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I'm hoping there's someone out there that can help me with an issue I recently discovered I'm having with XBMC. I have a .mkv file of the movie S.W.A.T. which is being read by XBMC as a movie titled "A Thousand Clouds of Peace." I checked the file and the way it was titled and all seems to be correct. I even renamed the file SWAT as well as S.W.A.T. [2003] and none of it seems to work. I'm using IMDB as the database to draw the movie info but this is bugging me out. I'd rather not own the movie S.W.A.T. (especially since it's not so great) if the software misreads it. Does XBMC have a problem reading acronyms or is there something else I'm missing. Please help if you can.
Thanks.
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What is the full file and/or directory name of the movie? If there happens to be an nfo file for that movie, make sure it has the correct imdb URL. A debug log of a scan attempt may be useful, pastebin it.
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2009-03-03, 06:37
(This post was last modified: 2009-03-03, 07:13 by TomJensen.)
This happens to me on about 20% of the movies when I tried the built-in IDMB scraper. IMDB lists the most popular titles first, which may have the search string as part of the name, or as an alternate name. I'm guessing the built-in scraper simply takes the top entry, without going down to the "Exact Title" category and take the top entry from there.
There was no way to correct this, given that the virtual keyboard doesn't work (at least in the official Atlantis build), and it would've been a clunky option anyway, trying to enter characters with a remote. In the end, I ditched the built-in scraper and used the Media Companion (3rd-party scraper) instead. It's not perfect either, but the hit rate is pretty decent, and I can edit any mistakes with a keyboard.
Edit: Your problem is the [2003] suffix. I think some of the problems I had were the same type--I used (R5) and (screener) in some of the filenames.
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Test cases where the scraper fails to find the appropriate movie yet it exists on an imdb search are always most welcome.
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If you highlight the movie and select "refresh" from the context menu, it will ask you the title first. Just enter the correct title and off you go.
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In some case the year becomes usefull ... ie I am legend was released twice.
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All that stuff is cleaned off the filename before we send it to imdb.