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- fekker - 2009-01-15
digitalhigh Wrote:I see you've got your hands pretty full with bugfixes and all, but I was just curious about the progress on either the studio stuff or for the "movies with new fanart" stuff...
Nothing just yet, I've been working on a pre-cache for TV Shows, it works, but it's not for the faint at heart.. slow machines, with a slow connection, and not much ram, won't be able to use it. I'm going to time it now to see the time difference between the two.
The same amount of data being processed and downloaded (test case was 1360 episodes over 57 different shows)- from initial download until it was finished
Without pre-cache: 42 minutes 12 seconds
With pre-ache: 8 minutes 42 seconds
It doesn't have the additional data from mediaicons.org in precache yet, and that data was not included in this test.
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-15
fekker Wrote:Nothing just yet, I've been working on a pre-cache for TV Shows, it works, but it's not for the faint at heart.. slow machines, with a slow connection, and not much ram, won't be able to use it. I'm going to time it now to see the time difference between the two.
When you do a precache, how long does the program remember that it downloaded everything? It would be great if one precache would last you until you add something new...
- fekker - 2009-01-15
digitalhigh Wrote:When you do a precache, how long does the program remember that it downloaded everything? It would be great if one precache would last you until you add something new...
It's grabs everything about the shows you have... tv show data, episode data, episode images, posters, fanart, season data, everything..
The episode data changes, but that part only takes about 3 seconds to update.
The images are are all cached locally, so they are there until deleted.
The biggest difference is that I am not updating the gui, and fire off wget at 100ms intervals without waiting on that thread before going on to the next item.
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-15
fekker Wrote:It's grabs everything about the shows you have... tv show data, episode data, episode images, posters, fanart, season data, everything..
The episode data changes, but that part only takes about 3 seconds to update.
The images are are all cached locally, so they are there until deleted.
The biggest difference is that I am not updating the gui, and fire off wget at 100ms intervals without waiting on that thread before going on to the next item.
How would I get the program to just go through my library and duplicate all the <moviename>-fanart.jpg's to fanart.jpg? Wait...I've got metamorphose. I'll do it that way for now, but I'd still like to know for future reference.
Edit: Okay, so I discovered that the program looks for movies with no fanart by looking for <moviename>-fanart.jpg. It still displays them as background, but every movie I now have shows up in the "movies with no fanart" section.
- fekker - 2009-01-15
digitalhigh Wrote:How would I get the program to just go through my library and duplicate all the <moviename>-fanart.jpg's to fanart.jpg? Wait...I've got metamorphose. I'll do it that way for now, but I'd still like to know for future reference.
Edit: Okay, so I discovered that the program looks for movies with no fanart by looking for <moviename>-fanart.jpg. It still displays them as background, but every movie I now have shows up in the "movies with no fanart" section.
I'll have to think about the fanart.jpg from <moviename>-fanart.jpg option.. it's easy enough, but not sure if I want to have it do that automatically, maybe a small utility is better.
I need to update the validate function yet in the build your working with before release.
- kizer - 2009-01-15
Ok, could I ask a dumb question?
I'm running XBMC on my Xbox with a 250gig drive. I've been toying around with MIP and I think its pretty cool, but I'm not sure what files I'm actually supposed to upload to my Xbox. I have the following and want to know what is actually uploaded. I created a folder called Movies on my PC and then created dummy folders for each movie so MIP could do its thing. I do have my movies backed up on a portable 500gig drive if I need to run it against it so it can grab file names of videos to properly work.
Transformers <dir>
fanart.jpg
folder.jpg
movie.nfo
movie.tbn
Transformers.nfo
Transformers.tbn
Transformers-fanart.jpg
I planned on uploading all my images and nfos and deleting the database so it could rebuild but I just want to make sure that I do it right since I've been running my XBMC in file mode on the Xbox since I've had it and just recently saw screen shots of fan art and think its awesome. I plan on running it in the new default skin for XBMC from 12-30-2008 not PM3, but I think its PM3HD or something like that.
If this has been posted somewhere please point me and I apologize in advance.
I ran Build 2319 and just started using the newer one 2400
- fekker - 2009-01-15
kizer Wrote:Ok, could I ask a dumb question?Dending on the version on your xbox, different formats of the files are used.
I'm running XBMC on my Xbox with a 250gig drive. I've been toying around with MIP and I think its pretty cool, but I'm not sure what files I'm actually supposed to upload to my Xbox. I have the following and want to know what is actually uploaded. I created a folder called Movies on my PC and then created dummy folders for each movie so MIP could do its thing. I do have my movies backed up on a portable 500gig drive if I need to run it against it so it can grab file names of videos to properly work.
Transformers <dir>
fanart.jpg
folder.jpg
movie.nfo
movie.tbn
Transformers.nfo
Transformers.tbn
Transformers-fanart.jpg
I planned on uploading all my images and nfos and deleting the database so it could rebuild but I just want to make sure that I do it right since I've been running my XBMC in file mode on the Xbox since I've had it and just recently saw screen shots of fan art and think its awesome. I plan on running it in the new default skin for XBMC from 12-30-2008 not PM3, but I think its PM3HD or something like that.
If this has been posted somewhere please point me and I apologize in advance.
