Indexing and flagging offline removable DVD Video discs in the library database?

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- Harry Muscle - 2010-10-05

fidoboy Wrote:Well, i think that after asking the user with a small dialog, when the user inserts the disc, XBMC should search for the filename into the inserted DVD disc. The really interesting thing for this useful feature could be that you can have two separated libraries or menu entries one for online database and another one for your offline database (DVD discs)

i'm waiting for this feature since two years ago, when i first installed XBMC. I really can't understand why this is not added yet into XBMC or my be now it can be acomplished using an addon.

regards,

Offline support is actually something different than stub file support, which is what this patch is designed to add to XBMC.

However, you'll be happy to know that there is work being done on offline support also by another user on the forums and he's quite far along with his patch. Hopefully both his and my patch will get into XBMC and we'll have full offline and DVD cataloging support in XBMC soon.

The problem why this has not yet been added into XBMC is because none of the Team-XBMC devs have any interest in adding this since they don't use offline files or have large DVD collections they want to catalog in XBMC. They do this in their spare time after all.

Thanks,
Harry

- Harry Muscle - 2010-10-07

A new and improved patch is now up on trac. Includes some logical code changes and changes the default extensions. Biggest new feature is the ability for users to define a custom stub type with custom extensions, dialog message, and associated codec. Check it out: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10384

Thanks,
Harry

- Harry Muscle - 2010-10-24

Just a bump to this thread hoping to get the attention of one of the devs. If one of the devs happens to have some spare time to check out the patch mentioned above (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10384), any feedback would be much appreciated. I know this is something that none of the devs are really interested in but it would be nice if the patch could make it into the SVN (or let me know what needs to be changed in order to make it into the SVN).

Thanks,
Harry

- LupinSansei - 2010-10-25

I have a quick question. How do you install this patch? And is it for a specific skin? Thanks! Smile

- Harry Muscle - 2010-10-26

LupinSansei Wrote:I have a quick question. How do you install this patch? And is it for a specific skin? Thanks!

Depends if you're running Windows or Linux. If it's Windows, it's fairly easy. I would recommend you start by reading: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Windows_from_source_code . It will explain how to compile XBMC in Windows. Once you've done that, download my patch file from the track and right click on it, you should have the option from Tortoise SVN to apply the patch, simply point it to the root of where the source files are and it will apply the patch, then compile things again. That should give you a good start. Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Harry

- LupinSansei - 2010-10-26

Thanks! Actually it was for Linux but I'll give this a try for Windows.

Add Owned DVDs to Library - super_sobbie - 2010-12-13

OK there are 2 things that I think would be cool here. First when you put a DVD into your XBMC it pops a play DVD into the menu. it would be cool if that menu populated all the information about the movie including posters. If you have never played that movie before you would be able to scrape the information in a submenu. Then next time you put the DVD in it would show the correct information. This information could be held in the database

Second it would be cool if you could index some movies as owned and have them in your library with a DVD overlay on the poster. My file server is not big enough for all my DVDs. I did at one point put a fake ISO file with the movie name on my file server to put that information there. But I have started to put some ISOs on the file server so now I can not tell which are available and which are not.

Anyway, it is just an Idea. I am sure it has been brought up before but I could not find a thread with the searches that I tried.

Thanks for all the hard work on this GREAT application.

super sobbie

- Harry Muscle - 2011-02-14

I've finally found time to implement the changes asked for by the devs for my patch for stub files. So in case anyone has been following my stub file support patch, you can find the latest and greatest here: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10384 . Hopefully this will make it into the XBMC code.

Thanks,
Harry

- fidoboy - 2011-02-14

Nice! Now it could be very, very useful to have an addon to manage the offline library separated from the main library; this way you could have two film libraries, one for local content (stored into the HDD) and another one for offline content (from DVDs, etc).

This is, the one biggest feature that is missing in XBMC from the beggining.

regards,

- Harry Muscle - 2011-03-23

In case anyone is intersted, I've put together a release based on XBMC 10.1 that includes my Disc Stub patch.

