One idea for improved movie-adding funcionality for the video library?

[Geirern87]

So prior to using XBMC I used Mediaportal, and there are of course pros and cons to both programs. One of the big annoyances I've found, is how narrow seaching the movie library is in XBMC, opposed to Mediaportals "MovingPictures"

MovingPictures was able to figure out, with few exceptions, all of my movies without any renaming of the file needed. If MovingPictures was uncertain of which version of a movie I had acquired (Example the new or the old version of "The Wicker Man") I could chose it in the MovingPictures config screen which movie I actually wanted to add to the library.

What I would really like, is that when XBMC is in doubt about a movie, a dialogbox would pop up, asking which version it should add to the library if it's in doubt, and if it didn't find any matching titles, it would ask you could type in a search string. If not that, then something like the MovingPictures-selector I'm not a coder, so I have no idea what would be the easiest option, but any of them would be a major improvement.

Screenshot from My TV-series (In MediaPortal)

One Choice:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/Geirern/XBMC/tvseries.jpg

Several Choices:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/Geirern/XBMC/tv3.jpg

MovingPictures is uncertain:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/Geirern/XBMC/movingp.jpg

[jmarshall]

Here's the thing:

XBMC either does automatic adding, whereby we select the best match. This is done in the background, and thus interrupting the process is out of the question. We've only just recently added support for detecting the reliability of this match, and currently always add the "best" match, even if it may not match particularly well according to the scoring system. This clearly needs refinement, but for the vast majority of users gets the right movie every time.

Any automated process by definition requires zero user input. Having it constantly nag during a lengthy process would be a pain in the arse IMO.

Or, XBMC does manual adding, one movie at a time, whereby it always prompts for the best match (unless it's a perfect match).

The new library will add everything automatically in one go (just named as your files are named, possibly cleaned up a bit) for instant browsing of your library. It will then go off and find local information (xml files, nfo files, thumbs etc.) in the background. It will lastly go off and find internet based information in the background. The latter will only be added if it's a very good match.

Cheers,
Jonathan