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- fekker - 2009-02-21
dbone1026 Wrote:I used DVDshrink to grab individual episodes, but MIP is still not recognizing. Here is the folder structure:
Supernatural -> Season 1
In the Season 1 folder I have individual vobs for each episode, named s01e01, s01e02, etc...
So Supernatural will show up in the first box right below the movie/tv show count. Also, MIP shows the fanart, box cover, etc. But below where Supernatural is listed there is no Season 1 info, or episode info. The TV Show count still shows as 0. Any thoughts, did I incorrectly name the episodes?
as a test, close MIP, open the config.xml (it's in the main install folder) and edit the xml element for debug.. (you can search for debug, there's only one). Set it from false to true and save it.. open MIP back up and load the tv shows again.. this will output a log file (Debug Log) that I'll be able to use to figure out what's going on with the files. use pastebin for that debug log and i'll track down what's going on.
the next version gives a visual of anything that's a valid media file that it can't scrape, which makes things much easier.
- kizer - 2009-02-21
You have it like this right?
Tv shows/
Supernatural/
Season 1/
Supernatural - S01E01.avi
Supernatural - S01E02.avi
Then of course your scanning the TV folder contents right?
If so I had an issue doing the same thing a while back with Bewitched because of some error with thetvdb.com, but then again I've never tried to use VOB files.
- kizer - 2009-02-21
fekker is there a way to set that debug check in the config somewhere in the future? Just makes it easier to find for us that have had to find it in the past.
- fekker - 2009-02-21
kizer Wrote:fekker is there a way to set that debug check in the config somewhere in the future? Just makes it easier to find for us that have had to find it in the past.
I'll add a option to the tools menu for tv shows, that'll make it easier to find.
-- ok i've added this to the next version, it'll be on the TV Show Toolbar under "Options and Settings"
- Roborob - 2009-02-21
dbone1026 Wrote:I used DVDshrink to grab individual episodes, but MIP is still not recognizing. Here is the folder structure:Did the same thing, but then I created .iso files with dvdshrink the first time I had created files with .ISO in capital and no series where added. then I created .iso files in normal and that did the trick. Maybe it is also with .VOB and .vob
Supernatural -> Season 1
In the Season 1 folder I have individual vobs for each episode, named s01e01, s01e02, etc...
So Supernatural will show up in the first box right below the movie/tv show count. Also, MIP shows the fanart, box cover, etc. But below where Supernatural is listed there is no Season 1 info, or episode info. The TV Show count still shows as 0. Any thoughts, did I incorrectly name the episodes?
- fekker - 2009-02-21
Roborob Wrote:Did the same thing, but then I created .iso files with dvdshrink the first time I had created files with .ISO in capital and no series where added. then I created .iso files in normal and that did the trick. Maybe it is also with .VOB and .vob
Nice find.. That's it, I just checked i missed the case switch on shows, fix will be in next rev.. make it lowercase for now
How to compile Movie Info Plus - MaxNL - 2009-02-21
Sorry to bother,
is it possible to have the instruction on how to setup the VB Express Environment to compile Movie Info Plus...
I got connected to SVN and I have VB2008 express
Thanks in advance
Max
- dbone1026 - 2009-02-21
Roborob Wrote:Did the same thing, but then I created .iso files with dvdshrink the first time I had created files with .ISO in capital and no series where added. then I created .iso files in normal and that did the trick. Maybe it is also with .VOB and .vob
You nailed it, I went in and renamed from .VOB to .vob and now MIP recognizes. Any idea why this happens?
- fekker - 2009-02-22
MaxNL Wrote:Sorry to bother,
is it possible to have the instruction on how to setup the VB Express Environment to compile Movie Info Plus...
