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- digitalhigh - 2009-01-07
maxposure Wrote:And this is a total beginner question, but why is it that when I use this or Media Companion my changes are never reflected in my library. I will tell it to scan for new content and it searches the internet and downloads its own data. What am I doing wrong?
Unless the movie filenames are renamed when you update with a media program, I don't think XBMC notices changes when you scan for new content. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that thumbnails and fanart are cached for movies when they're scanned in, so if you change the files locally, the only way to get them to rescan is to "Get movie information" and then refresh that data.
If I do a mass update, I find it's easier to just delete the whole video DB and let it rescan everything. At least, this is the best way I know to refresh all the thumbs and fanart.
If there's an easier way, I'd love to know how. I don't think an "update thumbnails" option was added yet...
- maxposure - 2009-01-07
digitalhigh Wrote:If I do a mass update, I find it's easier to just delete the whole video DB and let it rescan everything. At least, this is the best way I know to refresh all the thumbs and fanart.
If there's an easier way, I'd love to know how. I don't think an "update thumbnails" option was added yet...
So there is no simple quick way for it to detect the changes. You just delete the source, add it again, set the content, and let it search? Hmm
http://forum.xbmc.org/images/smilies2/confused1bb.gif
- parena - 2009-01-07
parena Wrote:...
I'd love to get this running under linux (running openSUSE 11.0). I've tried virtualbox with XP installed, but then I need to make my movies directory available as \\vboxsrv\movies for example and access is slow and I get empty .nfo files (and lots of error messages where I can choose continue and quit).
Apart from wanting to run this natively, I'm now using samba to access my movies and the thing works nicely.
Time to start truly organizing my stuff.
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-07
parena Wrote:Apart from wanting to run this natively, I'm now using samba to access my movies and the thing works nicely.
This program is truly amazing. I used to make all this stuff and sort it by hand, with over 380 movies in my collection. Files were named wrong, .nfo files were the ones from the torrents the movies came in, some movies had folder.jpgs and some were stored by XBMC...it was a mess. Two days of playing with MIP, and I have everything named perfectly...
- fekker - 2009-01-07
parena Wrote:Can't get this running using wine 1.1.12. :/ Any special things I need to do? I have Mono-2.0.1 for Windows installed as well. This is what I get:I haven't tried with 1.1.12, but let me have someone test that. It might not like the pathing portion I added in to run off the current .exe files path to detect where it's installed. I might have to use a registry entry (which I was hoping to avoid)
parena Wrote:I'd love to get this running under linux (running openSUSE 11.0). I've tried virtualbox with XP installed, but then I need to make my movies directory available as \\vboxsrv\movies for example and access is slow and I get empty .nfo files (and lots of error messages where I can choose continue and quit).If you map the drive it should work, it using windows networking so I don't know what's up there.
I did see in a later post you have it working now using SMB, those details would be great to add the documentation, if you have any steps, please pm them to me or add it to sourceforge docs if you feel up to it
- fekker - 2009-01-07
digitalhigh Wrote:I know it checks for new fanart when you select individual files...I'm talking more about adding...maybe an option to populate the movie list only with movies that have new art. I have this tendency of going through my collection every couple of weeks, movie-by-movie, and looking for fanart that may not have been there the last time I did it.
Would be awesome if you could maybe just add a radio button in the list of "All Movies", "Movies With Problems", "No Fanart", "No TBN"...add a "New Fanart" option.
Having the program just scan and go "this movie, this movie, this movie, and that movie all have new fanart available" would be the bee's knees. Saves me having to go through 300+ movies.
Edit: Feature request for this added to tracker...
I see what you mean, should be able to do that by adding in a counter to the .nfo file, using the current "missing .nfo" selection code (it doesn't just check that the file is there, it reads it up to make sure it's valid, that's why it takes so long to run), and compare the returned value with the number of files listed in tmdb's xml file... will be trickey, but it's doable for TMDB data.
- fekker - 2009-01-07
clutch Wrote:hello my structure is as followsI would do away with the CD1 and CD2 subfolders, however I could also add these to the folders it will not scan, but it's not going to scan into xbmc correctly with that format unless the .nfo was manually moved.
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\CD1
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\CD2
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Sample
How can you make that work?
Also, how do I name split files if the movie is extracted into My Movie?
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie.1.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie.2.avi
wheras CD1 is 1.avi and CD2 is 2.avi?
Please give guidelines for this
It's suppost to ignore the sample folder, but I had a bug in the code, it will ignore them in the next build.
I ignore these folders (including any sub folders)
video_ts
audio_ts
trailer
temporary files
any folder ending with (noscan)
any folder ending with sample
Here's what I'd use - more stacking details http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Stacking
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-part1.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-part2.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-cd1.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-cd2.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-dvd1.avi
\\Server\Archive\Movies\My Movie\Movie-dvd2.avi
'from the xbmc wiki
The syntax can be summarized by the following:
[token][cd|part|dvd][num]
Where [token] is one of the following strings:
* "-" (hyphen)
* " " (blank)
* "_" (underscore)
* "." (dot)
Followed by the string "cd", "part" or "dvd" (case insensitive).
