2009-03-30, 20:21
MrTourettes Wrote:OK I will start off by saying sorry if this has already been answered. I have spent a couple of hours now search though 100's of threads for all kinds of info and my brain is hurting.
Anyway. I started using Stark today and been trying to mod my movie collection with data to display the flag icons ( 1080p, 720p, etc ).
OK after reading stacks of stuff over at stark section and also in here I think I have come to the conclusion that for xbmc and stark to diasplay this info my file needs to be labeled like so.
- National Treasure Book of Secrets.2007.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264.mkv
Well that is my understanding so far.
I think however I have probably missed bits and pieces somewhere and I am here asking if there is a better way of doing that.
At the moment I have 1000's of movies and only some of them hold the information in the file names. I do know I could grab the information using Media Info application and rename my files. I really do not want to do this.
Does MIP in anyway read the data form the movie file and save in the nfo so that xbmc can pick this up and use in stark? If not is there a way in MIP to have it rename my media with the appropiate file names to include this information?
Also while on the subject...In MIP you can save off different nfo's and tbn's etc. For example it will save an nfo of the movie name but also have an option to save movie.nfo. Could someone explain why I would need 2 copies of this data and for example when running MIP as defaut without changing anything I end up with like 3-4 copies of the movie cover image.
Thanks for ya time and sorry to repeat a probably already answered question but this is one confused muppet with a headache
I'll give a quick comment on this, I'm researching some details on how xbmc reads and stores .nfo file data, as well as field locations and data types and i'm looking at a few fields that are not generally used to store additional information.
Could MIP change the filename, yes it could, I even coded part of that function when it hit me. Let me provide some details on that.
National Treasure Book of Secrets.2007.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264.mkv
I could break this down as
<moviename>.<year>.<first_longest_video_stream_resolution_to_standard_480_540_720_1080>.<mediasource><first_longest_audiochannel_type>.<codec>.<extension>
The <mediasource> i.e. BluRay part doesn't make sense, as it's an mkv file, the original source it was obtained from is not contained in the file, however I could just put bluray for any 720 or 1080 content.
The real solution for this is what I built into MIP, the Media Stream Information. This is used by captBry's hd flagging branch to provide true details about the movie / show.
The filename is a temporary solution, I'll turn on the option based on the above details, it still needs some debugging before it's ready.
As for the MIP defaults, you'll want to leave those on for maximum compatability. Different versions of xbmc use different files, 9.04 will use movie.nfo and movie.tbn, current svn builds, ~16500 and up, use these files.
folder.jpg and fanart.jpg also show up in windows, and in other applications.
fanart.jpg also shows up when you view your movie folders if you set that view type for the folder to pictures. (kinda cool, posters shown at the bottom, fanart when they are selected)
folder.jpg is also used in file mode
There will be additional output types that will be available for additional applications, like background.jpg and <moviefilename>_background.jpg for some other products, that's in the air still as they sort out standards for naming conventions.
Quote:MIP has an Error when I do something...Anyone with errors, please post details on the error and pastebin anything that applys with it. I'm abit swamped right now, I do read the information and research all errors, unless I get sidetracked (which I do).. feel free to remind me if i've missed one you have posted.