[theotocopulitos]

UMM will use the xbmc scrapers, and pretty much anything that xbmc can handle thanks to the scraper library, and lang support is also a key item as well.

Awesome!

[yawie]

This is a very interesting project you've been launching.

I am really interested in a media manager and navigator using keyboard and mouse on a 2 feet display. I may help on some python scripting and some usage scenarios i you allow me in the dev forum.

[rausch101]

Suggestion/question: Is there going to be (or should there be) a feature where you can specify which language's working title you'd like to use for each movie?

i.e. The official title of "Pan's Labyrinth" is "El laberinto del fauno". However, I'd like it to display as the English title, "Pan's Labyrinth".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/

[jelockwood]

As one of the goals of this project is support for platforms in addition to Windows (e.g. Mac OS X), it would be helpful if this tool could support scraping information from Elgato EyeTV files. Elgato's EyeTV software is the pre-eminent TV recording application for the Mac.

Along the same lines, scraping the embedded information from Microsoft .drms files and the new .wtv files (as used in Vista TVPack and Windows 7) would also be beneficial.

If needed I can provide an example EyeTV recording.

Note: EyeTV recordings are stored as (in Mac speak) a 'package' which is a special type of folder (and looks like a file), in this folder are several files, e.g.

../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/
../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/000000000f899d10.eyetvp
../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/000000000f913675.eyetvi
../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/000000000f913675.eyetvr
../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/000000000f913675.mpg
../Red Dwarf - The Smeg Ups.eyetv/000000000f913675.tiff

The .mpg file is obviously the recording, and the .tiff file is a thumbnail

This existing XBMC plugin maybe of help see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40645

[Nicezia]

the scraper code portion of this (being the one working on that part - i think i can safely speak on this) Will be branching out to support quite a few formats. I already have in mind to scrape from several formats including AMC (ant movie catalog) DVD-Profiler, etc... however seeing as how i'm lacking a Mac, i would need example files to be able to write code to scrape data from the files. if you could zip up an example and email to [email protected] then i could add that to the list of local files that are going to be scrapable with UMM/UMC (god knows yet what the final project name is)

[jetskijoe]

I currently work as a C++ / C# developer. Most of the time I debug and find memory leaks and other problems. I would like to help test and debug and maybe even do some coding. Please let me know what I can do to help

[fekker]

I currently work as a C++ / C# developer. Most of the time I debug and find memory leaks and other problems. I would like to help test and debug and maybe even do some coding. Please let me know what I can do to help

there's still lots to do, there's a thread in the UMM forums here that has the status of things, although i really need to work on that as it's very basic.

i haven't put much into debugging the movie part i've been working on right now, that for sure needs checking

jump into the forums and have a look

[crash123]

i don't think any support imdb in the file name (could be wrong of course)

You sure are the new version of Media Companion supports it.

[Vampirebat]

if i wanted to suggest a feature id like to see included in UMM would this be the appropriate place to post it?

[fekker]

You sure are the new version of Media Companion supports it.

cool, i'll make sure it's in UMC then (parse imdb id from file name)

[fekker]

if i wanted to suggest a feature id like to see included in UMM would this be the appropriate place to post it?

Feature Suggestions can be made on sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i...id=1150556

[JustinAiken]

If UMC will natively edit the XBMC's database, I'm very excited...

I have so many movies that I just want to tweak a little (remove a genre from one, edit the runtime from one, etc...), and it's a pain to edit the .nfo with a different media scraper, remove it from the XBMC library, and refresh... 3 steps too many to simply get rid of the "romance" genre in a comedy with a 5 minute love side-plot!

[fekker]

If UMC will natively edit the XBMC's database, I'm very excited...

I have so many movies that I just want to tweak a little (remove a genre from one, edit the runtime from one, etc...), and it's a pain to edit the .nfo with a different media scraper, remove it from the XBMC library, and refresh... 3 steps too many to simply get rid of the "romance" genre in a comedy with a 5 minute love side-plot!

that's in the design spec, not sure of all the details of how it'll work yet, but we are researching it.

[bertrand]

That's an exciting project ! I'm in the exact situation clock2113 described...

I was wondering about something though: is there in XBMC an exportable library that would allow interaction from outside XBMC itself while relying on the internal codebase, in order to stick to the evolutions instead of rewriting what's already working ?

[fekker]

That's an exciting project ! I'm in the exact situation clock2113 described...

I was wondering about something though: is there in XBMC an exportable library that would allow interaction from outside XBMC itself while relying on the internal codebase, in order to stick to the evolutions instead of rewriting what's already working ?

ya lost me there

if your asking if you can export your xbmc database, yes you can export it to .nfo files or copy the db itself

if your asking if you can modify the xbmc database directly, from outside of xbmc, yes it's possible, sqlite database browser will allow you to browse and modify the data directly in the database. The text data is easy enough to change, the images are not a direct thing, and require passing info through a hash to get the name and location of the image(s).

if your asking if the new unified media manager will interact with xbmc's database, yes, that's what we intend to do. When you save an item, the goal is for everything to get updated. (information and images) .. i don't think we will be adding new items directly though, that's better left to xbmc at this point. I'm pretty sure we can send a command to xbmc to tell it to update the library (i.e. add new items).