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- midgetspy - 2009-05-13
BTW the status bar on both 22 and 23 is completely black for me. Just the part that displays text, the progress indicator is still fine.
- olympia - 2009-05-13
Some findings and suggestions:
-[BUG] On individual scraping EMM is always try to scrape the first movie in the list instead of the selected one
-[BUG?] On the details tab, the label of the cast is a lot wider, then the artist list box below
-[SUGGESTION] It's personal preference, but I still don't feel comfortable with the layout of the details tab. I think you should really rethink this. For me, there are unimportant info at the top (imdb ID, file path, certifications, but more important (for me again) info at the bottom, like media info, plot.
-[SUGGESTION] Thank you for taking care of my request to be able to scrape posters and fanart on individual scraping. If I may suggest, it would be much more comfortable to popup a poster and fanart selection dialog directly first, then just after that the edit window to modify other things.
-[FEATURE REQUEST]Would be great to be able to filter new entries after a media rescan
Also, have you had the chance to check http://www.movieposterdb.com/ ?
You were right, it seems you need to have an account to download, but MC somehow solved it... I am not sure, maybe it is not downloading the full size poster, just the one which is available without having an acount.
Anyhow, the downloaded posters are still nice...
And as always, can't say thank you enough for this great looking and well supported app!
- HexusOdy - 2009-05-13
Can anyone tell me if I can get Ember to automatically scrape Fanart and posters?
There are no instructions and the options aren't self explanatory.
Autopilot - Full Auto is doing nothing for me at all. It scans every movie but adds nothing.
Update adds the NFO but not Fanart or Posters.
What am I doing wrong?
Olympia - Where is the option to scrape an individual movie?
- ClayM - 2009-05-13
I think you need to go to the settings, in the movie tab, and check the "Get Images from..." boxes...
- nul7 - 2009-05-13
PrimaryMaster Wrote:I have around 500 movies and in every movie folder there is a "THEMOVIE.jpg"
And the EMM do not find this posters (it only looks for *.tbn)
And i really hope this will be "fixed"
It's on the To Do list already... I'll start working on it after getting the code on gc or sf.
HexusOdy Wrote:I have a few Q's and problems for you
1.If I click Full Auto should Ember scrape all Posters and Fanart automatically? At the moment it doesn't seem to be doing that. Is there an option when I add a new movie to just click and let it scrape everything automatically?
2. Some Studio Icons don't seem to be picked up. Blue Sky Studios who do alot of the animated films for example. Their image tag is Blue_sky.png which I've put in the Studios folder but it's not being picked up.
3. Can you add "By Current Name" to rescrape options? Or better yet make the default behavior for Rescrape from IMDB > Start New carry the name of the movie you have selected into the search box
Other than that I'm liking it. Nice layout, simple yet informative and everything is intuitive. Can't wait for TV to be added
1> Make sure you have at least one of the "Get images from <>" checkboxes checked on the Movies tab in settings. Also, if you're already have posters/fanart and you want it to replace them with new ones, make sure "Overwrite Existing Poster" and/or "Overwrite Existing Fanart" are checked.
2> You also need to edit the Studios.XML file (just open it in notepad) to tell it what to look for in the studio name and what image to use. I think the layout is simply enough that it's self explanatory, but if you need help editing the XML, just let me know.
3> It was supposed to do that already, but there was a bug in it. I fixed it already for the next version.
HexusOdy Wrote:If you set options to use movie.tbn, movie.nfo and fanart.jpg when scraping it will only read these formats.
That setting is what you want to scrape future data as, but it also changes what it will read.
For some reason <moviename>-fanart.jpg is still picked up, but TBN's and NFO's aren't.
I know you can clean out those old file names and do full auto but thats not immediately obvious in how to fix it. I just spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why.
Hmmm... 023 should read both (but still only support saving to one or the other). I put a fallback check in. I'll take a look at it.
HexusOdy Wrote:On saying that Cleanup is very hit and miss, I just ran it to clear the <moviename> type entries and while its completely cleared some folders others are untouched and some it as done everything but the fanart.
