Movies - enhanced details + cover retrieval + auto matching (1 Viewer)

[gamejester]

Don't hesitate to say hello. We keep always an eye on nice enhancements. Good devs are always welcome. And this could speed up things, to get the fix into 1.0 and not 1.0.1.

Cool, well i will pop in later and we can discuss, busy finishing it last night, but i think it is there now. Should have no problem integrating it as the change log has full notes off all the code i have updated and can easily do a beyond compare dif with the latest svn to see what was changed and resolve any conflicts.

Version 5 is out - see first post.

Whats New - highlights
99.9% accurate movie matching.
Works best with Movie-xml site as the quality of the retrived data there is higher; but it is the internal fuzzy logic which has been enhanced so will work across all internal and csscript based searches to auto choose you the movie.

IMDB searches - removed their hardcoded covers retrival so they now use the one you choose.

UNKOWN displaye din fields with no data is now gone; should make your GUI look nicer.

Couple of other bugs...........

 

[powerfix]

This is a vast improvement on the movie section that was in dire need of overhaul - well done!

Can I throw a small spanner in the works and add a feature request that really bugs the hell out of me?

In the music section it's possible the rename "The Eagles" and store it as "Eagles, The". How hard would this be to implement for the movies?

At the moment I do it manually, but I've always thought that it should be optional when importing.

Just a question and if you can help out, great, if not, no stress!

Cheers,

pwrfix.

 

[gamejester]

Well you would not want your movie displayed in the GUI as "Eagles, The" that would look a bit rubbish; so best to keep the title in the db correct. Also this would make al the built in functions break as it is used as a key field when do lookups for covers and IMDB info, etc...

What could be done (maybe) is a change to the way the Title db retrival is order so all movies that start with "The" are in alphabetical order starting from the second word.......................hummm, not looked at this bit of the code, but I will add it to the feature requests in the first post.

 

[seco]

Does these changes support scene release file names (like Black.Hawk.Down.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv) or scanning by folder name instead of file name?

The default implementation seems not and it's useless without.

 

[gamejester]

Does these changes support scene release file names (like Black.Hawk.Down.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv) or scanning by folder name instead of file name?

The default implementation seems not and it's useless without.

There are no changes to handle names like this.
There is a section in the existing code that attempts to address things like this which strips off certain key words.
The trouble with that approach is that it will always be out of date.
I am assuming your folder names have someting more useful like

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Have you tried ticking the option in the configuration app

\Movies\Every Movie has its own directory

??

Not used it myself, but give it a go and see if that helps.
Please report back to us all how you get on.
I will probably move to this kind of setup myself soon so am interested in your feedback.

 

[seco]

Does these changes support scene release file names (like Black.Hawk.Down.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv) or scanning by folder name instead of file name?

The default implementation seems not and it's useless without.

There are no changes to handle names like this.
There is a section in the existing code that attempts to address things like this which strips off certain key words.
The trouble with that approach is that it will always be out of date.
I am assuming your folder names have someting more useful like

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Have you tried ticking the option in the configuration app

\Movies\Every Movie has its own directory

??

Not used it myself, but give it a go and see if that helps.
Please report back to us all how you get on.
I will probably move to this kind of setup myself soon so am interested in your feedback.

You're right, my directory structure is like D:\Movies\Black Hawk Down\Black.Hawk.Down.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv

I tried enabling the "Every Movie has its own directory" but I think it did nothing. I still get VERY bad results with the scanning, "Fearless" is scanned something like "Fearless Vampire Killers" WTF ?

A piece of crap IMHO I scanned like 40 movies and it only got "Batman Begins" right...

 

[gamejester]

which grabber are you using?

I will enable that setting and step through the code and see what it is supposd to do, I am using it was designed to take the folder name as the movie title, but i have never looked at it so I don't know yet.

Another thing that could be added as a new feature would be to have a user definable area where you add strings that you want removed from a file name when extracting the title..............like MPTVSeries plugin does.

 

[seco]

which grabber are you using?

I will enable that setting and step through the code and see what it is supposd to do, I am using it was designed to take the folder name as the movie title, but i have never looked at it so I don't know yet.

Another thing that could be added as a new feature would be to have a user definable area where you add strings that you want removed from a file name when extracting the title..............like MPTVSeries plugin does.

What do you mean by grabber? "Available databases" ? There I have added "IMDB" and "movdb".

 

[gamejester]

moviedb does not work any more as it is out of date and the inbuilt IMDB one is also quite old, the csscript version is better.

However, if you download and try this latest patch and choose movie-xml as your db searcher i think you will be plesantly suprised.

I just created a file called
Black.Hawk.Down.2001.BluRay.1080p.DTS.x264.dx va-EuReKA.mkv
and it auto matched it fine.

The enhanced movie-xml.csscript coupled with the enhacements to the auto matching fuzzy logic while not directly targeted at fixing your issue both go a long way towards getting good matches for files names with additional rubbish at the end

I have also just stepped through the code with "Every Movie has its own directory" ticked and it did not seem to do anything, so I will ask the devs what it's intended use is and look to alter it so that it takes the movie title from the folder name.

 

[seco]

Okay thanks, the moviexml seems to perform a bit better.

However, I still get some weird results like "300" -> "300 mil do niebi" and "300 Premiership Goals" and "Hitman" -> "Hitman The Cobra"

Another problem is that I have sample files and folders with movies too.

It's common in scene releases, so some kind of exclusion mechanism of specified files and folders would be great.

EDIT: Okay maybe I'll just delete those sample and other unnecessary files by hand