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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1253091" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p></p><p>Not really. We are using a more complex logic behind, especially for series. It's close to :</p><p></p><p></p><p> but not exactly this way, it's even more "intelligent" than this. Some type of fanart only is available on fanart.tv. This includes "Clearlogo", "Clearart", "Discart", and "Movie Thumbs" (for Kodi this has to be named "landscape.jpg" to be recognized. MP2 likes it named "thumb.jpg", another example of not compatible file names). This fanart- type only is searched on fanart.tv as it makes no sense looking for those somewhere else.</p><p>The more general data is first searched on TheMovieDB. This is due to the available localized metadata on TMDB. I know this is not that important for you as an US citizen, but there are many languages spoken all over the world, not only English. As we (the developers of Media-Buddy) are living in Germany localized metadata is very important for us. IMDB did not deliver any localized data at all it only is used as a "fallback", if a movie is not listed at TMDB... In meantime there are even some movies, especially non- US movies, that are listed on TMDB but not on IMDB... For movies the logic is not too complex this way, nearly "atomic". Try TMDB. If it finds something it's done. If it didn't find anything, try IMDB...</p><p>But things are different a bit for series. Here Media-Buddy tries to "guess" which metadata the user would like the best. So it searches both, TMDB and TVDB every time. Then it tries to combine both sources to get the best possible metadata... As example the description... First Media-Buddy looks if there is a localized description available on at least one source. If yes it looks which one is the longer text and use this. Other things that are only available on one of the sources are used from wherever the data could be found. </p><p></p><p> This already is implemented even in the public releases...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. But It's possible that not all locally available fanart is re-used as it may not be recognized by Media-Buddy. This "pseudo- missing" fanart then is downloaded again and stored in a MP2 compatible form... General fanart like poster, banner or backdrops are always recognized but some additional fanart may not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Partially. You can organize the output folder structure widely. But there are some restrictions. You can not use the root of a disk as the "working" folder. Means you need to have e.g. "Series" or "Movies" folder in which all your series/movies are stored. You need to select this folder for Media-Buddy to work properly. You also need different folders for movies and series. You can not mix them. And series needs to be stored in a sub- folder named after the series (best named as close as possible to the series name found on TVDB). A potentially series name in the video name is not used for recognition at all.</p><p>Those are the "basics" that must be used. But everything else is nearly completely up to you. You can use Season folders, but you're not forced to use them, you can use the "one movie, one folder" structure but you're not forced to use it. Every other structure you have set up is respected as Media-Buddy scans recursively.. Some examples:</p><p></p><p>At first some not working examples:</p><p>D:\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi</p><p>Here you are using the Root of a drive as "working" folder. Not possible.</p><p></p><p>Z:\Series\Game of Thrones -S1E1.mkv</p><p>Here you are not using series specific sub- folder. Not possible.</p><p></p><p>F:\Videos\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi </p><p>combined with</p><p>F:\Videos\Game of Thrones\Season 01\S1E1.mkv</p><p>Here you mix up movies and series. Not possible.</p><p></p><p>Some working examples for movies</p><p>D:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi</p><p>D:\Movies\Parents\BD-Rips\Science-Fiction\UHD\Avatar (2009).mkv</p><p>Here you need to use "D:\Movies\" as "working" folder in Media-Buddy for both</p><p></p><p>And for Series:</p><p>Z:\Series\Adult\Fantasy\Game of Thrones\Season 01\S01E01.mp4</p><p>Z:\Series\Game of Thrones\S01E01.mp4</p><p>Here you need to use "Z:\Series\" as "working" folder in Media-Buddy for both</p><p></p><p>Media-Buddy is meant for not only add metadata and fanart to "ready" video files but it also can "prepare" the videos (transcode, remux, clean up, rename) for you with a single mouse click.. If you do so all existing folders inside the input folder are created in the output folder too with additional movie folder (if wanted by the user) or season folder (if wanted by the user)... So in some way it combines "handbrake" with "tMM" in one step fired up with one single mouse click... But you always can use only one of those steps separately, prepare the videos or add metadata. Useful especially on already "finished" videos...</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's the other way round. We're recently adding Kodi support while keeping the long time existing MP2 support In current Media-Buddy versions those items are "MP2 only"...