[vbat99]

Re-issued this release just now, as F5 wasn't working on TV Main Browser tab.
Same version number, but if you have downloaded 3.649b in the last ten minutes, re-download please to get the corrected version.

[vbat99]

@tars

I hope the rework of Fanart and Poster DL tabs are satisfactory.

[vbat99]

@ifsnop

Let me know how this release goes with some of your movies with accented characters.

[tars]

@tars

I hope the rework of Fanart and Poster DL tabs are satisfactory.

I don't know what you did but now it's unbelievably fast to download pictures. Have to test for a longer period to be sure, but if that's the case, it wasn't bad connection issue at all but some coding issue, right? One minor problem is while downloading it keeps pushing up scroll bar slider to the top (as pictures keep getting added) so it's not easy to view downloaded pictures during the process. Can you make the user control the slider during download?
Thanks a lot and really appreciate your great work!

[vbat99]

I'd really like to keep the progress bar visible at all times, but someone has coded some weird as stuff in that section, and every attempt has trashed the gui.

So your talking about the scrollbar for Movie Fanart always returning to the top? Yeah, I see what you mean.
Damn it.

Will try and fix that in the next release.

[KidKiwi]

Hey Vbat99,

Been using MC for many years - fantastic piece of kit.

Recently, I've looked at a few movies and their "Cast" listing within Kodi.

Previously, these were listed by having the stars appears first, now it would seem that the cast list is any-old-how...and sometimes you have to scroll through the list a long way to find the star you are looking for. I prefer the stars list first.

Is there a setting in MC that changes this behaviour. I've looked for it, but couldn't find anything.

Keep up the great effort. Thx

Update: Been looking at this and found that within the nfo the actors are listed with their star status first. That would mean that loading the nfo into Kodi has somehow changed this, because they are listed differently through the inteface.

[vbat99]

Hey Vbat99,

Been using MC for many years - fantastic piece of kit.

Recently, I've looked at a few movies and their "Cast" listing within Kodi.

Previously, these were listed by having the stars appears first, now it would seem that the cast list is any-old-how...and sometimes you have to scroll through the list a long way to find the star you are looking for. I prefer the stars list first.

Is there a setting in MC that changes this behavior. I've looked for it, but couldn't find anything.

Keep up the great effort. Thx

Update: Been looking at this and found that within the nfo the actors are listed with their star status first. That would mean that loading the nfo into Kodi has somehow changed this, because they are listed differently through the interface.

Media Companion loads the actors into the nfo by their sort order. If this is not available then actors are stored in the order they are scraped.
ie:

Code:

<stars>Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke, Anthony Michael Hall</stars>
    <actor>
        <id>11160</id>
        <name>Danny Trejo</name>
        <role>Guerrero</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/7b8cDfrmeheQbgryfCm7MeJOxxM.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>2295</id>
        <name>Mickey Rourke</name>
        <role>Lucifer</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/AvGzQ8fvjurGmZW3W1wlQ5WfSeT.jpg</thumb>
        <order>1</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>1904</id>
        <name>Anthony Michael Hall</name>
        <role>Red Hernandez</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/ui3mCBPiNiDlYvhztJ0F1onSB4j.jpg</thumb>
        <order>2</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>2133</id>
        <name>Dina Meyer</name>
        <role>Calathea Massey</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/a208ijs7X3u8lPzKWHeXSp3PiMd.jpg</thumb>
        <order>3</order>
    </actor>

Note: the entry <stars> is not used by Kodi, only for Media Companion. Kodi ignores this entry.
Order of actors is identified by <order>

Testing four movies in Kodi 15, Kodi 16 and Kodi 17 Nightly, all movies show the actors in the order that Media Companion places then in the nfo.
The one movie I have that does not have an <order> info for the actors, Kodi also loaded in the same sequence that they are in the nfo.

For reference, I got Kodi to scan one Movie in, and then exported this movie to an nfo. This movie did not have an nfo, Kodi scraped directly from TheMovieDb.

Code:

<actor>
        <name>Andy Serkis</name>
        <role>Caesar</role>
        <order>0</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/nQRsxFveJaUIlZ4GYWDe9uJ6u2f.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Jason Clarke</name>
        <role>Malcolm</role>
        <order>1</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/uQkdtodK1wklnI4T6w2AdcTgGqB.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Toby Kebbell</name>
        <role>Koba</role>
        <order>2</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/wQU3uFk2TWjT2qfs2Z6rkdbWbjx.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Keri Russell</name>
        <role>Ellie</role>
        <order>3</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/x6TpFaS6p1v4o2gN2KWW24Osl9m.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>

Kodi also uses the <order> tag for actors.

Sorry, I can not reproduce this issue.

[KidKiwi]

Hey Vbat99,

Been using MC for many years - fantastic piece of kit.

Recently, I've looked at a few movies and their "Cast" listing within Kodi.

Previously, these were listed by having the stars appears first, now it would seem that the cast list is any-old-how...and sometimes you have to scroll through the list a long way to find the star you are looking for. I prefer the stars list first.

