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That's not actually a way to associate extras with a movie, it's a way to tag common things just like genre. Extras are something quite different - they're things you don't want to display as movies but do want associated with the movie. Extending trailers is the way to go in that regard.
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I just wanted to chime in that I am also interested in adding this functionality and have started to think of ways to implement this. Here are some of my thoughts so far:
As far as the UI goes, I like the idea of adding a "Movie Extras" button on the information page that would present a sub menu of movie extras.
The movie extras would need to be indexed in some fashion, either an extension of the existing movie database or an entirely new database altogether (movie extras db?).
As far as I know there isn't a movie extras scraper right now nor is there a good open database of movie extras that could be scraped.
Because of this, the extras themselves would most likely have to be scraped by hand (NFO files).
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We're moving more things away from the trac system, including feature requests, which is why it was closed. As in, all existing feature requests on trac got closed regardless of their status or importance.
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Love this idea.
What if instead of using down to start am associatd trailer it opened an "Extras" sub-menu, which included the trailer, and any other available extras?
Could also list different audio tracks for each movie with an option to label it as "Commentary" or "Dubbed Version".
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+1 for movie extra's naming convention
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I find the solution with a new folder EXTRAS better since it would clutter the optics in file view less.
However I would be very thankful for any approach to bring extra features to XBMC.
I could imagine somebody would develop an online database for scrapping extras (by disc ID and feature length or stream number or ...) sometime in the future.
I would like to backup my dvd and blu-ray collection to my NAS additionally I sometimes like to watch extras after watching the movie. This would save me a lot of time, since I wouldn't have to look for the disc anymore. And this approach would be much nicer and cleaner than the one by Deano with Aeon Nox (even if it was a wonderful idea).