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Hi, new user and trying to set up my movie and tv folders. I added a source for 'Movies' (all meta data created by MyMovies) I set the type as movies but found the following problem - there are around 450 mkv files and less than 10 dvd rips (with VIDEO_TS folder) when I look in Videos > Movies I see all movies, but when i look in the 'Movies' menu option it's only the dvd rips. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way around this? Thanks.
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Sorry, not quite sure how the import thing works. All files are names correctly (previously used with a popcorn hour) but i read through the import / export instructions and am not sure what i am meant to be importing. I can do a scan of movies folder but it ignores mkv files and only picks up dvds, when i select 'import' i thought i should be navigating to my movies folder to maybe import the nfo files but i can't.
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I've never used MyMovies, but what it kind of sounds like is that MyMovies writes all the metadata to a "mymovies.xml" file, somewhere. So, in XBMC under System --> Video, there is an "import library" option. Navigate to that Mymovies.xml in the file selection dialog that pops up after you select "import library".
Again, I've not used MyMovies....
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2012-08-20, 03:34
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-20, 03:34 by jmarshall.)
That won't work. XBMC does not and will not read mymovies.xml.
Just scan your files in normally - Set Content to TV Shows on the folder that contains all your tvshows (each in separate folders, ofcourse) and tell it to scan them in.
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Pretty sure MyMovies had the option to save data as XBMC.nfo files. Could be mistaken it was a long time ago that I used MyMovies.
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2012-08-20, 15:15
(This post was last modified: 2012-08-20, 15:15 by mmcmahon.)
It works fine for TV Shows, the problem is with Movies. When I changed the content type to 'Movies' and scanned it only picked up a handful of movies and they were all DVDs or Blurays, all MKVs were ignored.
I have now found that if I go into 'Videos' and select to see the movies info it then adds it to the movies list, but since I hoped there would be a quicker way to get them in rather than doing this almost 500 times.
