Creating NFO file for dummies

**kr1z** · June 14th, 2011, 06:10 AM

Cool!

Tnx!

**kettykrueger** · June 14th, 2011, 06:26 AM

Good work!

But I can't seem to get them to work. Do I need to rename the extension?

Originally Posted by Kingo

It's a bit off the current discussion, but it relates to the topic of the original forum post, so bare with me for this little "advertisement" ;o)

I too love my Boxee Box, and is also happy with the new support for NFO-files. I happily started creating NFO-files for the few movies my Boxee Box didn't recognize properly. But when I started on the second one, I immediately thought (as the developer I am), I can code my way out of this...

So I did. I created this little web-site to assist in creation and download of movie NFO-files for the Boxee Box. It uses www.themoviedb.org to get data for the NFO-file.

http://nfo.sprocket.dk/

:-) Kingo

**darcilicious** · June 14th, 2011, 09:08 AM

Do I need to rename the extension?

When I clicked on the NFO link, it downloaded a plaintext file with an nfo extension already.

What OS are you on and what browser are you using?

**hakke64** · June 14th, 2011, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by kettykrueger

Good work!

But I can't seem to get them to work. Do I need to rename the extension?

An nfo file may be specified either for Tv show seasons or a specific episodes (or both).

An nfo for an episode must be named exactly the same as the media file name just with an .nfo extension.

An nfo for the tvshow must be named tvshow.nfo

Please note that an Episode.nfo will overwrite Tvshow.nfo fields

Ex for tvshow:

tvshow.nfo
folder.jpg
[folder with season 1]

Ex for episode:

tvshowname.S01E04.avi
tvshowname.S01E04.nfo

**kettykrueger** · June 14th, 2011, 12:00 PM

When I download them, they save as xxx.nfo.xml files, and consequently don't getpicked up by Boxee.

Incidently, the .nfo that has ever worked for me was the Surf Ninjas nfo that someone posted earlier in this thread.

I've tried using Safari and Firefox. I'm on a Mac

**Kingo** · June 15th, 2011, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by kettykrueger

When I download them, they save as xxx.nfo.xml files, and consequently don't getpicked up by Boxee.

Incidently, the .nfo that has ever worked for me was the Surf Ninjas nfo that someone posted earlier in this thread.

I've tried using Safari and Firefox. I'm on a Mac

You should save them as moviefiletitle.nfo (not xml). You can then identify them manually in Boxee and you should get the choice between NFO and Manual (which is the normal identify search) Sometimes you need a rescan of your movie library to get it to work

**darcilicious** · June 15th, 2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by kettykrueger

When I download them, they save as xxx.nfo.xml files, and consequently don't getpicked up by Boxee.

I've tried using Safari and Firefox. I'm on a Mac

Maybe contact the site owner as there seems to be a similar bug related to using the Opera browser: http://nfo.sprocket.dk/Bugs.aspx

http://nfo.sprocket.dk/Contact.aspx to contact him.

**M1ster_Happy** · June 15th, 2011, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kingo

It's a bit off the current discussion, but it relates to the topic of the original forum post, so bare with me for this little "advertisement" ;o)

I too love my Boxee Box, and is also happy with the new support for NFO-files. I happily started creating NFO-files for the few movies my Boxee Box didn't recognize properly. But when I started on the second one, I immediately thought (as the developer I am), I can code my way out of this...

So I did. I created this little web-site to assist in creation and download of movie NFO-files for the Boxee Box. It uses www.themoviedb.org to get data for the NFO-file.

http://nfo.sprocket.dk/

:-) Kingo

Nice work Kingo ... this will certainly come in handy.