[myron]

Wonder if it is possible for you to ask the moderatros to create a separate subforum for this app rahter than have all support things go into one giant topic...

I'm sure you'll find that on your own by going up one level

But somehow, this thread never dies ^^
(no, we won't close it)

[RockDawg]

Just tried this software for the first time and I am really liking it. Really nice GUI. I've been using Ember Media Manager for years now and this is pretty close (better in the TV section) to in terms of quality and usability. I have a few questions/suggestions:

1. Is there a way to use the file's actual duration for the runtime?
2. Could you include the IMDB Top 250 for movies
3. Is there a way, or could you include a means for selecting/unselecting the items to be scraped? For example. I sometimes like to re-scrape only the votes, rating and IMDB250 to update them but I don't need it re-scrape everything else. The same holds true with images. I use my own custom posters and would hate to have them overwritten when I scrape.

Thanks a lot for this software. It's really nice!

[john_es]

Great app... I like that it has a clena interface and is super fast...


However a few things are preventin gme from using it...

There's no releasedate tag.

There's a premiered tag which should be reanmed to releasedate.

Country tag is not being populated.

There's no certification (<certification>USAG-13</certification>)

There are fanart and thumb tags with URLs - they shouldn't be there.

And there's no fileinfo section:

<fileinfo>
<streamdetails>
<audio>
<channels>2</channels>
<codec>aac</codec>
<language>eng</language>
<longlanguage>English</longlanguage>
<bitrate>93.8</bitrate>
</audio>
<video>
<aspect>2.400</aspect>
<codec>avc1</codec>
<durationinseconds>7138</durationinseconds>
<height>800</height>
<scantype>Progressive</scantype>
<width>1920</width>
<bitrate>2133</bitrate>
<multiView_Count />
<encodedSettings>cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=1 / 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=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2133 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=31250 / vbv_bufsize=31250 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00</encodedSettings>
</video>
</streamdetails>
</fileinfo>

[mlaggner]

@RockDawg:
1) at the moment there isn't a direct way (are you unsatisfied with the result from the scrapers?). There should be a workaround:
- do a fresh import of the movies
- when you scrape metadata "uncheck" the runtime setting (then the runtime from MI should be taken). I am not sure if that is working for DVD images

2) it has been long on our todo list and there is no eta, because there are much more important things to do

3) yes - have you not seen all the shiny checkboxes in the bottom of each "scrape-dialog"?

@john_es:
every now and then there is a discussion about the same things..
due do a incomplete documentation of the NFO files for XBMC we did some reverse engineering and build it, concerning every information we got.

at the moment I can't tell you, why we took the premiered tag, but is there any "official" document from XBMC where it is described? same for the mpaa/certication tag. About mpaa/certification and fileinfo have a look at the post some months ago from myron: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1497468

And for the fanart and thumb tags - there is no problem putting the URLs in, because XBMC is searching for local artwork and finds the artwork in the movie folder. The tags are stored for a later usage

about the country tag - I'll have a look. This should be at least populated

EDIT: country is being populated here.. I suppose the tag is only in the NFO if there is any value in it. Do you see the country in the details tab of the movie?

[PV_XBMC]

Hi,

I am choosing media manager for my usage and I have found your TMM best, but I have some problems with it:

1) I need scrape only "trailer" and "sets" in function "Search & scrape selected movie(s) - force best match", but no information updated until I have added one more information for scrape (for example "Certification"). Is it bug?

2) Is there any possibility to see info about resolution of poster, fanart, etc.?

3) In case of DVD with VIDEO_TS structure, TMM saves nfo into VIDEO_TS.nfo or VTS_01_1.nfo (why sometimes VTS_01_1.nfo and not everytime VIDEO_TS.nfo like in XBMC) into folder above of VIDEO_TS folder. XBMC Frodo 12.2 saves nfo into VIDEO_TS.nfo into VIDEO_TS folder. XBMC cannot import information from nfo files saved above VIDEO_TS folder.

Thank you very much for your help.

[mlaggner]

@john_es: I've just checked that issue with the fileinfo again. It seems like we still do write them - at least if we have the needed infos for it (I think every video file except dvd/br images will deliver this infos). But imho it is useless because XBMC scans them itself

@PV_XBMC: thanks for reporting
1) it was a bug - I fixed it
2) have a look at the mediafiles tab
3) I found some info about NFO file naming for DVDs in the XBMC wiki. I did also google for file naming for BRs - and I've built that into tmm. Expect it soon

[PV_XBMC]

@john_es: I've just checked that issue with the fileinfo again. It seems like we still do write them - at least if we have the needed infos for it (I think every video file except dvd/br images will deliver this infos). But imho it is useless because XBMC scans them itself

@PV_XBMC: thanks for reporting
1) it was a bug - I fixed it
2) have a look at the mediafiles tab
3) I found some info about NFO file naming for DVDs in the XBMC wiki. I did also google for file naming for BRs - and I've built that into tmm. Expect it soon

Thank you very much in advance.

[RockDawg]

@RockDawg:
1) at the moment there isn't a direct way (are you unsatisfied with the result from the scrapers?). There should be a workaround:
- do a fresh import of the movies
- when you scrape metadata "uncheck" the runtime setting (then the runtime from MI should be taken). I am not sure if that is working for DVD images

That workaround does work, but only on initial NFO creation. I doesn't work to change an existing NFO. I don't like the any scraper's results because they are usually wrong. They list an hour long TV episode as an hour when they are really ~45 minutes because they don;t contain commercials. Movies are also wrong at time depending on whether or not you have the extended, unrated or theatrical version. Nothing is more accurate than reporting the actual duration of the file. It would be nice it it were an option rather than the workaround since you then have to delete existing NFO files if you want to correct their duration.

