[Pr.Sinister]

yeah there seem to be a whole lotta interest about renaming and flagging files. I'm really not that interested in all that as much as I am interested in localizing propper NFO files in each folder (though any suggestions provided are much appreaciated).

My problem is that i am very anal when it comes to consistency.

Seeing some of the flags and not all will bother me. If i have the Question Marks
everywhere it will drive me nuts so hopefully there will be a way to turn them off
if they aren't fully functional for all my files. I prefer All or Nothing.

As for your NFO issue, i have 1500+ NFOs for Movies and 6000+ NFOs for TV
Episodes.

Your best bet is to use Media Companion and let it do the bulk of it and then
tweak them manually (still with media companion)

For the Movies, sometimes, IMDB doesn't have the plot information so i go
get the missing info from Allmovie.com. If i still can't find it, i usually can get
it from amazon.com/.ca/.fr . Also googling the movie title with synopsis will
yield some nice info.

For missing posters, google and a graphic editor is all you need. I have it down
to a science. I even created some scripts that will automatically switch from
banners to posters for TV Shows (if you have both) and i made some right
click scripts where it will take an image and and rename/copy it to the proper
folder.jpg/filename.tbn... It saves sooooooooooo much time you have no idea!

I do this because i want to have control over the poster i want for my Movies
and TV Shows. Once i have my images set, Media Companion does the NFO
and fanart.

BTW: Didn't i send you a bunch of NFO's a while ago? Were you able to use
them at all?

-Pr.

[krypt2nite]

Nice Pr.Sinister your situation sounds exactly like mine. Glad I'm not the only crazy one =p

[hikaricore]

Your best bet is to use Media Companion and let it do the bulk of it

When Media Companion runs on Linux this will be a reasonable suggestion, for the rest of us however it's a carrot on a stick.

[Ayala]

My problem is that i am very anal when it comes to consistency.

Seeing some of the flags and not all will bother me. If i have the Question Marks
everywhere it will drive me nuts so hopefully there will be a way to turn them off
if they aren't fully functional for all my files. I prefer All or Nothing.

As for your NFO issue, i have 1500+ NFOs for Movies and 6000+ NFOs for TV
Episodes.

Your best bet is to use Media Companion and let it do the bulk of it and then
tweak them manually (still with media companion)

For the Movies, sometimes, IMDB doesn't have the plot information so i go
get the missing info from Allmovie.com. If i still can't find it, i usually can get
it from amazon.com/.ca/.fr . Also googling the movie title with synopsis will
yield some nice info.

For missing posters, google and a graphic editor is all you need. I have it down
to a science. I even created some scripts that will automatically switch from
banners to posters for TV Shows (if you have both) and i made some right
click scripts where it will take an image and and rename/copy it to the proper
folder.jpg/filename.tbn... It saves sooooooooooo much time you have no idea!

I do this because i want to have control over the poster i want for my Movies
and TV Shows. Once i have my images set, Media Companion does the NFO
and fanart.

BTW: Didn't i send you a bunch of NFO's a while ago? Were you able to use
them at all?

-Pr.

lots were used of course, but i have a bunch of new stuff that i need to do the same for and i was inquireing about an OS X solution since i don't have a PC anymore, though I could always run it virtually.

P.S. you are not more anal than I am so I completely understand where you're coming from, I thought aeon would simply not display the flags if it can't identify?! dunno, I don't have the latest.

[Ayala]

I'm not renaming mine. Too much effort. Just thought you were, hence the advice post.

like I stated, much appreaciated

[cascius]

I just wanted to add a little trick to find fanarts or high res photos:
In google image search, you can define the exact size you're looking for.
For example, type this in google: imagesize:1920x1080 batman
it will only return 1080p images with the keyword batman in them. The results are overall terrific IMO.
Hope this is useful to some of you,

- Cas

[Cranial]

I have run Media Companion virtually, but it did turn into a bit of a pain sometimes due to my media being on HFS+ drives and subsequent permissions issues and such. This was on VMWare though, so might try some other methods.

An OSX / Linux based app would be great.

[Cranial]

I just wanted to add a little trick to find fanarts or high res photos:
In google image search, you can define the exact size you're looking for.
For example, type this in google: imagesize:1920x1080 batman
it will only return 1080p images with the keyword batman in them. The results are overall terrific IMO.
Hope this is useful to some of you,

- Cas

Didn't know you could this. Thank you, always learning.

[cascius]

Didn't know you could this. Thank you, always learning.

Yeah, it's something I've wished existed for a long time. Today I looked for that feature and was extremely happy to find it.

Happy image hunting!

- Cas

[Pr.Sinister]

When Media Companion runs on Linux this will be a reasonable suggestion, for the rest of us however it's a carrot on a stick.

Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have

-Pr.

[hikaricore]

Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have

-Pr.

If i recall it uses .NET and even with the appropriate libraries installed doesn't run under WINE.
I'm not about to setup a VM just so I can run Media Companion, that's absurd.

Just saddened that the functionality to manually edit entries doesn't exist in XBMC and that the only external editor is .NET reliant.

I don't need NFOs I just have a few pesky movies and tv series that could be easily fixed if I could edit the database.

[fekker]

Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have

-Pr.

While it's not near as fast as under windows, MIP works under wine.. 1.1.06 or higher (recommend 1.1.14+), with the app size at 1024x768 (either in a virtual window, or just don't go full screen if you have a high rez monitor as the image load time is slow at higher resolutions)).. it's not native to linux yet, but better then nada.

There's details on how to install it in the wiki for MIP (see sig)
It uses .net 2.0, with wine tricks it's alot easier then it used to be to install it

[Hitcher]

Seeing as AEON will now load your cached thumb if there's no '-big.png' present I thought I'd do some testing today to see the difference between the two and here's the results.

Notes:

1920x1080 display

movie.tbn dimensions 1080x720

Default thumbsize (512) - NO <thumbsize> used in advancedsettings.xml


INFO SCREEN with -BIG.PNG



INFO SCREEN with cached tbn



As you can see there's really nothing in it so as long as you've got your movie.tbn images at nice size and don't lower the <thumbsize> that's all you need do.

[freezy]

seems that your poster is upsized anyway? the title is blurred in both images...

[daveisadork]

seems that your poster is upsized anyway? the title is blurred in both images...

It looks that way to me too. Hitcher, why don't you grab this version of the poster and try with it instead?

http://themoviedb.org/image/posters/6793/folder.jpg