AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available! (1 Viewer)
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- August 20, 2007
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Hi Zebons,
I have identified one problem with the updated AMCupdater-package:
In case you have a movie already in the DB and add for example a directorscut in another path with another name, the grabber identifies the new movie with the same name as the existant movie (which is correct) - but: It then uses the old ANT-DB-ID for the new path instead of adding the movie as new record with a new DB-ID (wich is definately the preferrable behaviour and older ANTupdater did it exactely like this).
Currently you will always loose the existing movie when adding the new one. Did you change anything in the "uniquekey"? it "seems" it only uses OriginalTitle now - instead of path + filename. Maybe this was done for the updatefunction from MyFilms GUI?
Would very much appreciate if you could look into it - I am currently back to old 0.8.x version for importerfunction ...
Thanks, Guzzi
Hi Zebons,
I have identified one problem with the updated AMCupdater-package:
In case you have a movie already in the DB and add for example a directorscut in another path with another name, the grabber identifies the new movie with the same name as the existant movie (which is correct) - but: It then uses the old ANT-DB-ID for the new path instead of adding the movie as new record with a new DB-ID (wich is definately the preferrable behaviour and older ANTupdater did it exactely like this).
Currently you will always loose the existing movie when adding the new one. Did you change anything in the "uniquekey"? it "seems" it only uses OriginalTitle now - instead of path + filename. Maybe this was done for the updatefunction from MyFilms GUI?
Would very much appreciate if you could look into it - I am currently back to old 0.8.x version for importerfunction ...
Thanks, Guzzi
- January 2, 2006
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Re : AW: Re : AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
Why do you want to create a new entry for the same Movie ? What is the purpose ?
I don't understand your needing. AMCU works at this and I Think it MUST for moving files. If you change your storage, it can adapt your database with the new path... ans in that case it DOESN'T create a new entry but upadate the existing one.
Why do you want to create a new entry for the same Movie ? What is the purpose ?
- August 20, 2007
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Hi Zebons,
I think you misunderstood me - you are completely right, that AMCupdater should detect "moves" of an existing movie - and it did it in the past and does it with current version - properly updating the movies existing record in this case.
I am talking about a bug, when adding a new additional movie - when using internetdetails while importing (OFDB in my case).
Physically it's a new separate movie in different path and with different filename - just same OriginalTitle found with scraper - and that seems to cause a problem (while it worked fine in the past).
In this case it should ADD the movie and not update thge record of the old movie (that is still there).
I have added you an example - two moviefolder (before and after) plus the two ANT-DBs - before and after scanning - where you can see, that adding a "T2 - director's cut" replaced record #2 ("T2") instead of adding a record #4.
This was working fine with 0.8.x versions.
Thanks foir your support,
Guzzi
Hi Zebons,
I think you misunderstood me - you are completely right, that AMCupdater should detect "moves" of an existing movie - and it did it in the past and does it with current version - properly updating the movies existing record in this case.
I am talking about a bug, when adding a new additional movie - when using internetdetails while importing (OFDB in my case).
Physically it's a new separate movie in different path and with different filename - just same OriginalTitle found with scraper - and that seems to cause a problem (while it worked fine in the past).
In this case it should ADD the movie and not update thge record of the old movie (that is still there).
I have added you an example - two moviefolder (before and after) plus the two ANT-DBs - before and after scanning - where you can see, that adding a "T2 - director's cut" replaced record #2 ("T2") instead of adding a record #4.
This was working fine with 0.8.x versions.
Thanks foir your support,
Guzzi
- August 20, 2007
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AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
Hi Zebons,
as requested, I moved the AMCupdater stuff here. Find my findings as follows:
1.) Nonstandardcharacters do not work in search (single and batch):
When searching either singlemovie infos or launching AMCupdater as batch to update the DB, no results are found, if the searchstring contains specialcharacters like "ä", "ö", "ü" - very common in german movietitles. Searching on the website works - so maybe it's a problem with the codepage?
Just checked the stringutils.pas script for ANTdb - there is some special handling for those characters, e.g.:
// *****
{ Converts windows-1252 and iso-8859-1 characters to ASCII characters }
function Cp1252ToASCII(Value: string): string;
begin
HTMLDecode(Value);
[...]
