offline media handling

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this is at the top of my wish-list, and many others it would seem like. 
since the xbmc team doesnt intend to add this functionality.

how about the ability for the program to create fake/dummy files for 
media stored on external disks.

for instance i have a somewhat large collection of normal dvd movies in 
a case ordered by number. I currently have the collection in dvd 
profiler, so i can lookup and movie and see the case id and slot id of 
any given dvd.

i'd love to be able to see this from within xbmc, either dummy files 
with case id and slot id on an image or something similar?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ramshack...@live.dk on 9 Jun 2009 at 8:27

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How would this interface with XBMC though? If there is not a valid movie file 
in the
folder, XBMC won't pick it up to add to the library.

Original comment by jason.schnitzler on 10 Jun 2009 at 12:45

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Hi ramshack
You can use trailers for place holder of the movie, and scrape movie info 
manualy.. i
do this and work very well
Only issue is "display" the information you need (box, case).. maybe can use 
tagline
information or something

Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2009 at 8:32

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trailers would be neat, but maybe it would be more appropiate to add a 
placeholder movie with graphics prompting user to insert disk or something like 
that.

would be superb if xbmc handled it instead tho, mediaportal did and i'm sure a 
lot of other users would like this functionality. just doesnt have the 
knowledge 
or time to make a patch.

Original comment by ramshack...@live.dk on 10 Jun 2009 at 10:12

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How does this work from XBMC though? I don't use DVDs so I'm not familiar with 
that
aspect. If you use a trailer as the movie file, then how do you play the DVD? I 
mean,
how does XBMC know that that particular movie is linked to a DVD? Or does it 
just
start playing a DVD when it's inserted? So it doesn't matter what's playing at 
the
time, it will just play whatever DVD is inserted.

Original comment by jason.schnitzler on 11 Jun 2009 at 12:33

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What i use (other ppl may use another way)
I just have a traler for offline DVD and the info for it...
When i choose that move start the short trailer.. if i want to see the movie 
just put
in the DVD and will start it :)

To give some support i think something like this will work
Option (Menu?) to create a movie (traller or pre-made EMM avi saying "Insert 
DVD" lol)
.. start Manual scrape to user choose movie (by IMDB name otherver)
.. change media flags to reflect the DVD ones not the avi
...(this i dont know exactly how it works) the avi name should use soem type of
naming to be used as flags for some skins
... Some advanced function (lol this is just my imagination taking place) Use 
tagline
as info about where is DVD boc and merge it default avi placeholder (the one 
that say
"insert DVD"

Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2009 at 12:49

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If you have the option set to play dvd automatically it should just play it 
when 
the trailer ends.

Not sure it's even appropiate for your app to handle this, but I love it so 
much 
and would love to not have to switch between programs.

-- My current situation:
I have a large cases with dvd's (no cases, just the discs in plastic pockets 
and 
they're numbered, I'd say there is around 500-600 discs)

I don't really want to rip all these movies so i have them all sorted in dvd 
profiler, case id and slot id so i can open dvd profiler search for a movie and 
know exactly where it is.

This is just not very htpc like and i'd love for the movies to be available 
from 
xbmc (might be a genre called offline or something for easy filtering).
--

What I was thinking as the somewhat ideal situation, was to import the xml from 
dvd profiler into your program or just do this part manually if need be.

Not sure if you ever thought about or used stuff like imagemagick? but for this 
to work one would need to be able to see the case id, slot id inside xbmc so a 
footprint on the cover could in theory do that.

Then just have a short avi saying insert disk as a fake-file and you'd be set.

--

Might be a lot to ask for your program I know, just dreaming here I guess. 
Annoying as hell since mediaportal allows offline media and iso stacking, but 
mp 
is otherwise lacking what xbmc has :o

Original comment by ramshack...@live.dk on 11 Jun 2009 at 7:39

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Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2009 at 5:27

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First draft of Offline Media Manager in SVN
Will need some work still

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Done

Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2009 at 9:47

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Excellent, will check it out immediately, thanks ;)

Original comment by ramshack...@live.dk on 21 Jun 2009 at 1:09

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Would be great to have the chance to delete & move a movie from "online" to 
"offline"
store, once a movie gets burned for example. 

My vision is to have an option, like "delete & move to offline" for this in the 
right
click menu of the movie list.

Is this doable?

Original comment by nadas.bence@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 12:25

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Original comment by nadas.bence@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 12:26

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Would be sweet with an import from csv or similar. I already have most of my 
movies cateloged in dvd profiler or ant movie collector, both of these apps can 
export to csv files where you can define the fields you want to export.

not sure how much you would need to import, the two id's ofcourse (case and 
slot 
id), title, imdb link perhaps.

fingers-crossed, thanks for all your work ;)

Original comment by ramshack...@live.dk on 24 Jun 2009 at 3:06

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nadas:
This is a mix feature.. because the action have to be taken in the online Movie.
Offline Tool only have to create the PlaceHolder.. I will check with jason to 
see
what is the best course of actions for this

ramshack:
The tool need the imdb id and a tagline to put in the placeholder.. and a 
fanart to
use as background (or can use the Ember default)
The tool was not build for Batch Use.. will see what we can do! (but will need 
the
above "inputs" to work for sure)

Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 9:24

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Implemented in r471.
Offline MM: Add OffLine] to default directory name.

Original comment by nfnovais@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2009 at 11:00

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Original comment by nadas.bence@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2009 at 7:19

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