2) it has been long on our todo list and there is no eta, because there are much more important things to do [

I assume that means it will be some time before it gets added. That's too bad. I'm surprised tMM doesn't make it a priority to support every NFO tag that XBMC and MediaPortal support. I have a a smart playlist in XBMC based on the Top 250 and I use it frequently.

3) yes - have you not seen all the shiny checkboxes in the bottom of each "scrape-dialog"?

Sorry. My bad. I did an initial scrape to test it out before I started looking around at all the options and forgot those options where there. IMHO it would be better to have those all as global options. It would still be easy to access and change per scrape, but would have the additional advantage of allowing a user to turn one or more off and have that setting stick for all future scrapes without having to change it every time.

Please don't take me the wrong way. It's easy to come off the wrong way via text. I am not complaining at all and I'm appreciative of the hard work you put into this. Just trying to offer some suggestions and feedback based on how I use media managers.

[mlaggner]

17.11.2013 - version 2.4.7
feature: added configurable scraper threshold (thx to georg)
fix: some performance enhancements to the movie importer
fix: remove set tag from XBMC nfo after removing a movie from a set
fix: more effective scaling of images (out of heap error should be gone)
fix: MovieRenamer/Cleanup: 'thumbs' were ignored/lost in GUI
fix: better certification import from MP NFOs
fix: more enhancements to the imdb scraper (especially for non english speaking users)
fix: minified movie chooser window to fit on smaller screens
fix: better subtitle detection
fix: scrape collection info is now possible without scraping any other metadata
fix: NFO file name/location for DVD/BR folders

[PV_XBMC]

17.11.2013 - version 2.4.7
feature: added configurable scraper threshold (thx to georg)
fix: some performance enhancements to the movie importer
fix: remove set tag from XBMC nfo after removing a movie from a set
fix: more effective scaling of images (out of heap error should be gone)
fix: MovieRenamer/Cleanup: 'thumbs' were ignored/lost in GUI
fix: better certification import from MP NFOs
fix: more enhancements to the imdb scraper (especially for non english speaking users)
fix: minified movie chooser window to fit on smaller screens
fix: better subtitle detection
fix: scrape collection info is now possible without scraping any other metadata
fix: NFO file name/location for DVD/BR folders

Thank you very much for new version.

I have found similar problem like NFO file name/location with fanart/poster name/location.

Location is OK, but name is problem. For normal videos (mkv, avi, etc.) is right "<dynamic>-poster.ext" and "<dynamic>-fanart.ext" settings, but for DVD structure is right "poster.ext" and "fanart.ext" settings. Of course, both settings switched on at the same time is possible solution, but it makes mess...

There is description for XBMC Frodo 12.2.: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...r_Frodo.3F (chapter 1.8)

Would it be possible change it in TMM?

Thank you very much in advance.

[mlaggner]

@RockDawg: sorry for the late response - it has been a busy week here.
1) Ok, good point from your side. I'll have a look at this
2) you have to understand our intention: we try to create a media manager which supports more than xbmc and uses more than imdb. top250 is a imdb only (and xbmc only?) field. that is why it had a low priority here. I've included it recently and it will appear in 2.5
3) in the settings you can choose them a global options - which will be filled as default at every scrape

@PV_XBMC: in the wiki you pointed out, there is a lack of documentation for DVD/BR file naming. that's why we did some try and error here. I will change it to your suggestion and hope this is right

[PV_XBMC]

@PV_XBMC: in the wiki you pointed out, there is a lack of documentation for DVD/BR file naming. that's why we did some try and error here. I will change it to your suggestion and hope this is right

Thank you very much.

There is possibility change actor name and actor role. This feature is very important for me, because I need change locale characters in actor name and role, but I have found some problems with change of actor name:

1) If I have changed actor name, this actor is newly saved in bottom position in the NFO file. This is bad, because for example I changed name of main actor in first position and after change this actor is in last position in NFO. Plese keep position of actor in original position.

2) If I change actor name and actor has photo, then I need change name of "<actor>.jpg" in "actors folder" equivalently.

3) Showing photo of actor in editing mode woud be fine, but it is not necessery.

Would it be possible change it in TMM?

Thank you very much in advance.

[Besty]

So i decided to try out TMM after getting fed up with the various problems with ember that seems to break itself on a weekly basis. I rescraped all my nfo files as ember was marking 6 channel audio as 2 channel, thankfully TMM fixed this however upon removing my movie share from XBMC and adding it back it seems the UK ratings don't display.

With Ember, the rating field would getmarked as <mpaa>UK:15</mpaa> which works fine, however TMM would mark it as <mpaa>GB:15 / UK:15</mpaa> which doesn't work with XBMC. I don't know if this is a bug that it displays both as GB and UK ratings are always the same BBFC rating so it doesn't really need to list the same rating twice under different names.

Though i'm aware this program also supports other programs that might use the GB label instead of UK, if so a toggle option would be good.

[myron]

which skin are you using in XBMC? Default confluence?

[Besty]

no i'm currently using Aeon MQ5