SHen350 Wrote:I am trying to get it to just scrape extrathumbs. I wouldn't mind it scraping and downloading trailers too, but one thing at a time. I can't really get it to do any auto scraping. I check all movies and then go to scrape movies --> costum scraper: choose all movies - automatic - extrathumbs only or trailers only - then begin.
Normally it sorta zooms down the list and finishes in about 2 minutes for 700 movies. Alot of them already have extrathumbs, but there are about 200 that don't. They still don't after the scan. Also, it hangs alot (mainly on Drillbit Taylor, but hey I'm not judging the movie), though not always on just that one.
When I scrape singly, it works great and I love it downloading my extrathumbs and trailers, just takes alot of time.

Hitcher Wrote:Why has this been moved here?

I avoid Off Topic on most forums because they're normally full of crap (which, I know, is the point) but surely if this had to be moved it's more suited to 'XBMC Tips, Tricks, and HOW-TO (Step-by-Step Guides)'?

Hitcher Wrote:Why has this been moved here?

I avoid Off Topic on most forums because they're normally full of crap (which, I know, is the point) but surely if this had to be moved it's more suited to 'XBMC Tips, Tricks, and HOW-TO (Step-by-Step Guides)'?

sofakng Wrote:How fast is this program scraping/processing movies for everybody?

I've just processed about 50 and it took about an hour and a half to two hours and FFmpeg crashed a whole bunch of times on me.

I'm using Ember Media Manager across a network in case that matters (eg. my movies are stored on my HTPC but EMM is running on my Vista SP2 machine).

Also, a bunch of movies weren't dedicated properly (including "Gladiator"). :\

sofakng Wrote:How fast is this program scraping/processing movies for everybody?

I've just processed about 50 and it took about an hour and a half to two hours and FFmpeg crashed a whole bunch of times on me.

I'm using Ember Media Manager across a network in case that matters (eg. my movies are stored on my HTPC but EMM is running on my Vista SP2 machine).

Also, a bunch of movies weren't dedicated properly (including "Gladiator"). :\

themugger Wrote:nul7 , could you let us know the commands for the command line again please? also i see there are some changes in the latest ver. i seem to be having problems running "d:\downloads\emm\Ember Media Manager.exe" -newauto -all. the program just seems to freeze and never update anything?

Thanks

MrDVD Wrote:Hallo, is it correct that the Filter Missing Items is atm connected to "Hide .." in the settings ?

If so than this is not ideal for me, for me an movie is complete if there is a Poster, Fanart and the nfo but i would also like to see if there are more parts like Subs or Trailers, but when i didnt hide this parts the movie will never be complete for EMM and the filter is pointless.
So maybe its better to make it selectable what "Missing Item" mean for an user ?

roland6543 Wrote:Now why didnt I think of that? lol Thank you.

I always find it a bit of a pain upgrading. If I just extract and copy the new executables and extras over my existing install, I always have a problem with it finding the movie folders..... I get the message "Unable to load .... Please check settings"

Anyway, so I installed to a new folder and all is good (except for losing my library settings as described above). If anyone can suggest how to upgrade hassle-free, your comments would be most welcome.

Ram2000 Wrote:Hi again this may have been covered somewhere in this monster thread but I cant find it.
Is there anyway of limiting the amount of actors downloaded to say only the first 5 ?
lets be honest nobody need to know the name of teh gaurd on the left in scene 6
thanks yet again for any help.

patkhoo Wrote:Hi Guys, I've two issues to report with EMM..

1) Runtime duration using MI.dll and stacked files
If I choose runtime display as "X hrs Y min" instead of "X min", and I have a stacked movie (movie.cd1.avi, movie.cd2.avi) it seems to calculate the correct time duration, but then saves it as "X min" instead of "X hrs Y min"...

2) I'm guessing EMM cannot be run directly from a UNC path? "\\Media\Media\EMM\Ember ...exe" When I try to do so, I see the splash screen, and then it dies with a windows error and there is nothing in the logs.. "Ember Media Manager has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Both issues are with r778..

PS. I would put these two into the issue tracker, but the issue tracker requires me to setup yet another login account, and I'd really rather not..

RockDawg Wrote:I do NOT have a VIDEO_TS.vob in any of my dirs. Maybe that is the problem. Otherwise, I've been using the very same settings you show in your screen shot.


EDIT: I should add that all my movies were ripped DVDShrink in re-author mode to keep only the main movie. I suppose that is why I have no VIDEO_TS.vob.

onebyside Wrote:r778

not one my dvd's has the "dvd" tag icon filled

and many of the movies are missing meta data for audio
some of the one's that do have the audio filled in are reporting
"unknown" when I check the export list

SHen350 Wrote:I am having a problem automating the scraper. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

I am trying to just let EMM get the thumbs for my movies. I use the costum scraper, and click just thumbs. It looks like it is doing something for about 10 seconds, then sits like normal. It doesn't get the thumbs. I can single go in and re-scrap and get them, or just get them manually.

Maybe I just don't know how to set up the auto scraper. I haven't tried to auto scrape anything before. Any help with what I am doing wrong would be very appreciated.

Is there a wiki for this? I read the read me file supplied with the download, but it wasn't a users guide, unless I missed something.

I was also wondering if maybe the downloading instructions contained in the readme file might be added to the first page of this. Seems like alot of us noobs (me) didn't look at the read me file when I first downloaded EMM. I mean who knew you should read the readme file?

SHen350 Wrote:I am trying to get it to just scrape extrathumbs. I wouldn't mind it scraping and downloading trailers too, but one thing at a time. I can't really get it to do any auto scraping. I check all movies and then go to scrape movies --> costum scraper: choose all movies - automatic - extrathumbs only or trailers only - then begin.
Normally it sorta zooms down the list and finishes in about 2 minutes for 700 movies. Alot of them already have extrathumbs, but there are about 200 that don't. They still don't after the scan. Also, it hangs alot (mainly on Drillbit Taylor, but hey I'm not judging the movie), though not always on just that one.
When I scrape singly, it works great and I love it downloading my extrathumbs and trailers, just takes alot of time.

Montellese Wrote:Sorry for taking that long to report back on the issue. I still have the same problem. I just tried to take a screenshot but as the whole GUI freezes after I close the message box telling me that there is no fanart available, I was too slow.
The error occurs every time. I didn't manage to fully scrape this movie yet, there is no automatically generated NFO in the folder either.

What I think is very unusual is that the Task Manager doesn't list EMM as not responding as it usually does when a GUI freezes. Maybe it doesn't stop looking for trailers (which is the next step right after fanarts).

EDIT: Ok I just managed to get to see half of the GUI again and the progress bar at the bottom of the GUI is still running and it says "Scraping Meta Data" (or something like that. I can see only parts of the GUI).

EDIT2: After disabling the Trailer scraping I tried to scrape it again. It shortly freezed after closing the mentioned messagebox but then came back with the dialog providing me with the scraped information. It must have something to do with my trailer settings. This is a screenshot taking from my settings dialog (ignore the german strings ):

I know this kind of setting concerning trailers doesn't make any sense but I wanted to disable it temporarily while scraping rare movies not having any trailers for sure to save some time.

nul7 Wrote:Ah, yes, that is the problem with it... the combination of having no VIDEO_TS.vob and that the folder is not named "VIDEO_TS". I didn't realize that part. lol So yes, you will need to keep .ifo in your supported extensions list so it grabs the VIDEO_TS.ifo file. That should solve all the problems.