2008-02-26, 19:52
As you may know there has been a thread open for some time now asking for a method via XBMC to save all scraped movies as seperate nfo's to be stored along side the movie.
[HTML]http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29299&highlight=nfo[/HTML]
The biggest reason for this is that it would remove the need to re-scrape movies ever - even if you only have to do it occasionally when you have 1000+ movies it can take days.
I have created a windows based program that will create all of the seperate .nfo's files from the exported video database videodb.xml. for more information about this then see below.
First however I was wondering about a few of the tags,
I have read that the <filenameandpath> and <path></path> files are unneccesary for .nfo files stored with the movie. as my program stands they are saved over with all the over tags including any the content. I was wondering if this would cause a problem if the file and .nfo were moved to a different location, do they need to be removed, or if left in then empty, please let me know
Program Details
It works by reading through the exported videodb.xml file, Splitting at the <movie></movie> tags and getting the correct filename from the <filenameandpath> tags
The main problem i encountered was how to save the newly created .nfo files since many of the files are likely to be remote shares, yet to save 1000s of nfo files into a single directory would take many hours to go through and move to the correct folder.
My answer to the above problem was to set a top save directory, then save the nfo files according to the location, i.e
d:movies/ would be all stored in a subfolder called movies/
all share names are suffixed by a $ i.e movies$/, just in case folder names on the XBox HD are the same as share names.
The only problem I can see would be if there was more than one remote server with the same sharename - all nfos in these shares would all be saved into the main folder. the same would apply on XBox partitions i.e d:\movies e:\movies. these files would have to be sorted manually.
Anyway once the files have all been created then all the nfo's for example in the movies2$/ folder can be copied in one go to the movies2 shared folder.
The program is all but finished, just working on a bit of cosmetic stuff - it saves all the .nfo files, correctly named with the following content (filled in obviously
):
<movie>
<title></title>
<rating></rating>
<year></year>
<top250></top250>
<season></season>
<episode></episode>
<displayseason></displayseason>
<displayepisode></displayepisode>
<votes></votes>
<outline></outline>
<plot></plot>
<tagline></tagline>
<runtime></runtime>
<thumb></thumb>
<mpaa></mpaa>
<watched></watched>
<file></file>
<path></path>
<id></id>
<filenameandpath></filenameandpath>
<genre></genre>
<credits></credits>
<director></director>
<premiered></premiered>
<status></status>
<code></code>
<aired></aired>
<studio></studio>
<album></album>
<actor>
<name></name>
<role></role>
</actor>
</movie>
If their are any other tags that need to be removed then please let me know.
[HTML]http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29299&highlight=nfo[/HTML]
The biggest reason for this is that it would remove the need to re-scrape movies ever - even if you only have to do it occasionally when you have 1000+ movies it can take days.
I have created a windows based program that will create all of the seperate .nfo's files from the exported video database videodb.xml. for more information about this then see below.
First however I was wondering about a few of the tags,
I have read that the <filenameandpath> and <path></path> files are unneccesary for .nfo files stored with the movie. as my program stands they are saved over with all the over tags including any the content. I was wondering if this would cause a problem if the file and .nfo were moved to a different location, do they need to be removed, or if left in then empty, please let me know
Program Details
It works by reading through the exported videodb.xml file, Splitting at the <movie></movie> tags and getting the correct filename from the <filenameandpath> tags
The main problem i encountered was how to save the newly created .nfo files since many of the files are likely to be remote shares, yet to save 1000s of nfo files into a single directory would take many hours to go through and move to the correct folder.
My answer to the above problem was to set a top save directory, then save the nfo files according to the location, i.e
d:movies/ would be all stored in a subfolder called movies/
all share names are suffixed by a $ i.e movies$/, just in case folder names on the XBox HD are the same as share names.
The only problem I can see would be if there was more than one remote server with the same sharename - all nfos in these shares would all be saved into the main folder. the same would apply on XBox partitions i.e d:\movies e:\movies. these files would have to be sorted manually.
Anyway once the files have all been created then all the nfo's for example in the movies2$/ folder can be copied in one go to the movies2 shared folder.
The program is all but finished, just working on a bit of cosmetic stuff - it saves all the .nfo files, correctly named with the following content (filled in obviously
):<movie>
<title></title>
<rating></rating>
<year></year>
<top250></top250>
<season></season>
<episode></episode>
<displayseason></displayseason>
<displayepisode></displayepisode>
<votes></votes>
<outline></outline>
<plot></plot>
<tagline></tagline>
<runtime></runtime>
<thumb></thumb>
<mpaa></mpaa>
<watched></watched>
<file></file>
<path></path>
<id></id>
<filenameandpath></filenameandpath>
<genre></genre>
<credits></credits>
<director></director>
<premiered></premiered>
<status></status>
<code></code>
<aired></aired>
<studio></studio>
<album></album>
<actor>
<name></name>
<role></role>
</actor>
</movie>
If their are any other tags that need to be removed then please let me know.
