2011-02-20, 01:08
Hi
Out of boredom (i recently lost my job), i started sorting my movie/tv library so i could get a wife/kids approved htpc with xbmc.
But i quickly ran in to problems. I have a lot of movies/tv shows that i've recorded and ripped myself over serveral years and so on..
But the main problem is that the naming of the files are..well pretty random and even worse, they're mostly in Danish...
That makes it pretty impossible to scrape the files and I dont want to run in "file mode"..
Editing the info in xbmc is not really fun and after trying some of the tools from this forum let me to write my own little tool..
I find that most of the tools in here (and xbmc) really relies on scrapers and makes it hard (for me at least) to easily and quickly add movies without having to spend time correcting scrape errors.
Dont get me wrong i do use the tools and xbmc for ex. TV Shows and well known movies.
But I thought show you guy the tools and ask some questions to get it to the point where others might want to use it.
I've put a couple of screenshots up here that shows the gui at present.
First off, the real goal is to have a easy, fast little program..
You drop a movie file on the top and it gets some info about the codecs and stuff, then it gets data from an xbmc .nfo if it exists or tries to clean up the file name and set the title to that.
Everything is fully editable except for the codec stuff. You can drop a image file to set that as file.tbn / file.jpg (for use with <thumb> in the nfo)
If the file is a mp4 with tags (itunes and somesort of id3 weird combo thing) it can fill the fields incl. artwork, with that data and will be able to write these tags in to a mp4 so you can use it with itunes, wmp, windows explorer etc. which will show the info/artwork.
This is really usefull to me as I have Windows, Mac, Android, iphone and iPods devices and some files are tagged in itunes and some have nfos from xbmc and so on, and i mainly use mp4 to rip/record.
As you can see there a little cleaning up to do.. I'm working on fanart/folderart, the tag thingy, a settings menu with options to save only nfo or tags etc, renaming of files and a bunch of ideas I have..
And now for some questions from you guys...
And before you slay me:
I've haven't programmed stuff for normal human use before and this is my first program with a gui.. Uh, and it was made on a mac... in windows...
And it was written in a couple of days...
Martin
Out of boredom (i recently lost my job), i started sorting my movie/tv library so i could get a wife/kids approved htpc with xbmc.
But i quickly ran in to problems. I have a lot of movies/tv shows that i've recorded and ripped myself over serveral years and so on..
But the main problem is that the naming of the files are..well pretty random and even worse, they're mostly in Danish...
That makes it pretty impossible to scrape the files and I dont want to run in "file mode"..
Editing the info in xbmc is not really fun and after trying some of the tools from this forum let me to write my own little tool..
I find that most of the tools in here (and xbmc) really relies on scrapers and makes it hard (for me at least) to easily and quickly add movies without having to spend time correcting scrape errors.
Dont get me wrong i do use the tools and xbmc for ex. TV Shows and well known movies.
But I thought show you guy the tools and ask some questions to get it to the point where others might want to use it.
I've put a couple of screenshots up here that shows the gui at present.
First off, the real goal is to have a easy, fast little program..
You drop a movie file on the top and it gets some info about the codecs and stuff, then it gets data from an xbmc .nfo if it exists or tries to clean up the file name and set the title to that.
Everything is fully editable except for the codec stuff. You can drop a image file to set that as file.tbn / file.jpg (for use with <thumb> in the nfo)
If the file is a mp4 with tags (itunes and somesort of id3 weird combo thing) it can fill the fields incl. artwork, with that data and will be able to write these tags in to a mp4 so you can use it with itunes, wmp, windows explorer etc. which will show the info/artwork.
This is really usefull to me as I have Windows, Mac, Android, iphone and iPods devices and some files are tagged in itunes and some have nfos from xbmc and so on, and i mainly use mp4 to rip/record.
As you can see there a little cleaning up to do.. I'm working on fanart/folderart, the tag thingy, a settings menu with options to save only nfo or tags etc, renaming of files and a bunch of ideas I have..
And now for some questions from you guys...
- Would you use a tool like this?
- What would be a killer feature for you?
- How do you deal with scrape errors?
And before you slay me:
I've haven't programmed stuff for normal human use before and this is my first program with a gui.. Uh, and it was made on a mac... in windows...
And it was written in a couple of days...
Martin