[num] can be a number between 1 and 99.
The comparison is case insensitive.
For example, if you have the following two files (which both consist of a part of a movie):
* MyVideo-CD1.avi
* MyVideo-CD2.avi
- parena - 2009-01-07
fekker Wrote:I did see in a later post you have it working now using SMB, those details would be great to add the documentation, if you have any steps, please pm them to me or add it to sourceforge docs if you feel up to it
I started typing on SF, but actually, there are no special steps. You setup samba shares as you normally would and access it, for example, like this from your Windows machine (be it under VirtualBox or a different machine): \\12.34.56.78\<sharename>
Setting net use x: \\12.34.56.78\<sharename> makes accessing it even easier. Nothing special, regular samba use. But it's good to know that it works well like that.
- rmleal - 2009-01-08
Wow i love this program
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-08
Fekker, I notice that when downloading fanart from TMDB that it sometimes displays duplicate images. I looked, and these seem to be occurring when two pictures are uploaded that have the same filename. TMDB has no problem saving them, but when MIP reads the images, it only returns the first picture with that filename.
- fekker - 2009-01-08
digitalhigh Wrote:Fekker, I notice that when downloading fanart from TMDB that it sometimes displays duplicate images. I looked, and these seem to be occurring when two pictures are uploaded that have the same filename. TMDB has no problem saving them, but when MIP reads the images, it only returns the first picture with that filename.
I can look into it, what movie is doing this? .. basically I need to check the xml to see if the name is reported the same, it sounds like an API issue, but i'll still look.
On another node, I've got the media info working, it's limited in that it pulls the first stream found in the file, and some dvd's don't scan, but it's a great start.. now i've gotta find some room to display it in the current movie tab. I'm thinking it'll be the bottom right, expandable like the IMDB information. I'm not sure if autotag is going to work right as there are a ton of different formats, codecs, sizes, versions of codecs reported back differently, but it's works good for it's core which is to tell me what the format of the movie is in.
And it should work with the HD tagging option that's in work (found in the features forum)
I'll have a build of MIP with the media info up later tonight.
Proper Thumbnails - muggsy - 2009-01-08
hey, just stumbled upon this app, but got a slight problem
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.cd1.avi
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.cd2.avi
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.cd1.tbn
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.nfo (With imdb link in it)
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.avi
x:\Movies\My Movie\Movie.tbn
but your application is not recognising my own local thumbnails or that the correct link is included in the nfo within the folder. It appears to be using the folder name as the lookup. Some Movie titles on imdb are far to long to use as a folder or filename.
It also seems to bombard you with files and images being downloaded. Would it not be better to download thumbs and then let the user decide what should be the fanart / poster etc?
Just my 2 cents worth.
Maybe I am doing something wrong
- roydonaldson - 2009-01-08
I have a setup for my movies at present, where I have a mixture of files and directories.
e.g:
My Movies
My Movies/moviename.avi
My Movies/moviename2
My Movies/moviename2/moveiname2.avi
etc.
MIP seems to expect to see a directory with either only filenames, or directories in it, but cannot seem to work with both setups.
Is there a workaround I can use for this at all ?
Thanks,
Roy.
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-08
roydonaldson Wrote:I have a setup for my movies at present, where I have a mixture of files and directories.
e.g:
My Movies
My Movies/moviename.avi
My Movies/moviename2
My Movies/moviename2/moveiname2.avi
etc.
MIP seems to expect to see a directory with either only filenames, or directories in it, but cannot seem to work with both setups.
Is there a workaround I can use for this at all ?
Thanks,
Roy.
It's either gotta be My Movies/moviename1.avi
My Movies/Movienam2.avi
or
My Movies/moviename/moviename1.avi
My Movies/moviename2/moviename2.avi
But can't handle mixed ATM.
Quote:I can look into it, what movie is doing this? .. basically I need to check the xml to see if the name is reported the same, it sounds like an API issue, but i'll still look
It was doing it with 28 weeks later...but I renamed the files so it worked properly. To test, just download a fanart for a movie then re-upload. I can delete the test file, just tell me what it is...
As far as the media flags...you should either hold off until you know exactly what XBMC will be able to recognize, of make it user-definable, where it can scan for all kinds of stuff but only reports the filetypes/codecs defined by the user. I'm just thinking of how you can save yourself the most work...
- roydonaldson - 2009-01-08
Is there a way I can do:
My Movies/OnesinDirectories
My Movies/OnesinDirectories/movie1
My Movies/OnesinDirectories/movie1/movie1.avi
My Movies/OnesinDirectories/movie2
My Movies/OnesinDirectories/movie2/movie2.avi
My Movies/Onesontheirown
My Movies/Onesontheirown/movie3.avi
My Movies/Onesontheirown/movie4.avi
?