[stanoislav]

I have put together a little utility that helps me preprocess video files before I use them in the MediaPortal.

If you have your videos in multiple archives (rar, zip, ...) and have .nfo file in the same folder that contains a link to IMDB the vidUnpacker can do the following:

1. find out the IMDB url from the .nfo file
2. connect to IMDB to lookup full name of the movie
3. open the IMDB url in a browser
4. create folder that exactly matches IMDB name
5. unpacks all the archives with the movies (with processing multiple CD folders if necessary) and renames teh uznipped movie files to match the IMDB name
6. finds the subtitle folder if present and unpacks them with correct names
7. moves the source files into recycle bin

run vidUnpacker.exe -? for full list of options

you can for example create a shortcut that would execute

"vidUnpacker.exe -p c:\movies -s"

and double clicking on the shortcut would unpack all your videos in the movies folder

It is something that might be useful as a MP plugin (or included in existing MP modules). If anybody wants to pick it up I can publish teh source code (c#).

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

s.

[mzemina]

Yes - Please, please supply the source code. It can be helpful in many areas!!

[onkl]

For example, .rar as movie extension. Once clicked, on-the-fly unrar to a temp folder, play movie and clean up movie when stopped/any other suitable moment. Could be a process plugin, invisible in the GUI.

(this is just "my usercase", as a suggestion how users approach this, don't know if it is in any way actually feasible.

[stanoislav]

free to use / modify ...

let me know if you have any questions

[Spragleknas]

Exellent!

How about an option for (8.) delete .zip/.rar file after unpacking?

[stanoislav]

I think point # 7. is what you are after. It deletes the original rar / zip files into the recycle bin.

[bedlam]

wow. this really is something that would be awesome if implemented as a process plugin...

[piranha]

This is great!