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Hello I'm an fan of very old silent movies from early age of cinema and found some strange bug inside Kodi software which in my opinion affecting some of old movies which I try to import to Kodi library which I have based on mySQL (MariaDB)  on external computer.

If I use pseudo scraper which import old silent movies from XIX century even if date is correct in NFO file is imported as 1969 and shows in Kodi with this year. So I assume that samoeone who write this routine in code made assumption that oldest movies can be after 1/1/1900 because after this date year is shown corectly.

But in reality oldest movie shown in cinemas is "La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon" displayed by Lumiere brothers 28 December 1895. Then even are older "movies" or rather short animations which are from XVIII/XIX century so if someone have them copied and digitalised isnecessary have in kodi years until 1790 meaby that is the safe distance into the past because cinema not started in 1900

Here are https://headsup.scoutlife.org/what-was-t...ever-made/

looks like 1878 is for movies photographs. Older dates may be used for scanned animations like this https://scalar.usc.edu/works/birthofanin...-animation

(2021-12-09, 15:34)blazejos Wrote: [ -> ]if date is correct in NFO file is imported as 1969 and shows in Kodi with this year.

Yes, there is a known problem regarding dates on some platforms. See here... https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/17309

I use Windows based installations, and scraping this movie works correctly for my system... https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/194079-...t-a-gallop



If you have a github account, maybe you could comment in the above issue report.

I have the same problem: the movie The Haunted Castle from 1897 shows up with the year 2033 in Kodi for Android. I used local information scraped from IMDB and The Movie DB.