Allow use of nfo files and scanning of local media files such as episode thumbs etc

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Coming from xbmc one of the greatest things about that project is that it
allows external programs to generate the data for xbmc.

There are a lot of great programs out there that do a very good job of
fetching down episode data and all the pictures for it, season banners, tv
banners, episode thumbs etc etc.

I think it would be a great move to support these as it offers these benefits

1) Allows us to use purpose built programs that do all of this and these
are very well written.  Including MIP, UMX, media companion and others
2) It means that mptvseries doesn't have to do internet lookups at all, the
data is already there
3) that means that multiple installs will be lightning fast.
4) it allows us to enter home made videos that don't exist in thetvdb.com
because we can just generate our own .nfo file for that filename.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stupric...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 11:17

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Will be including the functionality to read *.nfo files when importing instead 
of
using regular expression and the ability to create an *.nfo file when a file is
imported. Not sure about not doing internet lookups though.

Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 4:45

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Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 5:28

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I would like to support this. Got mptvseries installed on 4 different machines 
and downloading episode and series thumbs and so on takes forever times 4.

I've already downloaded all this stuff using Media Center Master, so it would 
be awesome if mptvseries could just use the images on the NAS.

I would however prefer that it still cached the images, I just want to be able 
to add the NAS as a source for the images instead of using thetvdb.com thereby 
taking a lot of traffic away from thetvdb.com and making it much faster for all.

Original comment by m...@mbw.dk on 1 Dec 2010 at 7:51

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I know this is not what this issue is about, but to help relieve the number of 
new series/season thumbs to download, in v2.7.0 we have introduced limits to 
how many thumbs are downloaded. Some series have many banners/posters so this 
can speed up a fresh import with no artwork dramatically.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 1:23

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Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 3:35

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Think this would be a brilliant addition, and critical to future portability.

Original comment by mmatt...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2012 at 2:10

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If this gets done it'd be nice to have the option to disable internet lookups 
and only import shows with tvshow.nfo in the root.  It should use the series 
poster, season posters, banner, fanart, episode thumbnails, episode nfos, and 
.actors artwork folder from within the tvshow root over any internet sources.  
This allows one lookup (mine is via a script I wrote) from an external source 
to be possible, reducing load on thetvdb and any redundant data download.

Original comment by pgjensen on 13 Mar 2012 at 3:01

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Somehow a little like https://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/issues/detail?id=548 
but still something that makes it easier to make a backup, if it also supports 
series that are not public (like private vacation "series", educational 
"series" like Photoshop courses etc.) with fanart and watched status. I give a 
star!

Original comment by rafael.r...@abf.se on 24 Feb 2015 at 7:59