AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available! (1 Viewer)

[carmenm]

First thanks for very quick bug correction.

Now about my second request. I know its hard to work with. The only way it would always work is if each movie had it s directory(which is the case here). But you we cant work with that kind of solution. It must works for everyone.

The thing we could do is mark a dir as a group or a single movie.
let s take the example i gave.
You are treating the dir GroupMovie :
you see 2 dirs.
First you treate Movie1: you see it s not a group so you mark it as a "movie'
second you treat Movie2, same thing
You ve finished GroupMovie: you see you have 2 diff movies in it (because the dirs are marked as movie and not group) so you create a group GroupMovie.

This is a solution but i am not sure it fits your algorithm. What do you think?

 

[OrionHall]

First thanks for very quick bug correction.

Now about my second request. I know its hard to work with. The only way it would always work is if each movie had it s directory(which is the case here). But you we cant work with that kind of solution. It must works for everyone.

The thing we could do is mark a dir as a group or a single movie.
let s take the example i gave.
You are treating the dir GroupMovie :
you see 2 dirs.
First you treate Movie1: you see it s not a group so you mark it as a "movie'
second you treat Movie2, same thing
You ve finished GroupMovie: you see you have 2 diff movies in it (because the dirs are marked as movie and not group) so you create a group GroupMovie.

This is a solution but i am not sure it fits your algorithm. What do you think?

Hi,

I agree with your logic; however the code in AMCUpdater works slightly differently at a very fundamental level!

On the bright side - I just tested with a multiple-subfolder design and it seems to work. In the scanned folder I have multiple folders for each movie, some of which are Group folders; some not. The folder 'The Matrix Trilogy' contains three subfolders, one per film. Each folder contains a movie file named appropriately, one of which is a multi-part movie. The result is good - three entries in Ant; each with a Group name of 'The Matrix Trilogy'.

Please try the attached (usual warning about backups...!)

Thanks,

Orion.

 

[carmenm]

You just made me smile
i ll try it tonight and let you know as soon as possible!

 

[arryo]

i have a question about the group feature.
The problem i see is that it interferes with the multi-disc feature. My multi-disc movies are also seen as a group and so the original title is changed consequently.
Would it be possible for the importer to see that all the file in this dir are the multi-disc of the same movie and so doesnt create a group?
My other question is if i have that dir structure:
GroupMovie/Movie1/movie1.avi
groupMovie/Movie2/movie2.avi
Will they be seen as a group "groupMovie" of Movie1 and Movie2?

I'll look into it - hopefully this afternoon.

Thanks Orion, I have a quick question. Most of my movies in this format: A.Few.Good.Men.1992.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR

What should I write Strip Characters from Title to get rid of the "1992.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-ESiR" part

Thanks

Hi arryo,

I just tested with that filename, and added the following to the 'strip characters' list...

.
-
720p
BluRay
DTS
x264
ESiR

And that came up with 'A Few Good Men 1992' - which is then sent to the Internet lookup grabber. If you have 'File Name + Internet Lookup' selected then this should be good enough to get an online match, and the title will then be corrected with the value from the Internet.

You will probably find it difficult to strip out the year as well, since some films have numbers in the title. To strip out a four-digit number you would use this RegEx - [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] - but do be careful!

Cheers,

Orion.

It works nicely. Thanks again Orion.
Also, when i tried to install the updated version, the Name + Internet lookup is blurred (meaning I can't choose it) coldn;t figure out why. Could you help me on that too

 

[OrionHall]

It works nicely. Thanks again Orion.
Also, when i tried to install the updated version, the Name + Internet lookup is blurred (meaning I can't choose it) coldn;t figure out why. Could you help me on that too

Hi arryo,

The 'original title handling' option should only be disabled if 'Original Title' is not selected in the list. Can you confirm it is ticked; and if so, try un-ticking and re-ticking it! Sounds like it may be a bug in the GUI if so.

Thanks,

Orion.

 

[biship]

0.8.1 & 0.8.2 gives me these errors (1 on 1st line, 1 at the end). 0.8.0 does not give any errors.

