[Harry Muscle]

Hey there. After thinking about it again, we don't need any of those. We would just need support for a ".offline" suffix. Reason is, that XBMC is already parsing the filename for strings like "bluray", "dvd", "hddvd" etc, right? So names like "batman begins.bluray.offline" would work just fine.

The only thing we might find a nice way to implement would be the disc name support within the filename if not present in a .nfo file. My proposal would be the following: "MyPrivateMovies.dvd.#movies1.offline"
So prefixing the disc name with a #.

What do you guys think?

XBMC is parsing for "bluray", "dvd", etc.? If it is that's news to me ... I'm not saying it's not, I just had no clue it does if that's correct. Can anyone confirm that for a fact? Is it looking for one of those words in the filename to display the correct codec information in the skin?

I think we also need to differentiate between offline media support and DVD cataloging support. They are sort of similar but not exactly the same. I would like to implement DVD cataloging support, or in other words the ability to add movies you have on DVD (and Bluray, etc.) to the library in XBMC and when selected XBMC asks you to "Please Insert Disc" with a Play and Cancel buttom attached (and maybe Eject button would be handy too ). Offline media support is more about cataloging individual files on media that can be removed, that's more like having multiple movies on a USB drive, etc. That's not what I'm after. I actually think there's been a few attempts at such a feature and none have made it into the SVN so far for various reasons. I would like to keep things simple with just DVD catalog support. Maybe in the future that can be expanded for offline support, etc., but who knows.

Hope that clarifies things.

Thanks,
Harry