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As a quick side note, I recommend switching from regular to decaf.
Second, vskatusa, there may be a language thing going on here. With movies, there is only one way to build a library. You look at the folder with the movies in it. You set content. You scan. That's it. Then you switch over to the library and you see your movies. There is no such distinction as building a library in video mode vs building a library in movie mode.
Once the library is built, you can choose to look at the files and ignore the library. The link to do this is often called "Video." You can also choose to look at the already scanned files in your library. The link to do this is often called "Movies."
Once you've created a library, I suppose you can update that library by clicking, "update library." When you do this, XBMC scans the files for new movies. If it finds any, it will look for the nfo. If no nfo exists, it will look up the movie on IMDB.
Does that help at all? Or are we still confused and insistent upon using exclamation marks?
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2009-05-04, 21:02
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-04, 21:05 by vskatusa.)
I do remember in the previous build if one does a scan and if the folder has *.nfo file then *.nfo takes precedence to build the library instead of scraping the internet!
In the current build, the functionality seems to have changed! Why would anybody take the pain to enter info in the *.nfo files for xbmc to totally ignore it when building the library. Does not make sense to me.
The logic to build the library should be...
1. Check the current folder and see if *.nfo and *.tbn exists - If it does, then use THIS information else
2. Scrape the internet
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spiff
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and that is precisely how it works. the issue, which you have still failed to communicate to anyone in here, is on your side as this definitely works in general
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2009-05-04, 21:26
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-04, 21:34 by spiff.)
1) what do you think i did before saying it definitely works?
2) do you really think that if this was a general issue we wouldn't have heard it from hundreds of others by now? i'm not doubting you are seeing a bug but there must be a particular reason why only you are seeing it.
3) you still haven't explained what you mean with scanning from movie mode. what is movie mode? what do you mean scanning from movie mode? is this some aeon menu that links to the movie node of the library or what?
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natethomas
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The whole point of my previous post was an attempt to riddle out what your actual problem is. Perhaps you could re-read my previous post and explain when XBMC does read the nfo and when it does not.
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And in File mode XBMC does not read anything for the NFO file - all it does is read the file name and check for the presence of a folder.jpg - nothing else as far as I'm aware.
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It should also use the same cached thumbs.
vskatusa, since this has worked for you in the past, what happened to the library, why are you rescanning?
Can you do one thing for me in my final attempt to understand what is going on here.
As I understand it, your main problem with the library after a scan is that the names of the movies is not what you expect them to be, correct?
Please gather the following for one example movie showing the symptom:
Filename on disk
title in the corresponding nfo file
moviename on imdb (or whatever is being scraped from the internet)
Expected name in Library
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Has anybody tested this library stuff with VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder hierarchy (Instead of a single ISO or AVI files)?