Seems like a TV issue. Which protocols does the TV support? Look in the manual.
Just some thoughts which might not be relevant to your specific TV model. I don't have a TV anymore. We switched to a projector a long time ago so watching TV would be less common and an "event."
Most smart TVs should support DLNA. There are standards for this stuff that most media centers (Kodi/Plex/Windows) require:
Code:
Movies/Title (YYYY)/title-year-res.mkv
TV/Title (YYYY)/Season 1/Show-101-EpTitle.mkv
Music/Genre/Artist/Album/##-Title.ext
Photos/YYYY/MM-Event Name/
Movies and TV are really stuck in that layout. Most Media Center Servers will merge many disk into a single view for clients, so if you need 20 disks to hold your BlueRay collection:
Code:
M1/Title (YYYY)/
M2/Title (YYYY)/
M3/Title (YYYY)/
....
M20/Title (YYYY)/
Same for all the other types of media. Multiple disks aren't an issue. No need to use any funky file systems to merge disks into a single virtual file system. The YYYY and () are optional, they just help with title scrapers. You can manually help, if needed. I don't use () since those characters break my scripts and I avoid any spaces or other funky characters in directories or files for a similar reason. I don't want management scripts broken over a stupid apostrophe.
Music is pretty free form (so you can do almost anything), but if you do an Genre/Artist/Album/##-Title.ext I think you'll be happier most of the time. Soundtracks don't fit, so make a soundtrack Genre. Singles with mixed artists don't fit either. EasyTag will let you convert to that Music layout using tags - or add tags based on the directory layout.
Same for Photos, but if you organize by at least the year, you'll be happier in 40 yrs as memory fades. Knowing the year is really very helpful. I've had to organize my dead parents photos. Dad labelled almost everything, but Mom didn't. Lots of photos of people important enough for a 35mm photo, but not important enough to know their names/relationship. Grandkids get interested in that stuff about every 20 yrs.
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