[Approved] How to Video database section and My Movies get to life (1 Viewer)

[Deda]

Hi Guzzi, If you have problems with 1.2.0 please report it here MediaPortal 1.2.0 ALPHA - MediaPortal Forum

This topic is somehow outdated now because this patch is obsolete and I changed some other bugs which can't be seen here but only in 1.2.0 alpha.

Slowdowns in the interface has been resolved in 1.2.0, and devs are also doing speed optimizations with cache and thumbnails (not in alpha for now).

 

[chemelli]

Deda, please remove all outdate attachments so we avoid users "downgrading" to unstable/previous versions.



Simone

 

[Deda]

Deda, please remove all outdate attachments so we avoid users "downgrading" to unstable/previous versions.



Simone

Done.

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re: How to Video database section and My Movies get to life

Hi Guzzi, If you have problems with 1.2.0 please report it here MediaPortal 1.2.0 ALPHA - MediaPortal Forum

This topic is somehow outdated now because this patch is obsolete and I changed some other bugs which can't be seen here but only in 1.2.0 alpha.

Slowdowns in the interface has been resolved in 1.2.0, and devs are also doing speed optimizations with cache and thumbnails (not in alpha for now).

My problem is, that I observe the opposite - 1.2alpha is much slower than 1.1.1 (with your patch). Anyway, will ask in irc what to do to help...
Thanks, Guzzi

 

[pacoma]

AW: How to Video database section and My Movies get to life

Deda

Is there anyway to use the Fanart Backdrops under Version 1.2.0.0 Alpha??

Under 1.1.1.1 i have all in unter Skin Fanart/Movies

 

[Deda]

Re: AW: How to Video database section and My Movies get to life

@Deda

Is there anyway to use the Fanart Backdrops under Version 1.2.0.0 Alpha??

Under 1.1.1.1 i have all in unter Skin Fanart/Movies

Yes, it's possible with small workaround. If you have fanart in Skin Fanart/Movies then it should work because I didn't prevented fanart plugin. I just prevented download, save and delete fanart in that folder and trying to save it in Skin fanart/Scraper/Movies. If that folder doesn't exist then downloading and saving new ones is forbidden.

You can create that folder, scan movies than copy all new fanart to Skin Fanart/movies and you should see them.

 

[yhoogi]

Just a question:

I am struggling each time with deleting non-existing movies as there is - to my awareness at least - no internal clean up function of the database available.
Re-Scan did not count as it takes an extensive effort to correct all misinterpretations and combine multi part movies in a correct way.

Is there such functionallity (But I was too dumb to find it)?


Thanks & Cheers,

 

[Guzzi]

AW: How to Video database section and My Movies get to life

Hi Deda,
again I would need your support and have a question:
afaik currently you store link to actorpicture in table and also load the picture in thumb directory via IMDBfetcher class (DownloadCoverArt())
Current actorinfo only returns 1 Imgthumburl - Is there a class available to return all thumbs from IMDB in an array?

Example:
Christian Bale, stored ActorID nm0000288,
stored PicUrl=http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4OTI4MTQ5MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY5NzY2Mg@@._V1._SY314_CR12,0,214,314_.jpg
I assume this is the main picture on imdb site "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/"
There is also a mediaindex available for the actor:
-> Christian Bale Photos - IMDb
There are more pictures available, e.g.
page:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm518884608/nm0000288
picturethumbpath would be:
<img id="primary-img" title="" alt="Still of Christian Bale in Todeszug nach Yuma" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTkxMjI4NjE0NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODYzOTIzMw@@._V1._SX640_SY964_.jpg" data-rmconst="rm518884608" onmousedown="return false;" onmousemove="return false;" oncontextmenu="return false;" />

Is there a class available, that returns the required pathes in an array for those pictures from mediaindex to be able to load them via IMDBfetcher?

Thanks,

Guzzi

 

[Deda]

Hi Guzzi, answer is no, it grabs only main picture from actor page.
Looking at IMDB page it will not be so difficult to grab all of them ie for Christian Bale it's easy to parse how many photo pages are

<span style="padding: 0 1em;">
1&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=2"]?page=2[/URL]">2</a>&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=3"]?page=3[/URL]">3</a>&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=4"]?page=4[/URL]">4</a>&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=5"]?page=5[/URL]">5</a>&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=6"]?page=6[/URL]">6</a>&nbsp;
<a href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=7"]?page=7[/URL]">7</a>&nbsp;
</span>

and links for every page is
hxxp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=1 then
hxxp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/mediaindex?page=2 ... etc.

and parse all pics in every page

<div class="thumb_list" style="font-size: 0px;">
<a title="" href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/rg/mediaindex/unknown-thumbnail/media/rm3605759488/nm0000288"]/rg/mediaindex/unknown-thumbnail/media/rm3605759488/nm0000288[/URL]"><img alt="" height="100" width="100"  [B]src="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODk0MzYxMTQzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM3NTI5Mw@@._V1._CR334,0,1331,1331_SS100_.jpg"]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODk0MzYxMTQzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM3NTI5Mw@@._V1._CR334,0,1331,1331_SS100_.jpg[/URL][/B]" /></a>
<a title="" href="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://www.imdb.com/rg/mediaindex/unknown-thumbnail/media/rm2904588544/nm0000288"]/rg/mediaindex/unknown-thumbnail/media/rm2904588544/nm0000288[/URL]"><img alt="" height="100" width="100"  src="[URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/view-source:http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1MjgwMzI2NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODM3NDk4Mw@@._V1._CR343,0,1362,1362_SS100_.jpg"]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1MjgwMzI2NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODM3NDk4Mw@@._V1._CR343,0,1362,1362_SS100_.jpg[/URL]" /></a>
.........
</div>

to an array (it's rough idea how to get it and html code is very understandable and easy to parse and fetch)

 

[Deda]

Just a question:

I am struggling each time with deleting non-existing movies as there is - to my awareness at least - no internal clean up function of the database available.
Re-Scan did not count as it takes an extensive effort to correct all misinterpretations and combine multi part movies in a correct way.

Is there such functionallity (But I was too dumb to find it)?


Thanks & Cheers,

Hi yhoogi, currently there is no auto cleanup option. It can be done manually in Config or in MP Database view one by one. I'm thinking to implement such a option in config but this method will not be safe if it will be done without thinking on missing drives and paths (if they are disconnected somehow) because DB movies should be verified against video files and you can imagine what will happened if you have network drive which is currently disconnected and you check for files there and delete movies from db as they are unreachable on that time.