2010-01-06, 21:51
GJones Wrote:.. It seems you are asking to make a change to allow DVDs to be indexed... There is no way, programmatically, for someone to solve the "I don't know which disc contains the movie I just requested" problem.
- I have bunch of DVDs.
- Each one I gave index number: DVD_1,2,3 .. 100
- I made 100 folders, which I named according to DVD Titles
- I made 100 empty txt files, and named them disc_1,2 .. 100. I changed extension from txt to avi, so XBMC can recognize them as movies
- I scraped and populated XBMC library using those folder names and fake avi files
How can XBMC know which DVD to ask for? There are a few solutions:
- As suggested by Spiff in this same thread, check movie size if 0, than it's offline movie, get it number from file name
- read XBMC nfo for <offline>dvd_number_here</offline>
Beginning of this thread have some similar ideas.
Why do I have DVDs instead of movie files on HDD? I have 2 kids and take my DVDs when we travel, so they can watch them. It's not convenient to keep both DVD and movie file versions.
But I'm not asking anything from anyone, I just said if someone is willing to make a patch for this, there may be a better way for handling this problem. Just my 2 cents.
