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I was wondering how does XBMC add the information for the movie?

I'm currently using Ember Media Manager to scrape all my movies. After scraping I will then add the folder path to XBMC. EMM works best when it comes to scraping.

However I noticed that XBMC still downloading the movie information from the Internet even though EMM already created an .nfo file for each folder containing the movies.

Hence I'm wondering is there any way to configure XBMC to read the .nfo from the local drive and only search on the Internet if such file cannot be found?

* BTW the .nfo file naming set in EMM is movie.nfo instead of <movie>.nfo. I wonder does this matter? Does the .nfo need to match the video file name exactly?
Its probably only downloading actor thumbs if you haven't disabled them in xbmc it wont download movie info or artwork if you have it locally
Is it necessary for the .nfo to match the movie name then?
dsync89 Wrote:Is it necessary for the .nfo to match the movie name then?

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Imp..._nfo_Files