[Cocotus]

I discovered something today - dont know if it has been reported..

I saved a poster and fanart from TMDB manually.
Then i scrapped for the same Movie - using Ember - and saved Poster and Fanart. What i did found out is that the Poster and Fanart saved with Ember have different size (lower size (in kb)) from the ones that i saved manually.
(same resolution, same images, same movie, no Resizing in Settings)..

Why is that?

That is a known problem of Ember, see: http://ember.purplepig.net/issues/103 - even if you set 100& Quality in Ember at Scraper Settings the images downloaded with Ember will have lower quality - this is because Ember doesn't downloading the file 1:1 as you would expect, but saves the jpg as recrompressed image so ou loose quality! I tried a workaround for this once and failed, but I believe msavazzi has this fixed for the next version

[RockDawg]

If we can't get support for poster.png, can we at least get an option to disable poster downloads? Every time I scrape my movies I have to go and delete the poster EMM downloads or XBMC will use that instead of my custom poster.png.

[solamnic]

I discovered something today - dont know if it has been reported..

I saved a poster and fanart from TMDB manually.
Then i scrapped for the same Movie - using Ember - and saved Poster and Fanart. What i did found out is that the Poster and Fanart saved with Ember have different size (lower size (in kb)) from the ones that i saved manually.
(same resolution, same images, same movie, no Resizing in Settings)..

Why is that?

That is a known problem of Ember, see: http://ember.purplepig.net/issues/103 - even if you set 100& Quality in Ember at Scraper Settings the images downloaded with Ember will have lower quality - this is because Ember doesn't downloading the file 1:1 as you would expect, but saves the jpg as recrompressed image so ou loose quality! I tried a workaround for this once and failed, but I believe msavazzi has this fixed for the next version

Good to know

[DanCooper]

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[solamnic]

Something changed in TMDB api? (cant scrap images correctly)(or another TMDB downtime?)

[>>X<<]

Just updated to Ember 1.3.0.10.1 and noticed its now adding, <bitrate>0</bitrate>, <multiView_Count /> and <encodedSettings /> to the nfo is this meant to be there, XBMC doesn't use this right?

Code:

<bitrate>3602</bitrate>
<multiView_Count />
<encodedSettings>cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.05:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.70</encodedSettings>
      </video>

Thanks for your continued support

[Randall Lind]

Some people use it for other media programs so maybe one of them does.

[Cocotus]

Just updated to Ember 1.3.0.10.1 and noticed its now adding, <bitrate>0</bitrate>, <multiView_Count /> and <encodedSettings /> to the nfo is this meant to be there, XBMC doesn't use this right?

Code:

<bitrate>3602</bitrate>
<multiView_Count />
<encodedSettings>cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.05:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.70</encodedSettings>
      </video>

Thanks for your continued support

I added those fields in the last version so now we finally use the comprehensive information from MediaInfo scans.
Right now XBMC doesn't use those fields, but it doesn't hurt and my movie collection template use the bitrate (quality filter) and Multiview-Count (to identify 3D movies).

[kricker]

How do I turn off creation of the .actors folder?

[Cocotus]

How do I turn off creation of the .actors folder?

Image Scraper Settings -> Enable Actor Cache I think...

[kricker]

Hmm. I don't have that enabled....so I should enable that?

[DanCooper]

How do I turn off creation of the .actors folder?

It's a bug.
Add this to your AdvancedSettings.xml:

Code:

<Setting Section="*EmberAPP" Name="ScrapeActorsThumbs">False</Setting>

[stsmith5150]

I have a question on 1.3.0.10.1 dtshd icons. They are not showing the dts-HD icon nor the channels in EMM. I have mapped it to dtsma and EMM still will not show them in the upper right hand corner. I get the speaker ?.

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Does anyone have an up-to-date mediainfo/audiocodec mapping that they can share? 1.3.9 still doesn't have things like DTS-HD, DTS-MA, DD TrueHD, DD+, etc...

From xbmc wiki, the naming of codecs should be following:

ListItem.VideoCodec Shows the video codec of the currently selected video (common values: 3iv2, avc1, div2, div3, divx, divx 4, dx50, flv, h264, microsoft, mp42, mp43, mp4v, mpeg1video, mpeg2video, mpg4, rv40, svq1, svq3, theora, vp6f, wmv2, wmv3, wvc1, xvid)

ListItem.VideoResolution Shows the resolution of the currently selected video (possible values: 480, 576, 540, 720, 1080). Note that 540 usually means a widescreen format (around 960x540) while 576 means PAL resolutions (normally 720x576), therefore 540 is actually better resolution than 576.

ListItem.VideoAspect Shows the aspect ratio of the currently selected video (possible values: 1.33, 1.66, 1.78, 1.85, 2.20, 2.35)

ListItem.AudioCodec Shows the audio codec of the currently selected video (common values: aac, ac3, cook, dca, dtshd_hra, dtshd_ma, eac3, mp1, mp2, mp3, pcm_s16be, pcm_s16le, pcm_u8, truehd, vorbis, wmapro, wmav2)

I commited some changes in Ember to support this:
dtshd_hra, dtshd_ma were scanned and named correctly, but there were'nt flag icons in Ember before. So I added dtshd_hra.png , dtshd_ma.png to Ember so that for this type of movies, flag icon will be shown. Also added another audio codec mapping: from "a_truehd" to "truehd". I suggest to wait until next version of Ember to check this out and see if everything works.

Awesome job Cocotus! I'm looking forward to checking it out!

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I am on the 1.3.10 and cannot get dts-hd icon to show nor the channel icon when it is dts-hd. I maaped to dtsma and the pngs are there. Any ideas?

[solamnic]

Tried today to scrap movies...(using 1.3.10 fix1 version)

when i select a poster from tmdb it displays original medium cover small and i can select only medium and cover,
Fanart also is not saved...

Any one else experiencing this one?

[&gt;&gt;X&lt;&lt;]

Tried today to scrap movies...(using 1.3.10 fix1 version)

when i select a poster from tmdb it displays original medium cover small and i can select only medium and cover,
Fanart also is not saved...

Any one else experiencing this one?

Go to

Settings > Movies > Scraper - Images & Trailers, then uncheck "Use Image Cache" then your be able to select any image size.