Media Player won't discover my video folder

The only problem with using the Media Player is that my videos are on two separate hard drives. I have them separated into folders using letters of the alphabet for each folder and the N-Z folders are all symlinked from the Video folder to their locations
on the second drive. The Media Player won't see the symlinks at all so I can't access half my video library from the Media Player. I can play them from Play To, however it'll drop out from time to time, usually if I reboot the media server and the Xbox is
still on. It's annoying.

Just an update - I tried restarting my computer a few times and on the third go it was fixed. I think it may be a glitch with my external drive or computer. Anyway, problem solved.

Just discovered this problem streaming video to the media player.

So just tried another disk same result it finds it as a media disk if you open it in vlc player and media player it finds the videos folder but nothing else its in the right format same as the one that is working but no luck

The sorting of videos is much nicer on the Xbox 360.

On my console the system video player shows only the folder (and subfolders contained therein).

I go to System Video Player, Videos.

My friend has a somewhat different experience on his One. He goes to Media Player, Selects his PC and gets four options (Music, Playlists, Pictures, and videos). Not too bad since this is an all in one player and must show the other options.

However on picking videos he now has eight options. I wont list them all this time. He picks Folders and now he is allowed to pick the folder where his videos are kept.

I can understand having all these options available but it just takes that bit more time for him to get to where he wants to go instead of quick and simple on the 360.