2017-11-06, 11:27
Hello,
First of all thanks for this great tool and apologies if the topic was already discussed, but I can't find a solution to my problem.
I would like to have a Kodi setup on my RPI3 as a player of my private, family videos. I have a large list of private family videos in one of folders, which are not added to the library. As I understood it is because the files are not found by scrapper in the internet database - which is OK as these are my private videos.
I would like to have them added, so I read about naming conventions and I've found that:
"If none of that works, you can create .nfo files for each video by hand so that Kodi will bypass the normal looking online for information about your show. This is the least attractive option, though. It's a lot of work, and it doesn't benefit anyone else the way creating entries on the metadata sites does."
I do not have .nfo files, also creating them by hand is a painful job, all I want is just add these files to library as-is. So my question is:
Is there a way to force-add all video files from selected source, even if scrapper fails and no .nfo files are associated?
I've seen option in settings called "Extract thumbnail and video information", so ideally it would be that for selected source/folder to let scanner check for scrapping online and if that fails then always add all the files with names as filenames, and thumbnails extracted from video, say a video frame visible at 10th second of video... is it possible using Kodi? How to achieve this simple scenario?
Thanks in advance!
First of all thanks for this great tool and apologies if the topic was already discussed, but I can't find a solution to my problem.
I would like to have a Kodi setup on my RPI3 as a player of my private, family videos. I have a large list of private family videos in one of folders, which are not added to the library. As I understood it is because the files are not found by scrapper in the internet database - which is OK as these are my private videos.
I would like to have them added, so I read about naming conventions and I've found that:
"If none of that works, you can create .nfo files for each video by hand so that Kodi will bypass the normal looking online for information about your show. This is the least attractive option, though. It's a lot of work, and it doesn't benefit anyone else the way creating entries on the metadata sites does."
I do not have .nfo files, also creating them by hand is a painful job, all I want is just add these files to library as-is. So my question is:
Is there a way to force-add all video files from selected source, even if scrapper fails and no .nfo files are associated?
I've seen option in settings called "Extract thumbnail and video information", so ideally it would be that for selected source/folder to let scanner check for scrapping online and if that fails then always add all the files with names as filenames, and thumbnails extracted from video, say a video frame visible at 10th second of video... is it possible using Kodi? How to achieve this simple scenario?
Thanks in advance!