(2014-12-31, 00:54)vbat99 Wrote: (2014-12-30, 23:42)Choppasmith Wrote: Had to say the latest versions of MC have been GREAT! I would usually have to switch between Ember and MC for different tasks but not anymore.
Home Movies works GREAT for the Video Extras add on. There are just a couple of problems
-It seems like it ignores any NFO already present. I had some extras with some specific Sort Titles and they were ignored
-It seems the longer the video, the more difficult it is to generate screenshots further into the file. I was able to create a thumbnail 2 minutes in for a 3 minute file, but for something that was about 20 minutes, it couldn't even go that far, let alone further than that.
-Not a big deal, but the only way to make it better and more convenient would be a way to choose between tagging <movie> or <tvshow> and being able to link it with a movie or tv show (in other words, just going full support of the addon, would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath)
Thanks guys
Gidday.
I'll have a look at ignoring nfo's if present, but what structure are these nfo? Are you able to PM me one to test with.
For getting the screenshots, we use ffmpeg. The downside of this is scanning through a large video file takes some time. I don't know another way to get a screenshot at a specific time frame, quicker.
Not sure what your are talking about with tagging <movie> or <tvshow>. Are you talking about joining a Movie to a TV Series? If so, this can only be done in XBMC/Kodi, as this is a Database link. Nothing in the nfo will allow this to be done.
I'm just getting used to the VideoExtras addon myself but
from the wiki:
Basic Movie Extra Example
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<movie>
<title>Who knows</title>
<sorttitle>Who knows 1</sorttitle>
<plot>Something happens</plot>
<thumb>thumbnail.jpg</thumb>
<fanart>background.jpg</fanart>
</movie>
Basic TV Extra Example
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<tvshow>
<title>Who knows</title>
<sorttitle>Who knows 1</sorttitle>
<plot>Something happens</plot>
<thumb>http://forum.xbmc.org/images/xbmc/xbmc-lettering.png</thumb>
<fanart>http://forum.xbmc.org/images/xbmc/xbmc-lettering.png</fanart>
</tvshow>
If you notice, the only real difference is the movie and tvshow tag, hence why I was asking if there could be a way to choose between Movie or TVShow. I set up the Home Movies scan folder to be the same as my Movie folder so the movies showed up, but also the extras. This was the NFO I had done manually in Notepad (just C+P'd the Example format above)
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<movie>
<title>Introduction from Ernest Borgnine</title>
<sorttitle>DD Extras 1</sorttitle>
<plot>Something happens</plot>
<thumb>thumbnail.jpg</thumb>
<fanart>background.jpg</fanart>
</movie>
And this is what it looks like in MC
As far as linking with a TV or Movie, I was just throwing that out there. Adding some kind of "Manage Extras" option maybe. By default, Video Extras scans your single movie folder for an "Extras" folder and that's where you put your extras and for a TV Show it's either TV Show\Extras or as I've been doing it so far TV Show/Season/Extras/. In theory, you can do episode specific extras but
even the author seemed unsure. So I'm thinking MC could detect the extras you have and make thumbnails/nfos ready to go. But I could understand if such an addition could be seen as "low priority".
