[Hairy Hippy]

Re my feature request: When the NFO script writer in Ember generates the NFO (sorry if that's not the correct terminology), I am suggesting at the very end it also writes the IMDB URL (see at the very end of the code below). By doing this for some reason XBMC takes the movie info from the info in the NFO but still is able to tell if the movie is part of a TMDB set (see thread per link at end of code starting at post 6, NB I used the IDMB URL rather than TMDB and it solved the issue). By doing this you won't need to work on request number 19.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<movie xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <id TMDB="39006">tt0075893</id>
  <title>Cruel Passion</title>
  <originaltitle>Cruel Passion</originaltitle>
  <year>1977</year>
  <releasedate>1977-01-01</releasedate>
  <country>Italy</country>
  <country>Germany</country>
  <country>United Kingdom</country>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <mpaa>UK:18</mpaa>
  <certification>UK:18</certification>
  <genre>Drama</genre>
  <plot>Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.</plot>
  <runtime>98</runtime>
  <fileinfo>
    <streamdetails>
      <audio>
        <channels>2</channels>
        <codec>ac3</codec>
        <language>eng</language>
        <longlanguage>English</longlanguage>
        <bitrate>640</bitrate>
      </audio>
      <video>
        <aspect>1.622</aspect>
        <codec>h264</codec>
        <durationinseconds>5922</durationinseconds>
        <height>720</height>
        <language>eng</language>
        <longlanguage>English</longlanguage>
        <scantype>Progressive</scantype>
        <width>1168</width>
        <bitrate>4101</bitrate>
        <multiView_Count />
        <encodedSettings>cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4101 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=50000 / vbv_bufsize=50000 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00</encodedSettings>
      </video>
    </streamdetails>
  </fileinfo>
</movie>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075893/

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1502670

re option to set title = to original - yes, sorry if I'm mistaken but thought this was a feature of previous Ember releases.

Returning to this topic:

How the hell did someone get the idea to destroy the XML structure with an additional line? I could do it without problems but the XML is not valid and then Ember (as well as any other XML program) raises an error or renames the file to *.info (invalid NFO).

I really do not understand how one can get in such a shit idea.

Any comments?

Hi Dan - Sorry for the very slow reply on this but this decision was nothing to do with me. It's been on the wiki for some time (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO...ML_and_URL).

However, I am raising it as something Ember could write to the NFO as it would actually solve for "Automatic scraping of movie sets from TMDB". By putting the url at the end of the nfo means that the XBMC scraper with automatically go and get the set info from TMDB. I discovered this due to this thread in the above quote.

Not sure why you state the XML becomes invalid; it doesn't or at least it still works from what I have seen. For example before I started to use Ember again to write the NFOs (was still using it for artwork), like another user I used to just have the url in the nfo, however, if there wasn't a certification found I could do the following to the NFO:

Code:

<movie xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <id>tt0075893</id>
  <mpaa>UK:18</mpaa>
  <certification>UK:18</certification>
</movie>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075893/