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boxeehacks / boxeehack

Hack that enables root access to the Boxee Box, provides a new updated Skin with some improved features, and a number of services to access the box such as telnet access
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Manually identify Shows/Movies without having to reference NFO or scrapers #368

Open jmalmsten opened 11 years ago

jmalmsten commented 11 years ago

I would LOVE to be able to just go into the indentify interface on clips and when it doesn't find what I'm entering as the name I get the option to just say to the box: "Look, just trust me. IT IS A MOVIE. This is what it's called and this is the parts that's associated with it. I don't care that you don't find it using scrapers, just add it where I tell you"...

Basically this would be a built in NFO-creator for the BB. That just wouldn't rely on any outside sources other than what I manually type into it. And it doesn't have to be fully featured as a NFO. All I want is to add "Title", "Description"(optional), "Part##of##" or in the case of a show "S##E##". It can generate a thumb from the file itself.

I just think that going through and creating NFO's with my computer with weird annotations is redundant when it could be done inside the BoxeeBox. And this way, we could set it up to automatically mirror the file-names and everything needed for that.

If there is a simple NFO-creator that renders my issues redundant I am more than willing to do it with that tool if offered the choice. All the NFO-creators I have found have been needlessly complex with bewildering GUIs so far. And this is what drove me to start this thread/issue on this site.

PS... maybe we could even manually enter in an IMDB-page-identity for the Eps and Movies? There are quite a few movies in my HDD that I cannot identify within the Box while I know fully well that there are IMDB-entries for them...

badbob001 commented 11 years ago

What I had been doing is name my movies "This is the movie title (year)".mkv and run a script to parse the filename and spit out a bare-bone nfo file with the movie title and year. What I really want is to not use the Movie / Library view and just use the File view, so new files are immediately viewable without needing some silly scheduled scan and also so I can actually organize my media in folders (great for separating my movies from the kids' movies). Of course the current file viewer is just text, but XBMC had multiple views for file view that supports movie art so I dearly hope this boxee+ project can bring that functionality back.