2009-07-21, 16:02
I was just thinking of how useful this feature would be.. luckily I searched before posting.
Seems that quite a few people are interested in some feature like this!
At the moment I have lots of DVD's which aren't ripped to my NAS, they hardly ever get watched because whenever I'm looking for a film I just browse the list in XBMC and don't look through my DVD's.
It would be great if we could just create a designated folder name (say 'Offline Videos') within the Movies search path that could contain .nfo's for all the Offline media (Using something like MIP etc. to pull all the film info and art down..)
The scraper that pulls stuff into the library could then pull in every .nfo within that directory without looking for .avi's or similar.. then mark some flag so the library knows it's offline.
When it's selected within XBMC's player it could just display a generic "Please insert disc" message.
The display of Online/Offline media together should be optional for people who want to keep it seperate.
Now it's probably a lot harder than I've just made it sound.. but I think it would be an awesome feature to have within XBMC!
Seems that quite a few people are interested in some feature like this!
At the moment I have lots of DVD's which aren't ripped to my NAS, they hardly ever get watched because whenever I'm looking for a film I just browse the list in XBMC and don't look through my DVD's.
It would be great if we could just create a designated folder name (say 'Offline Videos') within the Movies search path that could contain .nfo's for all the Offline media (Using something like MIP etc. to pull all the film info and art down..)
The scraper that pulls stuff into the library could then pull in every .nfo within that directory without looking for .avi's or similar.. then mark some flag so the library knows it's offline.
When it's selected within XBMC's player it could just display a generic "Please insert disc" message.
The display of Online/Offline media together should be optional for people who want to keep it seperate.
Now it's probably a lot harder than I've just made it sound.. but I think it would be an awesome feature to have within XBMC!