And I still can't get it to Auto scrape most of my posters and Fanart. Oddly everything upto "I" its scrapped fully, after "I" there are bit missing
Strange, can you give me the exact file names in a folder that didn't get cleaned properly?
koscica Wrote:Is there an option to stack split movies. When I scan media it lists them as two movies with a same name
No option, it's built in. It seems to work fine for me. Give me an example of what file names you are using that are not detected as "stacked".
mason Wrote:just give your tool a first spin... and i love it allready
just a quick thing .. is it possible to add the option that the poster is saved to folder.jpg so we get it shown in xbmc filemode also? would be nice! thanks!
also if you double click the artwork it would be nice to close it again with a double click ... should be faster and less anoying if you just like to quick check it...
also mc has a option to take the non compliant nfo and search for a imdb link in it .. this would make the filter stuff obsolete and allways get a right match
i guess a lot of us have non comliant nfos with imdb urls in it
UPDATE: I let it ran too a bigger part of my collection, a folder with 67 movies. emm shows a media count of 67 which is corret, but the list shows only around 29 of them .. any idea? the folder syntax and files are identically in for all entries.
SOLUTION: It was a malformed .nfo which wasn't recognized as propper .. and when emm tried to move it to .info it couldn't since a renamed nfo allready existed! after removing the .nfo emm read all entries and let me rescprape the missing one.... nice
Supporting more/mix of extensions is already on the To Do list. Good idea with the double click to close. I'll add that as well. Thanks for letting me know about the conflict with the nfos... i'll try to code around that.
midgetspy Wrote:BTW the status bar on both 22 and 23 is completely black for me. Just the part that displays text, the progress indicator is still fine.
Huh? Maybe the doublebuffering? Anyone else having this problem??
olympia Wrote:Some findings and suggestions:
-[BUG] On individual scraping EMM is always try to scrape the first movie in the list instead of the selected one
Confirmed.... will fix for next version.
olympia Wrote:-[BUG?] On the details tab, the label of the cast is a lot wider, then the artist list box below
Click on one of the actors.
olympia Wrote:-[SUGGESTION] It's personal preference, but I still don't feel comfortable with the layout of the details tab. I think you should really rethink this. For me, there are unimportant info at the top (imdb ID, file path, certifications, but more important (for me again) info at the bottom, like media info, plot.
Media Info is secondary because you have an overview with the icons on the top.... how often do you need to look at the mediainfo.dll output?? And for the plot, as I said before, I think most people (myself included) would not like to see the full plot if they haven't seen the movie yet. That's why it's at the bottom.... but you have the outline to give you the general synopsis.
olympia Wrote:-[SUGGESTION] Thank you for taking care of my request to be able to scrape posters and fanart on individual scraping. If I may suggest, it would be much more comfortable to popup a poster and fanart selection dialog directly first, then just after that the edit window to modify other things.
That's on the To Do list already.
olympia Wrote:-[FEATURE REQUEST]Would be great to be able to filter new entries after a media rescan
Ah, yes, forgot to add that to the To Do list.... if I don't write it down, then I'll forget. lol
olympia Wrote:Also, have you had the chance to check http://www.movieposterdb.com/ ?
You were right, it seems you need to have an account to download, but MC somehow solved it... I am not sure, maybe it is not downloading the full size poster, just the one which is available without having an acount.
Anyhow, the downloaded posters are still nice...
And as always, can't say thank you enough for this great looking and well supported app!
I haven't looked at it yet. I'll get around to it in the next couple days.
Thanks to everyone for the bug reports, suggestions, and comments. It really helps move things along.
- HexusOdy - 2009-05-13
I have both IMPA and TMDB options ticked in options and it still won't scrape posters or fanart where there isn't any. I'm having to do each movie manually.
- midgetspy - 2009-05-13
MC just uses the low res posters from movieposterdb (500x750ish).
About the status bar, I'm on Vista Ultimate if it helps. And actually I loaded up 23 initially with no settings.xml and the status bar said something about no settings file, then I copied it in and it was black again like 22.
- koscica - 2009-05-13
Quote:No option, it's built in. It seems to work fine for me. Give me an example of what file names you are using that are not detected as "stacked".
