Technical data

Files names
Movies: Ideally, files must be properly named, using only movie titles (either in French or in English).
Title words (if more than one) must be properly separated. Blank and Caps can be used, but other
special characters cannot. Characters such as point, hyphen, apostrophe or underscore can be used.
Movie date of release can be entered too and added at the end of name so as to enhance search. E.g.
“The.Green.Horse.1978.mkv” or: “The Green Horse 1978.mkv”. If a given movie cannot be found,
please report to “Unknown movie” section further below in this manual.
Beware! For Blu-ray stored in a folder structure, the full structure must have been previously
created to ensure normal operation. Your main folder must be named after the movie title. This
folder must include BDMV and CERTIFICATE folder. For DVD stored in a folder structure, the full
structure must have been previously created to ensure normal operation. Your main folder must be
named using and in accordance with movie title. This folder must include a VIDEO_TS folder.
Beware! The number of character in the path being limited, it is recommended to limit the number
of sub-folders. Ideally, all movies would have to be stored in one single folder. Otherwise, playback
problems might occur (only applicable to Dune HD or Zappiti player users) .This applies also to TV
shows or Music (as it frequently occurs that long names are used in these fields).
TV SHOWS: for TV shows, files must be stored in a folder and named after title of the TV show. It is
highly important to use TV show original title from the US version (this only applies to TV shows). For
instance, TV show “24” has to be named “24”, instead of the more commonly used title “Twenty four
hour”. E.g. “House” TV show has to be named “House” instead of “Doctor House”. If a TV show can’t
be found, please report to paragraph “TV show unknown” further below in this manual.
Files where episodes are stored must be named as follows: “name of TV show s01e01”, with “s” for
“season” and “e” for “episode”. For episode ranks 1 to 9, we recommend to add number “0” prior to
rank order. This is not required for episodes above 10. Apart from the most efficient way to proceed
explained here above, you can use following categories too: s1e2, s01e02, 2x01, 01x03, s01.e03.
MUSIC: while no special categories are to be used for Music files, it is recommended to only use Title
of song, then Name of album or name of artist. Names connected with music file technical data must
be avoided (such as broadband or sample rate). Folder structure might include use of sub-folders,
but following structure is recommended:
ALBUM FOLDER
L ---Music folder track n° 1
L --- Files « icon.jpg » (either album cover art or album title)
L --- Audio files “title.flac”
Whenever one picture at least ("icon.jpg", "folder.jpg", "folder.png", "poster.jpg", "icon.png",
"poster.png", "front.jpg", "front.png") has been stored in audio tracks folders, it will be used as the
picture dedicated to music file and release cover art. If more than one picture is stored with audio
tracks sub-folders, the first one than can be found will be used as music file cover art for this release.
It is not required to create a dedicated sub-folder for each track, except if you intend to use
customized picture files. If either no picture is available or no dedicated sub-folder available for each