I ran Build 2319 and just started using the newer one 2400
For all versions <moviename>.tbn <moviename>.nfo <moviename>-fanart.jpg and folder.jpg .. keeping in mind that VIDEO_TS subfolders and movie stacking affect display and pull of images.
If your running the Dec 30th version, it has the movie.nfo, movie.tbn, movie-trailer, and fanart.png and fanart.jpg support as well as <moviename>.tbn <moviename>.nfo <moviename>-fanart.jpg
The <moviename>. something (or - for fanart) is more specific and will be used first, with a fallback to movie. format
In order for the xbox to pull the .nfo and images, you need either the movie file, or just a 0k file with the name of the movie.. create a new text document, rename it to Transformers.avi (or any valid movie extension for xbmc).. if your OS is hiding file extensions, either enable them, or open notepad, then file > save as and in the name use "Transformers.avi" .. (with the quotes, that forces it to save it as that name.
The default settings for Movie Info Plus (MIP) are to create all the files, this means by default it will work with almost all the different builds of xbmc, including svn builds.
if you have DVD rips, and they are in sub folders, VIDEO_TS, then you will need to either move the files in the VIDEO_TS folder to the main folder for the movie, or copy the .nfo file from the main folder for the movie to the VIDEO_TS folder.
movie.tbn movie.nfo and fanart.jpg work for all stacked names (like 2 disc parts of a movie)
You will want to check the option to "use foldernames for lookups" when you add the source into xbmc so that it uses the foldernames.
If your movies are in subfolders, check the scan recursive option.
(meaning your folders are \movies\action\MOVIE1 ... \ movies\drama\MOVIE2 ..and your adding the \movie folder as a source in xbmc, that way it will scan through the sub folders (action and drama in this case)
Make sense?
- kizer - 2009-01-15
Yeah I'm running the newest build as of 12-30-2008
I'll create some dummy .avi files for now on my USB stick that I'm using for testing until I run them on my backup drive so it sees the real .avi files.
I just wasn't sure what is really needed to upload and I'm sure once the library is told to update it would find the fan art and nfos, but I wasn't sure and didn't want to do a lot of work and delete the library and find out I had uploaded the wrong files and have it scrap forever when I could of just uploaded the correct files.
As for the trailers do you manually add the URL so if somebody clicks on the trailer button it routes them to the correct URL?
- fekker - 2009-01-15
kizer Wrote:Yeah I'm running the newest build as of 12-30-2008
I'll create some dummy .avi files for now on my USB stick that I'm using for testing until I run them on my backup drive so it sees the real .avi files.
I just wasn't sure what is really needed to upload and I'm sure once the library is told to update it would find the fan art and nfos, but I wasn't sure and didn't want to do a lot of work and delete the library and find out I had uploaded the wrong files and have it scrap forever when I could of just uploaded the correct files.
As for the trailers do you manually add the URL so if somebody clicks on the trailer button it routes them to the correct URL?
For trailer files, you can either use xbmc's build in data or add your own file to the folder <moviename>-trailer.<ext> or movie-trailer.<ext> .. I'm not sure what happens with a url in the .nfo file, but give it a try and see if it will display it
- kizer - 2009-01-15
Ok I think I get it.
"moviename" is the same as "The movie Directory aka folder" which MIP creates the below files baised off the folder name.
- <moviename>.tbn <moviename>.nfo <moviename>-fanart.jpg and folder.jpg are the files that need to be uploaded
- As well You will want to check the option to "use foldernames for lookups" when you add the source into xbmc so that it uses the foldernames.
Delete the library and goto sleep.
Well it appears that is. hahaha.. Maybe I'll try a small library and see how it goes.
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-15
kizer Wrote:Ok I think I get it.
"moviename" is the same as "The movie Directory aka folder" which MIP creates the below files baised off the folder name.
- <moviename>.tbn <moviename>.nfo <moviename>-fanart.jpg and folder.jpg are the files that need to be uploaded
- As well You will want to check the option to "use foldernames for lookups" when you add the source into xbmc so that it uses the foldernames.
Delete the library and goto sleep.
Re-scanning shouldn't take as long with all the information being locally stored. You figure with the scraper, it had to hit IMDB, TMDB, and w/e else it uses for thumbs. It had to do this for every movie. With everything locally stored, it should be significantly faster.
- kizer - 2009-01-16
Yeah I just tried it with my widows machine here at work and added 3 videos and man it was lightning fast. Of course its a Quadcore 2.0+ with tons of ram, but I think I'm getting the idea. Thanks for the info. I'm sure I'll have more questions soon when I give it a whirl on my xbox.
- fekker - 2009-01-16
Anyone know if there is there such a thing as music .nfo files and images?
- digitalhigh - 2009-01-16
.nfo file's are a "no" as the data is grabbed from the IDv3 tags. Fanart comes in the flavour of fanart.jpg, and folder.jpg is the default for albumart. Not 100% on the folder.jpg tho, there may be something else implemented since then. Wait, I think it can pull images embedded in the mp3's as well, a la iTunes.
Making me a toy that auto-embeds the albumart into every one of my mp3's would be sweet...
- azido - 2009-01-16
digitalhigh Wrote:Making me a toy that auto-embeds the albumart into every one of my mp3's would be sweet...
if you are on windows this toy already exists.. take a look at mp3tag..