Hi Everyone.
I have been experimenting with MP on and off for a few years, but only recently decided to "use it in anger" as it now seems pretty stable, and has many powerful features that I want to use.
I have chosen to use MyFilms (6.0.3.2921) with the ANT Catalog (version 4.1) and MP 1.5 to control my movie collection, and can get most movie information downloading as I want.
My problem is, I cannot seem to download either movie covers or fanart using MyFilms. This worked a few weeks ago, but then "just stopped". I had 900 movies in my collection (most added in one big bulk run), each in its own folder, using the default settings, and covers and fanart were there; all nice and sweet. Then I started adding the rest of my movies in batches of 10-20, and once again, all was well. Then "something happened".
As I added more batches, I noticed that, for the new movies, there were no covers or fanart.
I became so frustrated, I removed MP, MyFilms, AMC, everything and then re-installed all MP programmes. Since then, no luck at all; it's even worse. I have tried multiple installs and tests and settings, but cannot solve the cover/fanart issue (I can download neither). The only way I can get cover images is to go into ANT and use the ANT grabbers to get the covers, (but not fanart). The cover images are in the AMC catalogue folder (ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MyFilms\Catalog).
So, in summary, I cannot download covers or fanart with MyFilms.
I am pulling my hair out in frustration, so any help would be great!
I am assuming that MyFilms either uses an internal process or the supplied MyFilms grabbers to get the movie and fanart images, but either way, I cannot get any images.
Under ProgramData/Team MediaPortal/MediaPortal/thumbs/MyFilms/Fanart I can see MyFilms has created a fanart folder for each movie like this:-
{2001_.a.space.odyssey}
{a.bug's.life}
{a.christmas.carol}
{a.fistful.of.dollars}, etc,
but each folder is empty.
I have tried looking at the MyFilms grabbers in the "MyFilms Grabber Script Editor" and tested each, and can see that none of the English language grabbers successfully download covers. None of the grabbers in any language download fanart, either. My default grabber is IMDB-Full.xml, but I have tried most others (including Tmdb). Is there an issue with the current grabbers?
I have also tried setting "Use Script for fan art" in the AMC Updater Database tab.
Here is my MyFilms Set-Up Artwork tab:
Here is my MyFilms SetUp Update Tab
Here is MyFilms Database Fields Tab
Any help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Robert
I have been experimenting with MP on and off for a few years, but only recently decided to "use it in anger" as it now seems pretty stable, and has many powerful features that I want to use.
I have chosen to use MyFilms (6.0.3.2921) with the ANT Catalog (version 4.1) and MP 1.5 to control my movie collection, and can get most movie information downloading as I want.
My problem is, I cannot seem to download either movie covers or fanart using MyFilms. This worked a few weeks ago, but then "just stopped". I had 900 movies in my collection (most added in one big bulk run), each in its own folder, using the default settings, and covers and fanart were there; all nice and sweet. Then I started adding the rest of my movies in batches of 10-20, and once again, all was well. Then "something happened".
As I added more batches, I noticed that, for the new movies, there were no covers or fanart.
I became so frustrated, I removed MP, MyFilms, AMC, everything and then re-installed all MP programmes. Since then, no luck at all; it's even worse. I have tried multiple installs and tests and settings, but cannot solve the cover/fanart issue (I can download neither). The only way I can get cover images is to go into ANT and use the ANT grabbers to get the covers, (but not fanart). The cover images are in the AMC catalogue folder (ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MyFilms\Catalog).
So, in summary, I cannot download covers or fanart with MyFilms.
I am pulling my hair out in frustration, so any help would be great!
I am assuming that MyFilms either uses an internal process or the supplied MyFilms grabbers to get the movie and fanart images, but either way, I cannot get any images.
Under ProgramData/Team MediaPortal/MediaPortal/thumbs/MyFilms/Fanart I can see MyFilms has created a fanart folder for each movie like this:-
{2001_.a.space.odyssey}
{a.bug's.life}
{a.christmas.carol}
{a.fistful.of.dollars}, etc,
but each folder is empty.
I have tried looking at the MyFilms grabbers in the "MyFilms Grabber Script Editor" and tested each, and can see that none of the English language grabbers successfully download covers. None of the grabbers in any language download fanart, either. My default grabber is IMDB-Full.xml, but I have tried most others (including Tmdb). Is there an issue with the current grabbers?
I have also tried setting "Use Script for fan art" in the AMC Updater Database tab.
Here is my MyFilms Set-Up Artwork tab:
Here is my MyFilms SetUp Update Tab
Here is MyFilms Database Fields Tab
Any help at all would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Robert