Use internal metadata providers to create a DvdId xml file

Both Metabrowser and MediaCenterMaster have an option to create a DvdId xml file for movies and place it in

Users\USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\eHome\DvdInfoCache

MCM and perhaps the latest version of metabrowser even add a shortcut path to a poster image of the correct movie.

This info is then displayed in the popup info bar when playing in MC internal player.

Sample DVDID 154a7852-87e7-4000-8c2f-933a479ed2b7.xml created by MetaBrowser 0.9 for Casablanca

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<METADATA xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <MDR-DVD>
    <MetadataExpires>0001-01-01T00:00:00</MetadataExpires>
    <version>5.0</version>
    <dvdTitle>Casablanca</dvdTitle>
    <studio>Warner Bros. Pictures</studio>
    <leadPerformer>Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet</leadPerformer>
    <director>Michael Curtiz</director>
    <MPAARating>NC-17</MPAARating>
    <releaseDate>1942 01 01</releaseDate>
    <genre>Crime, Drama, Romance</genre>
    <duration>102</duration>
    <title>
      <titleNum>1</titleNum>
      <titleTitle>Casablanca</titleTitle>
      <studio>Warner Bros. Pictures</studio>
      <leadPerformer>Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet</leadPerformer>
      <director>Michael Curtiz</director>
      <MPAARating>NC-17</MPAARating>
      <genre>Crime, Drama, Romance</genre>
      <synopsis>Casablanca is a classic and one of the most revered films of all time. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a love triangle in the city of Casablanca which is a refuge for many fleeing foreigners looking for a new life during the war. Political romance with a backdrop of war conflict between democracy and totalitarianism. A landmark in film history.</synopsis>
    </title>
  </MDR-DVD>
  <NeedsAttribution>true</NeedsAttribution>
  <DvdId>154a7852-87e7-4000-8c2f-933a479ed2b7</DvdId>
</METADATA>

EDIT:

And here’s one mcm_id__tt0079882-102961.xml created by MCM in

Users\chris\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\eHome\DvdInfoCache

including the reference to the 150x225 poster image it has created in

C:\Users\chris\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\eHome\DvdCoverCache

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<METADATA xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <MDR-DVD>
    <version>5.0</version>
    <dvdTitle>Seven</dvdTitle>
    <studio></studio>
    <leadPerformer>William Smith; John Alderman; Terry Kiser; Martin Kove; Barbara Leigh; Art Metrano</leadPerformer>
    <director>Andy Sidaris</director>
    <MPAARating>R</MPAARating>
    <releaseDate>1979 01 01</releaseDate>
    <genre>Action/Adventure</genre>
    <largeCoverParams>mcm_id__tt0079882-102961.jpg</largeCoverParams>
    <smallCoverParams>mcm_id__tt0079882-102961.jpg</smallCoverParams>
    <dataProvider>AMG</dataProvider>
    <duration>100</duration>
    <title>
      <titleNum>1</titleNum>
      <titleTitle>Seven</titleTitle>
      <studio></studio>
      <director>Andy Sidaris</director>
      <leadPerformer>William Smith; John Alderman; Terry Kiser; Martin Kove; Barbara Leigh; Art Metrano</leadPerformer>
      <MPAARating>R</MPAARating>
      <genre>Action/Adventure</genre>
      <synopsis>A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.</synopsis>
    </title>
  </MDR-DVD>
  <DvdId>mcm_id__tt0079882-102961</DvdId>
</METADATA>

and the corresponding mcm_id__tt0079882-102961.dvdid.xml created in the movie folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Disc>
    <Name>Seven</Name>
    <ID>mcm_id__tt0079882-102961</ID>
</Disc>