Video Category

DSM admin or users belonging to the administrators group can categorize video collections into movie, TV show, home video, and TV recording as shown on the left panel of Video Station. You can browse videos of each category by different classifications, and manage your videos by adding them to favorites, watchlist, or custom collection for quick access.

Before organizing your video files, you need to create video folders for each genre.

Create Video Folders

You as DSM admin or users belonging to the administrators group need to create video folders for movie, TV show, home video, and TV recording first to store your videos before managing files with Video Station. While placing video files, please make sure they are stored by corresponding type.

To create video folders:

  1. Select any video tab on the left panel, and go to Settings > Video Folder (for movie/TV show/home video) or Settings > TV Recording (for TV recording).

    Note: If this is your first time using Video Station, a prompt will appear taking you to the setup page once the application is launched. Click OK to continue.

  2. Depending on which type of video folder you want to create, do the following:
  3. For movie/TV show/home video, select which type of video you want to place in the folder. A folder can contain only one video type, but multiple folders can be created to contain videos of the same kind. Once a folder is selected, neither the folder nor its sub-folders can be selected to store any type of video.

    Note: Video Station can contain up to 100 video folders.

  4. Select a display language for video info. As the name suggests, the selected language only applies to the metadata of the type of videos stored in the video folder in question. The default language is English.

    Note: If you change the language setting, the video info of the original language will be replaced with that of the selected language only if the metadata of the later selected language is available over the Internet.

  5. Click OK.

Tips for naming video files:

When placing videos in respective folders, it is recommended you follow the distinctive naming rules for different types of video files in addition to storing them by type. In doing so, not only files can be properly indexed, metadata can also be correctly retrieved from the Internet to update the video info. Naming guidelines for movies and TV episodes are as below:

To edit or delete video folders (not applicable to the TV recording folder):

  1. Select any video tab on the left panel, and go to Settings > Video Folder.
  2. Select the folder you want to edit or delete from the list, and click Edit or Delete. Press and hold Ctrl or Shift for multiple selections if you want to delete several folders at a time.
  3. Depending on which mode you have chosen, do the following:
  4. Click OK to save the changes.

Re-index Video Files

Video files within the specified video folders will be indexed by default, but if files in a folder matching search criterion somehow appear missing, you may need to perform re-index to re-construct the index structure of the files.

You can also re-index the video files to update their metadata periodically.

To re-index video files:

  1. Select any video tab on the left panel, and go to Settings > Video Folder.
  2. Select the folder whose video files you want to re-index, and do either of the following:

Browse Video Files

Videos of each category can be sorted by different criteria. You can do any of the following to quickly browse your video files.

Manage Video Collections

You can create your own video collections by adding videos to predefined favorites or watchlist, as well as to your custom collections for quick access.

To create your own video collections, do either of the following:

To add videos to favorites, watchlist, or your custom collections, do either of the following:

To view your favorites, watchlist, or custom collection:

Go to the Collection tab on the left panel, and click Favorites, Watchlist, or [Custom collection name] to see the videos added to the category in question.