Posts by retropie boy

  • Kodi error

    I mean this. I have over 2,000 videos transferred from dvds over to MP4 and all saved on a portable drive aka named DV drive.

    So, i don't even hardly was the Sat, just my MP4 classic series from the 70s 80s 90s.

    So I have no problem, i just go to the input on the TV and bootup the Pi and start watch classic shows.

    So, what i'm getting at is that nothing is wrong, i go over to the Pi and it loads up at startup. It just that the error popup, instead of taking me to kodi, that just stuck on the error page. SO the SD card is good, i can get kodi on it fine, but it just once in while, that error screen shows up.

  • Video bookmarks

    Got it.

    If you have a TV series surly you have yourself, after watching an episode that day, how do you know what is the next episode the next day.

    To me, i can watch a few episode that day, as many as i want, but by the next day or when ever, i can forget what was the last episode that i watch.

  • Video bookmarks

    A good thing about bookmarks is that everytime that u watch a video, it will mark the watched video, so next day, you will know where the next episode in a TV series to start at.

    After watching a complete series of a TV Show, how or is there a easier way to remove all bookmarks from the videos.

  • Movie covers

    Now that i have KODI on the computer, i was playing around with it.

    For my needs, all Since i don't keep my Pi connected to the internet uless i updated KODI every few months.

    I just removed the MSIF folder from the USB drive and Just my main folder MOVIE folder with the sub-folders for each movie file and poster along with it.

    All i did went back to the computer access the usb drive, the movie file stays the same

    Home Alone (1990).mp4 and the poster just name poster.

    So instead of naming the movie poster like Home Alone (1990)-poster.jig or poster.jig which that would be why the movies will show up in PICTURES with the Movie poster showing.

    So, i started messing around with KODI on the computer and tried many things out renaming the posters.

    So i just rename the poster just plain poster. No .jig just plain poster and access the video and went to my USB drive on the TV that is and went to the MOVIE source folder, and select scroll down the list of movies and my movie covers were showing.

    One question.

    When i do go to my movie collection, under were the poster is display, it says below No Information available

  • Movie covers

    this morning, as i was still looking, when i got to the movie folder label HOME ALONG, I did a long press on OK on the remote control and a popup came up (Set Content)

    My movie covers are on the usb drive with the movies, so how do i get kodi to use my local artwork on the usb drive, do i need to do a scrap for kodi to locate my local artwork saved on my drive.

  • Movie covers

    I removed Retropie to get it out of the way and installed Kodi 20v the newest version, so maybe i have better luck.


    When i get here, to the sub-folder that has my movie and cover inside, https://postimg.cc/grW4vc3y like a dvd case It just keep showing the folder icon when i get there, with the missing movie cover. So, i knew that now Retropie is out of the way, just Kodi 20, I can hopefuly do this better.

    Ok, it's not because, i'm no learning, it's that doing this here for the first time is like putting a puzzle together.

  • Movie covers

    First time back in while.

    I don't keep my Raspberry Pi connected online at all.

    So, since my local artwork which is the movie poster is saved along with my movie file in the sub-folder

    home along (1990).mp4

    home along (1990-poster.jpg

    do u still have to have a connection to get local artwork to show up.

  • Movie covers

    I have to hard drive loaded with mp4 movies & TV shows. Everything is good, but no covers. I don't keep the pi 4 connected online, I just have my tb portable drive with mp4 on it connected.

    So, here's the question, I have two main folders MOVIES/ and TV SHOWS as the main sourse on the drive. So, do I just create sub-folders inside of the MOVIE folder and drop the movie file and movie paster into the folder and else I do to get the cover to show up when going to the main MOVIE folder to see all the movies.

  • adding movie poster to Kodi v20

    I got a USB drive connected to my computer right now, I had just put a mp4 movie file on the USB drive and connected it to my raspberry Pi4 and started up Kodi. I can acess my movie good, but as for my movie poster, i re-connected the USB drive to the computer, and uploaded the poster, 1000px x1500px to the usb drive.

    So, do i need to create a folder on the drive for the poster. i seen many info online on how to do so. i tried it but it all fail.

    I tried creating a folder on the drive naming it MOVIES and inside creating a sub-foler naming it the movie title and droping the movie file and poster into the folder

    (CHIP 'n DALE RESCUE RANGERS (2022)-poster.jpg

    (CHIP 'n DALE RESCUE RANGERS (2022.mp4