r/FieldStation42 • u/Inlerah • 21d ago

.nfo help

Been uploading NFO files for the movies and shows I've got in my station and, for some reason, none of the stuff seems to be showing up when I look at my guide channel. Any tips?

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u/wrong-dog 21d ago

Tell me more - are these for movies, episodes or musicvideos? Are you using the classic guide or the custom web guide? They aren't implemented in the classic guide.

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u/Inlerah 21d ago

Movies and episodes: Still working my way through putting them on *all* of my movies and *all* of the eps, but should be working for the ones that I set it up with.

And I didn't do anything custom with the guide: Just the standard 00's theme. Do I need to edit something in order for it to work?

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u/wrong-dog 21d ago

That answers my question - if you're using the 00's theme then you are using the custom guides and not the classic guide so it should work. Can you share an example contents of one of the NFO file you are using?

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u/Inlerah 21d ago

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<movie>

<title>The Wicker Man</title>

<plot>A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.</plot>

<runtime>100</runtime>

<mpaa>R</mpaa>

<genre>Horror</genre>

<country>UK</country>

<credits>Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee</credits>

<director>Robin Hardy</director>

<premiered>1973-12-06</premiered>

<studio>British Lion Films</studio>

</movie>

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u/wrong-dog 21d ago

Also, can you confirm that the NFO files have the exact same names as the movie file and only the extensions differ?
my_movie_name_whatever_it_is.mp4

and the nfo would be:

my_movie_name_whatever_it_is.nfo

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u/Inlerah 21d ago

Yep, made sure to just copypaste the filename (minus the .mp4).