How to title foreign movies so they are scraped properly? (1 Viewer)

[vl002001]

For example, "The Machinist"'s real title is "El maquinista (2004)"
How can I label the file so that I include the english title along with the foreign title and year and it will scrape properly?

if you go El maquinista (The Machinist) (2004) it doesn't choose it automatically

 

[kiwijunglist]

if each movie has it's own folder then create a file called info.txt in the same folder as the movie
add the imdb id to the text file
moving pictures will scan any .txt .nfo in the same folder, and looks for imdb#

 

[armandp]

I would like to add that with 1.0.0 you can design your own local scraper and format info file to your own liking. I hope we can find the time to create a tutorial for this soon but you can already take a look at how the XBMC.xml and MyMovies.xml local scraper scripts work.

 

[kiwijunglist]

the format for my movies is as following

English Movie: \movies\%english.title% (%year%)\

Foreign Movie: \movies\%english.title% (%foreign.title%) (%year)\

I always leave the filename in the original ripped format. Would a script cope with this format? Would the script look up foreign.title (year) on IMDB, but set the sorting/displayed title to the english title when browsing?

 

[RoChess]

This thread reminds me that I have been putting off the daunting task to filter out my large Asian movie collection and rename all their titles to the English titles that I prefer, as listed in the "Alternative Title" field. I'm still hoping to do this automatic via some fancy SQL Queries, but it might be a lost cause and I'll be forced to rename them manually.

Since during install I selected English, I actually assumed that the scraper would pick the "(Hong Kong: English title)" field from the "Also Known As" entries on imdb.com, since that entry exist on every Asian movie title I've encountered, but I can't expect this plugin to cook me breakfast in the morning either

The scraper does recognize the "Also Known As" names though, because on importing my collection, it had no trouble finding the ones that were named "English Title (Asian Title).ext", but on the ones named "English Title.ext", it always had the correct Asian title listed (I ended up renaming all the filenames that were only English after doing a manual lookup on imdb.com).

This works a lot easier on MyMovies were you can select and use the AKA title and not have to learn another language

One of these days I'll find the time to rename all the entries in my database, but I hope an automatic method on this is part of the planned enhancement that fforde informed me about in another thread (regarding sorting of titles).

PS: If anybody else already has created some fancy SQL Queries to do this renaming partly automatic, then please share it with the rest of us. It usually takes me hours/days before I can come up with a working query.

 

[kiwijunglist]

I found moving pictures didn't correctly ID my foreign movies if i only had the english title

eg. \movies\three kingdoms (2008)\three_kingdoms_720P.avi

IMDB Title: Saam gwok dzi gin lung se gap (2008)
Country: China | South Korea | Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin
Also Known As:
- San guo zhi xian long xie jia (China: Mandarin title)
- Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon (International: English title)

 

[RoChess]

Wife is still hogging HTPC, so I can't test, but would:

\movies\three kingdoms; resurrection of the dragon (2008)\three_kingdoms_720P.avi

work?

Not even sure if the folder takes precedent over filename in those situations. Otherwise you could try:

\movies\three kingdoms (2008)\three_kingdoms_resurrection_of_the_dragon_2008_720P.avi

Of course if you are going to rename, you might as well include the Asian title

I'll have to dig more into how the scraper works on a technical level, because if an extra lookup step is possible, then google might be a solution.

site:www.imdb.com/title three kingdoms - Google Search

comes up with the right movie even without the release year, and it gets the correct one (listed first) for many other Asian English AKA titles I just tried. It might not be 100%, I only tried 5 movie titles, but definatly looks like an option that would help.

 

[kiwijunglist]

From memory, there is an option in moving pictures config called "prefer folder name over filename for movie matching"

To get around the problem, i just created an info.txt with the imdb# in the same folder as the movie.

 

[vl002001]

"the format for my movies is as following

English Movie: \movies\%english.title% (%year%)\

Foreign Movie: \movies\%english.title% (%foreign.title%) (%year)\"

does this currently work? from my experience having the foreign and english title only confuses the scraper further

 

[kiwijunglist]

I think it didn't work well which is why i created info.txt