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RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - McButton - 2016-01-25

Drag and drop seems to be my winner. I'll have to try it. I never would have guessed. Thanks much!

Lots of questions on this end. I just....like to break things...so far everything is working sweet.

Update: Drop and drag is 100x better. Shoot. No wait to scrape. I don't update my database, and my network is doing something weird. Instead of waiting 20min to search and scrape everything, it took like 3 minutes to find and clear 4 vids. Win.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - mfc2k15 - 2016-01-25

how to use media companion to edit the video addons


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-25

(2016-01-25, 19:18)McButton Wrote: Drag and drop seems to be my winner. I'll have to try it. I never would have guessed. Thanks much!

Lots of questions on this end. I just....like to break things...so far everything is working sweet.

Update: Drop and drag is 100x better. Shoot. No wait to scrape. I don't update my database, and my network is doing something weird. Instead of waiting 20min to search and scrape everything, it took like 3 minutes to find and clear 4 vids. Win.

There's always the documentation pages on MC's site. https://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/documentation
The preferences sections need updating since I changed these, but all other features, functions are listed there.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-25

(2016-01-25, 19:22)mfc2k15 Wrote: how to use media companion to edit the video addons

Not sure what your asking, but MC can't edit Kodi Addons.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - tars - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-25, 05:08)vbat99 Wrote: It was the Get Folder Size routine.

Is that for Folder Size filter? As I said before, I don't find that filter much useful. What's needed instead is path filter that let the user select root folders to display in movie list.

BTW I read somewhere in previous posts your to-do list includes detecting external subtitles. When do you think we could see subtitle filter as an optional permanent column?


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-26, 08:36)tars Wrote:
(2016-01-25, 05:08)vbat99 Wrote: It was the Get Folder Size routine.

Is that for Folder Size filter? As I said before, I don't find that filter much useful. What's needed instead is path filter that let the user select root folders to display in movie list.

BTW I read somewhere in previous posts your to-do list includes detecting external subtitles. When do you think we could see subtitle filter as an optional permanent column?

I made a list of requests that I will be working through. Path Filter is one of them.

As for External Subtitles, no time plan yet. Need to get some other code bullet-proof first.
It'll happen....


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - tars - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-26, 09:48)vbat99 Wrote: As for External Subtitles, no time plan yet. Need to get some other code bullet-proof first.
It'll happen....

No problem. Really appreciate your hard work on this project!


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - bobrap - 2016-01-26

As for the path filter, can't that already be done by selecting the path in the folders option?


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-26, 18:19)bobrap Wrote: As for the path filter, can't that already be done by selecting the path in the folders option?

Yep, sure can...but that requires a full refresh each change and save.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - bobrap - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-26, 18:54)vbat99 Wrote:
(2016-01-26, 18:19)bobrap Wrote: As for the path filter, can't that already be done by selecting the path in the folders option?

Yep, sure can...but that requires a full refresh each change and save.

Well...we can't have that, now can we! Big Grin


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-26

(2016-01-22, 07:00)tars Wrote:
(2016-01-22, 05:21)vbat99 Wrote: Movie Preferences -> General Tab, Actors filter can be set to Minimum and Maximum number of actors to display.
Same for Directors.
The Maximum number of Actors, Directors and Sets is each 5000. The default is 500.
Why. Increasing beyond 5000 is a major performance hit as MC cross references all actors to all movies.
For example, 2400 movies, and over 88000 actors, I set the limit to 100000 actors. MC took 80 seconds to process the actors for this filter alone, and another 48 seconds to process the directors. (Some actors are Directors also).
At 500 (default), MC was half a second. at 5000 limit, MC took 6 seconds.

That explains it. So sorting actors by alphabet is practically unsupported (because it lists only A) and sorting by numbers are only partially supported.

Here's a slight improvement for Actors.
  • Movie - Increase Max Actors and Directors to 10,000 (default is still 500), but if set over 999, set minimum to 2 films to offset performance hit.



RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - mfc2k15 - 2016-01-27

can we insert dubbed audio file


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - McButton - 2016-01-27

(2016-01-27, 07:12)mfc2k15 Wrote: can we insert dubbed audio file

Welcome to the forum. You may want to be a touch more specific with more detail. Examples, what you're trying to do, etc. The more you give, the more you get back.

If your videos are dubbed, they will be discovered upon scrape. You will be able to see your language and subtitles in Kodi and the .nfo file.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - vbat99 - 2016-01-27

(2016-01-27, 07:12)mfc2k15 Wrote: can we insert dubbed audio file

I know McButton has already answered, but I thought I would just comment.

Kodi does not support external audio tracks with video files. See. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220643
Your only solution is to remux into MKV or similar container the dubbed audio file.

Media Companion will show and list what audio tracks are present in the MKV files.


RE: Media Companion 3 beta's - Now with Music Video support - tars - 2016-01-27

(2016-01-26, 22:10)vbat99 Wrote:
(2016-01-22, 07:00)tars Wrote:
(2016-01-22, 05:21)vbat99 Wrote: Movie Preferences -> General Tab, Actors filter can be set to Minimum and Maximum number of actors to display.
Same for Directors.
The Maximum number of Actors, Directors and Sets is each 5000. The default is 500.
Why. Increasing beyond 5000 is a major performance hit as MC cross references all actors to all movies.
For example, 2400 movies, and over 88000 actors, I set the limit to 100000 actors. MC took 80 seconds to process the actors for this filter alone, and another 48 seconds to process the directors. (Some actors are Directors also).
At 500 (default), MC was half a second. at 5000 limit, MC took 6 seconds.

That explains it. So sorting actors by alphabet is practically unsupported (because it lists only A) and sorting by numbers are only partially supported.

Here's a slight improvement for Actors.
  • Movie - Increase Max Actors and Directors to 10,000 (default is still 500), but if set over 999, set minimum to 2 films to offset performance hit.

Thanks, but if it comes with any performance degradation, I don't think that's worth it. I tried various combination of settings and now settled with default values for Actors & Sets, and Max 1500 for Directors with just slight lagging for opening main browser. Currently if I change Max Actors to 5000, opening main browser takes another 7 secs. Setting minimum to 2 movies doesn't make noticeable differences.