2011-02-11, 04:00
Hi all,
This is going to be a longer post, but I am oh so close to getting xbmc setup beautifully and I just have a couple niggling things I am trying to work out.
I have looked high and low and cannot seem to find the info I am looking for, so any help is appreciated.
My movies are either 1:1 bluray rips (to mkv) with HD audio encoded to FLAC. Or 1:1 dvd rips (to mkv).
I have come from Media Browser. My file structure looks like this:
\\Movies\Astro Boy (2009)\Astro.Boy.mkv
\\Movies\Astro Boy (2009)\Trailers\somename-trailer.mov
1. Trailers: is there any way to get xbmc to play my downloaded trailer when viewing a movie's information without renaming it and without moving it out of the trailers folder? I would like to not break Media Browser functionality and moving them out of the trailers folder will do just that.
I can stream the apple trailers (with the apple plugin) no problem. The hd-net trailers that the xbmc scrapper uses don't stream that well - always buffering. And the Ember trailers (at least with my 2 test movies) don't work at all.
Ideally I just get my downloaded trailers working. Any suggestions on how/if it can be done with my current structure and naming convention?
I have tried the internal scraper, and I have tried using Ember.
2. My aspect ratio always comes across as 1.78:1. I use MetaBrowser for my Media Browser management and it fetches the correct aspect ratio from imdb.com
The internal scraper using tmdb, does not return aspect ratio (at least it doesn't in MetaBrowser). And when I look at the Ember setting for imdb, it doesn't seem to pull the aspect ratio either (even though it is available from imdb).
So how are you getting the correct aspect ratios?
3. With the internal scrapper, my audio icons come across correctly as flac plus 5.1 or 7.1. However with Ember, only the 5.1 or 7.1 is displayed. Any thoughts on why Ember doesn't diplay the Flac icon?
4. Ember seems to nuke my folder.jpg (cover image for media browser). Not sure why.
The internal scraper seems to work quite well and I may just go with that as I've spent many hours with the metadata for media browser and, honestly, I don't feel like doing it all again for xbmc. Especially since xbmc doesn't do rotating backdrops (fanart).
I just really wish I could get the aspect ratio and downloaded trailers working.
any suggestions are mucho appreciated.
This is going to be a longer post, but I am oh so close to getting xbmc setup beautifully and I just have a couple niggling things I am trying to work out.
I have looked high and low and cannot seem to find the info I am looking for, so any help is appreciated.
My movies are either 1:1 bluray rips (to mkv) with HD audio encoded to FLAC. Or 1:1 dvd rips (to mkv).
I have come from Media Browser. My file structure looks like this:
\\Movies\Astro Boy (2009)\Astro.Boy.mkv
\\Movies\Astro Boy (2009)\Trailers\somename-trailer.mov
1. Trailers: is there any way to get xbmc to play my downloaded trailer when viewing a movie's information without renaming it and without moving it out of the trailers folder? I would like to not break Media Browser functionality and moving them out of the trailers folder will do just that.
I can stream the apple trailers (with the apple plugin) no problem. The hd-net trailers that the xbmc scrapper uses don't stream that well - always buffering. And the Ember trailers (at least with my 2 test movies) don't work at all.
Ideally I just get my downloaded trailers working. Any suggestions on how/if it can be done with my current structure and naming convention?
I have tried the internal scraper, and I have tried using Ember.
2. My aspect ratio always comes across as 1.78:1. I use MetaBrowser for my Media Browser management and it fetches the correct aspect ratio from imdb.com
The internal scraper using tmdb, does not return aspect ratio (at least it doesn't in MetaBrowser). And when I look at the Ember setting for imdb, it doesn't seem to pull the aspect ratio either (even though it is available from imdb).
So how are you getting the correct aspect ratios?
3. With the internal scrapper, my audio icons come across correctly as flac plus 5.1 or 7.1. However with Ember, only the 5.1 or 7.1 is displayed. Any thoughts on why Ember doesn't diplay the Flac icon?
4. Ember seems to nuke my folder.jpg (cover image for media browser). Not sure why.
The internal scraper seems to work quite well and I may just go with that as I've spent many hours with the metadata for media browser and, honestly, I don't feel like doing it all again for xbmc. Especially since xbmc doesn't do rotating backdrops (fanart).
I just really wish I could get the aspect ratio and downloaded trailers working.
any suggestions are mucho appreciated.