(2012-06-25, 17:05)deh2k7 Wrote: Wow, nice to see the users chipping in and designing additional modules. Ember is still hands-down the best manager around. Bodrick - what are you prioityes in features for the near future? Are you going to be mostly squashing bugs and working on rests from the project site, or do you have other ideas on where you want to take Ember?

(2012-06-25, 20:16)khaoohs Wrote: Is there a way to set the language for the automatic poster download for movies? Half the time, EMM is downloading posters in Spanish.

(2012-06-25, 19:19)jondr13 Wrote: Is there a way to use mediainfo-rar with Ember Media Manager? Here is the link to the website: www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Mediainfo-rar

From what I understand (what little I do....) is that it works with mediainfo to open up ISO files or RAR files to extract the metadata info. So for us that have blu-ray ISO files or DVD ISO files, this would be GREAT!! No more hand-jamming all the info in.

If so, what exactly would I need to do in order to get it working?
Thanks for any info you might be able to provide.

(2012-06-26, 14:51)bodrick Wrote: I think its possible with the new API for TMDB and might be posssible with the API thats available, I'll have to look into it, thats one of my gripes too.

(2012-06-26, 17:16)olympia Wrote:

(2012-06-26, 14:51)bodrick Wrote: I think its possible with the new API for TMDB and might be posssible with the API thats available, I'll have to look into it, thats one of my gripes too.

So are you not going towards the direction to further improve the XML scraper support in EMM?
I really beleive that one of the most major improvement would be to completely ditch the native scrapers and make the XML scraper the default (that assumes 100% compatibility with the current XBMC scrapers).

This way EMM would be completely futureproof and more flexible as there are already plenty of great scrapers for XBMC and those scrapers are continously maintained by the community.

(2012-06-26, 16:42)jondr13 Wrote:

(2012-06-25, 19:19)jondr13 Wrote: Is there a way to use mediainfo-rar with Ember Media Manager? Here is the link to the website: www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/Mediainfo-rar

From what I understand (what little I do....) is that it works with mediainfo to open up ISO files or RAR files to extract the metadata info. So for us that have blu-ray ISO files or DVD ISO files, this would be GREAT!! No more hand-jamming all the info in.

If so, what exactly would I need to do in order to get it working?
Thanks for any info you might be able to provide.

Any thoughts or info on this? - Thanks

(2012-06-26, 20:53)bodrick Wrote: Actually I was thinking that I would go with the XML scrapper support as a direction to move forward. I believe you are most certainly correct as way for Ember to be future proof is to eliminate the native scrapers as they require a lot of time and effort to maintain.

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(2012-06-27, 09:46)gmk2 Wrote: If you are looking for better integration with XBMC, I would suggest looking at changing how ember integrates with the current database.

I previously looked at converting Ember to an open source ODBC driver which would allow flexibility in connecting to the existing database type or other modern database types including mysql
My idea was to change the Ember database structure to mirror the XBMC structure, once this was done its a relatively small step to actually use the XBMC database itself.
This would mean Ember could update the database directly, the only function then required is to publish the thumbs appropriately and you have a very nice integration package.

(2012-06-26, 05:06)tismon Wrote: I realize that this has probably been answered, but I can't find it in the wiki's, OP, or via searches. I've gone through my library with EMM and gotten just about everything set up, but XBMC still will scrape for itself. So in the end, I get Dinozaurs: The Series when I don't even know what that is. (How did it get that?)

Are there any suggestions or fixes that have been found? I've probably just got a setting mis-selected, but I'm not sure.
Thank you

(2012-06-28, 01:18)Axodious Wrote: Just upgraded to Windows 8 Release Preview and EMM broke. When I try to update library I get the following error.

Code:

================= <Assembly Versions> =================


Title: Error
Message: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
StackTrace:    at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
   at System.Convert.ToDateTime(String value)
   at EmberAPI.Scanner.bwPrelim_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
Date/Time: 2012-06-27 7:18:17 PM
===========================================================================================

*EDIT*
Just copied the folder to a Windows 7 machine and it worked fine there.

(2012-06-28, 07:47)TrendyTim Wrote:

(2012-06-26, 05:06)tismon Wrote: I realize that this has probably been answered, but I can't find it in the wiki's, OP, or via searches. I've gone through my library with EMM and gotten just about everything set up, but XBMC still will scrape for itself. So in the end, I get Dinozaurs: The Series when I don't even know what that is. (How did it get that?)

Are there any suggestions or fixes that have been found? I've probably just got a setting mis-selected, but I'm not sure.
Thank you

I had a lot of shows being picked up as "The Other One" despite already being scraped by Ember, i eventually pegged it down as not having the correct lot of tbn, jpg and/or nfo so i pretty much ticked all the boxes to create a dogs breakfast of files to satisfy xbmc. It would be nice if ember could have presets that could set the nfo, jpg and tbn settings just how XBMC/whatever media center is being used likes it (presuming anyone really knows for XBMC, i've read the docs and still have a hard time figuring out what XBMC really wants)

(2012-06-28, 08:33)kevjs1982 Wrote:

(2012-06-28, 01:18)Axodious Wrote: Just upgraded to Windows 8 Release Preview and EMM broke. When I try to update library I get the following error.

Code:

================= <Assembly Versions> =================


Title: Error
Message: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
StackTrace:    at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
   at System.Convert.ToDateTime(String value)
   at EmberAPI.Scanner.bwPrelim_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
Date/Time: 2012-06-27 7:18:17 PM
===========================================================================================

*EDIT*
Just copied the folder to a Windows 7 machine and it worked fine there.

I had the same problem on Vista - take a look at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116941&pid=1116916#pid1116916 for my fix.