You can download the needed files here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IMVF48FD

This release actually contains two of my patches. The latest Disc Stub patch (76 (PR)) and also the latest Slingbox patch (77 (PR)). For more details on the Slingbox patch look here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=757828 .

The zip file only contains the exe file and two other support files. What you need to do is install the original XBMC 10.1 installation and then replace the XBMC.exe file, copy the strings.xml file into the "language/English" folder (overwriting the existing file) and copy the DialogPlayEjectCancel.xml file into the "addons/skin.confluence/720p" folder.

Thanks,
Harry

P.S. In case you're only joining us now, the Disc Stub patch allows a user to create files with a .disc extension (this is the default extension which can be changed). When you try to play one of these files in XBMC, it will ask you to insert the disc and allow you to play it directly from there.

In association with the confluence skins feature (and possibly other skins too) which scans for key words like dvd, bluray, etc. and displays the proper media flags, you can create files like "Finding Nemo.dvd.disc" or "Finding Nemo.bluray.disc" and have the skin display the proper media flags and have XBMC ask you to insert the disc when you try to play the item in your library.

Hope that helps.

- GJones - 2011-03-23

Harry Muscle Wrote:In case anyone is intersted, I've put together a release based on XBMC 10.1 that includes my Disc Stub patch.

You can download the needed files here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IMVF48FD

This release actually contains two of my patches. The latest Disc Stub patch (76 (PR)) and also the latest Slingbox patch (77 (PR)). For more details on the Slingbox patch look here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=757828 .

The zip file only contains the exe file and two other support files. What you need to do is install the original XBMC 10.1 installation and then replace the XBMC.exe file, copy the strings.xml file into the "language/English" folder (overwriting the existing file) and copy the DialogPlayEjectCancel.xml file into the "addons/skin.confluence/720p" folder.

Thanks,
Harry

P.S. In case you're only joining us now, the Disc Stub patch allows a user to create files with a .disc extension (this is the default extension which can be changed). When you try to play one of these files in XBMC, it will ask you to insert the disc and allow you to play it directly from there.

In association with the confluence skins feature (and possibly other skins too) which scans for key words like dvd, bluray, etc. and displays the proper media flags, you can create files like "Finding Nemo.dvd.disc" or "Finding Nemo.bluray.disc" and have the skin display the proper media flags and have XBMC ask you to insert the disc when you try to play the item in your library.

Hope that helps.

The above statement assumes that all interested users would be using Windows.

- Harry Muscle - 2011-03-23

GJones Wrote:The above statement assumes that all interested users would be using Windows.

That is true ... that's why I'm working on a Linux build as I write this Smile

Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac, so I won't be providing a OSX build Sad

Harry

- Harry Muscle - 2011-03-23

And here is the Linux build: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KBBWXZFH . Same instructions as for the Windows build, replace the xbmc.bin file (after installing XBMC 10.1) and also place the strings.xml file in language/English and DialogPlayEjectCancel.xml in addons/skin.confluence/720p.

Thanks,
Harry

- pettergulbra - 2011-03-24

Hi. I`d like to use this program.
But I have a lot of movies.
So I wonderd if you or some one else have a program like this: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40329
This makes it easy to make all the files.. I don`t say it must be this program.
Because it look dead.. And I don`t make it work eather.

But make over 700 fake files, is dificult.

I`ll try your patch later to day. Se hove it works..

The only thing is that in this link I have pasted, if it had worked was that it could tell the
movie number in the collection to put in.

Kindly

Petter

PS: Sorry for my bad English.

- ezechiel1917 - 2011-03-28

So with stub files integrated now how do you set target file for stub file, or is it not possible because it just plays disc which you have (or should've) present in DVD/Blu-ray drive? So it doesn't help if you have multiple videos on one DVD/Blu-Ray disc, or am I missing something?