I got connected to SVN and I have VB2008 express
Thanks in advance
Max
You should be able to checkout from the /beta2 subfolder.
in windows, download tortase svn
create a new folder somewhere (i like to call in projects)
in the folder, create another called MIP
Right click on MIP, choose the SVN Checkout option
put in https://movieinfoplus.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/movieinfoplus/beta2
that will grab all the svn data
Download and install rev 2448 to c:\program files\movieinfoplus
after you have it installed, open up the .sln file from the svn checkout
if you installed rev 2448, you'll have all the files it is going to complain about, copy the .dll files to whatever path it's look for (if it complains, it shoudn't, but might).
you'll need a api key for thetvdb and themoviedb .. you can request those from those sites, they don't cost anything for open source freeware
that should get you up and running
currentmovie is the movie that's being displayed, properties (most of them) for it start with p .. i.e. ptitle is the title property
current show, current episode, etc.. those are the active items
for specific questions, feel free to ask.
if you wanna come aboard the MIP dev team, we could use some more mono dev's for the port, which is still at rev10
the svn copy is current to build 2450
- fekker - 2009-02-22
dbone1026 Wrote:You nailed it, I went in and renamed from .VOB to .vob and now MIP recognizes. Any idea why this happens?
I missed the .toLower call on the string that pulls the extensions for episodes, so it was only matching on lower case items.
2 questions - jetskijoe - 2009-02-23
1. It looks like AutoPilot does not rename files or mark .nfo files as oldversion. I was wandering if this is normal or a known bug.
2. Is there a way to exclude folders from being scanned. I have a bunch of movies and I have them organized as:
root folder/
|
A/
|
movie folder
|
B/
|
movie folder
etc
When I run auto-pilot it scans the A, B, and so on folders. I was wandering if there was a way to exclude folders that don't include an *.avi file or a know movie file.
Thanks
Joe
- fekker - 2009-02-23
jetskijoe Wrote:1. It looks like AutoPilot does not rename files or mark .nfo files as oldversion. I was wandering if this is normal or a known bug.
I can't remember if i enabled that in 2450 or not, the renaming portion. I'll make sure it's in the next release.. as well as the .nfo renaming.
jetskijoe Wrote:2. Is there a way to exclude folders from being scanned. I have a bunch of movies and I have them organized as:update: create a file called "specialfolder.nfo" and put it into movie folder you don't want to have mip load as a show, it will still scan for any sub folders, it just will ignore the folder when it generates the movie listing. Someday i'll use this info to generate genre specific images for categories. For ignoring the folder, this part will work in the next revision i'm working on coming in less then 2 weeks.
root folder/
|
A/
|
movie folder
|
B/
|
movie folder
etc
When I run auto-pilot it scans the A, B, and so on folders. I was wandering if there was a way to exclude folders that don't include an *.avi file or a know movie file.
Thanks
Joe
Please put in a feature and bug request so i don't forget, i'm knee deep in the music and tv shows code right now and do want to look into both of those.
- fekker - 2009-02-23
Naming conventions for "other" data with movies, shows and music
While most of this is not currently used in xbmc, i think it's nice to have with the collection. I'm still working the out "how" to select part, but have the "where" completed thanks to Max from freecovers.net
front.jpg (this is used for ablum art as it's the cd cover image)
back.jpg
cd.jpg
cd2.jpg
cd3.jpg
cd4.jpg
inside.jpg
inlay.jpg
There's four quality options, standard, bigger, high resolution (with slight compression), and high resolution without compression.
The first three are free and will be in the next release (for ablum art), and there's some really high quality images in there. The fourth requires membership to freecovers.net (which is very cheap).
by high resolution, i mean big, for example 3226x2160 for a dvd movie front cover, and that's the quality level mip will be able to grab with slight compression from the original size (of course it varies by image type and size on the site). For the full meal deal, i'll have the links to freecovers.net embeded into the UI.
Those can be made into some really nice fanart and posters that are high res and don't have all the "coming nov some year" text at the bottom of them.
I think these add another layer of wicked coolness to MIP, and when you see them, I think you'll agree.
Here's another sneak peak
- JiveTalker - 2009-02-23
fekker Wrote:Naming conventions for "other" data with movies, shows and musicThis naming standard is used by multiple sites and seems to be quite a good one.
front.jpg (this is used for ablum art as it's the cd cover image)
back.jpg
cd.jpg
cd2.jpg
cd3.jpg
cd4.jpg
inside.jpg
inlay.jpg
fekker Wrote:by high resolution, i mean big, for example 3226x2160 for a dvd movie front cover
That is high enough resolution to actually print the cover. Similar content (and custom sleeves) can also be found at http://www.cdcovers.cc but I don't know what their access policies are.
