User:Sbonds

I like to make backups of my kids' DVDs since they seem to enjoy destroying them. Once I get it working XBMC seems like a way for me to even skip over any sort of physical object for them to destroy, and just play them on a PC over the network directly from their backup location.

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ARGGGH!!

Getting XMBC to scrape properly has been an exercise in frustration. This does not seem to be ready for prime-time yet.

Main annoyance:

• Scraping a directory containing movies, one per directory, named identically to IMDB (including parens and the year), doesn't work
  • as in the movie named by the directory exists in IMDB, but isn't scraped

Minor annoyances

• Scraping takes a VERY long time
• No way to manually correct minor scrape errors
• backend scraping errors happen silently
• data quality issues with IMDB data

The problems seem too embedded for a quick fix, so XMBC may need to wait until another day for me...