2012-04-12, 19:05
I am losing my mind with my library on a machine that doesn't have Internet access. To make this work, I have a fetching machine that has a very quick connection, it grabs media, cleans it up, fills with metadata and transfers to this machine without Internet access to be added to it's media library after my verification. Problem is, all machines that use XBMC to pull metadata from the stored information instead of the internet get very basic data (video information like BluRay, 5.1, DTS, etc ... and year); why?
The metadata I have downloaded comes from either Media Center Master or YAMMM and, looking at the created data files, seems quite complete. However, it appears no installed version of XBMC is able to pull the data from any of the metadata files provided (dvdid.xml, movie.nfo or mymovies.xml). I have re-built the library many times, even reinstalled the XBMC application a few times, but to no avail. It feels like I am missing something very simple, but I don't know what it is, and the Internet seems not to give an answer on how to fix this.
The reasoning why this metadata is important is that the machine that hosts everything is quite custom, with various PHP applications to manage all the users requests for media that I made myself, and aren't secure enough to inspire me to have this machine connected to the Internet. Plus, there are about 500 devices on our intranet that use this machine as their media device, so it really doesn't need Internet access (the entire purpose of creating this machine was to reduce the hammering that our building Internet was taking).
The metadata I have downloaded comes from either Media Center Master or YAMMM and, looking at the created data files, seems quite complete. However, it appears no installed version of XBMC is able to pull the data from any of the metadata files provided (dvdid.xml, movie.nfo or mymovies.xml). I have re-built the library many times, even reinstalled the XBMC application a few times, but to no avail. It feels like I am missing something very simple, but I don't know what it is, and the Internet seems not to give an answer on how to fix this.
The reasoning why this metadata is important is that the machine that hosts everything is quite custom, with various PHP applications to manage all the users requests for media that I made myself, and aren't secure enough to inspire me to have this machine connected to the Internet. Plus, there are about 500 devices on our intranet that use this machine as their media device, so it really doesn't need Internet access (the entire purpose of creating this machine was to reduce the hammering that our building Internet was taking).