manually write nfo files (1 Viewer)

[Henric-a]

Hi there,

search doesn't help me.

I have some Michael Jordan Videos for which i want to manually writze the movie details like plot actors and so on.

I can't find the syntax for my nfo files. Is it not possible to write the single parts in the nfo file, something like that

[title]Michael Jordan
[length]53 Minutes
[plot]A great BBAll Player named...

and so on.

Moving pictures fins some of them but i want my own plot etc.

Thanks
Henric

 

[embo500]

I'm not sure if it's a standard or what, but I really, really liked this program for creating .nfo files:

Ember Media Manager

 

[Henric-a]

I tried this actually but it doesnt work for me. Moving pictures does not recognize my movie, damn

Am i the only one who want to do something like this???

 

[ryan20021982]

Just put the IMDB # from the URL in a .nfo file and thats all.

For example this is for Michael Jordan to the Max

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245280/

All you need is the "tt0245280" but you can put the whole link in there if you want it will find the #.

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: Re: manually write nfo files

Just put the IMDB # from the URL in a .nfo file and thats all.

that's true if you want the imdb standard info, but he wants customized info:

but i want my own plot etc.

 

[ryan20021982]

Re: AW: Re: manually write nfo files

that's true if you want the imdb standard info, but he wants customized info:

but i want my own plot etc.

Ok then the answer is you cant right now.

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: manually write nfo files

from the info in this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/
it should be possible from version 0.8. so the 1.0 beta could be capable to read local data. but I did not try...

 

[ryan20021982]

All that does is take the info that is stored in the database i.e. covers,backgrounds,nfo files, and makes a copy of them and puts them in the movie folders. I used that to copy all my covers over to my movie folders.

As explained here
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/nfo-scanner-explained-issues-45593/
the nfo scanner can only scan for the IMDB #

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: manually write nfo files

cited from https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/

As of right now having the info file(with the at least the IMDB address) and your artwork you could greatly reduce the time it takes to do a complete import, and once MP 0.8 comes out we should be able to pull your custom information(title/sort title/user score) from the info file as well on an import.

cited from Change Log - Moving Pictures

Scraper scripts can now be written to import data from a text file in the file system.

 

[fforde]

In Moving Pictures 1.0 there is a XBMC NFO file scraper script which is seperate from the functionality that just grabs an IMDb ID from an NFO file for preprocessing. This script is really meant to be used for importing data from an XBMC setup, but you could easily create your own NFO files and Moving Pictures would populate full movie details based on this. The specification for the format is available on the XBMC wiki. The XBMC script is enabled by default but I don't think it's the first script in the list so you will want to manually manage your scripts and make it the first in the list.

For what its worth it is also possible to manually add a movie to your collection without tieing it to any specific movie data (one of the toolbar buttons in the importer). Then you could manually update the movie details in the Movie Manager. This would eliminate the need to transcribe your movie details to XML.