HOW-TO: Catalog and use lookups on your offline DVD/CD movie library by creating fake files

1. Create an empty text file (e.g. with Wordpad or Notepad) on your computer, and name it MovieName.vob (if it is a DVD-Video movie) or MovieName.avi (if it is a file-format movie, such as a DivX/XviD MPEG-4 encoded movie). MovieName should be replaced with the name of the movie, e.g. "Finding Nemo.vob", or "Finding Nemo (2003).avi" (including the year of the first screening helps with IMDB lookups if multiple movies have the same name but are released in different years).

2. Transfer the empty file to your movies folder on your Xbox hard drive, or to your movies share on the network.

3. Within XBMC, navigate to the file in your movies folder, press the white button and then select Movie Information from the context menu.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 as needed for all your offline movies.

5. Change the View (to Big Icons, DVD, Wide, etc) to more easily see the DVD covers for each movie you have scanned.

Note! These fake files with their alias names will not play on your Xbox, but this is an easy way to catalog your offline library of movies.