HexusOdy Wrote:Any plans to add TV support to this?

It looks good in its current form but don't want to have to use 2 NFO generators for Movies and TV.

olympia Wrote:That's a quote from the OP:

"Current Features Overview:
At this point, only Movies are supported. Once I get all the features added and bugs worked out of the Movies section, I'll move on to TV Shows, then to Music."

Are you blind, inattentive or just simply that much impatient

HexusOdy Wrote:There's no need for your last line. Your quote from the OP pointed out my mistake, no need to add to it.

midgetspy Wrote:Why grab keyframes? There's no reason that a thumb on a keyframe would be any more relevant than a thumb on any other frame.

AnalogKid Wrote:The reason is that keyframes hold a FULL image, whilst other frames are 'deltas' from the image. Some frame grabbers will end up with garbled frames as a result of this.
It doesn't always hold true of course, if the frame grabber is intelligent no problem, but I've seen a number of frame grabbers fall foul of this.

olympia Wrote:WOW!

The 017 is the first version started to work @me

Some comments:
- Personally I would like more if in the layout of the info tab, the plot would be included in the "middle view". I think you could change it with IMDB ID, Certifications, File Path, Plot outline which would be enough to display on the full info tab. This is just something to consider.
- Downloading posters and fanarts is very slow for some reason comparing to MC, and also there are far more less hit.
- what is the difference between "release date" and "year" on the edit details?
- Would be great to popup windows during/ after scraping to choose poster and fanart (I only tried the individual movie scraping yet, so I don't know how it is working with auto-pilot

I think it's enough for now

olympia Wrote:Well, I think the key is:
http://www.movieposterdb.com

I think you should definetly include this one

sumofatguy Wrote:17 works well for me, except for some reason full-auto update doesn't do anything (no log either), but update only-auto works. Not quite sure why this is, but using this mode it gave me fanart.jpg, movie.nfo and movie.tbn. Thats awesome! It's coming along nicely, works well and scrapes fast! I'm liking it... I think its about time to release it to my whole movie collection and have it clean the folders as well

edit: ran it on a network folder, and it loaded the movies fine, but failed to clean the folders (auto-pilot:clean folders - folder.jpg, <movie>.tbn, <movie>-fanart.jpg and <movie>.nfo)

I ran it on a mapped network drive if that makes any difference, and this is the error I got:

AnalogKid Wrote:This is the neatest manager I've come across yet.... its tidy and fast and does what it says on the tin!! superb.

I'm still playing with it, but a couple of comments so far:

1) would be nice to have a checkbox column for 'subtitles'
2) might be nice to have checkbox columns user specified files
3) it's not at all clear when a 'save' is happening... I think an explicit 'save button' after an edit is more reassuring (and less fearful that if you screw up, the app hasn't already saved it!)
4) might be nice to see all the 'active' artwork for a movie (fanart, poster etc)
5) not sure if there are 'glitches' in the handling of stacked movies... need to check this for sure


I must again say "SUPERB". It truly is. No criticism of the other efforts, but as you say some seem to have grown and grown and become difficult to manage. A rewrite is usually twice as simple, half the size, and twice as manageable.

sumofatguy Wrote:After using it a bit for my whole movie collection, I really like how simple and quick it is to use. I do have a few comments though thus far which may already be in the works, but I just thought I would mention them:

1. Ignore the folder $RECYCLE.BIN
2. Maybe have the location of the selected movie displayed in the bottom status bar (ie h:\HD\movie)
3. Auto-rescan when, for instance, a movie is missing fanart and you add it manually
4. Have a 'recently added' checkbox above/below the list of movies for easy changes to new movies

Other than those for now, its working wonderfully for me! Good work

AnalogKid Wrote:Ok, the issue with stacked movies is that <moviename> - CDx causes the app to assume there's no nfo, and no poster, although it does find fanart... strange!

In such a circumstance, the nfo will be <moviename>.nfo without the ' - CDx' part.

I think if you can omit the '-CDx' or ' - CDx' it'll work fine. You might have to check for all variants of stacking formats, but I think those two are the most common.

Another minor point... if you've downloaded an NFO for a file, or artwork etc via the app, then it might be worth updating the checkbox to show that it now exists (otherwise, you have to do a rescan to update the indicators correctly)

And finally (for the moment), it looks like you're using case sensitive string matching to see if NFO's and tbn's exist etc... I'd recommended insensitive matching, but I can see this might be deliberate too...

AnalogKid Wrote:You did WANT feedback right? ;-)

nul7 Wrote:4> How would it know what has been recently added? I could keep a db of all the movies... but that just adds to the overhead. If you want to know which ones don't have nfos, just sort by the "Info" column in the media list.

midgetspy Wrote:Perhaps have an "added this session" feature which just keeps track of (and allows you to filter by) movies that were added since the program opened. Once the program closes it'd be lost, so no need to track state in a db or anything, and it'd allow people to find their newly added movies to double-check their contents.

Livin Wrote:problems in .18...

looks like if using VIDEO_TS folder it does not work?
- when I place the files in the root of the folder, like "I Am Legend" it works fine.

I must manually select each movie and scrape or the media flags do not show... autopilot does not grab them?


btw... I love this clean layout... way better than MiP!

midgetspy Wrote:Another request: on the poster browser, can you show the dimensions (so I know which to pick)?

EDIT: It seems it isn't saving my posters/fanart. I choose them in the "Edit Movie" dialog, they appear in the window and get saved to a Temp folder in my UMM dir, but then it never gets moved to my movie folder, the Temp folder just vanishes.

EDIT2: Choosing "Large" size does nothing, I get no download dialog and nothing changes. X-Large works fine (for posters).

Code:

Title: Error
Message: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: requestUriString
StackTrace:    at System.Net.WebRequest.Create(String requestUriString)
   at Ultimate_Media_Manager.dlgImgSelect.DownloadSinglePic(String sURL, Image& tImage)
   at Ultimate_Media_Manager.dlgImgSelect.OK_Button_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
Date/Time: 08/05/2009 7:16:57 PM