[HolgerKuehn]

Hi everyone,

I've started using Kodi a few months ago and got the basic information and fanart (as for your funny FAQ) right to work. But some fields shown in these infoscreens for movies or series I can't figure out.
Here are some screenshots and the corresponding nfo-file I used for input. Some hints are greatly appreciated.

1. What need to be filled for this YEAR to be shown in the first screenshot? It's a tv show and the year as well as the (first) aired date has been provided by tvshow.nfo. The TV-Show-details also doesn't state the first aired date and the year as well (what's expected here I assume ).

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow>
    <title>犬夜叉 - InuYasha (japanisch)</title>
    <showtitle>犬夜叉 - InuYasha (japanisch)</showtitle>
    <rating>8.0</rating>
    <year>2000</year>
    <plot>...</plot>
    <runtime>0</runtime>
    <episode>0</episode>
    <mpaa>FSK 12</mpaa>
    <playcount>0</playcount>
    <aired>16.10.2000</aired>
    <set>犬夜叉 - InuYasha</set>
    <id>tt0290223 (jp)</id>
    <genre clear="true">Animation</genre>
    <studio clear="true">Sunrise</studio>
    <credits clear="true">Takahashi, Rumiko</credits>
    <actor clear="true">
        <name>Kappei Yamaguchi</name>
        <role>InuYasha (jp)</role>
    ....
    </actor>
    <thumb>smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Serien/InuYasha (deutsch) (2000)/cover.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="1">smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Serien/InuYasha (deutsch) (2000)/Season 01/cover.jpg</thumb>
    <thumb type="season" season="-1">smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Serien/InuYasha (deutsch) (2000)/cover_all.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart>
        <thumb>smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Serien/InuYasha (deutsch) (2000)/fanart.jpg</thumb>
    </fanart>
</tvshow>

The episode-details are shown as I've expected, writer and director are not provided yet.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<episodedetails>
    <title>時代を越えた少女と封印された少年 - Toki o Koeta Shōjo to Fūinsareta Shōnen - Das zeitreisende Mädchen und der versiegelte Junge - Zurück ins Mittelalter (jp)</title>
    <season>1</season>
    <displayseason>1</displayseason>
    <episode>1</episode>
    <displayepisode>1</displayepisode>
    <aired>16.10.2000</aired>
    <rating>8.0</rating>
    <mpaa>FSK 12</mpaa>
    <plot>...</plot>
    <runtime>24</runtime>
    <playdate>20.05.2013</playdate>
    <playcount>1</playcount>
    <set>犬夜叉 - InuYasha</set>
    <genre clear="true">Animation</genre>
    <studio clear="true">Sunrise</studio>
    <fileinfo>
        <streamdetails>
            <video>
                <codec>hevc</codec>
                <aspect>1.33</aspect>
                <width>768</width>
                <height>576</height>
            </video>
            <audio>
                <codec>AC3</codec>
                <language>Deutsch</language>
                <channels>6</channels>
            </audio>
            <audio>
                <codec>AC3</codec>
                <language>Japanisch</language>
                <channels>2</channels>
            </audio>
            <subtitle>
                <language>Deutsch</language>
            </subtitle>
        </streamdetails>
    </fileinfo>
</episodedetails>

2. The media-flagging is great, but I couldn't figure out the fifth icon from left? It's showing "SDTV", "DVD Video" or "BluRay" in my case. But how is it determined which one to show? I've all my DVD-Media encoded with H265 and the media-stream section is allways <codec>hevc</codec> as shown in the above code. But yet the tv-show episode is shown as "SDTV" and one movie, that's as well as the episode in H265 and codec hevc, is shown as "DVD Video" in the screenshot below.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<movie>
    <title>10.5 - Die Erde bebt</title>
    <sorttitle>10.5 I - Die Erde bebt</sorttitle>
    <originaltitle>Magnitude 10.5</originaltitle>
    <set>10.5 - Die Erde bebt</set>
    <rating>4.3</rating>
    <year>2004</year>
    <plot>...</plot>
    <runtime>163</runtime>
    <mpaa>FSK 12</mpaa>
    <playcount>1</playcount>
    <aired>2004</aired>
    <id>tt364146</id>
    <genre clear="true">Action</genre>
    <genre>Drama</genre>
    <genre>Horror</genre>
    <studio clear="true">Hallmark Entertainment</studio>
    <director clear="true">John Lafia</director>
    <credits clear="true">John Lafia</credits>
    <credits>Christopher Canaan</credits>
    <credits>Ronnie Christensen</credits>
    <actor clear="true">
        <name>Beau Bridges</name>
        <role>President Paul Hollister</role>
        <thumb>http://cloudfront.clzimages.com/movie/banners/actors/small/5a/5a_1517_4_BeauBridges.jpg</thumb>
    ....
    </actor>
    <fileinfo>
        <streamdetails>
            <video>
                <codec>hevc</codec>
                <aspect>1.78</aspect>
                <width>768</width>
                <height>576</height>
            </video>
            <audio>
                <codec>AC3</codec>
                <language>Englisch</language>
                <channels>6</channels>
            </audio>
            <subtitle>
                <language>Englisch</language>
            </subtitle>
        </streamdetails>
    </fileinfo>
    <thumb>smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Filme/10.5  Die Erde bebt (2004)/cover.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart>
        <thumb>smb://JOUSETSUSOOCHI/XBMC/Filme/10.5  Die Erde bebt (2004)/fanart.jpg</thumb>
    </fanart>
</movie>

Here the year as is shown correctly by the way.

3. But do you know how to provide the country to be shown? I had not been able to find any nfo-example to do this.

Thanks in advance for any tip,
Holger

[ronie]

1. the 'premiered' tag will fill both 'year' and 'first aired':

Code:

<premiered>16.10.2000</premiered>

2. the fifth icon is the video-source. for episodes, this will always be a TV-rip.
depending on the resolution of the video, it can be either 'HD-TV' or 'SD-TV'.

for movies, the source can either be a DVD, a Blu-ray disc or HD-DVD (not commonly used).
again, the resolution and also the file extension is used to the determine the source of the video.[/code]

3. simply use the 'country' tag in your nfo file:

Code:

<country>USA</country>

[HolgerKuehn]

Hi ronie,

thanks for the hints, I'll adjust the nfo files accordingly.

I'm fine with the video-source icon, just curious, but it's good to know the difference here between movies and series.

Holger