[canadave]

I exported my video library as separate files, which resulted in NFO files being created in each of my movie folders. I was experimenting just now with my video library source settings, and wound up accidentally deleting my XBMC library. No biggie, I figured it'd just reload all the info from those NFO files. But when I went to "update library", instead it seems to be going out to IMDB and downloading information from there. Is there someplace I have to specify to use the local NFO files rather than going out to IMDB?

[gabbott]

It should prefer an nfo file over going out and scraping the data from a site, I use nfo files and that is always been the behavior. How are you determining that it is not using your nfo files?

[canadave]

I can tell because it's not picking up the NFO files for a few home movies I manually created NFO files for. Also, it seems to be taking quite a while to download info for each movie. I'll check the logs to make sure, though.

[gabbott]

I can tell because it's not picking up the NFO files for a few home movies I manually created NFO files for. Also, it seems to be taking quite a while to download info for each movie. I'll check the logs to make sure, though.

It still does take a bit to scrape even with nfo files, also try disabling 'download actor thumbnails when adding to library' and see if that speeds up scraping.

Perhaps a quick way to check (if you exported your nfos a bit ago) is taking a look at the number of votes for the ratings for a movie. If that number is lower than the votes you see currently on IMDB for a title, then check the number against your nfo file.

[canadave]

Hmmm, interesting. The log does show that it's picking up the local NFO files...but then it connects to IMDB for certain things. Specifically it's picking up thumbnails, even though the thumbnails seem to exist on my NAS as far as I can tell.

For instance:

Code:

16:14:42 T:85622784   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Scanning dir 'nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/' as not in the database
16:14:42 T:85622784   DEBUG: GetMovieId (nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.avi), query = select idMovie from movie where idFile=1704
16:14:42 T:85622784   DEBUG: CFileNFS::Open - opened volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.nfo
16:14:42 T:85622784   DEBUG: CFileNFS::Close closing file volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.nfo
16:14:42 T:85622784   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Found matching Full NFO file: nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.nfo
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Adding new item to movies:nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.avi
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: GetMovieId (nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.avi), query = select idMovie from movie where idFile=1704
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnUpdate from xbmc
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 8, from xbmc, message OnUpdate
16:14:43 T:85622784    INFO: Caching image from: [url]http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/be3/4bc9202e017a3c57fe00cbe3/desperado-original.jpg[/url] to special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/681d2fea.tbn
16:14:43 T:85622784   DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0x1fbc3db0) [url]http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/be3/4bc9202e017a3c57fe00cbe3/desperado-original.jpg[/url]
16:14:44 T:85622784    INFO: Caching image from: nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.tbn to special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/6/681d2fea.tbn with width 512 and height 512
16:14:44 T:85622784   DEBUG: CFileNFS::Open - opened volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.tbn
16:14:44 T:85622784   DEBUG: CFileNFS::Close closing file volume3/movies/Desperado/Desperado.tbn
16:14:45 T:85622784   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Finished adding information from dir nfs://192.168.1.211/volume3/movies/Desperado/

I have to say that it's surprising that the library takes so long to add movies that have NFO files on my home network. I have about 100 movies or so, and it's been about 15 minutes so far to get halfway through reconstructing the movie library alone, let alone the TV show library, using the "Update Library" command. But maybe I'm just overestimating XBMC's speed

[keith]

I do all my scraping on my Mac Mini or MBP for remote library. The ATV2 is not optimized for scraping, and might not be able to be so I try not to scrape with it.

[canadave]

I do all my scraping on my Mac Mini or MBP for remote library. The ATV2 is not optimized for scraping, and might not be able to be so I try not to scrape with it.

Hmmm...how does that work, exactly? I have a MBP too. Do you scrape with the MBP, then copy something over to the ATV2?

[jmarshall]

It's downloading fanart - no surprise it'll take a wee while to download 100 of them.

[keith]

Hmmm...how does that work, exactly? I have a MBP too. Do you scrape with the MBP, then copy something over to the ATV2?

Using Remote Library w/ MySQL and path substitution. There's some threads on this area specifically and a great tutorial on lifehacker on setting it up. I have 2 ATV2's and a mini and my MBP all using the same library and thumbnails. I can stop/resume on any of the TVs now and new media shows up immediately across all libraries when one finds it. It's pretty slick.