What I think would be a really cool feature would be if you were to grab the dvd cover image and allow it to be automatically cropped for use as a poster. It shouldn't be difficult to calculate what pixels to crop to as it will always be an exact multiple of the vertical resolution, measured from the right so it doesn't matter how think the spine are is.
Even cleverer would be to break the original cover image into the three constituent parts (ie front, back and spine) and save it as 3 separate images. That would allow the spine to be used as a poster in the XBMC skin (similar to a wide icon but rotated 90 degrees). The skin could then display the CD/DVD spines similar to the way they appear on a shelf or even (maybe with a glass effect) take the cd/dvd images and replicate how they look in their jewel/amaray case!
The existing jukebox/carousel style skin options would look even more cool if each title had the front cover and the spine displayed.
fekker Wrote:There's four quality options, standard, bigger, high resolution (with slight compression), and high resolution without compression.
Personally I think the biggest and best available is the best choice for the album art but perhaps the slight compression option may be more practical. I'll need to see a few examples to see how easy it is to tell the difference. Embedding a high resolution uncompressed image into an MP3 sounds like a bad idea though.
- fekker - 2009-02-23
JiveTalker Wrote:This naming standard is used by multiple sites and seems to be quite a good one.i need a way to rotate and crop the image and postion start/stop items in the image for the areas via a gui to pull off most of that, which would really rock.
That is high enough resolution to actually print the cover. Similar content (and custom sleeves) can also be found at http://www.cdcovers.cc but I don't know what their access policies are.
What I think would be a really cool feature would be if you were to grab the dvd cover image and allow it to be automatically cropped for use as a poster. It shouldn't be difficult to calculate what pixels to crop to as it will always be an exact multiple of the vertical resolution, measured from the right so it doesn't matter how think the spine are is.
Even cleverer would be to break the original cover image into the three constituent parts (ie front, back and spine) and save it as 3 separate images. That would allow the spine to be used as a poster in the XBMC skin (similar to a wide icon but rotated 90 degrees). The skin could then display the CD/DVD spines similar to the way they appear on a shelf or even (maybe with a glass effect) take the cd/dvd images and replicate how they look in their jewel/amaray case!
The existing jukebox/carousel style skin options would look even more cool if each title had the front cover and the spine displayed.
Personally I think the biggest and best available is the best choice for the album art but perhaps the slight compression option may be more practical. I'll need to see a few examples to see how easy it is to tell the difference. Embedding a high resolution uncompressed image into an MP3 sounds like a bad idea though.
some additional information.. the files will be placed in a folder called "extras" under the movie directory, so for anyone wanting to get started, use the names I specified above and put them in a sub folder called extras. MIP will automatically generate thumbs and save them to that folder during processing as the files (at high rez) are too much to load directly into the gui.
in addition, put a blank file called "specialfolder.nfo" into the extras directory so that mip doesn't think it's a movie.
for file level movies (meaning a folder that has a bunch of different movies in it) the names will be filename-<itemname>.jpg
so 300-front.jpg for 300.avi .. 300-back.jpg for 300.avi ... 300-cd1.jpg .. etc
these need to go in a sub folder of where the movies are called, that folder must be called "extras", and you should put in a file called "specialfolder.nfo" so mip doesn't think it's a movie. the name must match the filename exactly and then have the -front.jpg, -back.jpg, -cd1.jpg, etc as described above
For image injection into mp3 files, if the image is larger then 500x500, the image will be scaled down to 500x500 size (well as close as can be while maintaining the aspect ratio) before injection.. i'm open to ideas if that's too big or too small.
Freecovers will be the main site for this data, and Max over at the site really hooked us up with the high res (slight compression) option without the requirement of being gold site members. For the absolute best uncompressed images, it does require membership.
I'll have the test version out soon, just have a bunch more items to work on before it's ready.