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In addition to Movies and TV Shows, I'd like to be able to list and view home movies in XBMC. Obviously, this can easily be done from the Videos menu available in many skins by simply adding the directory containing the videos as a source.
My real question is presentation-related. I would prefer to have the videos listed chronologically rather than alphabetically. However, there is not a way to do this that I can see. The only alternative would be to name the files in such a way that they are displayed chronologically. So if a video was taken on October 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM, it would have to have a filename like:
10222008-1426.mkv
This would arrange the filenames chronologically, but now the titles are useless if the user is browsing for specific content. What I'd really like to be able to do is have the files arranged this way, but display human-readable titles.
Is there currently a way to do this? Will .nfo files be used in a non-library context? Thanks!!
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Unfortunately not.
The best I can suggest until we find a dev who is willing to implement a generic nfo content type / scraper is to use the Music Videos Section for this purpose (if you are not using i already).
It has a generic nfo scraper option.
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It would seem to me that the same infrastructure you're looking for is already there in the Library function for Videos. Only instead of grabbing the info from the web, allow a user to edit the information manually. Replace a few words like Cast, and Studio, with People, and Location. Change the word Thumbs to Pictures, and add in stills from the Video, or the photos taken on the Vacation, or whatever the video might be.
Seems plausible, and editing this stuff from the user interface is a lot easier than writing nfo files. Also all the information would be start in the DB.
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2009-02-04, 11:04
(This post was last modified: 2009-02-04, 11:32 by sho.)
Have you tried having a full date in the year field for movies or music videos?
Edit:
Looking at a music video xml nfo file on my comp, probably created with one of the various helper programs out there, <aired></aired> seems to be a valid tag.
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I have several home videos that I want to show up in a seperate folder other than movies in Video Library. I want it to show up in a folder something like "Home Videos".
This way I will be able to keep the Video Library clean by keeping the movies seperate from Home Videos. I have spent several hours of my day searching this forum but all of them point me to putting these files under movies section with the help of nfo files.
Is it possible to create a seperate folder for home videos in the video library and how?
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I did read the entire thread and nothing points to what I have requested. Can you please read my request again and see if that is a possibility ? Any suggestion would be of great help ....
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just carrying over the question from another thread I started (didn't see this one first)
Still looking for some guidance..
I have a NAS that is partitioned as such:
F: Movies
G: Music
H: Photos
I: Home Movies
J: TV Shows
The Movies, Music, Photos, and TV Shows are no-brainers. I add them as appropriate sources, and turn on Library mode...works great. But, what do I do with my Home Movies partition? If I say the content source is "Movies", that doesn't help. None of my home videos have yet made it to IMDB!
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I don't think the "Music Videos" section is going to work for this. Even when putting the full date in the tag in the .nfo, the scanner only picks up the year. The scanner also does not pick up the <aired> tag.
At this point, I'm willing to use something other than XBMC to do the job "right." I don't want to have to plan my entire home movies library around a series of XBMC hacks.
Does anyone know of a video library application that can store/sort files by date and time?