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RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - MariusTh86 - 2013-07-11
@cbr600ds2: You can also try using the 'Manual Search' option from the toolbar to search for the correct movie, and choose to replace exising images as necesairy.
@psykix: No problem, great to hear it's working better!
@mydsmbr: Sounds odd, being in a filmset shouldn't affect the re-naming, but i'll take a look at it.
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - shadowchild - 2013-07-12
hi again,
when i lock a movie the lock icon does not show even though if i bring up the contextual menu on the locked movie it says unlock.
i didn't see any thing in the user manual that said i had to set anything in preferences.
thanks
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - Glorious1 - 2013-07-12
Possibly the portion of the window with your list is not wide enough to reveal the lock icon? Try making it wider.
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - shadowchild - 2013-07-12
hi again,
sorry to bother you with the lock thing.
i made it wider and all is fine.
it's just that the lock would show sometimes and not others without changing the window size. that's why i thought something was wrong.
thanks for the quick reply.
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - psykix - 2013-07-13
Is there any way to get the right pane to show the path to the movie somewhere?
It shows it initially, but then once metadata is obtained, it is no longer visible.
I want to be able to scroll down the list and check that the movie matches correctly and the best way is to check movie title with path title :-)
Cheers..
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - MariusTh86 - 2013-07-13
@Psykix It should be there both before and after getting metadata if you're using the cocoa build, (the plain intel build doesn't show it at all)
Maybe try resizing the window?
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - psykix - 2013-07-13
How do I know what build I am using?
I'm using one you linked to earlier in the thread to fix a poster issue.
EDIT : I'm using version 0.7a10i
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - psykix - 2013-07-13
I may be being blind, but I can't see where I can get cocoa build of 0.7a10i?
What is the one on the website? Intel or Cocoa?
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - MariusTh86 - 2013-07-13
Cocoa should be the default download.
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - capfuturo - 2013-07-17
Good morning XBMC fellows,
I am giving ViMediaManager a try using a test folder with just 10 movies in it. It looks visually pleasant although I'd like to see more immediate reactions to my actions with the click of a button. For instance, to be able to click on the icons for chart, poster, backdrop, etc... right there on the main display instead of having to pull down a menu, and another for that. Less clicks, less time needed to set up movies properly, straight to the point please. Also I don't see a way to change the flags right there from where I am looking at them. If I see the red flag saying 1080p but I also want the Blu-Ray flag to show, I should be able to define this kind of information right there, whether by dragging or ticking a box. Easier and powerful customisation is certainly something users are looking for. Everything should be clickable and selectable right from the main GUI, without having to look for submenus and set of options within them, or going into an increasing succession of repetitive movements that could very well be kept at bay. That just doesn't contribute to being productive. When you have 16TB and growing of movies, shows, documentaries and music, let me tell you chap, every click and every minute less you spend setting up your media library right counts.
There should be also a way to tell the manager how I want certain key things done always and automatically: I want to tell the manager to always download posters, backdrops and extra fan-art if a specific criteria is met. In my case I would like to be able to define this criteria to only download the material if minimum resolutions and proportions are found, depending on the kind of art. So I don't have to inspect one by one. Another criteria would be filter images by colour or B&W; sometimes one is just looking for a great B&W vintage backdrop and whatever makes that finding faster, it is highly appreciated. You have an option to define the player, let's say XBMC, so when selected, the items under xtras within configuration should all be set automatically to match the naming conventions used by XBMC. Currently that doesn't happen and instead one has to go through every extra to check if the right movie filename is selected. There is no way to tell preferences to download banners, thumbs, logos and discart in their original resolution if available. I have compared discart downloaded by ViMediaManager and the resolution is inferior in about 33% from that downloaded by Artwork Dowloader in XBMC, which means ViMedia is doing a compression somewhere, which I very much would like it not to do per default. That makes a huge difference in big high resolution screens. The best resolution image available is desirable and if not by everyone, then one should be able to define this via drop-down menu.
On the main pane of preferences it says YouTube is the default trailer preference, however under services it says HD-Trailers is enabled without any option to set it as default. How these two work together and when ViMedia decides where to download from and when, if only YouTube is set as default?
The application keeps crashing when looking for metadata or downloading fanart on some movies. I have pasted an error report here for you to analyse and see what could be generating the problem. I am using OS X 10.8.4. After a few more crushes the application now stays bouncing at the dock attempting to run but nothing happens, besides ending in a force eject.
I see ViMediamanager could become something outstanding, but I yet need to see improvements such as those described on first paragraph, besides having a stable version, able to handle big libraries without crushing. The ability to recognise and rename TV Shows and to do so in a whizz would be also a winner. Is the latter implemented yet?
Best,
CF
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - Darkheir - 2013-07-17
Hi!
