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Library

File:Settings.videos.library.jpg

Show plot for unwatched items: Shows plot information for media in the Video Library that is not marked as watched.
Download actor thumbnails when adding to library: Gets thumbnails for actors in Library Mode, default is on.
Flatten TV Shows: Removes the TV show season node, toggles between "If only one season" (default), "Always" and "Never".
Update library on startup: Checks for new media files on XBMC startup. For automatic removal of deleted media files you need the <cleanonupdate> advancedsetting.

Clean Library...

This function will perform a number of 'cleanup' tasks on your video database and can be run if you have moved, deleted or renamed files.

Removes any videos with invalid paths and all information tied to these files.
Removes all removable media (example: DVD) without checking for existance + all information tied to these files.

Tip: XBMC puts a video in its database if you change any OSD setting while watching, resume points are also stored there.

Export Video Library

Exports the Video Library database to XML files.

Import Video Library

Imports a XML file into the Video Library database. If the entry does not exist it is appended.

If it exists:

It removes all current info for that entry from the database.
Inserts the info for that entry from the XML file.

See more here: Import - Export Library

Playback

Resume from where last stopped: When enabled, XBMC will automatically resume videos always from the last position that you were viewing them, even after restarting the system, toggles between "Ask" (default) XBMC will show a dialog asking if you want to resume or play from beginning, "Yes" and "No".

Note: You can also start a movie from the last stopped position by opening the context-menu on a movie file (white button on the gamepad) or by just clicking the "Play" button on the remote without the need to have this option enabled.

Render Method: Controls the method used by the player to process and display the video, (which is called rendering). See Here for more information on the different options.
Adjust display refresh rate to match video: Activate to automatically set the refresh rate which is best matched with the video that is playing (default off).
Sync playback to display: This setting enables syncing the video to the refresh rate of the monitor.
A/V sync method [Audio Clock, Video Clock(resample audio) or Video Clock(Drop/Dupe Audio)]: Audio has to stay in sync, this can either be done by resampling, skipping/duplicating packets, or adjusting the clock if it gets out of sync too far. Resampling has the advantage that the speed of the video can be changed considerably, so 24 fps can be sped up to 25 fps to play at PAL speed. The disadvantage of resampling is that it doesn't work with passthrough, and there is a slight loss of audio quality. Skipping/duplicating audiopackets has no loss of audio quality, but the speed of the video can only be changed a little to avoid doing a skip/duplication too often, most of the time it's inaudible, but it can produce a very audible click. Adjusting the clock has the best audioquality, but some extra video jitter can occur, also the speed of the video can't change much, as the audio will sync the clock more often the more the speed of the video is changed.
Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars(%): Allow video player to try to fit video to screen by ignoring aspect ratio by a certain amount.
Display 4: 3 videos as; Determines the zoom level that 4:3 videos are shown on widescreen displays.

Activate Teletext: Activate Teletext.

High quality upscaling (GL only): Enables video upscaling to resize the source video frames to the size of the screen (XBMC's resolution). Note: Overrides the OSD hardware setting
Upscaling method (GL only) [Bicubic, Lanczos, Sinc, VDPAU (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only)]: These methods use FFMPEG's software scaler (swscale). The differences between them is the algorithm used and the number of "taps" performed for calculating the final pixel's color. Sinc is generally the highest quality but also the most time consuming, followed by Lanczos and then Bicubic, however, this can be subjective. Note that all these methods are software methods, they are not hardware accelerated, so enabling them can result in frame drops and out of sync audio depending on your CPU, resolution etc.
VDPAU HQ Upscaling level (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only): Requires NVIDIA's linux driver v190.32 or later and VDPAU 'Feature set C' capable GPU (see driver README)
VDPAU Studio level colour conversion (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only): Enables studio level color correction. Corrects errors occurring from conversion between Y'CbCr and RGB. Useful if your TV can't handle PC level color ranges

File:Settings.videos.player.jpg

File lists

Extract thumbnail and video information: When enabled, XBMC will extract thumbnails from videos that have no thumb in the library and information such as codecs and aspect ratio to display in Library Mode.
Clean file and folder names: Breaks up the filename into tokens, and removes unwanted tokens like release group names, hdtv, xvid, changes periods and underscores to spaces, etc, to get a "clean" name.

File:Settings.videos.general.jpg

Subtitles

File:Settings.videos.subtitles.jpg

Lets you change how XBMC renders subtitles (not including DVD subtitles)

Font

Size
Style
Colour
Character set

Subtitle folder: Set a custom directory for your subtitles. This can be an smb share.

DVDs

Play DVDs Automatically: Autoruns DVD video when inserted in drive
Forced DVD Player Region: Forces a region for DVD playback.

