Extract Movie Video Database to seperate files

For me saving the file to media location with media name would be fine

but for those unable to then I can see how a few problems may be encountered.

If for example a person wants to keep all of these nfo files local to the xbox - including those that are for files located on a network then this would complicate things greatly.

I think experimentation may be the key here

Once a system of any kind is in place then people will more easily be able to see the problems and possible solutions.

However

For rar files with multiple video files (Messy - Do people actuallly do this)
then how about appending something i.e

rarfilename-1.nfo
rarfilename-2.nfo
rarfilename-3.nfo
rarfilename-4.nfo etc

or allowing xml nfo files to contain more than one item eg

<movie>
<FIlename>content1.avi</FIlename>
</movie>

<movie>
<FIlename>content2.avi</FIlename>
</movie>


For VIDEO_TS then the only way I can think to do it would be to use the parent folder as file name.

For longfilenames on a remote server with the nfo stored local then another table will be needed again (file id) ie lfn001 and (full file name) ie longfilename.avi etc this would remove problems of similar filenames being truncated to the same name

It would be best in my opinion if files were not automatically overwritten at the very least the user should be asked - with perhaps the options - replace all/replace none

As i said above tho - Experimentation may be the key here
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so whatever happened to this feature?

Its still sitting on jmarshalls computer waiting to be finalized would be my guess

jmarshall Wrote:1. Where to store said files. Should they be next to the movie (most useful for users?) or in a different folder (not so useful - think filename conflicts and so on).

All files should be stored next to the video.
If the share is read-only the user can provide an alternative writable share or have them saved to the same directory structure inside a rar file on the xbox which they can then extract to the share.

Quote:2. Should we prompt for overwrite, or ignore (think backing up when you've just added 10 movies to a 1200 movie collection!)

Wouldnt all nfos need to be read to check for tags anyways?
Would checking then writing as required take that much longer if reading all nfos is required anyways?

Quote:3. Should this functionality also be contained within an optional setting "save nfo file on scan"

IMO Incorrect tagging is far worse than no tags.
Individual movie lookups would solve the updating '10 of 1200 movie collection' situation above. If implimented the looked up tag information should be displayed on screen and a dialog or onscreen button be shown to write .nfo. This gives the user a chance to check the data before it is written.
Full scans are so unreliable I wouldnt give the user the option.

Couple implimentation questions

if a .nfo exists but no tag data is contained inside where is the tag data written? Append to end of the file seems ideal.

I assume your exporting thumbnails as well?

Is it possible to save a part of a database export as nfo-file?

I have for all my DVD rippes a nfo file with the url of the movie in the ofdb.

For some movies I change the information due to export the database make the changes in the xml and import the xml to the database.

I try to save a part from the database export in a nfo-file for future update of the database information but it didn´t work.

Is it possible, and which scraper must I choose?

Thanks

http://xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.ph..._nfo_Files

Currently my nfo files contain only the IMDB links. Although.... if JM impliments his desktop I'll be exporting all that to files and saving them in place of the IMDB links.

I would also really like to see this implemented. Can it be implemented with "save to media location" as the only option? Then, after more people see how it works, we can work out the problems with saving to a different location.

On the different location problem:
How about parsing the 'filenameandpath' field of the DB and saving to chosen_path\parent_folder\media_file_name.nfo ? The parent folder would need to be created under the chosen path and the .nfo file put there. Then the VIDEO_TS.nfo files would not overwrite each other.

buzz

yes but what if the media location is not writeable?