2010-10-01, 12:35
Harry Muscle Wrote:If/when actual offline media support get's added, the naming of files will be identical to what you name them now (ie: .mkv, .avi, etc.). XBMC will just have to have a way of knowing that when those files can't be found, don't remove them from the library but instead ask for them.
I think we need a mixture and can't strictly seperate offline files from stub files. Having USB-HDDs, NAS etc. with movie collections, your description of offline-files is working just fine. But for removeable media like DVD, where one could have several movies on one disc, you might like to have a offline/stub index on your HDD in order to ease things up on recreating a library etc. While it's not a big deal to plug some high capacity storages (USB-HDDs) and index them one after another, it's becoming a pain in the a... having to add one disc after another in order to index offline files from such "low capacity storages". So for those you might want to create a mixture of .offline and stub files? But maybe that's stuff that has to be enhanced in conjunction with real offline-support. For now I'm fine with the stub-files, as those exactly fit my needs - but I always try to think as openminded and flexible as possible - that's why I was writing this.
Oh, and thanks for the patch and your work on it. If I now manage to compile XBMC myself it's going to be a perfect day