2013-07-17, 16:17
@capfuturo:
That was a very long and very informative message.
There's a lot of very useful things mentioned which i hope i'll be able to manage and make them happen.
It won't show up in the main display, or anywhere else really, but you can set a movie's 'source' by opening up the metadata editor, going to the 'information' tab, and there should be a 'Source' field in the lower left with a pull down menu to select a source.
I tried to make ViMM somewhat iTunes like, where the main window is used to display or make use of an item, and an 'editor' window to change the metadata, as you say though, the layout and buttons aren't always the quickest way to get to do what you want, I've been planning on another 'rebuild' where I'm hoping to shake things up and make the main interface a bit more useful and quicker to work with, but I'm still in the planning stages of how to pull that off successfully without making everything too cluttered, hopefully i'll be able to come up with something great.
Currently, ViMM tries to download the first and best images it can find, It'll try to use HD ClearArt before falling back on normal ClearArt, using such fallbacks would be fine in most cases i believe.
I doubt i'll be able to determine the colors used in extra art to filter by, but there is an option under 'Preferences' > 'Extras' to automatically download 'original', 'large', 'medium' or 'small' sized fanart & poster images, but adding some filters to the manual downloading option might be something I can work on.
Setting the correct names based on player only works from the 'splash' window right now because of some technical difficulties in the preferences window, but i've been planning to work on that as well.
ViMM generally does not do anything to compress downloaded images, except 'cached' smaller fanart & poster images for quicker loading that are only used by ViMM's display, and are stored in ViMediaManager's application support folder, so they'll never be picked up by XBMC.
Every image is downloaded directly from either TMDB, TVDB or Fanart.TV, there's no compression happening for any images, the only ones that may be affected are Poster or Fanart images if any size other then 'original' has been selected, in which case they might be re-scaled if the source doesn't provide an option to download them in the correct size, so the image should always be in the best resolution available.
I'm sorry some things are really confusingly layed out, i'm sure i'll be able find a better way eventually.
Right now it works like this:
Links from youtube are gotten from TMDB, links from Apple/AOL/Yahoo are from HD-Trailers.net.
When ViMM downloads your information, it'll automatically gather all the available links from both sources. In the future one might be able to disable the ability to gather links from HD-Trailers, which should then disable the Apple/AOL/Yahoo sources.
If you set your preferences to automatically download a trailer, it'll download the trailer from your preferred source that you've set under the 'Preferences' > 'Extras' tab.
I'm constantly working on making ViMM more stable, but as you've noticed, it hasn't been easy. ^^;
If something chokes it up on start-up, you might have to re-set the application by throwing away it's preferences and the .xml files inside ViMM's application support folder:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/ViMediaManager/
ViMM already works pretty good with TV Shows, but the TVDB's 'guessing' ability isn't as great as TMDB's, ViMediaManager tries to download the first result when searching for media in their databases, and the TMDB seems to do a slightly better job at sorting movies by relevancy then the TVDB, and it could be a bit more disasterous when all the episodes of a series get renamed using the wrongly identified TV Show, so I'm planning to make this at least saver to use in the future, but in most cases it does work pretty well.
I believe that answered most of your questions, be assured that i'll always keep trying to make ViMM better and better! ;-)
@Darkheir:
- Multi-Episodes should be handled correctly automatically, as long as they're recognised. (They're named like this: 'S01E01E02')
- The special episodes are automatically placed in a folder called 'Specials', but for ViMM to recognise these episodes, they should match the TVDB numbers using 'S00E01' & 'S00E05' etc.
That was a very long and very informative message.
There's a lot of very useful things mentioned which i hope i'll be able to manage and make them happen.
It won't show up in the main display, or anywhere else really, but you can set a movie's 'source' by opening up the metadata editor, going to the 'information' tab, and there should be a 'Source' field in the lower left with a pull down menu to select a source.
I tried to make ViMM somewhat iTunes like, where the main window is used to display or make use of an item, and an 'editor' window to change the metadata, as you say though, the layout and buttons aren't always the quickest way to get to do what you want, I've been planning on another 'rebuild' where I'm hoping to shake things up and make the main interface a bit more useful and quicker to work with, but I'm still in the planning stages of how to pull that off successfully without making everything too cluttered, hopefully i'll be able to come up with something great.
Currently, ViMM tries to download the first and best images it can find, It'll try to use HD ClearArt before falling back on normal ClearArt, using such fallbacks would be fine in most cases i believe.
I doubt i'll be able to determine the colors used in extra art to filter by, but there is an option under 'Preferences' > 'Extras' to automatically download 'original', 'large', 'medium' or 'small' sized fanart & poster images, but adding some filters to the manual downloading option might be something I can work on.
Setting the correct names based on player only works from the 'splash' window right now because of some technical difficulties in the preferences window, but i've been planning to work on that as well.
ViMM generally does not do anything to compress downloaded images, except 'cached' smaller fanart & poster images for quicker loading that are only used by ViMM's display, and are stored in ViMediaManager's application support folder, so they'll never be picked up by XBMC.
Every image is downloaded directly from either TMDB, TVDB or Fanart.TV, there's no compression happening for any images, the only ones that may be affected are Poster or Fanart images if any size other then 'original' has been selected, in which case they might be re-scaled if the source doesn't provide an option to download them in the correct size, so the image should always be in the best resolution available.
I'm sorry some things are really confusingly layed out, i'm sure i'll be able find a better way eventually.
Right now it works like this:
Links from youtube are gotten from TMDB, links from Apple/AOL/Yahoo are from HD-Trailers.net.
When ViMM downloads your information, it'll automatically gather all the available links from both sources. In the future one might be able to disable the ability to gather links from HD-Trailers, which should then disable the Apple/AOL/Yahoo sources.
If you set your preferences to automatically download a trailer, it'll download the trailer from your preferred source that you've set under the 'Preferences' > 'Extras' tab.
I'm constantly working on making ViMM more stable, but as you've noticed, it hasn't been easy. ^^;
If something chokes it up on start-up, you might have to re-set the application by throwing away it's preferences and the .xml files inside ViMM's application support folder:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/ViMediaManager/
ViMM already works pretty good with TV Shows, but the TVDB's 'guessing' ability isn't as great as TMDB's, ViMediaManager tries to download the first result when searching for media in their databases, and the TMDB seems to do a slightly better job at sorting movies by relevancy then the TVDB, and it could be a bit more disasterous when all the episodes of a series get renamed using the wrongly identified TV Show, so I'm planning to make this at least saver to use in the future, but in most cases it does work pretty well.
I believe that answered most of your questions, be assured that i'll always keep trying to make ViMM better and better! ;-)
@Darkheir:
- Multi-Episodes should be handled correctly automatically, as long as they're recognised. (They're named like this: 'S01E01E02')
- The special episodes are automatically placed in a folder called 'Specials', but for ViMM to recognise these episodes, they should match the TVDB numbers using 'S00E01' & 'S00E05' etc.
