[pko66]

no that will not give you what you want. the movie info button may pull the info from that local nfo xml file and display it, i've never tried. but even if it does, the info still will not be accessible from files mode. the video listitem.* properties are only available when in library mode. when the library mode file lists are generated, that information is pulled from the database and populates a video info tag thats linked to the item.

though, this could be possible in video files mode in the same way its done in music files mode. in music files, if you enable "id3 tag reading" in settings, every time you enter a folder, you'll get a popup dialog while xbmc reads all the metadata tag information from the files. the same approach could be done for videos except that it would look for nfo files, and load the data if its xml based.

But (in theory) it could be also read from the videodb, couldn't it? please, correct me if I'm mistaken: one of the fields in the DB is the path+filename, if there were an index with that field, a look up in the db would be really fast, so entering a directory in file mode I assume right now a table is filled with all the video files there; that table could also contain some info (genre, IMDB rating) from the db to be show or to sort the files.

There are a number of reasons because of them library mode does not work for me. I'll put them in another message to not make this one too long.