[Gangsta]

Case1: Maybe they have two machines, one capable of HD playback, and one that does not, but the movies are in a central location.

Case2: Could be a remake of a movie or something? The Hills Have Eyes, Last House On the Left, Halloween...

case3: I agree. This should have Directors Cut in the foldername, and the movies be in separate folders.

Case4: This would be a good instance of where a tag in the already present .nfo file would be perfect.

The nfo fallback idea is good, easy to understand, and if no better system can be found would be ideal. But I still have issues with case 1 and case 2.

Anybody with any sizable library will have already came accross this already - long before they get bothered by fanart etc.

Myself for example - I had 'The Italian Job' as one of my first films, a few weeks later I added 'The Italian Job' and up pops the 'The Italian Job already exists, do you wish to replace it' message - so I quickly change it to The Italian Job (New). All is well, then I scrape my movies and it starts getting complicated as the scraper is listing loads of Italian Jobs with dates. I have to check imdb, and get the years and choose from there. I think all is great.

Few weeks later I add the original king kong, and it starts again so this time I call it 'King Kong (19??)' the scraper finds it no problem on its own. Since then I have renamed all my files with the date included - why cos it makes MY LIFE EASIER, and the scapers handle it excellent too.

Its soooo much easier to rescrape my library now that I have used a little common sense at my end and included the year. I imagine it would be a very rare occasion for 2 movies same name same year. (HARD CANDY was renamed because another film used the name the same year)

As for the HD issue - well

Superman (1972).avi
Superman (HD)(1972).avi

or some variation of that would seem to solve the HD issue.

I am fully behind making things easy for the end user, but giving them too much freedom makes thing too hard for them.

If the schema (once settled on) is implimented, then it will be sooooo easy to help users - if they cant get artwork working - because everyone will be singing off the same hymmsheet. EG if you want a poster it MUST be called <moviename>.movie.poster (not accurate to the schema, but you know what I mean)