Overview

This page describes the NFO file specifcation and provides additional information and resources.

Tasks

• Document the NFO format including
  • standard file format
  • variations / exceptions from file format created by different applications
  • filename patterns for nfo files and artwork including folder structure
• Create NfoTagLib or Nfo.NET as a library which can be reused by other applications
  • support reading metadata according to the xbmc specs from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files
    • (high priority) movies http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/movies
    • (medium priority) series
      • tvshows: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/tvshows
      • tvepisodes: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/tvepisodes
    • (low priority) musicvideos: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/musicvideos
    • (low priority) music http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/music
      • artist
      • album
  • ??? support reading various artwork: banners, poster, cover
  • support writing nfo files

Resources

• NFO Files in XBMC wiki
• XBMC nfo management
  • VideoInfoTag
  • VideoInfoScanner
• MediaPortal 1
  • IMDBMovie
  • IMDBFetcher
  • MovieDatabase
  • GUIVideoInfo
• TinyMediaManager nfo management
  • http://code.google.com/p/tinymediama...manager%2Fcore
  • http://code.google.com/p/tinymediama...ager%2Fscraper

Details

The tag mapping for movies and series is available at their media aspects.

Filenames & Folder structure

various files pattern for nfo files and artwork

define priority

File format

Movie specific

Year vs. Premiered

Both values,

year

and

premiered

, from *.nfo files are mapped to MP2

MediaAspect

>

RecordingTime

.

The following order is suggested

1. premiered

2. year

   (if

   premiered

   is not available)

Notes:

• year only contains the year-part of the date in format:

  yyyy

• premiered contains the full date in format:

  yyyy-mm-dd

MPAA vs. Certification

Both values,

mpaa

and

certification

, from *.nfo files hold the same information. Currently there is no mapping to MP2 available, yet. (suggested:

MovieAspect

>

Certification

.

The following order is suggested

1. certification

2. mpaa

   (if

   certification

   is not available)

Example:

<mpaa>DE:FSK 18 / DE:FSK18 / DE:18 / DE:ab 18</mpaa>
<certification>DE:FSK 18 / DE:FSK18 / DE:18 / DE:ab 18</certification>

Notes:

• The certification text might contain multiple values separated by

  /

  , which optionally can be wrapped by space characters (

  <space>/<space>

  ).
• Each value has a region / country prefix separated by

  :

  .

Series specific

Premiered

No aired, no year ???

Episode specific

Aired vs. Premiered

Both values,

aired

and

premiered

, from *.nfo files are mapped to MP2

SeriesAspect

>

FirstAired

.

The following order is suggested

1. aired

2. premiered

   (if

   aired

   is not available)

Notes:

• aired

  and

  premiered

  contain the full date in format:

  yyyy-mm-dd