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Welcome to the dvdprofiler2xbmc wiki!

Announcing first release of dvdprofiler2xbmc script available at:

http://www.github.com/royw/dvdprofiler2xbmc

The script builds the .nfo files from the DVD Profiler exported Collection.xml file, then adds some information from imdb.com and themoviedb.com. The DVD Profiler thumbnails are used to create .tbn files. -fanart.jpg files are downloaded from themoviedb.com.

The script takes extra pains to find the correct movie. It helps to include the production year in the media file name. Besides refining the search by years, also known as (AKA) titles are searched.

The cost of higher accuracy is longer search times. To minimize the impact of search times, imdb and tmdb results are cached with each media file.

Caveats

First, this is a command line script. There is no GUI.

Second, while the script has been written to be portable, it has only been tested on linux (gentoo ~x86 to be exact).

Third, currently the supported media naming convention is rather limited. The naming conventions include:

title.ext title.part.ext title – yyyy.ext title – yyyy.part.ext title (yyyy).ext title (yyyy).part.ext

where
title is the title in DVD Profiler and can be either the exact title or built by this pattern:
1) replace all punctuation with spaces
2) replace multiple spaces with single spaces
optionally the ‘&’ character may be replaced with the word ‘and’
part is like cd1, cd2, pt1, disk1, disc2
ext is the media extension like iso, m4v,…

Fourth, this is a ruby script so you will need to install ruby 1.8.×. Here’s the ubuntu directions:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install irb sudo apt-get install rubygems sudo apt-get install libyaml-ruby sudo apt-get install libzlib-ruby sudo gem update -y sudo gem update -y —system sudo rm /usr/bin/gem sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

Once you have ruby install then it’s easy to install the script:

sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com sudo gem install royw-dvdprofiler2xbmc

Here’s the gentoo directions:

emerge ruby eselect ruby set ruby18 emerge rubygems gem sources -a http://gems.github.com gem install royw-dvdprofiler2xbmc

Any feedback most welcome.

Enjoy,
Roy