Here are couple of examples:
300 CD1. avi
300 CD2. avi
Babel cd1.avi
Babel cd2.avi
- HexusOdy - 2009-05-13
koscica Wrote:Here are couple of examples:
300 CD1. avi
300 CD2. avi
Babel cd1.avi
Babel cd2.avi
Thats weird because I have 300 and Babel the exact same way and it's fine on mine.
Then again mine won't auto scrapre fanart and posters automatically and everyone else does.
Nul7 - Can you change the log file so it logs everything and not just errors?
- HexusOdy - 2009-05-13
I've got it scraping posters and fanart now. I just deleted EMM and unpacked a new copy and started from scratch. Something must have got in there stopping it.
Maybe try the same to get rid of your duplicates.
- nul7 - 2009-05-14
midgetspy Wrote:MC just uses the low res posters from movieposterdb (500x750ish).
About the status bar, I'm on Vista Ultimate if it helps. And actually I loaded up 23 initially with no settings.xml and the status bar said something about no settings file, then I copied it in and it was black again like 22.
Weird. Is there an error log or anything? Can you post a screen shot just to make sure I'm understanding what you mean? Try what HexusOdy did.... back up your settings, delete the entire folder, and unzip a fresh copy of 023, then put your settings back in.
koscica Wrote:Here are couple of examples:
300 CD1. avi
300 CD2. avi
Babel cd1.avi
Babel cd2.avi
That should definitely work.... I just made a test folder with those filenames (without the spaces in the extension lol) and it worked for me. Are you using 023?
HexusOdy Wrote:I've got it scraping posters and fanart now. I just deleted EMM and unpacked a new copy and started from scratch. Something must have got in there stopping it.
Maybe try the same to get rid of your duplicates.
Very odd... glad it's working though. Not sure what would cause something like that.
- midgetspy - 2009-05-14
http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv212/midgetspy/Random/emm_badstatusbar.png
Easy to reproduce.
1) Open EMM with no settings file. Status bar says "unable to load files".
2) Add a single Folders movie source.
3) Close EMM, re-open.
4) Status bar is black.
Also every time I open EMM the splash shows up in the foreground for a bit and then EMM opens in the background. I have to click it in the start bar or alt-tab to see it after it opens. Not a big deal, just an annoyance.
EDIT: Note that this screenshot also shows the bug with read only folders. That movie has nfo, fanart, thumb, etc. but EMM displays nothing because it's read only. If I go to my NAS and chmod 777 that folder it will show up fine.
- nul7 - 2009-05-14
Version r1 is available in the first post. As I mentioned in the first post, since there were so many changes in this version I really don't know where I stand any more on bugs/features. lol
midgetspy Wrote:http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv212/midgetspy/Random/emm_badstatusbar.png
Easy to reproduce.
1) Open EMM with no settings file. Status bar says "unable to load files".
2) Add a single Folders movie source.
3) Close EMM, re-open.
4) Status bar is black.
Strage... doesn't happen for me. I'm sure it's doublebuffering that's causing the problem. I'll disable it for the next version to see if that fixes it.
midgetspy Wrote:Also every time I open EMM the splash shows up in the foreground for a bit and then EMM opens in the background. I have to click it in the start bar or alt-tab to see it after it opens. Not a big deal, just an annoyance.
You mean it shows up below other windows? Not sure why that is.... I'm not setting window order so I'm relying on Windows itself to display them properly. I'll see if I can't come up with a work around.
midgetspy Wrote:EDIT: Note that this screenshot also shows the bug with read only folders. That movie has nfo, fanart, thumb, etc. but EMM displays nothing because it's read only. If I go to my NAS and chmod 777 that folder it will show up fine.
Forgot about that one. Want to do me a favor (two actually... need to test out the issue tracking system on GC lol) and report the issue there so I can keep track of it:
http://code.google.com/p/embermediamanager/issues/list
Note: I already added one for the black status bar.... but need to make sure users can add issues as well.
- nul7 - 2009-05-14
Ok, fixed the read-only problem for next version.... no need to add to issues list. lol
- midgetspy - 2009-05-14
Yes, the splash screen shows up on top like it should but then the main window comes up under my other windows and just blinks in the start bar until I focus it.