The Little Black Box Little Black Box Operating Instructions Manual

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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Introduction Statements Product Contents Connection Remote Network Setup User Interface What is a Scraper Media Sources Adding media sources through the User Interface Adding media sources via the Context menu Video library/Setting content and scanning Movie content options Movie scraper settings Choose site to download movie ratings from.
Page 4: Introduction
Thank you for purchasing your very own ‘Little Black Box’. This manual will take you through the quick and easy steps needed to get your Little Black Box setup, online, and it also offers you a source of information that will help troubleshoot any problems.
Page 5: Product Contents
Power Supply • HDMI Cable Connection • Connect one end of the HDMI cable to the Little Black Box and the other to the HDMI port on your TV. • Connect the power supply to the Little Black Box. •...
Page 6: Remote
hapter Remote English...
Page 7: Network Setup
hapter Network Setup Scroll to the top of the screen Click on Wifi Choose your home network and click ok If Required enter your password Click done English...
Page 8: User Interface
User Interface The Little Black Box has been designed to make sure that each user can navigate effortlessly through the on screen menu and easily select various options in order to find their content. Use the Navigation Buttons to move through the menus.
Page 9: What Is A Scraper
XBMC program, music, and video libraries. Media Sources Your Little Black Box offers you the widest possible variety of home entertainment available through and network/internet connection and a TV. Whether you’re planning a Movie night with a loved one or you want to setup a playlist for a house party, you’ll be able find...
Page 10: Adding Media Sources Via The Context Menu
hapter Adding media sources via the Context menu While in the root of any of XBMC’s sections you Call up the context menu by pressing the menu button on the remote. From there you can also edit any of your current sources, just make sure you have the source you wish to edit selected.
Page 11: Video Library/Setting Content And Scanning
hapter Browse or enter the name and location (Local / IP ) you wish to assign to the source. From here you can also set the content of your media source. With this feature you can let XBMC pick the FanArt and Thumbnails from the internet that way giving your XBMC a very nice look by showing the appropriate FanArt and Thumbnails when browsing your media.
Page 12: Movie Content Options
hapter Movie content options Run Automatic Scan Scans the source’s files into the library after selecting ‘OK’ Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title If you keep each of your movies in its own folder with the movie name in it Example: /Movies/Big Buck Bunny/Big Buck Bunny.mkv If you keep all your movies in one big folder then leave this option...
Page 13: Movie Scraper Settings
hapter Selected folder contains a single movie This option is intended for adding one movie at a time. Exclude path from library updates Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it’s a subfolder of a folder that has contents set. Movie scraper settings Keep original title Use the original (untranslated) title when getting info for a foreign...
Page 14: Choose Site To Download Movie Ratings From
hapter Enable trailer Download movie trailers from YouTube. Prefer trailer from HD-Trailers.net Alternative trailer download. Preferred language Language to use for summaries and other metadata. Get rating from Choose site to download movie ratings from. TV show content options Run Automatic Scan Scans the source’s files into the library after selecting ‘OK’...
Page 15: Tv Show Scraper Settings
hapter Folder contains a single TV Show This option is intended for adding one TV show at a time. Exclude path from library updates Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it’s a subfolder of a folder that has contents set. TV show scraper settings Use DVD order Use DVD order instead of broadcast order.
Page 16: Understanding Season Ordering On Thetvdb.com
hapter Enable fanart Download Fanart or not. Prefer posters Download posters instead of banners. Be sure to also toggle the layout setting. Understanding Season Ordering on theTVDB.com TheTVDB.com is an open database that can be modified by anybody. All content and images on TheTVDB.com website have been contributed by its users.
Page 17: Scanning And Updating Files
hapter Please note that there is a global setting for these and also each folder has it’s own setting which can be checked via Video>files>(highlight show folder)>context menu- >change content>settings. The folder’s setting has precedence over the global setting. It is also important to understand thetvdb.com does not have absolute ordering for some shows and thus ticking the Absolute Order button may result in the episode number not being found and thus no match found or an incorrect match.
Page 18: Music Video Content Options
hapter Music video content options Run Automatic Scan Scans the source's files into the library after selecting 'OK' Scan recursively If your music videos are categorized into sub folders (e.g. genres, a-z). Exclude path from library updates Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it's a subfolder of a folder that has contents set.
Page 19: Refreshing The Library
hapter Refreshing the library Note: XBMC only scans each video once for information. The next time you update it will only add new videos, but won’t download new art/ summaries/etc for existing videos. To refresh the information for existing videos: Refresh individually Select the item in file view and press menu.
Page 20 hapter Switching scrapers and removing sources from the library Setting the content back to (None) after previously having selected a scraper for a source, will prompt users if they want to remove the contents from the Library. This is recommended if you wish to switch scrapers. First set content to (None) and then choose the new scraper.
Page 21: Video Navigation
hapter Video navigation The library organizes your videos into three basic categories, Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos. Further these categories are divided into sub-categories, allowing you to find a specific video through criteria like genre, actors, directors, year, or even custom video nodes.
Page 22 hapter View You can the toggle between the different display options, amongst others; List, Thumbnails, Fanart and 3D-Wall. Sort By You can choose what criteria to sort your Videos by. Note the arrow to the right which controls whether the items are sorted in ascending or descending order.
Page 23: Contextual Menu
hapter Search You can search for a string anywhere in the XBMC video database. Stack Enables direct playback of videos that are in folders, without having to open those folders first, as well as displaying multi-part video files as single items in non-library views. Flatten Removes the title, genre etc nodes from the library view.
Page 24: Update Library
hapter Queue Item Adds the item to the Now Playing playlist. Resume from (time) e.g. 00:02:21 If you previously started watching a file (after a preset time elapsed) and stopped, you can resume viewing from the moment you stopped. Play from here This will start playback from this file onwards (not including the file highlighted) Add to Favourites...
Page 25: Views
hapter Other possible menu items Play Plays the selected file, resumes a video from the last stopped position. Play using Allows you to select which player to use for video playback, depending on platform available players. Views List English...
Page 26 hapter Slide Gallery English...
Page 27 hapter 3DWall Wall English...
Page 28 hapter Posters Banner List English...
Page 29 hapter List Wall English...
Page 30: Searching The Library
hapter Searching the library The search button is available to help you search the video database. Select it to begin your search. A keyboard will pop-up where you may enter search terms (SMS style with the remote, or just using the virtual keyboard). Note that search results will appear in the following order (where matches are found) Genres, Actors (Artists), Directors, By Name, and By Plot.
Page 31: Media Information Screen
hapter basic filtering option which allowed users to enter a part of a media title and get a list of matching items with a much more sophisticated filtering functionality which, depending on the media type, offers filtering by title, genre, actors and much more. Media information screen In addition to various display layouts, a media information screen can be shown from contextual menu or by pressing info on the...