[gehang]

Hello, I'm new to kodi I have isengrad set up on my macbook pro laptop, my videos are stored on a separate NAS device. If there is a better forum for this question let me know and I will delete and repost in the correct area. Sorry for the length, I'm trying to be as detailed as possible.

I have a three libraries set up under videos->files:
Movies (TMDB scrapper selected, movies are in single folder and recursive scan are both selected)
TvShows (TVDB scapper selected, shows are in single folder option is not checked)
MoviePacks (local information (.nfo scraper) selected, recursive scan is not selected)

They are all DVD video_ts folder structure such as:

Movies\Some Movie(2005)\video_ts\... (ifo/vob etc)
Movies\Another Movie(2010)\video_ts\...(ifo/vob etc)
(etc etc)

TvShows\Arrested Development\Season 1\Arrested Development.s01.e01e02e03e04\video_ts...
TvShows\Arrested Development\Season 2\Arrested Development.s02.e01e02e03e04\video_ts...
(etc etc)

MoviePacks\Alfred Hitchkock Collection(2010)\video_ts... (ifo/vob etc)
(contains 5 old hitchkock movies on 1 dvd)
MoviePacks\Classic Western Collection(2015)\video_ts... (ifo/vob etc)
(contains 3 westerns on 1 dvd)

The movie and tv folders scrape correctly and everything looks great there. Under tv shows I see it found all the episode titles and when I click to play them it starts the main menu of the correct DVD containing that episode.

The problem is I can't seem to figure out what is the best way to configure the movie packs. I've searched the forums for multi-dvd and 90% of the results are for stacking dvds that span multi disks, and the few that are asking about multi movies are people ripping them to separate files. Since mine are already ripped in video_ts (and I like using the dvd menu) I don't want to go through the process to split these all up.

I kind of wish it would work like the TV shows, where I can put something like:
MoviePacks\Classic Western Collection(2015)\The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).For a Few Dollars More (1965).A Fistful of Dollars (1964)\video_ts\....

Then I would see them listed as separate movies, but all linked to the same dvd when I play them, like tv shows work. I imagine that would run into issues with folder name length being too long though.

One thing I did try was making three .nfo files and placing them in the video_ts folder:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).nfo
For a Few Dollars More (1965).nfo
A Fistful of Dollars (1964).nfo

Each file just had a link to the imdb page. That got me three copies of the good the bad and the ugly showing up on my movie list. It seemed to ignore the two other .nfo files. I have a feeling there is some way to do this, I'm just setting things up wrong in the scapper or in my NFO file.

Has anyone found a good way to use multi-movie dvd folders?

Thanks,
Gehan

[gehang]

Update: It's not ideal, but using custom NFO files I can do this as a tv show.
I named my folder as such:
MoviePacks\Westerns\Season 01\Westerns.s01.e01e02e03\video_ts....

Inside of 'MoviePacks\Westerns' I put 'tvshow.nfo' containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow>
<title>Western Movie Pack</title>
<showtitle>Western Movie Pack</showtitle>
<year>2003</year>
<plot>Multi-DVD Testing</plot>
</tvshow>

And in 'MoviePacks\Westerns\Season 01\Westerns.s01.e01e02e03\video_ts' I added video_ts.nfo containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<episodedetails>
<title>The Good The Bad The Ugly</title>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<uniqueid>123</uniqueid>
</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<title>For a few Dollars More</title>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>2</episode>
<uniqueid>456</uniqueid>
</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<title>Fist full of dollars</title>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>3</episode>
<uniqueid>789</uniqueid>
</episodedetails>


Now under TV shows, I see a listing 'Western Movie Pack' and when I click on it, I see the three movies listed, and each opens to the main movie DVD like I want.

Next I'll go through and manually add thumnails and movie posters/plots/etc...

(EDIT, I found an easy way to add all the data)
The easiest way to create the video_ts.nfo file data was to create dummy folders in my movie directory such as:
Movies\The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1969) (etc etc one for each movie that was on my multi movie disk)

Then I did an update for the movie library and after that I exported the library (using separate file option) to create all my nfo files.

Next edit the video_ts.nfo file in the multi movie directory. Add one entry for each movie on the disc (something like this).
Use the showtitle for whatever you named your directory.
<episodedetails>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>1</episode>

</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>2</episode>

</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<showtitle>Westerm Movie Pack</showtitle>
<season>1</season>
<episode>3</episode>

</episodedetails>


After that open the generated .nfo files under your fake movie directories, and copy/paste all the info (minus the starting and ending <movie> </movie> tags. Paste that into the blank lines above </episodedetails>

Once that's done you can remove the dummy directories, update the library contents to scrape your new info, and then clean the library to remove all your dummy movies.

Now under TV shows I have the Western Movie Pack as an option and under it the movies are listed with all their associated data, box covers, etc.

[Oli_Oops]

Hi Gehang, have you found a simpler way of doing this?

[gehang]

Nope, I haven’t looked at it in months. Probably many versions behind and missed updates. Maybe I’ll spend some time this weekend updating that box and seeing what’s new.