2010-11-11, 18:12
Hi,
I wrote a little application in the past 2 days which serves my needs to index my movies. It just creates an .nfo for every movie, containing a hand-selected IMDB link, so XBMC's scrapers always find the correct movie. Without it, I have a failure rate of about 10%, which can be very disappointing managing > 1000 movies. Using this method, I can always rescan my library, with a (hopefully) failure rate of 0.
If someone is in search of a similar tool, it is free and can be downloaded here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2VKHPGK
It requires .NET framework 4.0, which can be downloaded from MS website: .NET Framework 4.0
Some words one how to use it:
1. First time usage: Open options; type in the IMDB site of your choice (.com, .de, .fr, ...) and optionally enhance the list of recognized movie file extensions.
2. Select the root folder of your movies, after that, all movies should be listed in the lower window part.
3. If there are already .nfo files, the application extracts the IMDB-ID and shows it in front of the movie name.
4. Selecting a movie may result in 2 different scenarios:
- If the IMDB-ID is known, the movies site is opened in the browser view. If it is wrong, you can always start a new search using the <Re-Search> button.
- Otherwise an IMDB-search is started. You should than navigate to the correct movie.
In either case, if a the correct movie is visible in the browser view (you can use the browser as usual to find the correct movie, i.e. find it using known actors), click on <Use IMDB ID>, which maps the current movie to the current IMDB-ID. This subsequently creates the .nfo file for this movie. OVERRIDING THE PREVIOUS .NFO SILENTLY.
Known issues: I got some crashes on XP-Systems which I never got on Seven. This happens when the browser window is updated. Maybe something with the older IE's or IE plugins installed on this systems. I have not much time to analyse it, but will try to do it asap. Somebody knows a free debugger compatible with .NET4, I don't want to install VS on these XP machines ?
Hopefully someone will find it useful,
best regards,
hobBIT
I wrote a little application in the past 2 days which serves my needs to index my movies. It just creates an .nfo for every movie, containing a hand-selected IMDB link, so XBMC's scrapers always find the correct movie. Without it, I have a failure rate of about 10%, which can be very disappointing managing > 1000 movies. Using this method, I can always rescan my library, with a (hopefully) failure rate of 0.
If someone is in search of a similar tool, it is free and can be downloaded here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2VKHPGK
It requires .NET framework 4.0, which can be downloaded from MS website: .NET Framework 4.0
Some words one how to use it:
1. First time usage: Open options; type in the IMDB site of your choice (.com, .de, .fr, ...) and optionally enhance the list of recognized movie file extensions.
2. Select the root folder of your movies, after that, all movies should be listed in the lower window part.
3. If there are already .nfo files, the application extracts the IMDB-ID and shows it in front of the movie name.
4. Selecting a movie may result in 2 different scenarios:
- If the IMDB-ID is known, the movies site is opened in the browser view. If it is wrong, you can always start a new search using the <Re-Search> button.
- Otherwise an IMDB-search is started. You should than navigate to the correct movie.
In either case, if a the correct movie is visible in the browser view (you can use the browser as usual to find the correct movie, i.e. find it using known actors), click on <Use IMDB ID>, which maps the current movie to the current IMDB-ID. This subsequently creates the .nfo file for this movie. OVERRIDING THE PREVIOUS .NFO SILENTLY.
Known issues: I got some crashes on XP-Systems which I never got on Seven. This happens when the browser window is updated. Maybe something with the older IE's or IE plugins installed on this systems. I have not much time to analyse it, but will try to do it asap. Somebody knows a free debugger compatible with .NET4, I don't want to install VS on these XP machines ?
Hopefully someone will find it useful,
best regards,
hobBIT
