[m.savazzi]

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Thanks m.savazzi, but I don't think I explained the set up very well. I've got a folder of random video files from a variety of different sources. These video files are not part of a series and are not on TVdb. Think of it as a folder full of home movies or maybe hundreds of random DVD extras all in a folder . I would like add them to Kodi in Library view in order to have it keep track of watched status.

I know to do that it has to be in the show/episode format. So I created a "show" folder and then added the "s01exx" to the beginning of each video. Ember of course recognized it just fine. But Ember just filled in each episode with the generic title of "show s01exx". (Or something like that. I dont' have it in front of me.) There are just too many videos for me to open up each episode and type in the name of the file. Plus, I couldn't figure out how to tell Ember to actually make all those nfo files since the show was never successfully scraped.

So, I was looking for a way to grab the file name of the video and automatically create a very simple nfo file with it.. In other words, scrape the video file names for title and episode information instead of an online scraper.

Hope that makes more sense. I can show some screenshots to really explain it if there is any interest. I've seen a few threads where people were trying to do the same with random video files, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to do it. Just wanted to mention the source code was available in case there was enough interest of others looking to do the same thing.

Hmm I have this problem too, with some of my movies that don't have an IMDBID (homemade/holiday movies). In the past I had to filter those movies/exclude them before running an Scrape/Refresh all on my library because Ember tried to look for an IMDB entry which doesn't exist. I thought of adding an option/checkbox like "Homemade/Custom/NoScrape" when adding a movie/show source to Ember so Ember won't care about scraping that shows. Then a rule for creating default/empty nfo template for movies/episodes like you specified could be done for those sources instead. But maybe Dan can think of another way to handle those special cases

I have a similar issue. The best solution (I've found so far) is to handle each movie as a separate movie and create it's NFO file OR to create a series.
For example:
Christmas (2011) / Christmas (2011)

Or
Summer Vacation (2013) /
Season 01 /
Summer Vacation (2013) S01E01 - Day 1
Summer Vacation (2013) S01E02 - Day 2


etc...

Nor Ember nor Kodi are good in Handling folders with a bounch of random content