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Does anyone know how this is suppose to work? I can capture logs and I can capture what is being saved to the db, but what I really need first is how XBMC is designed to function in this case. I don't believe this is a scraping issue. It's a question as to when should XBMC retrieve the video information via ffmpeg to store in the streamdetails table. I can confirm via logs that it does whenever you open a playlist, but does not whenever you scan in new content. Is this by design?
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Yes. It's done while extracting thumbnails. The scan only fetches meta like actors, plot etc.
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hey jtucker1972,
I had problems with my runtimes as well and what i ended up doing was telling Ember NOT to scrape runtimes or meta data.
Then after adding the movies to the database, just go to the root and you should notice that the total duration will start to climb as xbmc gets the information from the files. Do the same with your tvshows by choosing the all seasons.
If there is a runtime in the nfo file xbmc won't try to get the duration and will not properly populate the database.
Or at least that was my findings as I haven't dug into the database yet, but it help with my problem with the pseudotv script not adding anything to my channels because it didn't have the proper information in the database.
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rtwight, I didn't have any nfo files in my directories for the scan. I completely removed third-party nfo's from the equation. The issue is that we should not have to use a playlist or go to the root to trigger XBMC to pull the duration from the video file header data. This should be done during the scan if no nfo is found or if <durationinseconds> is not found. Some say XBMC does pull it during scan but I have not scene a log file which shows me where it is calling CDVDDemuxFFmpeg during the scanning process.
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It's not done during scan. Nowhere does it say that it's done during a scan.
It's done (in the background) as and when required - eg while browsing a list or when playing a video.
Note that DVD images are only done on playback (as you must play the image in order to get accurate information).
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Thanks Jonathan. Good to hear from a developer. There has been so much speculation as to how this feature is suppose to work that I am glad I got it from a developer how it is "designed" to work.
