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Custom video entries

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

NFO files

• Add nfo files for each file - (helpful guide: Two guys who have successfully done it - one by movie, other as tv show)
• Here's a basic/bare minimal example of an NFO file:

<?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.

Additional guides

• Best way to have "home videos" in XBMC (XBMC forum)
• Videos, Library Mode & Using nfo Files (pcmediacenter forum)