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ä', 'Z');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'æ', '''');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Æ', '''');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ô', '"');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ö', '"');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ò', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'û', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ù', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ö', '(tm)');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ü', 's');
Value := StringReplace(Value, '£', 'oe');
Value := StringReplace(Value, '×', 'z');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ƒ', 'Y');
Result := Value;
end;
2.) Grabber-scripts with minor errors:
e.g.: Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio&nbsp (Jack Dawson) in CineMotion-script.
The grabberscripts are not all up2date, I tried to contact Titof, but didn't yet get a reply. Can you provide me the toolkit to work with the scripts or contact him?
3.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure when deleting a single record:
AMCupdater changes the structure of the ANT-DB - depending if it's batch-run or single movie update (update of a single record) in a different manner.
There is also additional fields dropped in DB, that disappear after opeing and storing the DB with ANT-application.
AMCupdater seems to have different behavior on GUI-update-call and direct launching of AMCupdater.exe with same config (I suppose).
To explain what happens, I quote a little testDB with the different states:
Step 1: adding 1 movie via manual call of AMC-Updater.exe with the created profile via the GUI.
Opening and storing the DB in ANT-application does not change the structure - so DB is same after manual storing the DB via AMC-application with only one movie in there:.
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step1-manual update outside MePoGUI
All ok.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step 2: Batch Update from Myfilms GUI via AMC-Updater:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step2-AMCupdater-batch-Update
All ok, movie added and data ok.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
<Movie Number="2" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" />
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step 3: Delete Movie-Record (only record, not file) from Details-GUI:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step3-MovieRecordDeleteFromGUI
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog>
Findings:
- It seems, the linebreaks are not written properly - although ANT-application can read the file, it's shown in editor all in one line.
- Two new properties are written in the DB plus a "</movie> endtag:
<DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded>
<Length_Num>0</Length_Num>
</Movie>
Manually putting linebreaks in above file shows like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog>
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1">
<DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded>
<Length_Num>0</Length_Num>
</Movie>
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step4: Open and save DB in ANT-application:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step4-OpenAndStoreWithANT-Appl
Opening this file with ANT-application and storing let those additional infos disappear:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25">
<Catalog>
<Properties/>
<Contents>
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1"/>
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
So what about those 3 additional infos? Are they required for something? I use ANT-application regulary to update certain details etc., so those infos would always get lost. Or better not even writing them, if they're not required.
3a.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure in Online Updates for "Single-Movie-Mode"
Similar to the "delete", the DB also gets similar changed on "SingleUpdates".
Step5: Updating the File from Step4 above results in the structure below; the extra infos are added again.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" Rating="7.0" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic (Titanic)" Director="James Cameron" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" Year="1997" Length="0" Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde, Suzy Amis" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Description="Die Geschichte der Titanic und ihres Untergang im Atlantik auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt am 15. April 1912. 1700 Menschen waren an Bord des Dampfers, als er..." VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Picture="Titanic.jpg"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog>
4.) AMCupdater started standalone updates existing movies with new moviepath, overwriting old record:
This is the problem on top of this thread, just repeated here.
I updated the DB, that had Titanic.wmv already in there with a second movie with name "Titaniv (Directors Cut).wmv) - the old movie is still there!
While scanning the internetdata, AMCupdater aksks for matching movie - which is the same title, as the one already in the DB - and overwrites the existing record with the new data.
The behavior should be as in old AMCupdater 0.8 verion:
- The key is the filename, not the movietitle.
- So, AMCupdater can recognize "moved files" and update the record accordingly, but new files with different names wuld be recognized as new movies and ADDED, not overwriting the old record with it's still existing movie.
As far as I know, old AMCupdater always took Movienumers increasing - in this example, it should have taken "4" for the TitanicDirectorsCut - and keep the normal Titanicmovie on record "2".
You can do this test with 0.8 version, which works exactly like this.
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step7-adding2moviesWithAMCupdaterstandalone
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="3" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic (Directors cut).wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Year="1997" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Rating="6.960" Director="James Cameron" Actors="... " Description="..." Picture="Titanic.jpg" />
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Guzzi
Hi Zebons,
as requested, I moved the AMCupdater stuff here. Find my findings as follows:
1.) Nonstandardcharacters do not work in search (single and batch):
When searching either singlemovie infos or launching AMCupdater as batch to update the DB, no results are found, if the searchstring contains specialcharacters like "ä", "ö", "ü" - very common in german movietitles. Searching on the website works - so maybe it's a problem with the codepage?
