2012-04-25, 06:22
DanCooper that worked perfectly, appreciate the time taken to reply!
(2012-04-25, 03:57)leftywhat Wrote:(2012-04-24, 14:54)DanCooper Wrote: The correct settings for XBMC (XBMC-DB export standard) is:
<movie>.tbn
<movie>-fanart.jpg
<movie>.nfo
OK cool thanks, am I doing the following below correctly? XBMC can be quite confusing at times, argh...
Set to Movies
Run automated scan = ON
Movies are in separate folders = ON
Scan Recursively = OFF
Selected folder contains a single video = OFF
Exclude path from library updates = OFF
Do you want to refresh info for all items within this path = YES
It still shows "downloading movie information" though , is that correct?
I noticed if I set in Ember Poster to "movie.jpg", XBMC doesn't get the picture from my movie folder, seems to scrap from the net, so I put it back to "movie.tbn" and seems to work fine.
For Fanart, setting it as "fanart.jpg" works fine.
I also set NFO to "movie.nfo" as afaik when you set "Movies are in separate folders = ON", XBMC will read "movie.nfo" over any other nfo files in the folder (such as a scene info - that is the nfo that came when you downloaded a file)
Man I wish someone would just write up a simple settings setup and how to scrape from your movie folders with the files ember has downloaded into your folders
The wiki's are just not good enough or explain much at all :/
Think I've finally got it right now though?
(2012-04-25, 11:04)DanCooper Wrote: These settings are exactly the settings that XBMC using when export the database.:
For movies:
<movie>.tbn
<movie>-fanart.jpg
<movie>.nfo
<movie>-trailer.avi
(2012-04-25, 12:17)leftywhat Wrote: Dan, also having a issue I posted here, are you able to comment? Is it due to actor images or something?
(2012-04-25, 13:12)DanCooper Wrote:(2012-04-25, 12:17)leftywhat Wrote: Dan, also having a issue I posted here, are you able to comment? Is it due to actor images or something?
That could be....
just look in the XBMC logfile, maybe there is something useful.
(2012-04-25, 14:38)leftywhat Wrote:(2012-04-25, 13:12)DanCooper Wrote:(2012-04-25, 12:17)leftywhat Wrote: Dan, also having a issue I posted here, are you able to comment? Is it due to actor images or something?
That could be....
just look in the XBMC logfile, maybe there is something useful.
Ah looks to be slower due to downloading the images of actors!! Sent you pm with link to text file from log.
When I set debug mode on in xbmc I can see it downloading the actor images from the URLs listed in Ember.
I've noticed once you've added a movie in xbmc, when you remove the files folder/remove from library and clean the library, when you re-add the same movie files and re-do it all, it doesn't need to download the actors again. I think its the function "CVideoDatabase"
It must get stored in the xbmc database. Say if one movie has Eddy Murphy in it, that movie downloads his image, when another movie has Eddy Murphy in it, does XBMC download his image again going via the url put in the nfo via ember, or does it link to xbmc database? Slightly getting off topic... soz, but at least I know now why it takes longer when I have net connection compared to when I don't.
I guess other people knew all this, or they just don't care or notice?
I'm thinking of removing the actor images links from the .nfo files Ember created. I assume theres a setting in Ember to not put links to the actors in the nfo it creates? Thing is if there if no link in the nfo, what does xbmc do, does it then go look for the images or leaves them blank? :S
(2012-04-25, 15:21)DanCooper Wrote:(2012-04-25, 14:38)leftywhat Wrote:(2012-04-25, 13:12)DanCooper Wrote: That could be....
just look in the XBMC logfile, maybe there is something useful.
Ah looks to be slower due to downloading the images of actors!! Sent you pm with link to text file from log.
When I set debug mode on in xbmc I can see it downloading the actor images from the URLs listed in Ember.
I've noticed once you've added a movie in xbmc, when you remove the files folder/remove from library and clean the library, when you re-add the same movie files and re-do it all, it doesn't need to download the actors again. I think its the function "CVideoDatabase"
It must get stored in the xbmc database. Say if one movie has Eddy Murphy in it, that movie downloads his image, when another movie has Eddy Murphy in it, does XBMC download his image again going via the url put in the nfo via ember, or does it link to xbmc database? Slightly getting off topic... soz, but at least I know now why it takes longer when I have net connection compared to when I don't.
I guess other people knew all this, or they just don't care or notice?
I'm thinking of removing the actor images links from the .nfo files Ember created. I assume theres a setting in Ember to not put links to the actors in the nfo it creates? Thing is if there if no link in the nfo, what does xbmc do, does it then go look for the images or leaves them blank? :S
There is an option in the Ember (see Movies-> Scrapers images & Trailers-> "Do Not Save URLs to NFO). If this option is enabled, the actor-photo-, poster- and fanarts-links are not stored in the NFO.
Please make a test and tell us then whether the XBMC images only once downloaded.
(2012-04-25, 15:53)leftywhat Wrote: I turned that setting on, the actor photo url's are still present in the nfo files created via ember.
The alternative poster and fanart links are removed
(2012-04-25, 16:02)DanCooper Wrote:(2012-04-25, 15:53)leftywhat Wrote: I turned that setting on, the actor photo url's are still present in the nfo files created via ember.
The alternative poster and fanart links are removed
hmmm, thats true
I will check this. But i think XBMC need a link to display a picture...
Alternative (XBMC wiki):
Actor thumbnails
You can add actor thumbnails to any movie or TV show by adding an '.actors' folder in the corresponding movie / TV show / Epsiode directory. You may need to use the command line to create this directory in Windows.
The folder can then contain actor images using the following naming convention:
Videos\path\.actors\actor_name.tbn (spaces replaced with underscores)
(2012-04-25, 16:22)leftywhat Wrote: So ideally, if possible, I'd just set in Ember, Actors to 5, select the box only pick actors with images, and then if possible, when scrapping get ember to save into a .actors directory within the movie folder directory.
Don't think Ember has that option for the last bit?
What does Enable Actors Cache do?
(2012-04-25, 16:30)DanCooper Wrote: I have tested it with a fresh install of XBMC: No links, no pictures. Looks like XBMC would not manage the actors in the database.
Nice idea, acting with more than 5. but I would prefer all actors without pictures.
I think Actors Cache save the pictures in Ember-DB to display it from cache instead of each time to feed from inet.
(2012-04-25, 16:42)leftywhat Wrote: Ok so that means for every movie, XBMC is going to read the actors URL from Embers NFO file and download the picture and put it into the XBMC database every time. So if you have 12 movies with Eddy Murphy, its going to download that same image 12 times.
If you have say, 400 movies, with url links to the actors image in the nfo and there might be say 50 actors per movie, thats going to take some time to update to xbmc database. Not ideal.
(2012-04-25, 18:34)HiSoC8Y Wrote:(2012-04-24, 15:22)HiSoC8Y Wrote: how to retain the sets that i created for YAMJ?
I loaded my library into the latest 1.3.0.5, but when i go to sets manager, my previously created sets are not present.
why?
Anyone