</p><p></p><p>In the final version both should be supported even at the same time. For those who are using a mixed environment with MP and Kodi on different devices...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1253091, member: 109222"] Hi. Not really. We are using a more complex logic behind, especially for series. It's close to : but not exactly this way, it's even more "intelligent" than this. Some type of fanart only is available on fanart.tv. This includes "Clearlogo", "Clearart", "Discart", and "Movie Thumbs" (for Kodi this has to be named "landscape.jpg" to be recognized. MP2 likes it named "thumb.jpg", another example of not compatible file names). This fanart- type only is searched on fanart.tv as it makes no sense looking for those somewhere else. The more general data is first searched on TheMovieDB. This is due to the available localized metadata on TMDB. I know this is not that important for you as an US citizen, but there are many languages spoken all over the world, not only English. As we (the developers of Media-Buddy) are living in Germany localized metadata is very important for us. IMDB did not deliver any localized data at all it only is used as a "fallback", if a movie is not listed at TMDB... In meantime there are even some movies, especially non- US movies, that are listed on TMDB but not on IMDB... For movies the logic is not too complex this way, nearly "atomic". Try TMDB. If it finds something it's done. If it didn't find anything, try IMDB... But things are different a bit for series. Here Media-Buddy tries to "guess" which metadata the user would like the best. So it searches both, TMDB and TVDB every time. Then it tries to combine both sources to get the best possible metadata... As example the description... First Media-Buddy looks if there is a localized description available on at least one source. If yes it looks which one is the longer text and use this. Other things that are only available on one of the sources are used from wherever the data could be found. This already is implemented even in the public releases... Yes. But It's possible that not all locally available fanart is re-used as it may not be recognized by Media-Buddy. This "pseudo- missing" fanart then is downloaded again and stored in a MP2 compatible form... General fanart like poster, banner or backdrops are always recognized but some additional fanart may not. Partially. You can organize the output folder structure widely. But there are some restrictions. You can not use the root of a disk as the "working" folder. Means you need to have e.g. "Series" or "Movies" folder in which all your series/movies are stored. You need to select this folder for Media-Buddy to work properly. You also need different folders for movies and series. You can not mix them. And series needs to be stored in a sub- folder named after the series (best named as close as possible to the series name found on TVDB). A potentially series name in the video name is not used for recognition at all. Those are the "basics" that must be used. But everything else is nearly completely up to you. You can use Season folders, but you're not forced to use them, you can use the "one movie, one folder" structure but you're not forced to use it. Every other structure you have set up is respected as Media-Buddy scans recursively.. Some examples: At first some not working examples: D:\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi Here you are using the Root of a drive as "working" folder. Not possible. Z:\Series\Game of Thrones -S1E1.mkv Here you are not using series specific sub- folder. Not possible. F:\Videos\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi combined with F:\Videos\Game of Thrones\Season 01\S1E1.mkv Here you mix up movies and series. Not possible. Some working examples for movies D:\Movies\Avatar (2009)\avatar.avi D:\Movies\Parents\BD-Rips\Science-Fiction\UHD\Avatar (2009).mkv Here you need to use "D:\Movies\" as "working" folder in Media-Buddy for both And for Series: Z:\Series\Adult\Fantasy\Game of Thrones\Season 01\S01E01.mp4 Z:\Series\Game of Thrones\S01E01.mp4 Here you need to use "Z:\Series\" as "working" folder in Media-Buddy for both Media-Buddy is meant for not only add metadata and fanart to "ready" video files but it also can "prepare" the videos (transcode, remux, clean up, rename) for you with a single mouse click.. If you do so all existing folders inside the input folder are created in the output folder too with additional movie folder (if wanted by the user) or season folder (if wanted by the user)... So in some way it combines "handbrake" with "tMM" in one step fired up with one single mouse click... But you always can use only one of those steps separately, prepare the videos or add metadata. Useful especially on already "finished" videos... It's the other way round. We're recently adding Kodi support while keeping the long time existing MP2 support In current Media-Buddy versions those items are "MP2 only"... In the final version both should be supported even at the same time. For those who are using a mixed environment with MP and Kodi on different devices... [/QUOTE]
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