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Custom Videos in Library

I've done a lot of what you are attempting and figured out how to get it to work for just about anything. I use the bare minimum .nfo files and they work. I suppose more items could be added but I simply want the files to show up in library mode. I am less concerned about all the metadata.

My setup is:

  SOURCE.FOLDER.for.TVshows
  ---Name.of.TVshow.folder
  ------s1e1.name.of.video.file.avi
  ------s1e1.name.of.video.file.nfo
  ------s1e1.name.of.video.file.tbn (picture shown for episode 1)
  ------s1e2.name.of.video.file.avi
  ------s1e2.name.of.video.file.nfo
  ------s1e2.name.of.video.file.tbn (picture shown for episode 2)
  fanart.jpg (background image for the tvshow)
  folder.jpg (banner or movie poster that shows up in library mode)
  tvshow.nfo

“tvshow.nfo” Code: <tvshow xsd=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>

<title>TV SHOW TITLE</title>
<rating>10.0</rating>
<plot>SHOW PLOT</plot>
<genre>Documentary</genre>
<premiered>1969-07-14<premiered />
<studio>International</studio>

</tvshow>

s1e1.name.of.video.file.nfo Code: <episodedetails xsd=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>

<title>EPISODE TITLE</title>
<season>1</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<aired>2011</aired>
<plot>EPISODE PLOT</plot>
<displayseason />
<displayepisode />
<watched>false</watched>
<rating />

</episodedetails>

``` these should work for you. Sometimes when I get something wrong I have to remove my source, clean the library, and re-add the source to get it to take. For this reason I use a separate folder source for test purposes so I dont have to delete my whole library to fix a mistake with a few files.

hope this helps

info/misc/custom_videos_in_library.1495455046.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/05/22 08:10 by tomgle