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Revision as of 14:50, 10 May 2013 by >UNiversal (added Best way to have "home videos" in XBMC -- this page could do with proper update as its slightly messy and not very helpful but I dont have motivation for this type of content as I dont use it.)
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Adding videos to the library/Contents

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Need to add videos such as home movies or other videos that are not normally found by XBMC's scrapers? Here's some solutions:

JustUseTheFileName

  • Install the 'justUseTheFilename' scraper (manual install for now - working on it) and use that for the "Setting content" step of this guide. This simply add the videos to the library without any special info.

NFO files

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <movie>
        <title>Some title</title>
        <originaltitle>Some title just in case - you most likely dont need this either</originaltitle>
        <sorttitle>It will sort by this title if you include it</sorttitle>
        <genre>HomeMovies</genre>
        <id>-1</id>
   </movie>
  • XBMC will only look at your NFO files ONCE. To refresh a lot of videos with custom NFO files (say, when you've updated the NFO file itself): Go into Files, and on the source you added for your custom videos - set content and pick <None>, then click OK. Then set content again as if you were adding them for the first time.

Adding Home movies with art and metadata

See Best way to have "home videos" in XBMC