All new to MP2, and have questions. (1 Viewer)

[Kim Monberg]

I triede on the default skin and default theme. It doesent allow me to remove the weather plugin.[DOUBLEPOST=1429280341][/DOUBLEPOST]Another problem is that i have a folder with iso files, but they doesent show in MP2. I have Virtual CloneDrive running[DOUBLEPOST=1429280508][/DOUBLEPOST]Will i be better off going back to MP1 instead? Untill MP2 is in a better state?

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

Another problem is that i have a folder with iso files, but they doesent show in MP2.

ISO files are supported directly in MP2 so you don't need Virtual CloneDrive or similar. But the movies contained in those ISO needs to be identified and imported to the media library before you can play them. Once they are imported they are available as any other movie directly in the "Movies" section of MP2. On normal usage you even would not notice you are using ISO files at all...

Will i be better off going back to MP1 instead? Untill MP2 is in a better state?

Most of the things you want to achieve are similar in MP1. But there you need to fiddle on much more things to get what you want. News, Weather, pictures all those could not be removed at all. Some MP1 skins will bring their own menu editor so probably you will find a skin that can be customised exactly as you want it.

By the way, weather plugin indeed is needed for all skins, so you can not remove it from MP2. Never tried this before so I didn't know better before... But I would call this at least "a not wanted behaviour" as I did not want to talk about "bug" in this context. For this there probably is a solution available in near future...

 

[Kim Monberg]

Im looking forward to being able to remove the Weather plugin

Back to the ISO thing. I dont think i understand what you mean by identifying the movies inside the ISO files? Does that depend on the ISO filename, or what?

And what about manually being able to identify the movies, so i manually can search and connect a movie metadata directly to a movie file?
I can do this on my WD TV Live Hub, manually search the moviedatabase, then the mediaplayer suggest the results on the search criteria, and then i can choose which movie is in the given filename, and connect the metadata to the filename.. So in general, i can connect a file called XYZ.MKV to the movie 'The Matrix'.. Is that possible, or will be possible in future perhaps?

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

Does that depend on the ISO filename

Yes. The .iso should be named as close as possible to the name the movie has on TheMovieDB. As I never use ISO I'm not that familar with handling ISO files at all. I'm using MKV only and with proper prepared MKV I always got a 100% perfect match. I have more than 20.000 series Episodes and 1500 movies and 250.000 music files in my library. All media files are properly tagged (music and video, that's why I prefer MKV as this you can add id3 tags exactly as you do on audio files) and all files are properly identified and imported. Not a single failure out of this huge amount of media.

So in general, i can connect a file called XYZ.MKV to the movie 'The Matrix'.. Is that possible, or will be possible in future perhaps?

This is possible right now, as long as you do one (or both, did not hurt) of the following two things.
First: Add proper metatags to the XYZ.mkv, especially the IMDB-ID (aka "tt number") and/or the TheMovieDB-ID of "The Matrix". This only is possible with MKV files as most of the other container did not support metatags at all...
Second: Add a .nfo file with the matching metadata next to the video file itself. This is working for all video files, not only MKV. This .nfo file needs to be named XYZ.nfo then. This should work for ISO files too, also I never did test it myself (don't have ISO, as told before)...

For series atm only the first option is working as the .nfo support for series is a WIP right now and will (most likely) be available in next "Weekly build"..

 

[Kim Monberg]

Oh, and my problem is precisely with series, and not movies, as my movies are also MKV. But you say i can put a .nfo file with the same name as the movie, and put in the IMDB TTnumer, or? Do you have a guide for that somewhere, so i know what to do.. Then i could easily do that, instead of renaming the movie.

I dont have my series in MKV, but i will look into it.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

Do you have a guide for that somewhere, so i know what to do.. Then i could easily do that, instead of renaming the movie.

The .nfo files must somehow be compatible with the ones Kodi (former known as XBMC) is generating. If you want to do those files by hand, you best have a look at their wiki. But you can use tools for this to make it a lot easier to achieve what you want. Media Managers like tinyMediaManager
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...manager-for-mediaportal-win-mac-linux.121731/
or, especially if you like MKV, with my program MKV Buddy:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/mkv-buddy-tool-to-help-handling-of-videos.127297/

Series are atm don't have nfo support. And another thing that is not good on using .iso for series is, you only can add one episode per file to the MediaLibrary so if your ISO contains e.g. episodes 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 of a season you only will see episode #01 in MP2. MP1 is able to handle a maximum of 2 episodes in one file. Looks better but this will not change in future. MP2 will be able to have an unlimited number of episodes in a single file in about some month, probably half a year. For this the future is looking better in MP2... Nevertheless you can playback all episodes out of an ISO file. Also only the first episode is shown in GUI, this did not prevent the playback of the other episodes.

Up to now I only can suggest to make single episodes MKV out of the ISO files (with the Tool MakeMKV) and then add metatags and .nfo to them with MKV Buddy. The whole procedure won't take long (not much more than to copy the ISO files from one disk to another) and you have nice and handy MKV files without any quality loss. The manual of MKV Buddy is about 50 pages and has a lot of tips and tricks to offer...

 

[morpheus_xx]

There is also a simpler way to remove items from menu: they are defined by the plugin's skin in the workflow actions file. Commenting out few lines and the entry is gone.
Can someone post the link to the file? I'm not at home over weekend.

 

[morpheus_xx]

Can someone post the link to the file? I'm not at home over weekend.

Ok, so I do it myself

https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...n/default/workflow/weather-actions.xml#L5-L11

If you comment out those definition, the link from "home" to weather disappears.

And for completeness: also the other way around is possible: skins can define their own actions the same way. I did this for ApolloOne skin to add more "buttons" on homescreen. See https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/apollo-one.121706/page-10#post-1070941