(2013-01-31, 00:51)Syncopation Wrote: I tried this with a couple of other movies and the results have been the same: I can either have the bonus stuff show up correctly (as defined in the nfo file) but then all movie information is gone. That is ok, because then I can separate the movie and see the making of below. BUT wouldn't it be great to have the matching backdrop for the bonus as well? I wonder is this possible at all?
I hope this helps because I just went through this long process with XBMC on my Apple TV 2.
- I started out with zero NFO files and let XBMC do it's scan.
- Many items were named with suffixes like " - Disc 2" -- stuff with a suffix did not pickup meta data correctly. For that stuff, I simply went through Video -> Files and found each file that had no metadata or incorrect metadata.
- For items with missing metadata I would do a long-press on the remote's select button to trigger a "refresh" on it. It would give me the opportunity to edit the name to search for. Typically I would simply remove the suffix and it would find the correct title and I would select it. For some I had to create new entires in TheMovieDB website.
- For items with incorrect meta-data the long-press would bring up the movie info and a "Refresh" button. I would then hit "Manual" to change the name it would search for when it brought up results and none were correct.
- If I ended up with two files having the same title because one was bonus features, I would leave the "File" view and go to the "Movies" (Library) view and find the movie, long-press the Menu button on the remote and choose "Edit Title" and rename to the same movie name with " (Bonus)" appended to it.
- Once I associated the correct meta-data, my favorite artwork, and the proper titles with everything, I went to Settings -> Video -> Library and exported the entire library to a "Single File".
- I then copied the "videodb.xml" file from this export to my Mac and edited it with whatever genres, sets, tags, and such that I wanted and then copied it back to the export directory on the ATV2.
- Next I imported the Video library data from the directory I previously exported to and updated.
- After verifying everything is correct and making a full backup of my media collection I am going to do another export to "multiple files" and let XBMC save all the NFO files directly to the drive where the media is stored. Essentially, you end up with complete NFO files that XBMC generated.
This whole process took me several days for my library, but now I have a backed-up export of the entire library.