Just checked the stringutils.pas script for ANTdb - there is some special handling for those characters, e.g.:
// *****
{ Converts windows-1252 and iso-8859-1 characters to ASCII characters }
function Cp1252ToASCII(Value: string): string;
begin
HTMLDecode(Value);
[...]
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ä', 'Z');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'æ', '''');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Æ', '''');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ô', '"');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ö', '"');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ò', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'û', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ù', '-');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ö', '(tm)');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'Ü', 's');
Value := StringReplace(Value, '£', 'oe');
Value := StringReplace(Value, '×', 'z');
Value := StringReplace(Value, 'ƒ', 'Y');
Result := Value;
end;
2.) Grabber-scripts with minor errors:
e.g.: Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio&nbsp (Jack Dawson) in CineMotion-script.
The grabberscripts are not all up2date, I tried to contact Titof, but didn't yet get a reply. Can you provide me the toolkit to work with the scripts or contact him?
3.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure when deleting a single record:
AMCupdater changes the structure of the ANT-DB - depending if it's batch-run or single movie update (update of a single record) in a different manner.
There is also additional fields dropped in DB, that disappear after opeing and storing the DB with ANT-application.
AMCupdater seems to have different behavior on GUI-update-call and direct launching of AMCupdater.exe with same config (I suppose).
To explain what happens, I quote a little testDB with the different states:
Step 1: adding 1 movie via manual call of AMC-Updater.exe with the created profile via the GUI.
Opening and storing the DB in ANT-application does not change the structure - so DB is same after manual storing the DB via AMC-application with only one movie in there:.
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step1-manual update outside MePoGUI
All ok.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step 2: Batch Update from Myfilms GUI via AMC-Updater:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step2-AMCupdater-batch-Update
All ok, movie added and data ok.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 17:08:19">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="1" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
<Movie Number="2" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" />
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step 3: Delete Movie-Record (only record, not file) from Details-GUI:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step3-MovieRecordDeleteFromGUI
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog>
Findings:
- It seems, the linebreaks are not written properly - although ANT-application can read the file, it's shown in editor all in one line.
- Two new properties are written in the DB plus a "</movie> endtag:
<DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded>
<Length_Num>0</Length_Num>
</Movie>
Manually putting linebreaks in above file shows like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog>
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1">
<DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded>
<Length_Num>0</Length_Num>
</Movie>
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
Step4: Open and save DB in ANT-application:
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step4-OpenAndStoreWithANT-Appl
Opening this file with ANT-application and storing let those additional infos disappear:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25">
<Catalog>
<Properties/>
<Contents>
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" [...] Size="0" Disks="1"/>
</Contents>
</Catalog>
</AntMovieCatalog>
So what about those 3 additional infos? Are they required for something? I use ANT-application regulary to update certain details etc., so those infos would always get lost. Or better not even writing them, if they're not required.
3a.) AMCupdater does not properly write the DB and changes the DB-Structure in Online Updates for "Single-Movie-Mode"
Similar to the "delete", the DB also gets similar changed on "SingleUpdates".
Step5: Updating the File from Step4 above results in the structure below; the extra infos are added again.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?><AntMovieCatalog><Catalog><Properties /><Contents><Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic.wmv" Date="10.04.2010" Rating="7.0" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic (Titanic)" Director="James Cameron" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" Year="1997" Length="0" Actors="Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, David Warner, Victor Garber, Jonathan Hyde, Suzy Amis" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Description="Die Geschichte der Titanic und ihres Untergang im Atlantik auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt am 15. April 1912. 1700 Menschen waren an Bord des Dampfers, als er..." VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Picture="Titanic.jpg"><DateAdded>2010-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</DateAdded><Length_Num>0</Length_Num></Movie></Contents></Catalog></AntMovieCatalog>
4.) AMCupdater started standalone updates existing movies with new moviepath, overwriting old record:
This is the problem on top of this thread, just repeated here.