Attempt to skip introduction before DVD menu: Attempts to skip 'unskippable' introductions before DVD menu

Scrapers

Default movie scraper: Sets default movie scraper
Default tvshow scraper: Sets default tvshow scraper
Default musicvideo scraper: Sets default musicvideo scraper

Enable fallback based on scraper language: ???

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 {{GoToParent|Parent=Settings#The Settings Window}}
-==General==
-{|
-| valign="top" |
-;Treat stacked files as single file
-:If [[Videos#Stacking_in_XBMC|Stacking]] is turned on in [[My Videos#File View|My Videos]], stacked files will be handled as a single file. If this is not checked, XBMC will handle the stacked files as a playlist.
-;Auto resume from last position
-:When enabled, XBMC will automatically resume videos always from the last position that you were viewing them, even after restarting the system.
-'''Note:''' You can also start a movie from the last stopped position by opening the context-menu on a movie file (white button on the gamepad) or by just clicking the "Play" button on the remote without the need to have this option enabled.
-;Clean filenames
-:Breaks up the filename into tokens, and removes unwanted tokens like release group names, hdtv, xvid, changes periods and underscores to spaces, etc, to get a "clean" name.
-----
-;View Mode
-:Default View Mode for Videos. '''Auto''' is described [[Thumbnails#Auto Switch to Icon Mode|here]]
-;Sort Method
-:Default Sort Mode for Videos.
-;Sort Direction
-:Default Sort Direction for Videos.
-;Remembers views for different folders
-:XBMC remembers the settings you have chosen for each window. (Stored in [[The XBMC Database]])
-| [[Image:Settings.videos.general.jpg|right|360px]]
-|}
 ==Library==
 {|
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 [[Image:Settings.videos.library.jpg|right|360px]]
 | valign="top" |
-;Enable Library
+;Show plot for unwatched items
-:If unchecked all references to Library Mode are removed from the GUI (Default on).
+:Shows plot information for media in the [[Video Library]] that is not marked as watched.
-----
+;Download actor thumbnails when adding to library
-;Hide plot for unwatched items
+:Gets thumbnails for actors in Library Mode, default is on.
-:Hides plot information for media in the [[Video Library]] that is not marked as watched.
-;Automatically grab season thumbs
-:Gets thumbnails for TV Show seasons in Library Mode, default is off.
-;Automatically grab actor thumbs
-:Gets thumbnails for actors in Library Mode, default is off.
 ;Flatten TV Shows
-:Removes the season node, Toggles between "Never"(default), "Always" and "If only one season".
+:Removes the TV show season node, toggles between "If only one season" (default), "Always" and "Never".
-;Stack Duplicate TV Shows
-:Shows only one instance of TV Shows if they exist on multiple different sources and [[Videos#Stacking_in_XBMC|stacks]] episodes if they are made of multiple files.
 ;Update library on startup
 :Checks for new media files on XBMC startup. For automatic removal of deleted media files you need the [[Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cvideolibrary.3E|<cleanonupdate> advancedsetting]].
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 |}
-==Player==
+==Playback==
 {|
 | valign="top" |
-;[[Video Calibration]]
+;Resume from where last stopped
-:This option opens the window in which you can calibrate your video playback. It offers the ability to adjust
+:When enabled, XBMC will automatically resume videos always from the last position that you were viewing them, even after restarting the system, toggles between "Ask" (default) XBMC will show a dialog asking if you want to resume or play from beginning, "Yes" and "No".
-*The overscan of the video -  How close to the edges of the screen that the image is displayed
+'''Note:''' You can also start a movie from the last stopped position by opening the context-menu on a movie file (white button on the gamepad) or by just clicking the "Play" button on the remote without the need to have this option enabled.
-*The positition where subtitles are displayed
-*The position of the on screen display
-*The pixel ratio - allows you calibrate the aspect ratio at which videos are played back
-;Configure Audio Hardware
-:Opens the [[System Settings#Audio Hardware|Audio Configuration Menu]]
 ----
 ;Render Method
 :Controls the method used by the player to process and display the video, (which is called [[rendering]]). [[rendering|See Here for more information on the different options.]]
-;Adjust refresh rate
+;Adjust display refresh rate to match video
-:Activate to automatically set the refresh rate which is best matched with the video that is playing
+:Activate to automatically set the refresh rate which is best matched with the video that is playing (default off).
-;Allowed error in aspect ratio (%)
+;Sync playback to display
-:Allow video player to try to fit video to screen by ignoring aspect ratio by a certain amount
+:This setting enables syncing the video to the refresh rate of the monitor.
+;A/V sync method [Audio Clock, Video Clock(resample audio) or Video Clock(Drop/Dupe Audio)]
