Video library/Setting content and scanning
| Adding videos to the library:
1. Naming files
2. Adding media sources |
When you "Set Content", you can set your video content as Music Videos, Movies, or TV Shows. Scroll through the options until you get to the correct one. If you did not "Set Content" when you added a source, you can do so later by selecting the source and bringing up the contextual menu (C on a keyboard by default).
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1 Movie content options
- Run Automatic Scan
- Scans the source's files into the library after selecting 'OK'
- Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title
- If you keep each of your movies in its own folder with the movie name in it
- Example: /Movies/Big Buck Bunny/Big Buck Bunny.mkv
- If you keep all your movies in one big folder then leave this option unchecked.
- Scan recursively
- If your movies are categorized into sub folders (e.g. genres, a-z).
- Example: /Movies/Action/Big Buck Bunny.mkv
- Selected folder contains a single movie
- This option is intended for adding one movie at a time.
- Exclude path from library updates
- Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it's a subfolder of a folder that has contents set.
1.1 Movie scraper settings
- Keep original title
- Use the original (untranslated) title when getting info for a foreign film.
- Enable fanart
- Download Fanart or not.
- Enable trailer (YouTube)
- Download movie trailers from YouTube.
- Prefer trailer from HD-Trailers.net
- Alternative trailer download.
- Preferred language
- Language to use for summaries and other metadata.
- Get rating from
- Choose site to download movie ratings from.
2 TV show content options
- Run Automatic Scan
- Scans the source's files into the library after selecting 'OK'
- Folder contains a single TV Show
- This option is intended for adding one TV show at a time.
- Exclude path from library updates
- Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it's a subfolder of a folder that has contents set.
2.1 TV show scraper settings
- Use DVD order
- Use DVD order instead of broadcast order.
- Use absolute ordering (single season)
- Treat show as having only one season so that file names only require episode numbers. Often used for single series and anime. See here for how to name such files.
- Enable fanart
- Download Fanart or not.
- Prefer posters
- Download posters instead of banners. Be sure to also toggle the layout setting for your skin: For Confluence (default skin) see: Add-on:Confluence/Settings#TV_shows
- Language
- Language to use for summaries and other metadata.
2.2 Understanding Season Ordering on theTVDB.com
To get a match for episodes you need to understand thetvdb.com data has 3 different ways of ordering the episode numbers;
- DVD Order
- Absolute Order (aka Single Season)
- Aired Order
In the configuration of the TVDB Addon if neither of the 2 tick boxes for DVD Order or Absolute Ordering are ticked then the order of episodes will be in Aired Order and this is the default listing order for the the TVDB addon.
You can see these options on thetvdb.com at the bottom of the page and when trying to match the order with how your files are named, you can confirm it with the page URL
eg. http://www.thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=seasonall&id=71361&lid=7&order=absolute the other options in this case were DVD and aired.
Please note that there is a global setting for these and also each folder has it's own setting which can be checked via Video->files->"highlight show folder"->context menu->change content->settings. The folder's setting has precedence over the global setting.
It is also important to understand thetvdb.com does not have absolute ordering for some shows and thus ticking the Absolute Order button may result in the episode number not being found and thus no match found or an incorrect match. Additionally whilst absolute ordering may exist on thetvdb.com, that data may not be available to the scraper due to the way thetvdb.com feeds that data out - see the section on debugging show matching (yet to be completed).
3 Music video content options
- Run Automatic Scan
- Scans the source's files into the library after selecting 'OK'
- Scan recursively
- If your music videos are categorized into sub folders (e.g. genres, a-z).
- Exclude path from library updates
- Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it's a subfolder of a folder that has contents set.
3.1 Music video scraper settings
- Thumb size
- Size for the downloaded thumbnails.
4 (None) content options
- Exclude path from library updates
- Excludes the selected path from scans and updates, even if it's a subfolder of a folder that has contents set.
5 Scanning and updating files
There are several ways you can scan your movies into the Video library:
- Choose automatic scan when you set the content for the source.
- Select the item in file view and either press I on the keyboard, or bring up the contextual menu (press C) and select "Movie information" or "TV show information"
- If the file is already scanned in, you can also use the info screen to refresh/update that entry in the library.
- You can select the share/folder that your videos are in and choose "Scan for new content" from the contextual menu, which scans all files in that share/folder.
- In Library view you can choose "Update library" from the contextaul menu.
- Have XBMC scan for new items upon start up by going to Settings -> Video -> Library -> Update library on startup
- Add-on:XBMC Library Auto Update can be used to schedule automatic updates to the library.
6 Switching scrapers and removing sources from the library
Setting the content back to (None) after previously having selected a scraper for a source, will prompt users if they want to remove the contents from the Library.
This is recommended if you wish to switch scrapers. First set content to (None) and then choose the new scraper.
Setting content to (None) also removes the contents of the selected folder from the Library altogether. This is useful if you want to remove the contents of an entire folder from the video library as removing entries from the contextual menu will only remove single items.