I updated the DB, that had Titanic.wmv already in there with a second movie with name "Titaniv (Directors Cut).wmv) - the old movie is still there!
While scanning the internetdata, AMCupdater aksks for matching movie - which is the same title, as the one already in the DB - and overwrites the existing record with the new data.
The behavior should be as in old AMCupdater 0.8 verion:
- The key is the filename, not the movietitle.
- So, AMCupdater can recognize "moved files" and update the record accordingly, but new files with different names wuld be recognized as new movies and ADDED, not overwriting the old record with it's still existing movie.
As far as I know, old AMCupdater always took Movienumers increasing - in this example, it should have taken "4" for the TitanicDirectorsCut - and keep the normal Titanicmovie on record "2".
You can do this test with 0.8 version, which works exactly like this.
Filename: Movies - Kids.xml-step7-adding2moviesWithAMCupdaterstandalone
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2009-02-01)" Date="10.04.2010 18:16:25">
<Catalog>
<Properties />
<Contents>
<Movie Number="3" OriginalTitle="Cars" FormattedTitle="Cars" Date="10.04.2010" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Cars.wmv" Languages="English (US)" Resolution="320x240" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Framerate="30.000" Size="0" Disks="1" TranslatedTitle="Cars" Year="2006" Country="USA" Category="Fantasy, Kom÷die" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/99231,Cars" Rating="6.90" Director="John Lasseter, Joe Ranft" Description="..." Picture="Cars.jpg" />
<Movie Number="2" Checked="True" MediaLabel="Server" MediaType="HDD" Source="C:\MyFilms-Test\Movies - Kids\Titanic (Directors cut).wmv" Date="10.04.2010" OriginalTitle="Titanic" TranslatedTitle="Titanic" FormattedTitle="Titanic" Length="0" VideoFormat="WMV3" VideoBitrate="1500" AudioFormat="WMA2" AudioBitrate="192" Resolution="320x240" Framerate="30.000" Languages="English (US)" Size="0" Disks="1" Year="1997" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Katastrophen, Liebe/Romantik" URL="http://www.ofdb.de/film/227,Titanic" Rating="6.960" Director="James Cameron" Actors="... " Description="..." Picture="Titanic.jpg" />
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</AntMovieCatalog>
Guzzi
- August 20, 2007
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- #246
AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
rechecked an old bug, that is still in:
5.) Audiobitrate and Videobitrate are incorrectly written to DB:
As mentioned and confirmed by Orionhall, the audiobitrate retrieved from mediainfo.dll is incorrectly calculated; it is divided by 1024, but should be divided by 1000 to write correct values in DB.
See also https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...0-now-available-46463/index19.html#post382025
How to reproduce:
Import a movie (or use "test-tab") with e.g. AC3 audio - it shows 438 kbps - instead 448. Same error for all other bitrates.
Checked the latest Sources I could find (I think 0.7.x or 0.8.x) it's the following lines in Module1.vb:
Case "videobitrate" 'divide by 1024
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Visual, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1024).ToString
Case "audiobitrate" 'divide
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Audio, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt((TempInteger / 1024)).ToString
So it's only changing those 2 lines to
"ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1000).ToString"
to fix that
Guzzi
PS: Can you post the latest sources from AMCupdater (and MyFilms) somewhere? (Or check then in to Sourcefourge MP-Plugins) ... the last available Sources are very old...
rechecked an old bug, that is still in:
5.) Audiobitrate and Videobitrate are incorrectly written to DB:
As mentioned and confirmed by Orionhall, the audiobitrate retrieved from mediainfo.dll is incorrectly calculated; it is divided by 1024, but should be divided by 1000 to write correct values in DB.
See also https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...0-now-available-46463/index19.html#post382025
How to reproduce:
Import a movie (or use "test-tab") with e.g. AC3 audio - it shows 438 kbps - instead 448. Same error for all other bitrates.
Checked the latest Sources I could find (I think 0.7.x or 0.8.x) it's the following lines in Module1.vb:
Case "videobitrate" 'divide by 1024
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Visual, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1024).ToString
Case "audiobitrate" 'divide
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Audio, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt((TempInteger / 1024)).ToString
So it's only changing those 2 lines to
"ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1000).ToString"
to fix that
Guzzi
PS: Can you post the latest sources from AMCupdater (and MyFilms) somewhere? (Or check then in to Sourcefourge MP-Plugins) ... the last available Sources are very old...
