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2011-02-18, 04:40
(This post was last modified: 2011-02-18, 04:42 by Tight_wad.)
You want your VIDEO.nfo file inside your VIDEO_TS folder. Everything will be inside of it something like this
Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi (1983) (PG)
--------------VIDEO_TS
-----------------------VIDEO_TS.nfo
-----------------------VIDEO_TS.tbn
-----------------------VIDEO_TS-fanart.jpg
-----------------------VIDEO_TS.ifo
-----------------------(all the rest of the movie file lines)
Now, did you already have a nfo file? And if so, are you adding exactly what you typed here to it? And if so, How are you editing it? I am asking because if you are just opening it with something like note pad (and not using xml Notepad in windows) and adding exactly that, than you need to make sure that you don't have <movie></movie> in their twice. Only add what is not there, make sure nothing is in twice is what I'm trying to say.
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One other thing, if you already have your movies all set up in the library view, you could use XWMM to access you database to make changes to the movie sets. And they will be set up right away.
I just tend to always just do the modifying of the nfo.
Please remember that if you change the nfo, you will have to do a refresh of each movie that is being changed before they are in a set
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Ok, it didn't work for me either, but I may have done some things wrong. Here is where I am...
I have The Godfather box set. I went into each Movie and made this change:
<title>The Godfather</title>
<originaltitle>The Godfather (1972)</originaltitle>
<sorttitle>The Godfather I</sorttitle>
<set>The Godfather</set>
For the second disk (it's actually 2-disks):
<title>The Godfather II</title>
<originaltitle>The Godfather II</originaltitle>
<sorttitle>The Godfather IIA</sorttitle>
<set>The Godfather</set>
<title>The Godfather II</title>
<originaltitle>The Godfather II</originaltitle>
<sorttitle>The Godfather IIB</sorttitle>
<set>The Godfather</set>
I did the same to Part 3 and Extras. Then went into my library and removed the movies. Then rescanned. XBMC replaced each of the (4) movies in my library.
I did this in Notepad. The .nfo files already exists (via MCM).
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Are you trying to do this in files mode, since you do not stack the two files of part 2?
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Did you double check that you did not make double entries. Some of my movies already had a <set> and <sorttitle> tags. They where blank, so if you don't modify them, and add 2nd ones it won't work.
I use the xml notepad for doing all my editing.
As to sort name, my The Godfathers are 1 2a 2b 3. But I am not trying to stack them, haven't found a way to do so with the VIDEO_TS files.
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OK, I'm out of town right now but will give another try when I get back. So I change the <sorttitle> as numbers instead of Roman numerals.
I didn't add/edit any <set> info as none was present. All disks appeared like this: <set></set>. I just added The Godfather in the middle for each .nfo file.
Can someone tell me more about 'stacking' disk 2 since it's really two disks? I've much prefer they play as one.
thx
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I'm still not having any luck. I changed the sorttiles to numerics, removed them from the library, rescanned and each of the 4-disks are still showing up separately.
<title>The Godfather</title>
<originaltitle>The Godfather (1972)</originaltitle>
<sorttitle>The Godfather 1</sorttitle>
<set>The Godfather</set>
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All my .nfo files are created by Media Center Master. The option under XBMC tab is selected to have MCM created .nfo files.