Movies - enhanced details + cover retrieval + auto matching (4 Viewers)

[ltfearme]

More items for your Bug List (NOT introduced by you I think):

* The Rating displayed for all movies in the MediaPortal GUI are all the same. I think it choosing the rating for the first item in your library.

* The number of images returned for posters in the MediaPortal GUI is +1 more than what is online.

Bugs I think that are introduced:

* Cant Resume Videos: Unable to cast object of type 'MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogYesNo' to type 'MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogYesNo'.

* Power Button Menu (restart, shutdown, standby etc) ceases to work now...not sure if its related.

Something which would be nice to add and shouldn't be too hard:

* Add a menu item whilst in DB View 'Scan Folders' or similar which allows you to easily update your database without having to go back to Shares view.

Cheers
Damien

 

[roopert]

gamejester

1) Can you confirm that the dash problem of moviexml still exists?

2) I've selected 'LocalDirectory' for the covers search settings. But an other cover is choosen. When I go into the imdb settings, I can select my cover (named folder.jpg) but I want that MP picks my covers in the fisrt place. Is it possible you can fix this?

You've done a nice job man

 

[gamejester]

1) Dash problem, please elaborate and provide a movie name as an example for me to test with.

2) Plase provide an example of how you are using this feature and i can work this into the solution.
What it currently does is fine all .jpg files in the movie folder, assuming that you are storing each movie in it's own folder and all those jpg's are relevant to that movie. If you have more than one it then it will just return the first one found (alphabetically I believe). I could get it to do a foldername.jpg match first so that one is the head of the list so the autopick will grab it.

 

[roopert]

1) Dash problem, please elaborate and provide a movie name as an example for me to test with.

2) Plase provide an example of how you are using this feature and i can work this into the solution.
What it currently does is fine all .jpg files in the movie folder, assuming that you are storing each movie in it's own folder and all those jpg's are relevant to that movie. If you have more than one it then it will just return the first one found (alphabetically I believe). I could get it to do a foldername.jpg match first so that one is the head of the list so the autopick will grab it.

1) Movie name: 88 minutes (picture1). Moviexml

2) In the second picture you can see that I have the choice between 2 covers (this is for all the movies in my database). I've noticed that the second cover (2/2) is the one in the movie folder (F:\MOVIES HD\88 minutes\88 minutes.mkv), named 'folder.jpg' (there's always 1 jpg file in each movie folder). It seems that the first cover comes from the moviexml site, but I didn't select this in the settings (picture3)

 

[gamejester]

roopert:
1) This is now fixed, they solved the backslash issue for escape chars at the movies-xml site. (no need to use my workaround script, the new script included with the download is all you need).
2) This is by design, if a scrapper/details searcher includes it's own cover grab section then that is executed. If you use the new v4 I uplaoded the moviexml script no longer grabs any covers, it just relies on your personally configured covers search order. So if you have localfolder selected it will use that............give it a go.

ltfearme:
1) Weird, will have a look and see if I can replicate this; from the code it should not be, if you are using moviexml the ratings on that site are a bit rubbish so perhaps they are all the same on the selection you have looked at?
2)This is by design, the first one in the list is your current selected cover (this is the same as the second in the list a lot of times). The reason it is there is you may have a custom csscript that grabs a cover from a foreign language site, in this case it would be a different cover form all the others in the list and you may want to select it.
3) have you tired version 4, I wrongly put the dialogs file in the root directory in an earlier release which would cause dialogue issues.
4) Prob related to above, just double check with latest code then i will investigate.
5) Like that idea, will add it to the to do list.

 

[roopert]

roopert:
1) This is now fixed, they solved the backslash issue for escape chars at the movies-xml site. (no need to use my workaround script, the new script included with the download is all you need).
2) This is by design, if a scrapper/details searcher includes it's own cover grab section then that is executed. If you use the new v4 I uplaoded the moviexml script no longer grabs any covers, it just relies on your personally configured covers search order. So if you have localfolder selected it will use that............give it a go.

Strange, have done what you said but nothing has changed.

 

[gamejester]

What the slash issue or your localdirectory matching with moviexml.csscript issue?

 

[roopert]

What the slash issue or your localdirectory matching with moviexml.csscript issue?

both!

 

[gamejester]

Just downloaded my v4 from first post and ran it on a test box to make sure I uploaded the correct code.
It is all there and working.

Are you sure you have updated to the new v4 in post 1?
you will need to clear your database and re-scan.

The backslash issue has been fixed for a while over at moive-xml so regardless of which version of the moviexml.csscript you are using you should not be seeing that anymore.

 

[ltfearme]

roopert:
1) Weird, will have a look and see if I can replicate this; from the code it should not be, if you are using moviexml the ratings on that site are a bit rubbish so perhaps they are all the same on the selection you have looked at?

I fixed up the ratings for my movies on Movies-XML and have confirmed that they are in the database accordingly by looking at Editor details in configuration. However the rating will be the same for each movies when in the MediaPortal GUI. I thought this might be a skin issue at first but the problem is in Blue2Wide as well.

I attached some pictures to illustrate. Ive had this problem for a very long time. Im now using the latest SVN last week.

You can see that the rating for 'There will be Blood' is displayed as PG-13 when it should be 'R'. It has taken the rating from my first movie in the DB '10,000 B.C.' as the rating for all my movies.

3) have you tired version 4, I wrongly put the dialogs file in the root directory in an earlier release which would cause dialogue issues.
4) Prob related to above, just double check with latest code then i will investigate.

That's it, was due to Dialogs.dll from old build being in the root directory.

5) Like that idea, will add it to the to do list.

Thanks