[XiphiasNZ]

Hi XBMC users ,

I’m thinking about moving away from windows media centre and getting stuck back in to XBMC (It has been my fav. media centre for years but I got sucked in to using WMC with Media browser add-on).

So I’ve installed the latest release with this very sexy Confluence skin, I have all my movies on a network share and use YAMMM to get the cover art and backdrops it's also creating the .nfo files for XBMC.

My question is how do I get XBMC to look to the files YAMMM has already got for the movie library? From what I can figure out with my very limited understanding XBMC is scrapping everything over again and creating its own database.

I also use stark covers for some fancy box art and would love to know if there is a way to set XBMC to use "folder.png" as the thumbnail without going and manualy setting each movie?

Thanks for any help

[pdawg]

I'm in the same boat. going back to XBMC but been using the same setup as you. Have you found out anything?

[pablofred]

I'm not familiar with yammm, but as I understand it, so long as you have an identically named .nfo file, xbmc will use the information in that file rather than going online to do a lookup.

This link has some more info: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Import_-_Export_Library

For my library, when I exported it from xbmc, I ended up with:

MovieName.avi
MovieName.nfo
MovieName.tbn
MovieName-fanart.jpg

If you keep this format for your other files, they should import no problem into XBMC without doing a lookup online. If you try to change it, there are probably some config files that would need to be changed to match your custom format.

[Swwethip1]

bump? looking to switch from media browser to XBMC.. have used yammm but my fanart and genres are not working