- January 2, 2006
- 1,484
- 114
Re : AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
You should use the latest version. Already fixed here !!!
Please DON'T report bugs for previous versions.
So now after finding the Movie name with Internet search it try to update an existing movie if it exists. If not, it create then a new entry.
You use for your particular need that bug but it's not a right idea. You should try to use the group name folder to your movie so it should not update the existing entry as the folder name an then the movie name should be distinct (to be tested).
In anycase the actual process will be change for your particular needing. :sorry:
rechecked an old bug, that is still in:
5.) Audiobitrate and Videobitrate are incorrectly written to DB:
As mentioned and confirmed by Orionhall, the audiobitrate retrieved from mediainfo.dll is incorrectly calculated; it is divided by 1024, but should be divided by 1000 to write correct values in DB.
See also https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...0-now-available-46463/index19.html#post382025
How to reproduce:
Import a movie (or use "test-tab") with e.g. AC3 audio - it shows 438 kbps - instead 448. Same error for all other bitrates.
Checked the latest Sources I could find (I think 0.7.x or 0.8.x) it's the following lines in Module1.vb:
Case "videobitrate" 'divide by 1024
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Visual, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1024).ToString
Case "audiobitrate" 'divide
Try
TempString = MI.Get_(StreamKind.Audio, 0, "Bitrate")
Integer.TryParse(TempString, TempInteger)
If TempInteger <> 0 Then
ReturnValue = CInt((TempInteger / 1024)).ToString
So it's only changing those 2 lines to
"ReturnValue = CInt(TempInteger / 1000).ToString"
to fix that
Guzzi
PS: Can you post the latest sources from AMCupdater (and MyFilms) somewhere? (Or check then in to Sourcefourge MP-Plugins) ... the last available Sources are very old...
You should use the latest version. Already fixed here !!!
Please DON'T report bugs for previous versions.
The previous version had a BUG as it wasn't able to update Movies for renaming files. So If you had a movie and change the filename, it created each time a new entry and it was a mistake.
So now after finding the Movie name with Internet search it try to update an existing movie if it exists. If not, it create then a new entry.
You use for your particular need that bug but it's not a right idea. You should try to use the group name folder to your movie so it should not update the existing entry as the folder name an then the movie name should be distinct (to be tested).
In anycase the actual process will be change for your particular needing. :sorry:
- August 20, 2007
- 2,159
- 750
- Moderator
- #248
AW: Re : AW: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
Hi Zebons,
sorry for the misleading bugreport about mediainfo - I have rechecked and you are right, it was analyzed properly - no idea how I got the wring result - possibly launched a wring version from other directory.
Sorry again.
Ok, I understood - will do some testing if this suggestion works.
But I think it would be also good solution evrn if keeping the logic you mentioned for updating movies by title, to check if the current source doesn't point to an existing file and only update the older record, if no existing file is there.
Anyway, if your suggestion works, I would be fine with that, I'll check that later...
Hi Zebons,
sorry for the misleading bugreport about mediainfo - I have rechecked and you are right, it was analyzed properly - no idea how I got the wring result - possibly launched a wring version from other directory.
Sorry again.
Ok, I understood - will do some testing if this suggestion works.
But I think it would be also good solution evrn if keeping the logic you mentioned for updating movies by title, to check if the current source doesn't point to an existing file and only update the older record, if no existing file is there.
Anyway, if your suggestion works, I would be fine with that, I'll check that later...
United States of America
the fanart updater is still not grabbing fan art for 1/3 of my movies:
these movies have fanart in themoviedb.org (TMDb) | The open movie database
not sure why these movies aren't being found
i mentioned this before, maybe you can search by title and year? is there a script xml file for the fanart grabber or is it embedded into amcupdater?
thanks.
Code:
4/12/2010 2:48:03 PM - Backing up xml file.
4/12/2010 2:48:03 PM - Backing up xml file - done.
