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**outleradam** · (This post was last modified: 2010-01-02, 08:08 by outleradam.)

I would like to know if I can add the following into an NFO file.

from 1.2 MPlayer EDL

Code:
FILE PROCESSING COMPLETE

------------------------

12693    17792

28578    34549

43114    48222

**outleradam** · 2010-01-03, 05:34

anyone? Is there any provisions for NFO file comskip or similar? I am dealing with files like this:

Code:
<tvshow>

              <title>Bulletproof Monk</title>

              <rating>1</rating>

              <plot>A martial-arts master (Chow Yun-Fat) finds an unlikely protégé (Seann William Scott) to take over the responsibility of protecting an ancient scroll.</plot>

              <genre>Action</genre>

              <premiered></premiered>

              <recordstart>2010-01-01 00:30:00</recordstart>

              <comskip>12693    17792</comskip>

              <comskip>28578    34549</comskip>

              <comskip>43114    48222</comskip>

</tvshow>

dteirney · 2010-01-03, 22:42

At present no. I believe the nfo files are scraped and then the information is put into the XBMC database. There are no database fields to store any commercial break information at present.

If it were to be added the format would almost certainly be different to the example provider, e.g. a strict XML element for the commercial break and then elements for the start and end times.

For example, perhaps something like:

Code:
<commercialbreak>

<start>12:23:45</start>

<end>12:46:46</end>

</commercialbreak>

I don't know what other implications there are of adding additional fields to the info file at present as I believe other 3rd party tools generate such meta data files for XBMC to read, e.g. Ember Media Manager.

It might be possible to add support for the existing EDL code to look up commercial break information inside an .nfo file, even if the information isn't added to the XBMC database. It's not really information that a person likely cares about viewing when traversing the library, so reading it at runtime is probably fine.

However, who is going to add information to the nfo file? Most of the commercial and freely available tools won't generate something like this... and if manually added would be obliterated if the nfo files were regenerated by a 3rd party tool.

**outleradam** · 2010-01-03, 23:05

In this post http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=462...stcount=14

You made it sound like comskip was just as good as using time. Why not use all available formats?

Code:
<commercialbreakframes>

  <start>12693</start>

  <end>17792</end>

</commercialbreakframes>

dteirney · 2010-01-04, 08:26

outleradam Wrote:In this post http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=462...stcount=14

You made it sound like comskip was just as good as using time. Why not use all available formats?
Code:
<commercialbreakframes> <start>12693</start> <end>17792</end> </commercialbreakframes>

Sure, which is why I said "for example". I'm still not sure there's a solid reason for adding anything commercial break related to the .nfo file at this stage.

**spiff** · 2010-01-04, 14:27

why invent yet another format? the .edl .commskip etc does the job just fine.

**outleradam** · 2010-01-04, 14:55

Because comskip now requires 3 separate files. A movie, a NFO and a comskip.

**spiff** · 2010-01-04, 15:02

JIKES! the horrors of using your filesystem to store... files

**outleradam** · 2010-01-05, 03:48

I guess you're right. It's just that I wanted to make a simple renamer with commercial skipping program, and now it's turning into a full-on all-out media manager with bells and whistles galore that does Julian fries in seconds... I was planning on around 300 lines of code and I've somehow ended up with more then 800 and a lenghty execution time.