XBMC + Documentaries

Segression · 22nd July 2011, 1:53 PM

Hey guys im just wondering how people do Documentaries in XBMC?
Im not sure whether to put them as Movies or TV? I guess they would be TV as most of them air on Nat Geo/ discovery etc. But They retail on blurays.

How do people have them setup? I Want them on the homescreen under documentaries, But im having issues with them finding art etc in XBMC. Movies and tv shows work fine, And im pretty sure i have filenames right. Same as what is on the DVDs

renagade · 22nd July 2011, 2:23 PM

How are they labelled at iMDB or the like?

Hyram · 22nd July 2011, 4:57 PM

I asked that very question on the xbmc.org forum a few weeks ago -- the 'official' response was "Documentaries are all TV shows."

(My reply was "That's fscking stupid!"

)

My solution was to split docos into two separate sources, which I labeled "Documentary Films" and "Documentary Series", assigning an appropriate scraper to each. I discovered that a lot of the 'singles' were on IMDB, even if they were initially broadcast by the relevant TV network under an encompassing "show". The primary exception seems to be anything aired or made by the BBC, where 'singles' will be assigned on IMDB and TVDB as part of a series (eg Horizon, Panorama), and multipart docos have their 'series' as part of the title (eg "Horizon - The Atom" is a three parter of one 'season').

I found that as long as you stick to the directory and show naming conventions the XBMC scrapers expect, it can find most things. You will find that you still need to do a lot of manual metadata work with documentaries.

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22nd July 2011, 4:57 PM	#3
Hyram Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 717	I asked that very question on the xbmc.org forum a few weeks ago -- the 'official' response was "Documentaries are all TV shows." (My reply was "That's fscking stupid!" ) My solution was to split docos into two separate sources, which I labeled "Documentary Films" and "Documentary Series", assigning an appropriate scraper to each. I discovered that a lot of the 'singles' were on IMDB, even if they were initially broadcast by the relevant TV network under an encompassing "show". The primary exception seems to be anything aired or made by the BBC, where 'singles' will be assigned on IMDB and TVDB as part of a series (eg Horizon, Panorama), and multipart docos have their 'series' as part of the title (eg "Horizon - The Atom" is a three parter of one 'season'). I found that as long as you stick to the directory and show naming conventions the XBMC scrapers expect, it can find most things. You will find that you still need to do a lot of manual metadata work with documentaries.