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I have the a movie named as follows 
The Mao Years 1949-1976 [1994] [ID IMDB tt293392].mp4
the scrapers have a melt down and will not find It. 
so being a smarty pants I made an nfo  file named The Mao Years 1949-1976 [1994] [ID IMDB tt293392].nfo  with the following in it.
<movie>
   <id>tt0293392</id>
</movie>
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293392/
It still will not return proper info.
I must have missed something. 
all help is valued

[Karellen]

Which scraper are you using?

so being a smarty pants I made an nfo  file named The Mao Years 1949-1976 [1994] [ID IMDB tt293392].nfo  with the following in it.
<movie>
   <id>tt0293392</id>
</movie>
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293392/

This bit of your example...
<movie>
<id>tt0293392</id>
</movie>
is not needed if you have this... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293392/

But this... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293392/ will only work if you are using the Universal Movie Scraper as it is the only scraper that scrapes from IMDB.

Looks like the title does not exist at TMDB, so you are forced to use Universal Movie Scraper. There is only minimal information, so don't expect a lot of info displayed once it is in your library.

See... Parsing NFO Files (wiki)

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Fixed wiki link

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Thank you for the quick response. 
I was not using the universal movie scraper. I didn't think to check tmdb is I generally use imdb for movies
I guess the only option is to build a full .nfo  file.
In the future I will check tmdb for the movie 
this matter is solved.