Some Questions About Mezzmo before I buy

[Pawz]

Sorry, one further question - is it possible to import movie information from something like Movie Label 2012?

I've got an entire database of up to date movie information, would be nice if I can move it across somehow

[Paul]

Not sure how Movie Label 2012 stores its information, but Mezzmo reads metadata for video files from several popular external sources, such as:

• Metadata and artwork from Thumbgen files (.tgmd)
• Metadata and artwork from mymovies.xml (or <filename>.xml) files
• Metadata and artwork from series.xml (and episode) files
• Metadata and artwork from XMBC .nfo and .tbn files
• Artwork from folder.jpg/.png, <filename>.jpg/.png

Mezzmo will automatically find these files and extract the metadata/artwork when you add your video files into Mezzmo or when you maintain your library.

[Pawz]

Is the format of these xml files available?

Also I'm not seeing a way to import an xml file in the menus for Mezzmo, so how does Mezzmo know where to look to load this xml file? Does it have to be in the same folder as the movie file?

I can't seem to find any documentation about this feature.

[Paul]

Mezzmo will automatically find these files and extract the metadata/artwork when you add your video files into Mezzmo or when you maintain your library. The external metadata files must be in the same folder as the media file (except for series.xml, which is in the parent folder of the video file). This is the normal way for these popular external metadata files to be located and most media software applications deal with them as Mezzmo does.

An example:

c:\videos\inception.mkv
c:\videos\inception.xml
c:\videos\inception.tgmd
c:\videos\inception.nfo
c:\videos\inception.tbn
c:\videos\inception.jpg
c:\videos\folder.jpg

(Usually you will not have this many external metadata files for one media file, but I have shown them all for explanatory purposes)

With regards the internal structure of each external metadata file, you really need to ask the guys at the My Movies, ThumbGen and XBMC web sites/forums since they are the authors of these files. A quick search on the internet will give you sample files to look at.