[alexxx]

I'm new to this world so probably I'm missing something...
... but I'm a bit upset, having lost a lot of time to setup my movies with Media Companion (though I fear that it would have been the same with any other database).
Whatever I do, once I add some movies with MC and connect my (USB) disk to xbmc, it doesnt see them.
The only way is to ask it to "Scan for new Content", and at that point it starts "Scanning the movies using the Movie Database" .
But I already scanned ALL OF THEM!

what am I missing?

XBMC won't see the new movies till they are added to the library, unless you go to files. In XBMC, you need to set the content for your USB HDD to Movie, but check under that title for 'Local Information'. This mean XBMC will scrape the local nfo and artwork only.

That 'Local Information' may be Gotham only, or in Frodo 12.3 (when release, and yes, there is talk about 12.3)

Hope that helps some.

thank you for the hint, but I'm unable to do it:
going into "Change Content" for the movie folder, I see as scraper "the moviedb", and in options:
1) movies are in separate folders (ON)
2) scan recursively (ON)
3) selected folder contains a single video (off)
4) exclude path from library updates (off)

I dont know what to do -

BTW I'm on raspbmc, runnning XBMC 12.2