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I've been using xbmc for 4 years and thisis the first time i've wanted to tackle this issue. i've googled but found nothing on this surprisingly. my question is two prong:

- How do i add tv shows that haven't scraped correctly to the tv shows library list? This is useful for a lot of foreign shows that arent and will probably never be in thetvdb. I have a bunch of these and for years they have gone unadded in my library - id like to change that. I dont really care if theres no episode or show synopsis info. All i need is for the "TV SHOW NAME" to show up with a blank banner in the list, and each episode to be listed when i go into the show (even if its simply 1x01, 1x02, etc). I can then manually add a poster for the show. I know one way is to manually add these to thetvdb. but that would be very very time consuming. I know another is to create an nfo. But i'm not sure what goes into the nfo. Where to place it. Whether i need to create an nfo for each episode, or jsut one in each season folder?

- I have a lot of Shows from national geographic and discovery that are one of shows that either dont belong to a series, or are individual episodes from lots of different series. I'd like to have these in either a National geogrphic tv show item, or a "Documentaries" tv show listing. I've placed them all in one directory, and named them each individually. Is there a way for xbmc to just add these to a single "Documentary" listing in tv shows, with the name of the file being scanned in as the episode name. I read some threads from 2010 that this was a planned feature to be able to add unscraped tv shows and movies, but cant find any info on this.

thanks

You can create nfo files for these shows and episodes, supplied with your own information, and these will get scraped and added to your video library. See here for details: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Imp..._nfo_Files (don't let the title "Import-export library" dissuade you... just focus on the topics regarding nfo files).
If these specials are listed on thetvdb as "Specials" when you go to the web site via a browser, you may be able to scrape them by specifiying "S00" and the appropriate episode numbers in the filenames. Season 0 is deemed to be a special.

(2012-12-03, 21:03)artrafael Wrote: [ -> ]
You can create nfo files for these shows and episodes, supplied with your own information, and these will get scraped and added to your video library. See here for details: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Imp..._nfo_Files (don't let the title "Import-export library" dissuade you... just focus on the topics regarding nfo files).

If these specials are listed on thetvdb as "Specials" when you go to the web site via a browser, you may be able to scrape them by specifiying "S00" and the appropriate episode numbers in the filenames. Season 0 is deemed to be a special.

ok so i tried to go the nfo route but so far its taken up 2 hours, to experiment with 4 video files, and i've had no luck.

This is what I did.

Within my tv show source directory, created a directory called "Documentaries"

In this directory placed a file called tvshow.nfo. The contents of this nfo are as follows:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<tvshow>

    <title>Documentaries</title>

</tvshow>

I dont need synopsis etc, all i need is a Documentary TV show ite, and i can pick the art for it. which is why all i needed was the title tag.

When i rescanned, what this did was create a Blank entry right at the top of my tv shows list, with no title at all.

Then within my Documentaries I created separate directories for each video file as follows, with a video file and amtching nfo in each directory:

BBC Earth - 1x01
- BBC Earth - 1x01.m2ts
- BBC Earth - 1x01.nfo

Discovery - Ghengis Khan - Rise Of The Conqueror 2x01
- Discovery - Ghengis Khan - Rise Of The Conqueror 2x01.avi
- Discovery - Ghengis Khan - Rise Of The Conqueror 2x01.nfo

Discovery - NextWorld - Future Life On Earth 2x02
- Discovery - NextWorld - Future Life On Earth 2x02.avi
- Discovery - NextWorld - Future Life On Earth 2x02.nfo

Discovery - Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora 2x03
- Discovery - Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora 2x03.avi
- Discovery - Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora 2x03.nfo

The contents of the 4 nfo files are as follows:

Code:
<episodedetails>

        <title>BBC Earth</title>

        <season>1</season>

        <episode>1</episode>

    </episodedetails>

Code:
<episodedetails>

        <title>Ghengis Khan - Rise Of The Conqueror</title>

        <season>2</season>

        <episode>1</episode>

    </episodedetails>

Code:
<episodedetails>

        <title>NextWorld - Future Life On Earth</title>

        <season>2</season>

        <episode>2</episode>

    </episodedetails>

Code:
<episodedetails>

        <title>Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora</title>

        <season>2</season>

        <episode>3</episode>

    </episodedetails>

What gets created though within that empty main level blank tv show directory are 4 files:

1x01
1x01
1x02
1x03

I've also tried changing the directory structure so its:

Documentaries
- Season 1
-1x01 - BBC Earth.avi
-1x01 - BBC Earth.nfo
- Season 2
-2x01 - .....avi
-2x01 - .....nfo
-2x02 - ......
......

I've tried looking at the wiki agai nand again to see what else i can do but cant figure it out. any help?

Create a folder called TV Documentaries and place the video, nfo and tvshow.nfo files in it. Do not use separate subfolders for each show.

tvshow.nfo

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<tvshow>

    <title>TV Documentaries</title>

    <plot>Various TV documentaries, blah, blah, blah.</plot>

    <genre>Documentaries</genre>

</tvshow>

BBC Earth 0x1.nfo

Code:
<episodedetails>

  <title>BBC Earth</title>

  <season>0</season>

  <episode>1</episode>

  <plot>Whatever you want to say.</plot>

</episodedetails>

Discovery - Genghis Khan - Rise of the Conqueror 0x2.nfo

Code:
<episodedetails>

  <title>Discovery - Genghis Khan - Rise of the Conqueror</title>

  <season>0</season>

  <episode>2</episode>

  <plot>Whatever you want to say.</plot>

</episodedetails>

Discovery - NextWorld - Future Life on Earth 0x3.nfo

Code:
<episodedetails>

  <title>Discovery - NextWorld - Future Life on Earth</title>

  <season>0</season>

  <episode>3</episode>

  <plot>Whatever you want to say.</plot>

</episodedetails>

Discovery - Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora 0x4.nfo

Code:
<episodedetails>

  <title>Discovery - Ultimate Getaways - Bora Bora</title>

  <season>0</season>

  <episode>4</episode>

  <plot>Whatever you want to say.</plot>

</episodedetails>

Use season 0 for all the shows so they will be treated as "specials"
The video files must have the same names as the corresponding nfo files, but with the appropriate file extension (e.g., avi)
When you "Set content" on the "TV Documentaries" folder, be sure to enable the setting "Selected folder contains a single TV show"
I found that naming the folder simply as "Documentaries" made the scraper think it had something to do with The Beatles Documentaries. Using the name "TV Documentaries" avoided this confusion.
<plot> and <genre> are not required, but if you're going to add the shows to the library, you might as well take advantage of the capability to include additional descriptive information.

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