First I would like to thank you for your great app!
So far it's working very well for me and I'm looking forward to have the animes section working!
I have 2 little questions about the app:
- For multi-episodes, do I need to edit the NFO file by hand and add the second episode, or ViMediaManager has an option to do it?
- What is the name of the folder where we need to put the special episodes? In Spartacus there is a whole special season that I named Season 0 (since it takes place before the season 1) but ViMediaManager didn't recognize it!
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - MariusTh86 - 2013-07-17
@capfuturo:
That was a very long and very informative message.
There's a lot of very useful things mentioned which i hope i'll be able to manage and make them happen.
It won't show up in the main display, or anywhere else really, but you can set a movie's 'source' by opening up the metadata editor, going to the 'information' tab, and there should be a 'Source' field in the lower left with a pull down menu to select a source.
I tried to make ViMM somewhat iTunes like, where the main window is used to display or make use of an item, and an 'editor' window to change the metadata, as you say though, the layout and buttons aren't always the quickest way to get to do what you want, I've been planning on another 'rebuild' where I'm hoping to shake things up and make the main interface a bit more useful and quicker to work with, but I'm still in the planning stages of how to pull that off successfully without making everything too cluttered, hopefully i'll be able to come up with something great.
Currently, ViMM tries to download the first and best images it can find, It'll try to use HD ClearArt before falling back on normal ClearArt, using such fallbacks would be fine in most cases i believe.
I doubt i'll be able to determine the colors used in extra art to filter by, but there is an option under 'Preferences' > 'Extras' to automatically download 'original', 'large', 'medium' or 'small' sized fanart & poster images, but adding some filters to the manual downloading option might be something I can work on.
Setting the correct names based on player only works from the 'splash' window right now because of some technical difficulties in the preferences window, but i've been planning to work on that as well.
ViMM generally does not do anything to compress downloaded images, except 'cached' smaller fanart & poster images for quicker loading that are only used by ViMM's display, and are stored in ViMediaManager's application support folder, so they'll never be picked up by XBMC.
Every image is downloaded directly from either TMDB, TVDB or Fanart.TV, there's no compression happening for any images, the only ones that may be affected are Poster or Fanart images if any size other then 'original' has been selected, in which case they might be re-scaled if the source doesn't provide an option to download them in the correct size, so the image should always be in the best resolution available.
I'm sorry some things are really confusingly layed out, i'm sure i'll be able find a better way eventually.
Right now it works like this:
Links from youtube are gotten from TMDB, links from Apple/AOL/Yahoo are from HD-Trailers.net.
When ViMM downloads your information, it'll automatically gather all the available links from both sources. In the future one might be able to disable the ability to gather links from HD-Trailers, which should then disable the Apple/AOL/Yahoo sources.
If you set your preferences to automatically download a trailer, it'll download the trailer from your preferred source that you've set under the 'Preferences' > 'Extras' tab.
I'm constantly working on making ViMM more stable, but as you've noticed, it hasn't been easy. ^^;
If something chokes it up on start-up, you might have to re-set the application by throwing away it's preferences and the .xml files inside ViMM's application support folder:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/ViMediaManager/
ViMM already works pretty good with TV Shows, but the TVDB's 'guessing' ability isn't as great as TMDB's, ViMediaManager tries to download the first result when searching for media in their databases, and the TMDB seems to do a slightly better job at sorting movies by relevancy then the TVDB, and it could be a bit more disasterous when all the episodes of a series get renamed using the wrongly identified TV Show, so I'm planning to make this at least saver to use in the future, but in most cases it does work pretty well.
I believe that answered most of your questions, be assured that i'll always keep trying to make ViMM better and better! ;-)
@Darkheir:
- Multi-Episodes should be handled correctly automatically, as long as they're recognised. (They're named like this: 'S01E01E02')
- The special episodes are automatically placed in a folder called 'Specials', but for ViMM to recognise these episodes, they should match the TVDB numbers using 'S00E01' & 'S00E05' etc.
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - BillyBunter - 2013-07-17
I seem to be struggling to do any 'Fetch Metadata' in TV Shows, is it just me?
Constantly getting "No television series were found, try again with fewer keywords or an alternative title."
Using latest Intel version.
Many thanks
BB
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - Darkheir - 2013-07-17
(2013-07-17, 16:17)MariusTh86 Wrote: - Multi-Episodes should be handled correctly automatically, as long as they're recognised. (They're named like this: 'S01E01E02')
I'm naming them "1x01-02" this convention isn't recognized?
RE: ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! - MariusTh86 - 2013-07-17
@BillyBunter: what is the name you're trying to find? and does the 'manual search' option offer up any results?
@Darkheir: Unfortunately not, it'll only recognise the "1x01" part right now.