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Utilizing pre-existing naming convention of downloaded movies in XBMC - m021478 - 2009-06-11
I have tons of downloaded movies (all legal, of course) which all generally follow the same basic naming convention. A few such examples of this are as follows:
• MOVIE.1.1999.1080p.HDTV.x264-hV.mkv
• MOVIE.2.2008.R5.x264.AC3-WoLF.mkv
• MOVIE.3.2003.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv
What I am trying to avoid is going through and manually renaming all of my downloaded movies to fit the default naming conventions used by XBMC for proper scraping, only to find out down the road that I shouldn't have renamed everything because doing so removed valuable file information that could have been used to apply things like "media flags" to my movies within XBMC (in other words, using the "MOVIE.3" example above, perhaps there would be a way that I could automatically have details within the name ~ such as 1080p, DTS audio, Blu-Ray Rip, x264 codec, etc., etc. ~ added as media flags)
Anyone have any thoughts about this? Thanks!
- jmarshall - 2009-06-11
EDIT: Changed my mind:
Don't rename them at all. Just leave the nfo file next to the movie (you got it when you downloaded it, after all) and XBMC will use that to grab the IMDb id and thus get metadata from themoviedb.org or whatever.
Cheers,
Jonathan