4/12/2010 2:48:03 PM - Performing Manual Update Process
4/12/2010 2:48:06 PM - Fanart not Found : 5 | Alien
4/12/2010 2:48:07 PM - Fanart not Found : 14 | Boys and Girls
4/12/2010 2:48:09 PM - Fanart not Found : 15 | Breach
4/12/2010 2:48:10 PM - Fanart not Found : 18 | The Butterfly Effect
4/12/2010 2:48:13 PM - Fanart not Found : 20 | Chicago
4/12/2010 2:48:15 PM - Fanart not Found : 22 | The Covenant
4/12/2010 2:48:16 PM - Fanart not Found : 29 | The Gift
4/12/2010 2:48:17 PM - Fanart not Found : 31 | Hellboy
4/12/2010 2:48:19 PM - Fanart not Found : 33 | I, Robot
4/12/2010 2:48:20 PM - Fanart not Found : 34 | Interview with the Vampire- The Vampire Chronicles
4/12/2010 2:48:22 PM - Fanart not Found : 41 | The Karate Kid
4/12/2010 2:48:27 PM - Fanart not Found : 46 | Monster
4/12/2010 2:48:28 PM - Fanart not Found : 49 | Napoleon Dynamite
4/12/2010 2:48:29 PM - Fanart not Found : 53 | No Man's Land
4/12/2010 2:48:30 PM - Fanart not Found : 59 | Pi
4/12/2010 2:48:31 PM - Fanart not Found : 61 | Pride & Prejudice
4/12/2010 2:48:32 PM - Fanart not Found : 62 | Project A
4/12/2010 2:48:33 PM - Fanart not Found : 70 | The Replacements
4/12/2010 2:48:37 PM - Fanart not Found : 71 | The Ring
4/12/2010 2:48:38 PM - Fanart not Found : 82 | Twister
4/12/2010 2:48:39 PM - Fanart not Found : 93 | X-Men
4/12/2010 2:48:40 PM - Fanart not Found : 113 | Five Shaolin Masters
4/12/2010 2:48:40 PM - Fanart not Found : 116 | Twelve Monkeys
4/12/2010 2:48:41 PM - Fanart not Found : 123 | A Nightmare on Elm Street
4/12/2010 2:48:42 PM - Fanart not Found : 124 | Artificial Intelligence: AI
4/12/2010 2:48:44 PM - Fanart not Found : 128 | Aladdin
4/12/2010 2:48:45 PM - Fanart not Found : 137 | American Pie
4/12/2010 2:48:46 PM - Fanart not Found : 168 | Fists of Fury
4/12/2010 2:48:49 PM - Fanart not Found : 173 | Blade
4/12/2010 2:48:50 PM - Fanart not Found : 184 | Bottle Rocket
4/12/2010 2:48:51 PM - Fanart not Found : 185 | Bound
4/12/2010 2:48:53 PM - Fanart not Found : 190 | Brick
4/12/2010 2:48:53 PM - Fanart not Found : 198 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4/12/2010 2:48:54 PM - Fanart not Found : 206 | Casino
4/12/2010 2:48:55 PM - Fanart not Found : 212 | Collateral
4/12/2010 2:48:56 PM - Fanart not Found : 216 | Contact
4/12/2010 2:48:58 PM - Fanart not Found : 221 | Crash
4/12/2010 2:48:59 PM - Fanart not Found : 224 | The Crow
4/12/2010 2:48:59 PM - Fanart not Found : 236 | The Defender
4/12/2010 2:49:00 PM - Fanart not Found : 238 | The Downfall
4/12/2010 2:49:02 PM - Fanart not Found : 243 | Deja Vu
4/12/2010 2:49:02 PM - Fanart not Found : 244 | Die Hard
4/12/2010 2:49:03 PM - Fanart not Found : 246 | Die Hard 3
4/12/2010 2:49:04 PM - Fanart not Found : 253 | Don't Torture a Duckling
4/12/2010 2:49:04 PM - Fanart not Found : 257 | Down to Earth
4/12/2010 2:49:05 PM - Fanart not Found : 261 | Dude, Where's My Car
4/12/2010 2:49:06 PM - Fanart not Found : 263 | The Elephant Man
4/12/2010 2:49:06 PM - Fanart not Found : 264 | Elf
4/12/2010 2:49:07 PM - Fanart not Found : 272 | Executioners from Shaolin
4/12/2010 2:49:07 PM - Fanart not Found : 277 | Face-Off
4/12/2010 2:49:08 PM - Fanart not Found : 283 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4/12/2010 2:49:09 PM - Fanart not Found : 285 | Fearless Fighters
4/12/2010 2:49:10 PM - Fanart not Found : 294 | King Boxer
4/12/2010 2:49:11 PM - Fanart not Found : 295 | For a Few Dollars More
