Hi jmarshall,
First all, imust say that i've not readed completely this thread, so i'm sorry if my request or suggestion has been posted before. Also, i'm not sure if this fits into your current plans when redesigning the video library but it could be really great and very useful to have an offline movies library.
I think that the most useful way to acomplish this is having two separated libraries, one for online movies (movies that are currently stored in your harddisks) and another one for offline movies (movies that you have in DVD or BlueRay). The working method should be the same, but when you try to play a offline movie, the system should ask for the media code (may be a number, a text label, etc). And when the media is inserted then it plays.
For the offline library you will need an option to import the titles from a file (may be XML or separated by commas CSV). In that file there must be all the movies info (original title, translated title, path for the cover art, cast,plot, genre, etc).
If you can, and have the necessary time it could be wonderful if also you add a method to manually add new movies to offline library (rather than importing the list) and then use the XBMC scrappers to get the movie info automatically after adding the media label (or code) for that movie.
I hope that you can take this suggestion into consideration when making your new library for XBMC videos.
First all, imust say that i've not readed completely this thread, so i'm sorry if my request or suggestion has been posted before. Also, i'm not sure if this fits into your current plans when redesigning the video library but it could be really great and very useful to have an offline movies library.
I think that the most useful way to acomplish this is having two separated libraries, one for online movies (movies that are currently stored in your harddisks) and another one for offline movies (movies that you have in DVD or BlueRay). The working method should be the same, but when you try to play a offline movie, the system should ask for the media code (may be a number, a text label, etc). And when the media is inserted then it plays.
For the offline library you will need an option to import the titles from a file (may be XML or separated by commas CSV). In that file there must be all the movies info (original title, translated title, path for the cover art, cast,plot, genre, etc).
If you can, and have the necessary time it could be wonderful if also you add a method to manually add new movies to offline library (rather than importing the list) and then use the XBMC scrappers to get the movie info automatically after adding the media label (or code) for that movie.
I hope that you can take this suggestion into consideration when making your new library for XBMC videos.
