I have been toying with the TV Library app when I stumbled on Sam's little gem. For a work in progress it is fab. I failed to get it read from MyMovies metadata and besides have all my films as AVI files now rather than DVD's or ISO's. I managed to locate a Ruby compiler but on testing the ruby script with the Heroes folder it just seemed to think each episode was the same. Not disheartend it showed me the structure I needed.
Say you have a folder d:\tv\heroes\season1
Create a folder called metadata ie : d:\tv\heroes\season1\metadata
In this folder create xml files with the same names as the .avi files in the directory above this. ie in the Season1 folder I may have a file "S01 E02 - Don't look back.avi" in the metadata folder I then should have a file "S01 E02 - Don't look back.xml".
The contents is then something like:
<Item>
<EpisodeName>This is the
episode name or film name</EpisodeName>
<Overview>This items
description of the tv episode or
film</Overview>
<filename>episodes/your
image.jpg</filename>
<SeasonNumber>Season number or perhaps
actors</SeasonNumber>
<ShowName>Name of show or perhaps you could
put genre</ShowName>
</Item>
The bit that got me a bit puzzled was why you need to put the episodes/image.jpg when the image you want to use it in the metadata folder but it works. ie for each episode of avi film put a jpg into the metadata folder and refer to it in the form:
<filename>episodes/image name.jpg</filename>
I hope that makes sense and helps some of you?
Now if any one has any way of removing all the unwanted menu strips from the MCE I would love to hear from them. All I want is a menu for Pictures, a menu for Music, a menu for Films and TV and then an Exit/Settings option.
Ho well