ultrabrutal,
Thanks for the reply.
ultrabrutal Wrote:if your problem is that mymovies does not recognize your movie files (iso, rar, mkv etc)
The problem is that I don't have any files; this is for offline content, so it's all the DVD's I haven't ripped. I want to be able to browse this collection, and then pop in the DVD that I've selected to watch (realise that XBMC can't link the discid to the disk yet and request that exact disk).
ultrabrutal Wrote:... also put a nfo with the imdb url in the folder. mymovies will pick this up and do it's lookup via the imdb ...
MyMovies has already pulled the details and cover info, so I'd rather not perform a look up again
I can export my entire MyMovies DB as a MyMovies.xml, but this is a single file with all the movies in it. I've then popped the XML into an "offline movies" folder and added it as a source in XBMC, choosing the "MOVIES XML" scraper ... it's one of jester's builds, from the 17xxx SVN (going from memory and cant remember exactly), so I'm assuming it has the latest working scraper.
XBMC won't read this though; I assume I'd actually need to have an xml per "fake" movie file with the cover info.
Think that what I'd need is a scraper to run through the flat xml and convert it into a file structure representing the movies, copy cover info from the images across from where ever MyMovies has them, set the path to dvd//:videos/vidoes.ts (memory again if that is wrong
) and then run the conventional scraper. I've only been playing with XBMC for the past week, but from what I understand the scrapers are python scripts, so if nobody has done so already I could add this by wriring one of these?