2014-04-20, 18:38
I'm sorry, but I did not mean to imply that Media Companion did not scrape .strm files. The first time i tried it nothing happened when I tried scraping .strms. The second time, using the offline method, it did scrape the files. I don't know what I did wrong the fist time.
My problem is the movie posters. XBMC will not display posters for the .strms I'm trying to enter. It will enter the files in the library, but it will not display a poster unless I download it manually using the artwork downloader. After some further testing, I'm beginning to think my problem is an XBMC problem and not a scraper problem. I tried again this morning scraping the files using MC the normal way (not using the "Offline Media" option). It scraped them fine. I tried entering the in XBMC again and the same thing happened. The files show in the library, but the poster is the generic image XBMC displays when there is not image associated with the video. I then, cleaned the files and scraped the movies again using Ember Media Manager, then tried entering them in XBMC. This time the files showed in the library, but the poster was nothing, not even the generic cann't-find-the-artwork image. Looking at the log, I find things like this:
"ERROR: NFS: Failed to stat(nfs/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Stagevu/A Name for Evil 1973/A Name for Evil 1973-poster.jpg) stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //Public failed with NFS3ERR_NOENT(-2)"
where XBMC is having a problem with the poster (from my Ember MM run, not Media Companion) along with other errors like:
"12:09:45 T:4188 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error probing input format, smb://MYBOOK/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Sci Fi & Fantasy/Creature Of Destruction (1967)/Creature Of Destruction (1967).mp4
12:09:45 T:4188 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for smb://MYBOOK/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Horror/Diary of A Madman 1963/Diary of A Madman 1963.mp4
12:09:45 T:4188 ERROR: CDVDFileInfo::ExtractThumb - Error creating demuxer"
where XBMC is having other problems.
I just installed Gotham less than two weeks ago. I have several files that are almost exactly the same as the ones I'm trying to enter now (.strm files) that were scraped with Ember. Those show in the library fine, but those were also scanned in using Frodo. Maybe it's a Gotham thing, but for now I cann't figure out how to get XBMC to recognize the poster no matter what is used to scrape the file.
Like I said before, I am sorry if I offended you. I'm just trying to figure things out. I jumped the gun when i said it was a problem with Media Companion.
My problem is the movie posters. XBMC will not display posters for the .strms I'm trying to enter. It will enter the files in the library, but it will not display a poster unless I download it manually using the artwork downloader. After some further testing, I'm beginning to think my problem is an XBMC problem and not a scraper problem. I tried again this morning scraping the files using MC the normal way (not using the "Offline Media" option). It scraped them fine. I tried entering the in XBMC again and the same thing happened. The files show in the library, but the poster is the generic image XBMC displays when there is not image associated with the video. I then, cleaned the files and scraped the movies again using Ember Media Manager, then tried entering them in XBMC. This time the files showed in the library, but the poster was nothing, not even the generic cann't-find-the-artwork image. Looking at the log, I find things like this:
"ERROR: NFS: Failed to stat(nfs/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Stagevu/A Name for Evil 1973/A Name for Evil 1973-poster.jpg) stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //Public failed with NFS3ERR_NOENT(-2)"
where XBMC is having a problem with the poster (from my Ember MM run, not Media Companion) along with other errors like:
"12:09:45 T:4188 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Open - error probing input format, smb://MYBOOK/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Sci Fi & Fantasy/Creature Of Destruction (1967)/Creature Of Destruction (1967).mp4
12:09:45 T:4188 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for smb://MYBOOK/Public/Shared Videos/Videos/Horror/Diary of A Madman 1963/Diary of A Madman 1963.mp4
12:09:45 T:4188 ERROR: CDVDFileInfo::ExtractThumb - Error creating demuxer"
where XBMC is having other problems.
I just installed Gotham less than two weeks ago. I have several files that are almost exactly the same as the ones I'm trying to enter now (.strm files) that were scraped with Ember. Those show in the library fine, but those were also scanned in using Frodo. Maybe it's a Gotham thing, but for now I cann't figure out how to get XBMC to recognize the poster no matter what is used to scrape the file.
Like I said before, I am sorry if I offended you. I'm just trying to figure things out. I jumped the gun when i said it was a problem with Media Companion.
