2011-09-01, 02:32
Archigos Wrote:If it's illegal characters... there's a few ways to troubleshoot... however with such a large library of movies, it might be time consuming... The first thing I would do is make sure watched files aren't hidden to make sure you don't miss any. Next install the Web Interface Add-on XWMM (I'm not by the server right now, so may be slightly different name) and activate that. Now you use XBMC's web interface to view essentially tables with your music, movies and tv shows... you can scroll through them rather quickly and glance for accents. If you find any with 'non-standard' characters, select that movie and in the title field, rename the movie, substituting the 'bad' character. Now, I'm not sure if it's my system, a glitch with the add-on or what, but it appears you have to TAB out of the Title field for the Save button to actually highlight, don't assume it changed the database. Once you click save a little glowing status/progress bar with say something like "Updating movie info" or "Saving movie info"... Anyway, hope this helps.
Side note... if you don't have movies already tagged properly for movie sets, the add-on above works great for setting those up as well.
Hi Archigos,
thanks for your reply.
So, you are confirming, that Constellation has problems with non-standard (meaning non-english) characters, right? I have many german and portuguese movies, and I keep the original titles in the database. That means, there are letters with accents, like "á", "ä", "ã", "ç" and so on. Constallation don't accept this? Odd... Do the developers confirm this restriction?
Well, if this is the problem, I will try to replace these characters in my database. Do you know if the problem is restricted to the title field, or do I have to replace characters in other fields, like plot or tagline?
Regards,
Spider