2009-08-17, 05:40
Ahhh my mistake then I guess. I was not thinking to search in all of the other threads where it may have been mentioned 
I thought this was a thread specifically asking for these types of requests, posts & discussions.
How will the nodes be set up exactly? How will I set for instance "Kid's films" as a category? I do not want to base this off of genra, rating ect.. just somehow that I tell it that I want such and such movie put into that category.
Currently there is no way at all to change what genre, movie description, or any of the data stored in the database for a movie. About the only things that can be changed from the GUI are the fanart, thumb and the title of a movie.
This is the reason that I personally use the 3rd party movie parsers to scan, collect and edit the movies with. This way I can alter the info such as "93 min" -vs- "USA 93 min - Germany 96 Min - Directors cut additional 7 minutes of footage" This then puts all the info in movie.nfo that XBMC uses instead of scraping for the info itself. I have around 1,600 movies, and when I very first started using XBMC, and used it to automatically add movies, it got around 20% of them wrong, with no real easy way to fix it. Sure the 3rd party scrapers get it wrong many times on auto scanning, but let you easily correct the info before saving it all out to be scanned with XBMC.
Aside from that rant, will a new item need to be added to movie.nfo for the category information?
I thought this was a thread specifically asking for these types of requests, posts & discussions.How will the nodes be set up exactly? How will I set for instance "Kid's films" as a category? I do not want to base this off of genra, rating ect.. just somehow that I tell it that I want such and such movie put into that category.
Currently there is no way at all to change what genre, movie description, or any of the data stored in the database for a movie. About the only things that can be changed from the GUI are the fanart, thumb and the title of a movie.
This is the reason that I personally use the 3rd party movie parsers to scan, collect and edit the movies with. This way I can alter the info such as "93 min" -vs- "USA 93 min - Germany 96 Min - Directors cut additional 7 minutes of footage" This then puts all the info in movie.nfo that XBMC uses instead of scraping for the info itself. I have around 1,600 movies, and when I very first started using XBMC, and used it to automatically add movies, it got around 20% of them wrong, with no real easy way to fix it. Sure the 3rd party scrapers get it wrong many times on auto scanning, but let you easily correct the info before saving it all out to be scanned with XBMC.
Aside from that rant, will a new item need to be added to movie.nfo for the category information?
