For quite some time I have had a pretty decent DVD movie server running at the house. It consists of a File Server (Buffalo TeraStation 2TB), which is used to store raw DVD rips, a X3 chipped XBOX running XBOX Media Center, and a 52" Plasma television. One of the most impressive features of XBMC is it's scraping capability, or the ability to fetch information from websites for you and import it into your media center library such as plot summaries, movie reviews, cast, year, genre, etc, etc. With the latest SVN builds of XBMC I have begun to notice that the scraper is acting strange. I guess most people use this kind of setup to watch pirated movies, but in my case I'm using raw DVD rips from DVDs I own. As such my file structure is a bit different. For example the movie 310 To Yuma is in a folder named 310 to Yuma and inside that folder are the traditional VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories. Whenever I launch the IMDB scraper it searches for VIDEO_TS instead of 310 To Yuma since VIDEO_TS is a sub folder. To quickly resolve the issue I wrote a simple C# console application to do this:
- Enumerate the Movies Share
- For each folder move the files in VIDEO_TS into the root folder for the movie
- Delete the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders
The script took 5 minutes to write and it saved hours of time of having to do this manually.
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