2009-09-30, 23:25
azido Wrote:yes. replace them with movie dummies.
the downgrade of course will be you can't play movies on a keypress that are removed. but i guess you like to deal with that.
there is aleady a nice dummy avi generator lurking around here in forum that can even display a message telling you i.e. which cd you need to insert to watch that movie upon triggering.
I have my DVDs listed in DVD Profiler, I exported them to XML and used DVDProfiler2XBMC to create the folder structure with the basic NFO file.
I modified the source code of DVDProfiler2XBMC so instead of creating an empty dummy file it copies a real video file which shows a DVD with the caption "Please enter DVD to watch this movie" and runs for 30 sec.
Still I miss how to indicate to the user before they select the movie that it is offline. For me the real solution would be for XBMC to let us "split" the Movies collection into 'Offline' and 'Online' because right now most of my collection is offline (DVD) so it kinda breaks the user experience browsing through a lot of movies most of them you can't play right then but others you can.