[Jedfordski]

Hi guys,

my library of home movies have been scanned in successfully based on the nfo files that I created, but the thumbnail and fanart haven't been picked up. Is there an easy way to set this, or do I need to go into each mvie and manually set them. Please tell me there's an easy way

Cheers,

Jed

[Jedfordski]

Just to clarify, each folder has a fanart.jpg and a folder.jpg file for the fanart and poster for each film.

[jhhoffma]

Are the art files for each movie named %moviename%_fanart.jpg and %moviename%_poster.jpg? Where %moviename% is the same as the movie file itself (which should follow XBMC naming conventions).

Also, have you specified your fanart in your .nfo's?

[Jedfordski]

No, just a generic fanart.jpg and folder.jpg within the film subfolder. I haven't added it to the nfo either ... have you got a link to the line I need to add? I'll take a look to see what I can find...

[Kib]

Export your library to seperate files, this will get you NFO files with all possible tags in them, most will be empty and show like this: <emptytag />
If you change that to <emptytag>some_info</emptytag> you have filled it.
You will be looking for <fanart> and <thumb> tags.
After you finish editing it might be necessary to refresh the items in the library from within XBMC, or to delete the textures.db.

Examples of different NFO files can be also found in the wiki: NFO files#NFO_Examples (wiki)

[Jedfordski]

This is the nfo code I have:

Code:

<movie>
    <title>Test Movie</title>
    <rating>0.000000</rating>
    <epbookmark>0.000000</epbookmark>
    <year>0</year>
    <top250>0</top250>
    <votes></votes>
    <outline></outline>
    <plot></plot>
    <tagline></tagline>
    <runtime>10</runtime>
    <mpaa></mpaa>
    <playcount>0</playcount>
    <lastplayed></lastplayed>
    <id></id>
    <genre></genre>
    <country></country>
    <set></set>
    <credits></credits>
    <director></director>
    <premiered></premiered>
    <status></status>
    <code></code>
    <aired></aired>
    <studio></studio>
    <trailer></trailer>
    <fileinfo>
        <streamdetails>
            <video>
                <codec>h264</codec>
                <aspect>1.777778</aspect>
                <width>1920</width>
                <height>1080</height>
                <durationinseconds>7662</durationinseconds>
            </video>
            <audio>
                <codec>ac3</codec>
                <language>eng</language>
                <channels>6</channels>
            </audio>
        </streamdetails>
    </fileinfo>
    <resume>
        <position>0.000000</position>
        <total>0.000000</total>
    </resume>
    <dateadded></dateadded>
</movie>

There was no fanart or thumb line so I've tried adding the fanart in manually using this format:

Code:

<fanart>smb:\\server\home movies\test movie\test movie_fanart.jpg</fanart>
<thumb>smb:\\server\home movies\test movie\test movie_thumb.jpg</thumb>

This doesn't work. Is it the right syntax for a network drive? I also tried it with a jpg on the root of C and that didn't work either...

[leepenny]

just a thought but the 'id' tag in the nfo is empty - this points xbmc to a movie on the internet so it can scrape from it.

maybe fooling xbmc to point to a movie that exists on the net and using your custom nfo with fanart.jpg and poster .jpg may force it to use your artwork

I cant confirm this works as havent tried it but I remember having problems a long while ago with artwork not scraping from artwork downloader and this fixed it.
It may work for you

[nickr]

Why would his home movies be on an internet site?

[leepenny]

they wouldnt be nickr - as I quoted 'it may work for you' - I was just trying to help with a quick idea that might help
do you have any ideas ?

[Jedfordski]

Why would his home movies be on an internet site?

They're not those sort of home movies :p

[Kib]

I advise you to export you library to single files.
This will generate NFO files for everything you have next to your videos.

Then check a video that was normally scraped for the correct structure to use.

Here is an example:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BPcVCe7M

[Milhouse]

There was no fanart or thumb line so I've tried adding the fanart in manually using this format:

Code:

<fanart>smb:\\server\home movies\test movie\test movie_fanart.jpg</fanart>
<thumb>smb:\\server\home movies\test movie\test movie_thumb.jpg</thumb>

This doesn't work. Is it the right syntax for a network drive? I also tried it with a jpg on the root of C and that didn't work either...

Shouldn't those backslashes (\) be forward slashes (/)?

[Kib]

They should be, but the entire tag is wrong anyway.

[Jedfordski]

They should be, but the entire tag is wrong anyway.

How do I tag it to the network drive in my example?