Few minor issues. (1 Viewer)

[MeHoo]

I've been trying out moving pictures since my movies have hit 730+ and the standard videos directory needed to be split into Lettered folders (beginning letter of the movie moved into that folder, etc) and "My Videos" does not support this well at all.

I noticed that this handles multiple folders fine, but I'm having some problems:

- When searching for movie titles that have "special edition" or "Director's cut" in it, why can't moving pictures just ignore these strings? That seems very basic to me. Am i missing that feature?

- When it finds a title like ghost in the shell, which happens to be named the japanese (?) title on IMDB, can't it be intelligent enough to sort and display English if It's set to that language in the preferences? It downloads the multiple titles, why not choose the right one?

- Browsing 730 thumbnails lags like crazy. Is there a way to cache them or optimize them all so they are smaller files?

- wish i could sort the config list by last added. Sometimes when it adds stuff automatically and it's wrong, it can be a pain to find that wrong title out of 700+ movies. a Sort by list in the configurator would be nice.

- Is there a way to make the stop button on my remote act as the "back" button in moving pictures only? Can you set that up to do that just in moving pictures through the microsoft remote settings? I'm still a bit fuzzy on that stuff and how it works as the interface is very non-intuitive.

- I'd love to know how to auto-backup my MoPi config daily as it's corrupted twice now.

- Ability to mass-edit titles to change things like movie file path, or cover paths would help greatly when I move some to a new server, etc.

Any help is appreciated. So far I'm liking this setup.

Am i correct in assuming that MP auto-scans the movie folder and scrapes on it's own? I added some titles and went into the configurator and it had only listed one. I swear I didn't add them myself, but then again, why did it miss just one? they were all added at the same time. Having an alert saying what it did, like a log file or email or something, would be nice so I know what it's doing in the background. Just another thought.

Good job, thanks for the plugin. Keep up the good work.

Oh one more thing worth noting.. I've had to do that disable cache thing as well due to MP crashing. Maybe this is why browsing thumbs is slow?

 

[kiwijunglist]

- Is there a way to make the stop button on my remote act as the "back" button in moving pictures only? Can you set that up to do that just in moving pictures through the microsoft remote settings? I'm still a bit fuzzy on that stuff and how it works as the interface is very non-intuitive.

Yes, this can be done quite easily. If mediaportal is handling the MCE remote, you can edit the stop button and add a conditional function. eg. if window id = moving pictures, then action = back. It's under MP Configuration -> Remotes -> Mapping. If it doesn't let you choose the window id for moving pictures, then set the window id to my videos then open the xml file manually and change the my videos id# to the moving pictures id#. The xml file is in the program data directory.

eg. C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\InputDeviceMappings\Microsoft MCE.xml (VISTA)

- Ability to mass-edit titles to change things like movie file path, or cover paths would help greatly when I move some to a new server, etc.

I would suggest using a little app that saves a backdrop.jpg , folder.jpg , movie.nfo file into each movie folder. It gets the images and data from the moving pictures database. Then if you move the file to a different server/directory moving pictures will automatically use the images and will also use the .nfo file to identify the movie in the new location. This will only work if each movie has it's own directory (however i beleive there is an app in the thread that will automatically create a folder for each movie based on the moving pictures database, then will update the database with the new locations, the folder name can be set to the movie title + year. Here is the link for the application(s) -> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/app-copy-artwork-details-movie-folder-71649/

 

[RoChess]

When searching for movie titles that have "special edition" or "Director's cut" in it, why can't moving pictures just ignore these strings? That seems very basic to me. Am i missing that feature?

Modify your noise filter manually for the time being, until these little bugs are fixed in the official release.
For more information, read: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/noise-filter-exchange-75135/

When it finds a title like ghost in the shell, which happens to be named the japanese (?) title on IMDB, can't it be intelligent enough to sort and display English if It's set to that language in the preferences? It downloads the multiple titles, why not choose the right one?

This is actually an existing issue that is being worked on, you can star the issue on the Google SVN to be kept informed about any progress. For the time being either rename your files to the imdb title, use NFO files or correct it manually during import.

Browsing 730 thumbnails lags like crazy. Is there a way to cache them or optimize them all so they are smaller files?

What version are u using? If you are on the v1.0.x beta version, then it has a small bug regarding saving the covers as PNG which then end up being cached by MediaPortal, causing a crash. To solve this, close MediaPortal, rename all the existing PNG covers to JPG extension, then allow MediaPortal to generate the skin cache and you should be good to go for the time being, until this problem is fixed permanently (it already is in latest SVN build I believe)

wish i could sort the config list by last added. Sometimes when it adds stuff automatically and it's wrong, it can be a pain to find that wrong title out of 700+ movies. a Sort by list in the configurator would be nice.

This enhancement is already requested on Google SVN and will be included soon. It might not make it in the v1.0 stable release, but then it will be part of v1.1. For the time being there are some manual methods you could try, such as directly via SQL queries, which you can read more about at: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...e-entries-missing-info-via-sql-queries-74825/ (be sure to make a backup of movingpictures.db3 first and open this copy in your SQL program, incase it locks the file with MovingPictures plugin running)

I'd love to know how to auto-backup my MoPi config daily as it's corrupted twice now.

You can do this via the existing Windows backup software and schedule it via the task scheduler.

Ability to mass-edit titles to change things like movie file path, or cover paths would help greatly when I move some to a new server, etc.

Adding to kiwijunglist excellent explanation. Moving Pictures is actually able to do this for you, you add a new Import Path to MovPic, and then mass-move your files over. The plugin will 'sense' that the movie is already in the database and only update the fields that it needs to (such as new drive/path/etc). Since the plugin rescans the database contents when it starts you can also do all this without MediaPortal running.

Am i correct in assuming that MP auto-scans the movie folder and scrapes on it's own? I added some titles and went into the configurator and it had only listed one.

Yes, it scans your import paths constantly for new additions, but also if you delete or rename existing ones. You can scan the log file and search on "auto-approve", this will show you which automatic match was found (or keep the plugin open as you add the file, so you can see the import process visually). If for example you name a movie "Love.avi", then IMDb will return a massive amount of results, so it will be unable to make an automatic choice. Only the first scraper is able to make an auto-approval decision, so keep that in mind.

Having an alert saying what it did, like a log file

%ProgramData%\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\movingpictures.log

 

[MeHoo]

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. will check as soon as I am at home. I really like this plugin, and this might make it more tuned into what I need specifically.