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- boasist - 2009-02-12
for some reason everytime i try to launch auto pilot I get a .net error and program freezes that process. I can do other stuff, yet the app window is stuck at processing nfo for X movie.
I have the latest version, have done both clean wipes of .net and MIP. No change.
- fekker - 2009-02-12
boasist Wrote:for some reason everytime i try to launch auto pilot I get a .net error and program freezes that process. I can do other stuff, yet the app window is stuck at processing nfo for X movie.
I have the latest version, have done both clean wipes of .net and MIP. No change.
Can you send me the error details when you attempt to run autopilot.
- kizer - 2009-02-12
eded9698 Wrote:I've been doing that and it does not work.
Ex.
FANTASTIC FOUR
FANTASTIC FOUR RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
XBMC scan this as FANTASTIC FOUR RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER twice with the same cover art and info. In MIP and the folder it is two movie with different info and cover art.
Could it be the NFO file that is the problem?
Is it a double disc movie? Meaning do you have two files stacked to play it. If so make sure both files are named the same and I'd personally name them the same as the folder.
Example
Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer\
Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer - CD1.avi
Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer - CD2.avi
Not
Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer\
Fantastic.Four.Rise.of.the.silver.surver-axxo-xvid-cd1.avi
Fantastic.Four.Rise.of.the.silver.surver-axxo-xvid-cd2.avi
It might work that way, but in my experience so far keeping things close to the same and clean has worked well for me. Also if you have two different files that aren't the same name with cd1 and cd2 I've had movies create a new thumb because the file names where not close enough.
- kizer - 2009-02-12
I was trying to add some info the the .nfo file directly through MIP and when I hit save its saving to movienamehere.nfo, but not to movie.nfo. I'm assuming xbmc reads the movie.info file unless I'm nuts and I just upload everything MIP generates because I'm to lazy to sort through what has to and what doesn't have to be uploaded unless of course thats my problem. If thats the case how do you make custom additions to the nfo files if you want to.. Like "CD Tray #"
For example the misses asked me If I'd create dummy movie.avi files and then create a library. After the library was created insert a DVD image on each movie thumb and then write what CD tray that CD is located in that is viewable from the movie information dialog. We have a 400disc changer we bought long time ago and often we forget we have some movies and this would of course increase our on screen library, but we could always switch over to the DVD player and watch oldie, but goodies too.
In the end I'm sure shes going to make me rip all our older movies, which is fine, but I also told here we need to increase our storage alot.
- kizer - 2009-02-13
This might do exactly what I need it to do sorta kinda that is.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40329&highlight=Offline
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
kizer Wrote:I was trying to add some info the the .nfo file directly through MIP and when I hit save its saving to movienamehere.nfo, but not to movie.nfo. I'm assuming xbmc reads the movie.info file unless I'm nuts...
I had the same problem. I reported it to fekker and he found the bug. It should be fixed in the next release. Apparently the recent SVN builds are supposed to be able to read moviename.nfo but I've never had any luck with that either.
I've also never got XBMC to find a trailer except by writing the file path and name into movie.NFO but apparently that should only be used for trailers that are not on a local hard disk.
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
kizer Wrote:This might do exactly what I need it to do sorta kinda that is.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40329&highlight=Offline
That's an interesting idea kizer...
If you either structured your folders so that the disc number was part of the path or that the folder name had the disc number in brackets then it could be written to the NFO file and in conjunction with the fanart used to generate an AVI clip with "Please Insert Disc X" or (for those of us that have stacks of DVD's in boxes on the shelf) simply the fanart with the text "Please Insert DVD".
I was thinking that I would need to create hundreds of fake AVI files to get my DVD's in XBMC or buy a couple of hard disks and spend weeks ripping them all but this would let me achieve the same result at the touch of a button. I'll add a feature request.
- kizer - 2009-02-13
Yeah that option I found to create the little avi file I found from that one script is great. Creates a folder and everything. This is the file it generated for testing. Of course I'll change it something a bit more creative.
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr351/links4jeeps_kizer/computer/?action=view¤t=Transformers2007.flv
Heres the cover I created so when its clicked on it plays that above video.