10/15/2008 7:32:09 PM - Error Reading Config Attribute 'Use_Folder_Dot_Jpg' - Using Default Value of 'False'
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - Parsing XML File
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - Entry Found - D:\Multimedia\HTPC\Movies\1408.avi
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - Entry Found - D:\Multimedia\HTPC\Movies\28 Weeks Later.mkv
10/15/2008 7:32:11 PM - Entry Found - D:\Multimedia\HTPC\Movies\310 to Yuma CD1.avi
....stuff removed
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - File Found - You Don't Mess With Zohan.mkv
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - File Found - Zodiac CD1.avi
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - File Found - Zodiac CD2.avi
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - File Found - Zombie Strippers.avi
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Processing Movie Folder - Done - 119 files found.
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Finding Orphaned Movies (not in XML file)
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Orphaned File : The Goonies.mkv
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Orphaned File : Zombie Strippers.avi
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Processing Complete - Found 0 Multi Part Files Entries.
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Processing Complete - Found 0 to be Updated Entries.
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Processing Complete - Found 2 Missing Entries.
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - Finding Missing Files (In XML file, not on hard disk)
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - - Orphaned Ant Record : D:\Multimedia\HTPC\Movies\The Goonies.ts
10/15/2008 7:32:12 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Processing Complete - Found 1 Missing Files.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Starting XML update process.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - FilePath : C:\Program Files\Ant Movie Catalog\Catalogs\nicks.xml
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ParserPath : C:\Program Files\AMC Updater\Scripts\MyFilmsIMDB.xml
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ExcludePath : C:\Program Files\AMC Updater\AMCUpdater_Excluded_Files.txt
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - MoviePath : D:\Multimedia\HTPC\Movies\
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - OverridePath :
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Store Short Names : False
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - OverwriteFlag : True
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - BackupFlag : True
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - MediaType : HDD
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - MediaLabel : Server
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - SourceField : Source
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - PurgeMissing : True
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Import on Internet Lookup Failure : True
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Starting file analysis and import - 2 orphaned files found.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Backing up xml file.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Backing up xml file - done.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Processing Files.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ERROR : an error occurred creating the form. see exception.innerexception for details. the error is: current thread must be set to single thread apartment (sta) mode before ole calls can be made. ensure that your main function has stathreadattribute marked on it.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - File Import Complete - 0 files loaded.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Removing Missing Files from Database
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - Writing changes to XML file
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ===================================================================================================
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - XML update process complete.
10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ===================================================================================================

 

[arryo]

It works nicely. Thanks again Orion.
Also, when i tried to install the updated version, the Name + Internet lookup is blurred (meaning I can't choose it) coldn;t figure out why. Could you help me on that too

Hi arryo,

The 'original title handling' option should only be disabled if 'Original Title' is not selected in the list. Can you confirm it is ticked; and if so, try un-ticking and re-ticking it! Sounds like it may be a bug in the GUI if so.

Thanks,

Orion.

oh yeah, i accidentally unchecked the "original Title". It worked great now

Thanks again for your help

 

[OrionHall]

0.8.1 & 0.8.2 gives me these errors (1 on 1st line, 1 at the end). 0.8.0 does not give any errors.

10/15/2008 7:32:09 PM - Error Reading Config Attribute 'Use_Folder_Dot_Jpg' - Using Default Value of 'False'

Hi Biship,

That one's not really an error - it's a new parameter in the config file and your old config doesn't have it. The code handles this just fine and saves the new parameter to your file with a default value. Without this in place the GUI wouldn't be able to cope unless the config file was always up to date, and that would make releasing updates more complicated. You should find that if you run the app and close it again, then the error won't re-appear. If the app crashes then the settings aren't saved, so the error recurs.

10/15/2008 7:32:13 PM - ERROR : an error occurred creating the form. see exception.innerexception for details. the error is: current thread must be set to single thread apartment (sta) mode before ole calls can be made. ensure that your main function has stathreadattribute marked on it.

Hmm - odd. Tough one to troubleshoot though. Can you please post or PM me with your config file so I can see what options you're using?

Thanks,

Orion.

 

[z3us]

Whats the batch file format to select the config?

 

[OrionHall]

Whats the batch file format to select the config?

Hi Z3us,

It's simply AMCUpdater.exe [your config file]

e.g. "c:\program files\AMC Updater\AMCUpdater.exe" c:\MyConfigFile.xml

Cheers,

Orion.