This tutorial will i show you how to make an .NFO file.

First method:
With G-Spot
If you don't yet have G-Spot, you can download it here from the official website:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

To properly set up G-Spot to export a pre-formatted analysis read-out for your files, do the following steps. This part only has to be done once.

First you need to create a custom export file. This will give G-Spot the information it needs to give you an analysis on your files. To do this, open a new Notepad file (or other simple text editor), and Copy and Paste the following:

To properly set up G-Spot to export a pre-formatted analysis read-out for your files, do the following steps. This part only has to be done once.

First you need to create a custom export file. This will give G-Spot the information it needs to give you an analysis on your files. To do this, open a new Notepad file (or other simple text editor), and Copy and Paste the following:

=================================================\ r\n
File Name: %FILE_NAME% \r\n
File Size: %FILE_SIZE% Bytes \r\n
Video Codec: %VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE% \r\n
Video Bitrate: %VIDEO_BITRATE% kb/s \r\n
QPel?: %VIDEO_MPEG4_QPEL% \r\n
H264?: %VIDEO_H264% \r\n
GMC: %VIDEO_MPEG4_GMC% \r\n
Audio Codec: %AUDIO_CODEC% \r\n
Audio Bitrate: %AUDIO_BITRATE% kb/s \r\n
Audio Bitrate Type: %AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE% \r\n
Duration: %VIDEO_DURATION% \r\n
Frame Count: %VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT% \r\n
Frames Per Second: %VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC% \r\n
Display Aspect Ratio: %VIDEO_DAR% \r\n
Frame Width: %VIDEO_SIZE_X% \r\n
Frame Height: %VIDEO_SIZE_Y% \r\n

Note: the QPel?, H264? And GMC lines will only contain data for HR.HDTV files – you may delete those lines from the finished NFO if they are blank.

Save this new file as gspotcustomexport.txt
Then proceed to the next step.

Next, in G-Spot, click on OPTIONS then EXPORT
You will see a window called EXPORT SETUP
Make sure the following selections are chosen:

Under GENERAL - Checkmark the ENABLE EXPORTING Box, then click on Save As Default.
Under FORMAT - Choose CUSTOM, USING THE FORMAT FILE BELOW and in the BROWSE box, select your gspotcustomexport.txt file.

Under OUTPUT FILES, select ALWAYS APPEND TO SAME FILE (SPECIFY FILENAME) - then click on the Browse box, and select a path, then add export.txt to the end of your path.

After all this is complete, your EXPORT SETUP should look something like this:



Now, click OK.

Next, go into OPTIONS again, then SETTINGS
At the top, under GENERAL, make sure there is no checkmark in ENABLE FULL FILE SCAN. This just slows things WAY down and is unnecessary for our purposes. Then click OK.

Now you are ready to actually use G-Spot.

You can either Click on FILE &gt OPEN and select all the files you want in your read-out, or you can also Drag and Drop multiple files into G-Spot.

After that is done, hit F5 to process them all. Once that is done, the Export.txt file should pop up on your Desktop or wherever you told it go.

Your read-out file should look something like this:

=================================================

File Name: Rango.2011.DVDSCR.AC3.XViD-EP1C.avi
File Size: 733,943,808 Bytes
Video Codec: XVID
Video Bitrate: 711 kb/s
QPel?:
H264?:
GMC:
Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s
Audio Bitrate Type: CBR
Duration: 1:47:15
Frame Count: 154276
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Display Aspect Ratio: 2.353
Frame Width: 640
Frame Height: 272


If it does not look very similar to the above then go back and make sure you pasted everything correctly into your format file in the first step of this tutorial.

Remember to go back and delete the contents of the export file when you’re done so its empty for the next batch of files.

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NFO Creator is a little free program to convert your G-Spot export file to ASCII. When you upload your pack you’ll see a place to upload the NFO.

You can download the program here and then install it.

To use … once your NFO text file contains all of your G-Spot data and looks just like you want it …

Start NFO Creator

File | NFO Import – choose “.txt” in the “Files of Type” dropdown list – navigate to wherever your text file is – select the file and choose “Open”

Check the box that says “No Convertion” and choose “Start Importation”

Voila, you will see your text file contents in ASCII. Since some of the text characters may not have imported correctly, carefully scroll through and replace weird characters with what you want. Common culprits are apostrophes and quote marks.

When you are satisfied that all is well, choose File | NFO Export – choose “.nfo” in the “Files of Type” dropdown list. Be sure to give the finished NFO its proper name, or at least a different name than the export file, otherwise it will export to another text file instead of an NFO file.


Second Method:

Get MediaInfo:
Can be downloaded Here

Open MediaInfo

Click View - Text

Next Click File - Open - File and browse to your file.

Now you will get all Details:
should look like this:
General
Complete name : Rango.2011.DVDSCR.AC3.XViD-EP1C.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 47mn
Overall bit rate : 912 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate : 711 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.170
Stream size : 545 MiB (78%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 147 MiB (21%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

Now Copy anything and paste it into a .txt file.

And click Save As - Save as Type - All Files - File name: Rango.2011.DVDSCR.AC3.XViD-EP1C.nfo

And you got your .nfo file.


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Want to Add your Name to it.
Like this:


Go to http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

And find how you want it.

Next open your nfo file in Notepad. And just add it.

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Other programs:

ArtCine NFO Creator
LuJoSoft Movie Nfo Creator
NFOlux
Cool Beans NFO Creator

thanx for sharing info

that's cool...
thanx sundox!!!

I especially like the last bit about putting your name in ASCII art. That seems to be a dying breed now. I can remember when that was ALL the art on the WWW. Still looks pretty cool, methinks...
dr.g

Ty :)

Thanks Dox

Thanks....

Very clear and well written. Should undoubtedly come in handy for others. Great job, Dox!

Thanks for the info
Very nice

Thanks for the tut..!!!