+:Audio has to stay in sync, this can either be done by resampling, skipping/duplicating packets, or adjusting the clock if it gets out of sync too far. Resampling has the advantage that the speed of the video can be changed considerably, so 24 fps can be sped up to 25 fps to play at PAL speed. The disadvantage of resampling is that it doesn't work with passthrough, and there is a slight loss of audio quality. Skipping/duplicating audiopackets has no loss of audio quality, but the speed of the video can only be changed a little to avoid doing a skip/duplication too often, most of the time it's inaudible, but it can produce a very audible click. Adjusting the clock has the best audioquality, but some extra video jitter can occur, also the speed of the video can't change much, as the audio will sync the clock more often the more the speed of the video is changed.
+;Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars(%)
+:Allow video player to try to fit video to screen by ignoring aspect ratio by a certain amount.
+;Display 4:3 videos as
+:Determines the zoom level that 4:3 videos are shown on widescreen displays.
+----
+;Activate Teletext
+:Activate Teletext.
 ----
 ;High quality upscaling (GL only)
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 ;VDPAU Studio level colour conversion (GL & Linux with VDPAU capable Nvidia GPU only)
 : Enables studio level color correction. Corrects errors occurring from conversion between Y'CbCr and RGB. Useful if your TV can't handle PC level color ranges
-----
+| [[Image:Settings.videos.player.jpg|right|360px]]
-;Forced DVD Player Region
+|}
-:Forces a region for DVD playback.
-;Attempt to skip introduction before DVD menu
+==File lists==
-: Attempts to skip 'unskippable' introductions before DVD menu
+{|
-;Enable edit and decision lists
+| valign="top" |
-: Enables edit and decision lists (see [[EDL (commercial_skipping) and SceneMarker support]])
+;Extract thumbnail and video information
-----
+:When enabled, XBMC will extract thumbnails from videos that have no thumb in the library and information such as codecs and aspect ratio to display in Library Mode.
-;Sync playback to display
+;Clean file and folder names
-:This setting enables syncing the video to the refresh rate of the monitor.
+:Breaks up the filename into tokens, and removes unwanted tokens like release group names, hdtv, xvid, changes periods and underscores to spaces, etc, to get a "clean" name.
-;A/V sync method [Audio Clock, Video Clock(resample audio) or Video Clock(Drop/Dupe Audio)]
-:Audio has to stay in sync, this can either be done by resampling, skipping/duplicating packets, or adjusting the clock if it gets out of sync too far. Resampling has the advantage that the speed of the video can be changed considerably, so 24 fps can be sped up to 25 fps to play at PAL speed. The disadvantage of resampling is that it doesn't work with passthrough, and there is a slight loss of audio quality. Skipping/duplicating audiopackets has no loss of audio quality, but the speed of the video can only be changed a little to avoid doing a skip/duplication too often, most of the time it's inaudible, but it can produce a very audible click. Adjusting the clock has the best audioquality, but some extra video jitter can occur, also the speed of the video can't change much, as the audio will sync the clock more often the more the speed of the video is changed.
-;Maximum resample amount (%)
-:The maximum percentage the speed of the video can be changed to fit the refreshrate, the default is 5% to allow cinema to PAL speedup (24 to 25 fps, 4%), this is only available when resampling (a small speed change will still happen without resampling).
-;Resample quality
-:Quality of the resampler, goes from low to really high, the default is medium which should be fine for anyone. The higher the quality of the resampler, the more cpu it will use. You can look at the resampler types at [http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/api_misc.html#Converters libsamplerate]
-| [[Image:Settings.videos.player.jpg|right|360px]]
+| [[Image:Settings.videos.general.jpg|right|360px]]
 |}
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 *Style
 *Colour
-*Charset
+*Character set
-;Enable Flipping Bi-Direction Strings
-:Enable this for allowing right-to-left subtitles
 ----
-;Search for Subtitles in RARs
+;Subtitle folder
-:Enable this to let XBMC search for subtitles inside RAR compressed files
-----
-;Custom Subtitle Directory
 :Set a custom directory for your subtitles. This can be an smb share.
 |}
+==DVDs==
+;Play DVDs Automatically
+:Autoruns DVD video when inserted in drive
+;Forced DVD Player Region
+:Forces a region for DVD playback.
+----
+;Attempt to skip introduction before DVD menu
+:Attempts to skip 'unskippable' introductions before DVD menu
+==Scrapers==
+;Default movie scraper
+:Sets default movie scraper
+;Default tvshow scraper
+:Sets default tvshow scraper
+;Default musicvideo scraper
+:Sets default musicvideo scraper
+----
+;Enable fallback based on scraper language
+:???
 [[category:Settings]]
 [[category:Library]]
 [[category:Video Library]]