[doveman2]

I can reproduce what you are seeing, with movies (files) that are not scraped into my library - clicking "Show Information" in the "Choose" menu results in the playback commencing. In fact, the "i" button on my remote has no effect on these movies/files. It looks like the "Show Information" option being offered for unscraped files is probably an oversight.

I know that the "Information" panel is linked somehow to the movie scraper - a long time ago I scraped my library to MySQL using the IMdB scraper, and then I setup a new system that didn't have the IMdB scraper installed, and the "Information" panel wouldn't work until I had installed the IMdB scraper. So it's possibly not surprising that the "Information" panel doesn't (or can't) work for unscraped items.

I agree it would be better if the "Show Information" option wasn't offered for unscraped items, perhaps you could suggest it as a feature request?

OK cool, glad it's not just me doing something wrong

Yeah, I'll submit a feature request although I guess I need to switch to OE 5.0.5 and confirm the same behaviour with that first.