[dthornb]

All,

This is my first post so I hope I am in the correct area. If not, please help me find the right area and hopefully an answer to my issue.

The issue: I have tried several of the scrapers and movie DBs in XBMC and nothing picks up my movies and adds them to the library.

I have approx 500+ movies, each in its own folder.

Ex: C:\Movies\A Bug's Life\A Bug's Life.mp4
C:\Movies\A Walk To Remember\A Walk To Remember.mp4

and so on.

In XBMC I have right clicked on the Movies (C:\Movies) folder in my sources and selected Scan for new Content. The bar flashes across the top and I have nothing in my library. Yet if from Home | Video | Files (which goes into C:\Movies) I right click on a movie and select Movie Information; it finds it with no problem and adds it to the library.

Any one no why? I would prefer the scan find and add rather than making all those clicks to add 500+ manually.

On the set content for C:\Movies I have everything selected excluding the Exclude path from library updates. I have tried combinations and tried different movie DBs and nothing works.

Please help. Thanks.

[jmarshall]

Your settings are wrong. Ensure anything regarding "folder" and "recursive scan" is turned off.

[dthornb]

Thank you. I went to set content and deselected everything. I set the scraper to IMDB.org and the scan still didn't find anything. Any other settings I should change? Please advise.

[jmarshall]

A debug log while scanning might be useful, else we're just guessing.

[dthornb]

I tried to include the log and the site said the text I entered was too long. Shorten to 10000 characters. How can I get you the full log?

I saw this:
23:43:53 T:5008 M:1658957824 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogVideoScan.xml) ------
23:43:53 T:5008 M:1658957824 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogVideoScan.xml
23:43:53 T:5008 M:1658953728 DEBUG: Load DialogVideoScan.xml: 1.98ms
23:43:53 T:5008 M:1658953728 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 2.10ms (2.04 ms skin load)
23:43:53 T:5152 M:1658699776 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
23:43:53 T:5152 M:1658773504 DEBUG: VIDEO::CVideoInfoScanner:rocess - Starting scan
23:43:53 T:4960 M:1658961920 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
23:43:53 T:4960 M:1658961920 DEBUG: Thread 4960 terminating
23:43:53 T:5152 M:1659088896 DEBUG: VIDEO::CVideoInfoScanner:oScan Scanning dir 'D:\Movies\' as not in the database
23:43:53 T:5152 M:1659088896 DEBUG: Hash[movies,D:\Movies\]B=[],Computed=[7E68E35D48ACC3BF12804D23F5A7E2F9]
23:43:53 T:4688 M:1658679296 DEBUG: Thread 4688 terminating
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658945536 DEBUG: Not adding item to library as no info was found
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658945536 DEBUG: VIDEO::CVideoInfoScanner:oScan - Finished dir: D:\Movies\
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658937344 DEBUG: VIDEO::CVideoInfoScanner:rocess - Finished scan
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658937344 NOTICE: My Videos: Scanning for video info using worker thread, operation took 00:03
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658937344 INFO: Video scan was stopped or finished ... restoring FindRemoteThumbs
23:43:56 T:5152 M:1658691584 DEBUG: Thread 5152 terminating

Hopefully this was what you were looking for.

[jmarshall]

Use pastebin.ca

[johnny_swindle]

jmarshall,

I had a similar issue but was able to solve it with the steps listed in my post. However my collection is not very large and and my resolution might not be practical for someone with a large collection. Please see the post below:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=550797&postcount=5

Johnny