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<section begin="intro" />This section covers topics and guides covering playing videos, the video library, video management, scanning content in, playing video content off the internet, and more.<section end="intro" />
<section begin="intro" />This section covers topics and guides covering playing videos, the video library, video management, scanning content in, playing video content off the internet, and more. The Video Library allows the organization of your video content by information such as genre, title, year, actors and directors, smart playlists, advanced search and filtering, custom sections, etc. XBMC will search the internet and download rich metadata for your videos, such as cover art, summaries, and cast credits.<section end="intro" />
 
 
The Video Library, one of the XBMC databases, allows the organization of your video content by information associated with the video files themselves.
This information can be obtained in various different ways, like through [[How To use Scrapers|Scrapers]] (ie. [[Movies (Video Library)|Movies]], [[TV Shows (Video Library)|TV shows]] and [[Music Videos]]) and [[NFO files]]. Library view allows you to browse your video content by things such as; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.


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Revision as of 10:46, 21 June 2013

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This section covers topics and guides covering playing videos, the video library, video management, scanning content in, playing video content off the internet, and more. The Video Library allows the organization of your video content by information such as genre, title, year, actors and directors, smart playlists, advanced search and filtering, custom sections, etc. XBMC will search the internet and download rich metadata for your videos, such as cover art, summaries, and cast credits.


Video navigation
Video navigation
Video playback
Template:Icon-video manager Video management
To use your video files with "metadata" like summaries, cast info, DVD covers, thumbnails, and more, you need to add those video files to the video library.
Music videos
Kodi has the ability to include Music Videos in the Video and Music libraries. All scanned music videos will show up in both. Music Videos can also be part of Party Mode and Smart Playlists. Playlists containing both music and music videos should be stored in the mixed playlist subfolder under the userdata folder.
Nuvola apps kthememgr.png Add-ons
An Add-on is another piece of software that can be added to a program to further expand and enhance the features of that program. Imagine a smart phone and all the additional Apps that can be installed to enhance its functionality. Kodi has the same ability and these apps are referred to as Add-ons. Kodi has a growing list of community driven add-ons which can be installed from a common official repository, while still enabling third-party developers to also host their own unofficial repositories for add-ons that any user can choose to add themselves.
Gnome-system-run.svg Video library settings
The main Video Library settings can be accessed from the Library tab in Videos Settings. Those can be accessed either from the Settings menu from the home screen, or via the context menu as seen above.