Quote:1) ... Then with this ID you can use "Movie.getInfo" to get the youtube trailer url.
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2) A option for Ember to "tick the trailer box" if trailer URL'S are found, not just local trailers.

stanley87 Wrote:Hi Guys,

1st off - great work with ember! WOW

Couple of things id love to see.
1)
Quite often Ember won't find a trailer for my movies. I read earlier posts and read this is due to failed searches.
However, I see the TMDB API has a "Movie.imdbLookup" method.
This does not return the trailer url, but does return the TMDB ID.
Then with this ID you can use "Movie.getInfo" to get the youtube trailer url.
It does require an extra step, but when you think about it, both these 2 methods return a single result, where as searching returns many. So the time difference may not be that significant. You could always make it an extra option.
At present, I have resulted to writing a python script to do the above, but would love to see it in Ember.

2)
A option for Ember to "tick the trailer box" if trailer URL'S are found, not just local trailers.

Any news on how is that IMDB ID Trailer link website coming along?


Thanks!

nul7 Wrote:<snip>

2> That's a pretty common feature request (along with ticking the subs box if internal subs are found)... just haven't gotten around to adding it yet. Someday....

stanley87 Wrote:OH THANKS!
So, do they update the API every couple of days or something?
As, i added a couple of trailers to TMDB and ember still won't pick them up.
Maybe even a backup straight scraper could be added to Ember?
That actually goes to the tmdb url and checks for the youtube url on that page if one is not found in the getinfo api method?
I would post an example but TMDB is down at present

I may have a play with the ember source tonight and see if I can add the trailer flagging for urls.
Im not that familiar with VB but it cant be 2 different to python/php etc.

If you could point me to a relevant file, that would save me hunting...

SweetS2K Wrote:Hi. Nice program! R1102 is working great for me.

Anytime we'll see a pre-built exe with TV show support?

I'm also seeing issues with the Bulk Rename Tool... it seems to be having problems matching certian files after the "." seperator. Still trying to look for a pattern, but under certain circumstances it seems to be matching ".d" and ".a"... so my original files look like "filename vi" or "filename vd". Wondering if there's a matching string I can modify, it looks like the only option is to delete and re-create.

Thanks!

CorpseTumor Wrote:I dont know if this is a known issue or not, but when generating thumbnails for .m2ts files all im getting is a grey image with some pixelation.

coendeurloo Wrote:You might want to leave the Youtube streaming feature out completely as it does not work (well, not longer than 1 day that is).

nul7 Wrote:It seems you're doing things right (set source content to none then back to movies).... maybe you're not using XBMC compatible file names?? What file names do you have selected in settings for nfo, poster, fanart, etc?

For the "Initiate XBMC Update" button, you need to make sure the webserver is enabled and working in XBMC then add the information to Ember. For a local installation, just use 127.0.0.1 for the ip.

osli Wrote:Thanks nul7. When I set source content to none, my movies didn't even show up in the library view. I name my .iso backups to just the plain movie name, no extra stuff about resolution or format or anything like that.

So, for example, the movie "Batman" is in a folder named "Batman." Inside that folder I have:
Batman.iso
Batman.nfo
Batman.tbn
Batman.jpg
Batman.fanart.jpg
Batman-fanart.jpg
Batman-trailer.mp4
movie.nfo

I keep looking in the wiki for info on naming conventions etc., but I swear I have a hard time finding stuff in there.

Maybe I'm just missing a simple step in the process. Could you give a short rundown of the steps, like "add source - set content to none..."?

coendeurloo Wrote:You might want to leave the Youtube streaming feature out completely as it does not work (well, not longer than 1 day that is).

stanley87 Wrote:I assume this is due to the "token" issue?
So, theres no good way yet to stream trailers in XBMC?
It would be good if XBMC could take just the normal youtube url and get a token when you launch the trailer

coendeurloo Wrote:I already asked for this (see the ignored post here), but I think it would be a collaboration between ember and the skin makers, which basically means 'not gonna happen'.

coendeurloo Wrote:Nul7, I would strongly suggest leaving out the function of streaming youtube trailers, or else you will get lots of confused people (like me) spamming this thread. Why leave in functionality that's obviously broken? Either fix it or leave it out is my opinion

olympia Wrote:We cannot respond on every single post, you shouldn't expect that. Especially if it is about something, which obviously cannot happen.
First of all, it's nothing to do with skins. It would need to be developed on XBMC level. There is no need for any collaboration here. As soon as XBMC could fetch a token based on the normal youtube url, this issue had gone. Thus this feature request needs to be raised for xbmc developers.
Secondly, xbmc devs are not supporting the use of any Media Managers. They say, xbmc has it's own scrapers, there is no need for 3rd party media managers. They are just tolerating them. So even if there was a need for collaboration(which is not the case), it wouldn't happen.



Yes, we need to think about that. I agree that saving youtube URLs to nfo will confuse users. Actually Ember only supports imdb/youtube trailers, but there should be a feature to manually enter any permanent direct link (not youtube obviously) and save it to nfo for streaming purposes, where we can use this piece of code. We will discuss this and come up with an idea...