Do I have an Issue with the Media Library Display?

Tpratt

Newbie Joined: Dec 19, 2021 10:39 Messages: 2 Offline

Solved by

Dec 19, 2021 15:54

No need to reply. The test failed. Any software that takes this much work to figure out just isn't worth- and I do read manuals. I did figure out the how to get the videos under one folder, but it required additonal work by having to make or rename folders. Never did for photos. Also figured out the music. Then the kicker was when th program just failed to play any format of videos saying "...format not supported." A re-install didn't fix the problem. Funnier yet, I am running this program on two computers and got the same issue for both. Good luck with it.

I am looking to upgrade my very old version of PowerDVD 9 to 21 and giving 21 a test run before forking over the money.

In the Media Library section of the program, I don't see a root folder icon for where the files are from. In other words, the folders under Media Library don't mirror Windows Explorer format. Instead all I see are the files in a particular section clumped together regardless of where they are stored.

I have added movies from different folder from my NAS (WD My Cloud Ultra). For example, I have movie folders my wife, me and the kids. I added each folder separately. However, I don't get an icon folder to click on to open up the files (just like Windows Explorer). I have no idea what folder from the NAS they come from.

The above issue is the same under My Computer/Video folders. Again, it displays just the video names without any folder or disk information. Here I have video from three different hard drives and no way of telling where these video files are from.

This also the same for photos and music.

Is this how this program works?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Dec 19. 2021 18:54

QC2.0

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 27, 2016 04:02 Messages: 610 Offline

Dec 22, 2021 03:01

The Movie library enumerates your imported videos as titles. There is no folder structure at all.

The Video library enumerates your imported folders or videos per your video folder name, but it still doesn't group videos in folder tree structure.

If you would really like to browse your video files same as the way you browsed in Windows explorer, you can use Windows explorer directly out of powerdvd and open the videos/photos by powerdvd, or select the file browser (My Computer) tab in powerdvd to browse your files.
Don't bother using the media library feature. It will be waste of your time.

Tpratt

Newbie Joined: Dec 19, 2021 10:39 Messages: 2 Offline

Dec 22, 2021 11:46

Quote The Movie library enumerates your imported videos as titles. There is no folder structure at all.

The Video library enumerates your imported folders or videos per your video folder name, but it still doesn't group videos in folder tree structure.

If you would really like to browse your video files same as the way you browsed in Windows explorer, you can use Windows explorer directly out of powerdvd and open the videos/photos by powerdvd, or select the file browser (My Computer) tab in powerdvd to browse your files.
Don't bother using the media library feature. It will be waste of your time.

Thanks you QC2 for taking the time to answer & cofirm what I suspected. Your suggestion of using the Windows Explorer was the directions I was going to go in, but once the program crashed on two comptuers I changed my direction of considering the purchase. I am not a poweruser of the program and don't need many of the feature it offeres, mostly liked how it cast videos from my NAS.