Is there a setting in MC that changes this behavior. I've looked for it, but couldn't find anything.

Keep up the great effort. Thx

Update: Been looking at this and found that within the nfo the actors are listed with their star status first. That would mean that loading the nfo into Kodi has somehow changed this, because they are listed differently through the interface.

Media Companion loads the actors into the nfo by their sort order. If this is not available then actors are stored in the order they are scraped.
ie:

Code:

<stars>Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke, Anthony Michael Hall</stars>
    <actor>
        <id>11160</id>
        <name>Danny Trejo</name>
        <role>Guerrero</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/7b8cDfrmeheQbgryfCm7MeJOxxM.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>2295</id>
        <name>Mickey Rourke</name>
        <role>Lucifer</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/AvGzQ8fvjurGmZW3W1wlQ5WfSeT.jpg</thumb>
        <order>1</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>1904</id>
        <name>Anthony Michael Hall</name>
        <role>Red Hernandez</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/ui3mCBPiNiDlYvhztJ0F1onSB4j.jpg</thumb>
        <order>2</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>2133</id>
        <name>Dina Meyer</name>
        <role>Calathea Massey</role>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/a208ijs7X3u8lPzKWHeXSp3PiMd.jpg</thumb>
        <order>3</order>
    </actor>

Note: the entry <stars> is not used by Kodi, only for Media Companion. Kodi ignores this entry.
Order of actors is identified by <order>

Testing four movies in Kodi 15, Kodi 16 and Kodi 17 Nightly, all movies show the actors in the order that Media Companion places then in the nfo.
The one movie I have that does not have an <order> info for the actors, Kodi also loaded in the same sequence that they are in the nfo.

For reference, I got Kodi to scan one Movie in, and then exported this movie to an nfo. This movie did not have an nfo, Kodi scraped directly from TheMovieDb.

Code:

<actor>
        <name>Andy Serkis</name>
        <role>Caesar</role>
        <order>0</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/nQRsxFveJaUIlZ4GYWDe9uJ6u2f.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Jason Clarke</name>
        <role>Malcolm</role>
        <order>1</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/uQkdtodK1wklnI4T6w2AdcTgGqB.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Toby Kebbell</name>
        <role>Koba</role>
        <order>2</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/wQU3uFk2TWjT2qfs2Z6rkdbWbjx.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <name>Keri Russell</name>
        <role>Ellie</role>
        <order>3</order>
        <thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/x6TpFaS6p1v4o2gN2KWW24Osl9m.jpg</thumb>
    </actor>

Kodi also uses the <order> tag for actors.

Sorry, I can not reproduce this issue.

Thanks for the reply.

Here is a snipet of code from the nfo files being created by my setup. As you will probably notice - there is no sequential order number. It is zero for them all. I have just upgraded to 3.649 today and rescraped the actors for a movie. It is still scraping with "0" as the order for them all. Any suggestions. Thx.

Code:

<actor>
        <id>0430107</id>
        <name>Michael B. Jordan</name>
        <role>Adonis Johnson</role>
        <thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4ODI5MjA2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODUwODk1OQ@@._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>0000230</id>
        <name>Sylvester Stallone</name>
        <role>Rocky Balboa</role>
        <thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwMTk3NDU2OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTA3MTI0Mw@@._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>1935086</id>
        <name>Tessa Thompson</name>
        <role>Bianca</role>
        <thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNjk4MDU3NDg4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjMxMjcwNA@@._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>0711118</id>
        <name>Phylicia Rashad</name>
        <role>Mary Anne Creed</role>
        <thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTczMzcxNzYyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTAyMDQ2NA@@._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>3188266</id>
        <name>Andre Ward</name>
        <role>Danny 'Stuntman' Wheeler</role>
        <thumb>
        </thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <id>6905689</id>
        <name>Tony Bellew</name>
        <role>'Pretty' Ricky Conlan</role>
        <thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjMxNzYxNTEwMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjI0MDEyNzE@._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>

[vbat99]

What scraper are not using? I believe IMDb doesn't give order info, only tmdb.

[KidKiwi]

What scraper are not using? I believe IMDb doesn't give order info, only tmdb.

Yeah...I was using IMDB. Switching to TMDB sorted the problem.

IMDB used to list the sorting order didn't it. I think I've only ever used IMDB, and I used to get the correct listing order. Doens't really matter.

Solved.

Thx muchly

[vbat99]

I will double check IMDb tomorrow and let you know

[vbat99]

IMDb actor order fix in place for next release.

[KidKiwi]

IMDb actor order fix in place for next release.

Sweet!!! I'll have to go check how far back this goes and rescrape. Keeps me out of mischief

Thx muchly.

[Doktor-X]

how to stop program from scraping movie name in LOCAL language i want to have names in english

[vbat99]

how to stop program from scraping movie name in LOCAL language i want to have names in english

Select XMBC TMDb scraper, and ensure you have Language as 'EN'.

IMDb scraper will return data in your language based on your geo-location IP address. This can not be changed.