2018-11-09, 18:24
I suspect that the existing devs have no interest in providing the feature (eight years and no movement is pretty strong evidence in that regard), and it is up to the community to provide an add-on of some description.
I've been a developer for almost 40 years, and having recently migrated from Windows platforms, but I was resisting learning how to write code for Linux (it seems like the wild west to me, but I haven't really investigated it, and I really don't have any interest). When I get home tonight, I'll start looking at how to author a Kodi add-on. No promises though...
Are the unscraped videos already in the database? If so, can a dev provide some hint regarding the best way to identify unscraped videos?
Having said all that, the Kodi scraping code (understandably) can only request movie info based on the name of the file. It's up to the user to make sure the files are named in such a way as to give TMDB the best chance of finding the correct movie. Unscraped movies can be individually "repaired", but with a large library, that could take hours (I spent two hours fixing mine last night). Most of the mistakes were file names that included no spaces or underscores, or included the disc number, or other info that interfered with movie detection. I also had some misspellings ("CARRIBEAN" instead of "CARIBBEAN", for instance).
I've been a developer for almost 40 years, and having recently migrated from Windows platforms, but I was resisting learning how to write code for Linux (it seems like the wild west to me, but I haven't really investigated it, and I really don't have any interest). When I get home tonight, I'll start looking at how to author a Kodi add-on. No promises though...
Are the unscraped videos already in the database? If so, can a dev provide some hint regarding the best way to identify unscraped videos?
Having said all that, the Kodi scraping code (understandably) can only request movie info based on the name of the file. It's up to the user to make sure the files are named in such a way as to give TMDB the best chance of finding the correct movie. Unscraped movies can be individually "repaired", but with a large library, that could take hours (I spent two hours fixing mine last night). Most of the mistakes were file names that included no spaces or underscores, or included the disc number, or other info that interfered with movie detection. I also had some misspellings ("CARRIBEAN" instead of "CARIBBEAN", for instance).
