[hokemon]

Is there perhaps a way to determine if a movie is offline just by looking at the avi file, ie not look for a folder?
Then you could just drop DVDARCHIVE.avi in a folder and check "Use foldernames for lookup".

Should be easy enough to do this just by changing ListItem.path to ListItem.filenameandpath - then you have both bases covered

The issue with using these placeholder AVI's is 1) if you have "Hide Watched" enabled, your collection is going to slowly disappear and 2) you're wasting a load of disk space, though admittedly it's not such a big issue these days.

I was thinking about, but haven't looked at the practicality yet, of triggering some "insert DVD" dialog if you hit play on an offline file, instead of trying to play it. Can anyone give a quick yes/no if this is even possible with XBMC's skinning engine? If so I'll definitely take it further.

PS: The IncludesCodecFlagging.xml should be compatible with Confluence as well (great skin!!)