RockDawg Wrote:I just tried r723 and now I have different problems. File path now shows VTS_01_1.VOB rather than VIDEO_TS.ifo and I have "only detect one movie from each folder" turned on and I also have "automatically detect VIDEO_TS folder..." enabled.

When I perform a media scan, they all show aspect ratios of 1.778 even for movies that aren't and the durations are wrong. I kind of expected that since it seems to be reading the individual vob folder, but oddly a couple movies were only a minute or two off from what they really should be. Also, no video codec is showing. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Subzero199 Wrote:I have a problem that i have had with all releases that i tried even r723. I cant seem to change the movies that it got wrong the first time. IE the movie "elektra" got scraped as "Electra glide in blue" and when i choose change movie i get the right info and fanart. But it doesnt seem to save it. It always reverts back to Electra glide in blue.

proctor Wrote:The last couple builds I've tried have wiped out the database. Is it possible to keep the file sources list in an xml so they don't have to be added again each time?

nul7 Wrote:Does the correct info show in the movie editor after you have scraped? Maybe write-permissions problem for the files, or incorrect settings (selected file naming scheme wrong?).

nul7 Wrote:I can set it as fanart and use it as an extrathumb without a problem... maybe it's some specific setting that's causing it? The image is 1.91 mb, but it's saved using streams so even if you have a slow connection to your movie source it should work. Hmm... I just don't know. Can you email your settings file to nul7 [at] embermm.com so I can test that out.

EDIT: Actually I do see a problem here... might be related, might not. In cache, the image is only 697 k... but saved to fanart it becomes 1.91 mb.

EDIT2: Ok, solved that quickly. lol I'll upload another test build after doing some more tweaks to see if was related to your problem.

Subzero199 Wrote:I choose edit movie when the info is wrong and choose change movie and get the correct data but when i click okay it does not save the new information.

nul7 Wrote:Ok, here we go again:

x86 - http://www.embermm.com/testbuilds/EMM_r735_exeonly_x86_TEST.zip

x64 - http://www.embermm.com/testbuilds/EMM_r735_exeonly_x64_TEST.zip

One note... the default image quality for posters and fanart was reduced to 85 and I suggest you all set yours to no higher than that. I was curious why the file size kept growing, so did some reading and found out I have been incorrect in assuming how the quality setting affected the image. I've always thought it was a percentage, in that a quality of 100 would be an exact copy, and anything less than that would reduce quality, but I was wrong. The default quality setting for jpg is somewhere between 75 and 85.... these would be ~ 1:1 copy... a 100 quality setting can quadruple+ the file size without actually increasing quality. Here's a good read if you want more info on this: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-5.html

mark007 Wrote:Very interesting. BUT, (with my limited knowledge, correct me if I am way off), but if you are downloading jpeg's from say imdb, I don't see any reason why your software should have to worry about quality at all. OK if you load a jpeg object into memory for viewing in the gui, and then save that jpeg object to disk, maybe you would need the quality setting, but if a user wants an exact copy, i would imagine you could change the behaivour to just dump exactly what was downloaded from the website as a file... just like a wget, instead of writing that image / gui object to disk.

Put another way, downloading a jpeg from say google images, to disk, I would just save the file directly to disk, not open it in an image editor after saving, to resave with a certain quality value.

I hope you understand what I am saying here..... does what I say make sense. Can you dump exactly what you download, straight to disk as a 1:1 copy, removing the need for a quality setting at all, and we will have 1:1 copies of what was scraped.

patkhoo Wrote:I agree.. If a user did not ask to resize the image, then it should be the exact raw file as downloaded from the net. The quality setting should only come into play if the user asked to resize all the fanart/posters etc..

olympia Wrote:This is how it is already implemented. If you're not asking to resize, Ember doesn't touch the downloaded images...

olympia Wrote:This is how it is already implemented. If you're not asking to resize, Ember doesn't touch the downloaded images...

patkhoo Wrote:Ah, good to know!

Maybe it is a little confusing becuase in Preferences, if "automatically resize" is not selected, you can still move the quality slider.. Perhaps it should be disabled if resize is not selected (like the width and height boxes)..