4/12/2010 2:49:12 PM - Fanart not Found : 305 | Ghost Busters
4/12/2010 2:49:13 PM - Fanart not Found : 308 | The Girl Next Door
4/12/2010 2:49:14 PM - Fanart not Found : 309 | Gladiator
4/12/2010 2:49:15 PM - Fanart not Found : 310 | The Godfather
4/12/2010 2:49:16 PM - Fanart not Found : 315 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4/12/2010 2:49:18 PM - Fanart not Found : 323 | Hackers
4/12/2010 2:49:18 PM - Fanart not Found : 329 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4/12/2010 2:49:20 PM - Fanart not Found : 334 | Heat
4/12/2010 2:49:21 PM - Fanart not Found : 335 | Heist
4/12/2010 2:49:22 PM - Fanart not Found : 336 | Hercules
4/12/2010 2:49:23 PM - Fanart not Found : 340 | High Noon
4/12/2010 2:49:24 PM - Fanart not Found : 343 | Home Alone
4/12/2010 2:49:24 PM - Fanart not Found : 351 | Ichi the Killer
4/12/2010 2:49:26 PM - Fanart not Found : 352 | Identity
4/12/2010 2:49:27 PM - Fanart not Found : 360 | The Prisoner
4/12/2010 2:49:28 PM - Fanart not Found : 364 | Jeepers Creepers
4/12/2010 2:49:30 PM - Fanart not Found : 369 | Kids
4/12/2010 2:49:31 PM - Fanart not Found : 372 | Kickboxer
4/12/2010 2:49:32 PM - Fanart not Found : 373 | The Killing
4/12/2010 2:49:34 PM - Fanart not Found : 380 | Kung fu
4/12/2010 2:49:35 PM - Fanart not Found : 385 | The Last Casino
4/12/2010 2:49:35 PM - Fanart not Found : 390 | A Life Less Ordinary
4/12/2010 2:49:36 PM - Fanart not Found : 391 | Lightning Jack
4/12/2010 2:49:37 PM - Fanart not Found : 392 | The Listening
4/12/2010 2:49:38 PM - Fanart not Found : 394 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
4/12/2010 2:49:41 PM - Fanart not Found : 396 | Lord of the Flies
4/12/2010 2:49:41 PM - Fanart not Found : 410 | Maria Full of Grace
4/12/2010 2:49:43 PM - Fanart not Found : 416 | The Matrix
4/12/2010 2:49:44 PM - Fanart not Found : 434 | The Mummy
4/12/2010 2:49:44 PM - Fanart not Found : 438 | My Little Eye
4/12/2010 2:49:45 PM - Fanart not Found : 447 | Nurse Betty
4/12/2010 2:49:47 PM - Fanart not Found : 451 | Old School
4/12/2010 2:49:47 PM - Fanart not Found : 459 | The Patriot
4/12/2010 2:49:48 PM - Fanart not Found : 460 | Patton
4/12/2010 2:49:49 PM - Fanart not Found : 466 | Police Story
4/12/2010 2:49:50 PM - Fanart not Found : 472 | In the Woods
4/12/2010 2:49:51 PM - Fanart not Found : 479 | Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
4/12/2010 2:49:52 PM - Fanart not Found : 488 | The Sandlot
4/12/2010 2:49:53 PM - Fanart not Found : 489 | Saving Silverman
4/12/2010 2:49:53 PM - Fanart not Found : 491 | The School of Rock
4/12/2010 2:49:54 PM - Fanart not Found : 503 | She's All That
4/12/2010 2:49:55 PM - Fanart not Found : 504 | The Shining
4/12/2010 2:49:57 PM - Fanart not Found : 506 | Shrek
4/12/2010 2:49:58 PM - Fanart not Found : 510 | Sin City
4/12/2010 2:49:59 PM - Fanart not Found : 511 | The Skulls
4/12/2010 2:50:00 PM - Fanart not Found : 512 | Sleepers
4/12/2010 2:50:00 PM - Fanart not Found : 523 | The Spanish Prisoner
4/12/2010 2:50:03 PM - Fanart not Found : 529 | Star Wars
4/12/2010 2:50:04 PM - Fanart not Found : 532 | Stay
4/12/2010 2:50:05 PM - Fanart not Found : 539 | Superman
4/12/2010 2:50:06 PM - Fanart not Found : 569 | Troy
4/12/2010 2:50:06 PM - Fanart not Found : 584 | Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave
