Video Category

You can categorize your 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 or watchlist for quick access.

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

Create Video Folders

Video folders for movie, TV show, home video, and TV recording need to be created to store your videos first before you can manage files with Video Station.

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:
• Movie/TV Show/Home Video: Click Create and then Select to choose a folder from your DiskStation.
• TV Recording: In the TV Recording Folder section, click Select to choose a folder from your DiskStation.
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.
4. Click OK.

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:
• Edit: You can change the location of the folder and video type.
1. Click Select to choose another folder from your DiskStation if you want to modify the file location.
2. Select the folder you want, and click Select. You may create a new folder if you wish.
3. Switch the video type to another according to your need, and click OK.
• Delete: Click Yes to delete the selected folder(s).
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:
• Click Re-index all files to re-index all video files without searching video metadata over the Internet.
• Click Search all video info again to re-index all video files and search video metadata over the Internet all over again.

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.

Method 1:

1. Select the video type which contains the files you want to browse on the left panel, and click the Sort order icon at the top-right corner to reveal the drop-down menu.
2. Depending on how you want to sort the files, you can choose to sort them by year or title in either ascending or descending order.

Method 2:

1. Select the video type which contains the files you want to browse on the left panel, and click the Home icon at the top-left corner of the main area of Video Station to see the Classification menu.
2. Click any of the classification items to browse the sorted files by the criterion you have chosen.

Method 3:

1. Select the video type which contains the files you want to browse on the left panel, and enter a keyword in the search field at the top-left corner to search for files whose video title or metadata contain the keyword.
2. The search result will be displayed in the main area of Video Station.

Play Videos

Playing videos with Video Station is fun and intuitive. For better file transmission and viewing quality, it is recommended you install VLC media player for video playback. Refer to here for more information.

To play videos:

1. Select any video clip you want to play, and do either of the following to open the Video Player window:
   • Click the play icon at the bottom-right corner of the video image.
   • Click the Action drop-down menu, and click Play.
2. The video should start playing right away. If not, please make sure you have installed VLC Player (Windows, Linux) on your local computer.

Manage Video Collections

You can add videos to the favorites list or watchlist for quick access.

Do either of the following to add videos to the list(s):

Method 1 - Add to favorites/Add to watchlist

• Movie/Home Video/TV Recording: Select any of the video clips in the main area, and click the Action drop-down menu. Click Add to favorites or Add to watchlist.
• TV Show: Click any of the TV shows in the main area. All available episodes and seasons of the TV show will appear. Select the episode you want or click the episode to enter the single-episode view, click the Action drop-down menu, and click Add to favorites or Add to watchlist.

Method 2 - Add to favorites/Add to watchlist icon

• Movie/Home Video/TV Recording: Click any of the video clips in the main area to enter the single-video view. Click the Add to favorites or Add to watchlist icon on the upper-right side.
• TV Show: Click any of the TV shows in the main area. All available episodes and seasons of the TV show will appear. Click the episode you want to enter the single-episode mode, and click the Add to favorites or Add to watchlist icon on the upper-right side.

Once the selected videos are added to the lists, Add to favorites/Add to watchlist on the drop-down menu or its icons will be replaced with Remove from favorites/Remove from watchlist. You may click to remove the item(s) from either of the lists.

To view your selected videos of Favorites or Watchlist:

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