<p>We should have support for stub files that are just a placeholder for a physical Movie / Series or Music disc (CD / DVD / BluRay).</p>

<p>For that we need</p>

<ul>
<li>a MDE that recognizes .disc files as MediaItems</li>
<li>A way to mark the MediaItems as being stubs (with an additional Attribute in our MIAs (e.g. MediaItemAspect) or with a separate MIA?)</li>
<li>our Players recognize that a MI is a stub and let the Frontend ask to insert the disk before playing</li>
</ul>

<p>Current info available on this feature :</p>

<ul>
<li>The are stub support for Movies, Series and Albums</li>
<li>They are imported just other media</li>
<li>When a disc is inserted the matching stub will be found if possible so play counts are stored</li>
<li>Series discs that contain multiple episodes will be created as a multi part episode</li>
<li>Album stub file extensions: "cd.disc"</li>
<li>Movie stub file extensions: "dvd.disc", "bluray.disc", "brrip.disc", "bd25.disc", "bd50.disc", "hddvd.disc", "hdtv.disc", "pdtv.disc", "dsr.disc", "vhs.disc"</li>
<li>Series stub file extensions: "dvd.disc", "bluray.disc", "brrip.disc", "bd25.disc", "bd50.disc", "hddvd.disc", "hdtv.disc", "pdtv.disc", "dsr.disc", "vhs.disc"</li>
<li>When using NFO files together with the stub files, the &lt;fileinfo&gt; part will be read from the NFO file to generate media details</li>
<li>Episode details will be read from series NFO if available</li>
<li>A prompt will be shown to insert the media if disc is not found</li>
<li>The prompt can also be a video for video content or an audio track for audio content but currently that means placing those in a client folder</li>
</ul>