- Nazgulled - 2009-02-13
pletopia Wrote:i'm thinking of installing MIP and using it to better manage fanart and more specifically poster's for my moviesI'm also interested in the answer to this question... It slipped under the radar this one
my question is, cause i know this program creates an nfo that xbmc uses, but can i still keep the nfo file that came with my video files ? will xbmc be confused by two nfo files or can they both be in there ??
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
kizer Wrote:Yeah that option I found to create the little avi file I found from that one script is great. Creates a folder and everything. This is the file it generated for testing. Of course I'll change it something a bit more creative.
http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr351/links4jeeps_kizer/computer/?action=view¤t=Transformers2007.flv
Heres the cover I created so when its clicked on it plays that above video.
Cool. I also found this utility - JPGVideo which could be quite useful: http://www.ndrw.co.uk/
All you would need would be to use the ImageMagick tool to take an image, overlay text or icons then put that image in a temporary directory and this could then create the avi file.
Maybe there is already something in SourceForge that converts JPG to video?
That would be a nice addition to MIP. I'll have a look...
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
Nazgulled Wrote:I'm also interested in the answer to this question... It slipped under the radar this one
As far as I can tell from all of my tests, XBMC only reads movie.nfo and ignores all other nfo files. MIP has an option to rename the original nfo file such that nothing will try to read it. I think MIP also reads every nfo file in the folder looking for an IMDb tag in XML when you first try to scan your folders. If an IMDb tag is there it is better to use that than the movie name which might not be unique. Does that help?
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
JiveTalker Wrote:Maybe there is already something in SourceForge that converts JPG to video? That would be a nice addition to MIP. I'll have a look...
I found this - MakeAVI
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55424&package_id=50330&release_id=95627
It's not written in dotnet though so could be fiddly to adapt. The search continues...
- fekker - 2009-02-13
Nazgulled Wrote:I'm also interested in the answer to this question... It slipped under the radar this one
It will rename that file, leaving it in the folder, searching it for a tt000000 id (imdb id) if no valid .nfo is in the folder.
This doesn't apply to file level items - just those organized by folders.
for creating dummy content..
make the folder and scan it
As for creating an automatic video file saying insert disk, etc, somebody come with with some ideas on what you would want in the video (i.e. what text)
Looks like JiveTalker is searching for a component that will allow creation (thanks!), so it might be easy enough to add in when time permits.
sorry i'm being brief, I'm in code mode
- Nazgulled - 2009-02-13
fekker Wrote:It will rename that file, leaving it in the folder, searching it for a tt000000 id (imdb id) if no valid .nfo is in the folder.I'm not sure I get it...
Let's say I have the following files on a folder named "What Just Happened":
- What.Just.Happened.LIMITED.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx.avi
- What.Just.Happened.LIMITED.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx.nfo
- What.Just.Happened.LIMITED.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx.srt
JiveTalker Wrote:I found this - MakeAVI
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55424&package_id=50330&release_id=95627
It's not written in dotnet though so could be fiddly to adapt. The search continues...
What exactly are you guys trying to do or want to do? I've been following your posts but I'm not sure I understand what you're after... Can you be a little more explicit? Maybe I can help (or not).
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-13
Nazgulled Wrote:What exactly are you goings trying to do or want to do? I've been following your posts but I'm not sure I understand what you're after... Can you be a little more explicit? Maybe I can help (or not).
Hi Nazgulled, I've been trying to find some dotnet code that will take a JPG file and convert it into an AVI video file. This would allow folders to be set up with posters, fanart and NFO files but with the actual video files staying on DVD. XBMC will not add folders to its library that have no video files. Personally, I've got 230 DVD movies and estimate they would need at least 2TB of hard disk space and probably 100 hours of copying time and don't see the point in copying them, at least not in the short term.
MIP is written dotnet and already includes ImageMagick that allows some image manipulation so it shouldn't be too hard to get a JPG file with fanart and some text saying "insert DVD" or similar. The tricky bit is converting the file to AVI. Do you have any thoughts on how to do that?
Actually this has potential: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/avifilewrapper.aspx