Adding video sources

Media sources are the links that tell XBMC where your content is stored and what type of content is contained within each one. You can have multiple sources for each media type.

You can use local media, file shares, removable USB drives, etc. UPnP won't work with the library features (scanning data in like summaries and movie covers) in XBMC, but just about all the other options should be fine.

Adding sources


Making one source for multiple locations
You might notice that XBMC has an "ADD" button in addition to a "BROWSE" button when you are adding a source. After you add your first location, you can add a second location (network or local. you can even mix them) and XBMC will show both folders as a single folder/source.

XBMC will also combine the subfolders within the source/locations. For example, For example, if you had a hard drive for TV shows, but ran out of space, you could make a second hard drive with the same folder paths and XBMC would merge them together to a single directory path. Such as



and the same is true for an additional nested folder with the same way:



You could have half of a show on one hard drive, half on another, and XBMC will show it to you as if it was in a single location by using multiple locations in a single source.