered will mymedia work if
say, I grab my roku and take it to a friends so we can watch movies
there. Essentially this is combining the 2 features I like most.

[Jim Truscello]

If you give each video and its corresponding jpeg the same name you should be able to put multiple videos and jpegs in the same folder (e.g., Movie 1.m4v with Movie 1.jpg, Movie 2.m4v with Movie 2.jpg, etc.). If there is no jpeg to go with a video, it will just use the first one it finds.

I've been using a Seagate Dockstar (Pogoplug clone) with MyMedia and it works great, but I got rid of all the Pogoplug stuff. There's pretty good
instructions on what it took to do it in the thread on the forum. It's interesting what you'd like to do, but since I never used the Pogoplug service I can't say whether or not it's possible, although I doubt if using the Pogoplug service combined with the MyMedia channel is really an option. As an experiment, I setup the server to work through my firewall, but I don't have the bandwidth it would take to serve a video. It required port forwarding and getting the server to report its public IP address to the channel. So I guess it's possible if you have the bandwidth, but it would take a few changes on the server side and you'd have to configure your router appropriately. Also, there would be some security issues which you may or may not care about.

-JT

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