Config questions, How to point mce to different drives and best way to store movies?

[skilzygw]

Okay I am into the configuration stage. The nitty gritty.

I have a previous installation of mce 2005, I am going to start fresh however i wanted toplay with the existing installation. I was wondering during install or after can i tell mce to use a different drive for pvr? Right now it uses mymovies I think on c drive. I would like it to have its own drive ex.. D: drive.

2nd I downloaded my movies plug in. I dont have a clue what to do. I want to rip my movies and encode to divx or just dvd shrink it. This will go on my media drive whatever lets say M: I then go through my movies and manually add each movie entry then point it to the file?
Can it see divx files? If i just used dvd shrink how would that work from a multiple file perspective? What each movie would have its own folder?

thanks.

[skilzygw]

With the ripped movies and using my dvd's can you have an icon w/ a pic instead of like a folder with the movie name?

[Binnerup]

[QUOTE=skilzygw]2nd I downloaded my movies plug in. I dont have a clue what to do. I want to rip my movies and encode to divx or just dvd shrink it. This will go on my media drive whatever lets say M: I then go through my movies and manually add each movie entry then point it to the file?
Can it see divx files? If i just used dvd shrink how would that work from a multiple file perspective? What each movie would have its own folder?

thanks.[/QUOTE]

"My Movies" can see all files that Media Center will play, so this included divx files.

Simply go to your windows start menu, the "My Movies" folder and open "Edit collection" - each movie must have it's own folder, and you point to the folder. If there are more than one divx file in the folder, a playlist is created for it to playback at once - the playlist is created based on alfabetically naming.

Regards,

Brian