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Great program.. Really just started messing with it tonight using Vista.. When I selected my entire movie folder it crashes, but selecting them one at a time, it was working.. Noticed that my older .bin movies won't show up on the list and can't be scraped.. Still moving folders around to try and see what is causing it to crash when I select the entire folder..
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3: Only if you are downloading the full sizes for viewing, rather than the thumbs (see the _cache directory on tvdb, and there's a separate thumbs directory for moviebackdrops.com.
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A few thoughts on movie scraping (haven't tried tv yet):
1) Why not store a list of "alternative" thumb urls in the .nfo so that to change the thumb after the initial scraping doesn't require hitting "rescrape thumbs"? Does having unrecognized xml tags in the .nfo cause problems for XBMC? If not, it would make it much faster for me to correct thumbs (some come up with an alternative language from what I use).
2) Have you ever considered incorporating a very simple file renamer? For instance, have a "movie pattern" (something like "%t (%y) %r" which translates to "track (year) runtime)") which would change the file names for movies? Even without anything complicated like trying to organize into directories (just rename files in existing directory) would be helpful. Something similar for tv shows would also be helpful. It wouldn't be useful for people who organize all of their movies into individual folders, but it would be helpful to some (including me).
3) When you scan a folder (hit the plus icon), does it search for missing thumbs and/or missing fanart even if the nfo is there?
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Hi. Thank you billyad2000 for this great app. I am using XBMC Media Companion few days and i have request. I'm from Poland and i have problem with specific polish language signs like "Ł" in my nick, when i edit plot. I can't see polish letters on my xbox. This problem happen only when i change TV Shows nfo. I discovery that the Movie nfo files is UTF-8 coding and TV Shows files are ANSI coding. When I change TV Shows nfo from ANSI to UTF-8 with Notepad (Save as -> Coding: UTF-8) everything is ok ( I see polish letters on xbox), but this take to much time. Can you set default coding for TV Shows nfo to UTF-8? I think this is not only my problem.
P.S. I know my english is poor, but try to understand me.
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mnk6
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I noticed a big problem with my last post. I didn't say thanks and how helpful this thing is. Granted, it does need a little polish, but it gets the job done.
I also noticed that the website doesn't have the latest version on it. I downloaded the copy from the website instead of looking through all of the forum posts only to experience a bug that was discussed and fixed.
Thanks again.
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I also would like to see file renamer, I have been wanting to change the actual file name but they are all in a different naming convention and there are hundreds this feature would be great.
It would also be great to get a choose FanArt button similar to the thumb preview, maybe allowing you to pick the one you want and not download the extras.
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[QUOTE=billyad2000;207737Out of curiosity, if you delete the trailer tag from the nfo file does it work then?[/quote]
Finally had a chance to test this with two movies. One with empty trailer tag in nfo file, one with trailer tag removed from nfo file.
Same outcome for both movies, trailer is not visible if nfo exists in folder.
I will need to update to Atlantis build (my build is a couple of weeks old now) and then I will submit a bug (if problem still exists)
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Just tried the new version and it crashed on 2 different machines one vista x86 and the other xp pro. It would crash when I would try to scan my movie folder. So after reading the thread I decided to set up a test folder and put 1 movie in there. It crashed so I removed all the nfo's and other stuff in the folder and just had the avi file. It scanned and didn't crash, now its going to be kinda a pain to go and remove all of my nfo's from my movies but after thats done, I will just do it automatically from any new movies I add into my folder. Now if somebody can tell me how to automatically add movies to xbmc without having to go into each file and click on movie info in order for xbmc to see all the details. it would be appreciated.
I don't want to divert this thread into that subject so could a kind soul pm me about the easiest way to get movies into the library.
Thanks
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mnk6
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I wrote a small php program to help me rename files that sort of works. Here are the things that I renamed:
the video
.tbn
.srt
-fanart.jpg
.sub
One thought is to ignore the extension and rename every file that starts with the current movie/tv show name. Something like this:
existing_video_name = substr(filename, 0, last occurance of period)
new_video_name = pattern from gui and info from nfo
foreach (filename in directory) {
if (substr(filename, 0, length(existing_video_name)) == existing_video_name) {
rename(filename, new_video_name . substr(filename, length(existing_video_name), length(filename)));
}
}
That would get files with any extension and the fanart.
Another thought is to either have a button where you rename each file one at a time (so you can have a preview of what the new filenames will be) or have a preview of the rename before it is done.
Not trying to make this too complicated. I also agree that bug fixes and fanart would take priority over the renaming feature. Just thought it might help.