4/12/2010 2:50:07 PM - Fanart not Found : 585 | A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit
4/12/2010 2:50:07 PM - Fanart not Found : 586 | Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
4/12/2010 2:50:08 PM - Fanart not Found : 587 | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4/12/2010 2:50:09 PM - Fanart not Found : 592 | Who Am I
4/12/2010 2:50:09 PM - Fanart not Found : 604 | The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King (Extended Edition)
4/12/2010 2:50:10 PM - Fanart not Found : 605 | The Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring
4/12/2010 2:50:11 PM - Fanart not Found : 606 | The Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
4/12/2010 2:50:13 PM - Fanart not Found : 608 | Something the Lord Made
4/12/2010 2:50:14 PM - Fanart not Found : 610 | Terminator 3
4/12/2010 2:50:14 PM - Fanart not Found : 619 | Traffic
4/12/2010 2:50:15 PM - Fanart not Found : 625 | Pans Labyrinth
4/12/2010 2:50:16 PM - Fanart not Found : 627 | The Mist
4/12/2010 2:50:18 PM - Fanart not Found : 632 | The Fall
4/12/2010 2:50:19 PM - Fanart not Found : 633 | The Lives of Others
4/12/2010 2:50:19 PM - Fanart not Found : 634 | Felon 2008
4/12/2010 2:50:20 PM - Fanart not Found : 638 | The Dark Knight
4/12/2010 2:50:21 PM - Fanart not Found : 640 | The Matrix Revolution
4/12/2010 2:50:22 PM - Fanart not Found : 646 | Get Smart
4/12/2010 2:50:23 PM - Fanart not Found : 648 | Leon The Professional
4/12/2010 2:50:24 PM - Fanart not Found : 656 | Taken
4/12/2010 2:50:28 PM - Fanart not Found : 661 | Wanted
4/12/2010 2:50:30 PM - Fanart not Found : 675 | The Assassination of Jesse James
4/12/2010 2:50:32 PM - Fanart not Found : 681 | Moon
4/12/2010 2:50:34 PM - Fanart not Found : 682 | Star Trek
4/12/2010 2:50:35 PM - Fanart not Found : 685 | Gamer
4/12/2010 2:50:36 PM - Fanart not Found : 687 | Watchmen
4/12/2010 2:50:39 PM - Fanart not Found : 695 | Saw
4/12/2010 2:50:39 PM - Manual Update Process Complete.
4/12/2010 2:50:39 PM - ===================================================================================================these movies have fanart in themoviedb.org (TMDb) | The open movie database
not sure why these movies aren't being found
i mentioned this before, maybe you can search by title and year? is there a script xml file for the fanart grabber or is it embedded into amcupdater?
thanks.
- January 2, 2006
- 1,484
- 114
Re : Re: AMC Updater v0.8.0 Now Available!
You can launch a Manual Update (option Download Fanart) to improve that as in that case, AMCU will ask for the good entry when several founded.
But it'd be better to find more precisely during a global search and Update...
Can you send me an extract of your DB for fanart not found Movies (please with sufficient examples for trying to improve the searching method).
The most reason for Fanart not Found is when the grabber found too many responses for the searching Movie (Title contains a part pf the serching movie and year in a range y-2, y+2) as it doesn't ask for the correct one during a global update scan.
You can launch a Manual Update (option Download Fanart) to improve that as in that case, AMCU will ask for the good entry when several founded.
But it'd be better to find more precisely during a global search and Update...
Can you send me an extract of your DB for fanart not found Movies (please with sufficient examples for trying to improve the searching method).