Moving Pictures Public Beta 0.5.5c (3 Viewers)
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Okay, I've finished adding all my movies and it looks great! One question and one comment though. There's something I don't understand, for quite a few of my movies I get FanArt, but no cover. Even for mainstream movies like 10.000 BC or 21. Some movies don't get FanArt nor Covers, like (for the girlfriend) Sex and the City (no, really, for the girlfriend). Can you explain why this is?
And can you make it so it remembers the view? I like filmstrip, but every time I open "moving pictures", it starts in list mode.
And can you make it so it remembers the view? I like filmstrip, but every time I open "moving pictures", it starts in list mode.
Sure, for the girlfriend
You can set the defaultview in the configuration (Mediaportal - Config -> plugins -> MovPic)
As for covers, the hitpercentage will improve (I trust the devs on this) with the upcoming release (soon, but not yet...)
I think this is a problem of IMPAwards. Let's hope that The open movie database is finished soon
Check out the configurator of MP and set the "default view" to your wishes
E: too late
I have the Cars movie with the bonus movies in subfolders. They are scanned and added correctly (as Cars as well) to the database. If that's what you mean...
So you want to add more video sources (folders). That's also possible, I have some B-movies in a different location added to the MovPic config screen as an additional watch folder...
Somehow I have the feeling this is still not what you mean though...
Hi all, Awesome plugin. Something like this has been needed for a long time. The standard My Movies configuration was not up to scratch.
For me the best part of the plugin is the scanning and matching. Not only does it find more films than My Movies but the admin GUI to quickly scan, match and fix via drop downs made my 600+ movie import complete in under half an hour (about 15% manual fixing - I have lots of foreign films).
I have added onto the Google bugs list but thought I would consolidate my issues/requests in one post:
1. Import from My Movies. While I said above that the scan found my movies quickly, unfortunately due to my tastes in film this is not enough for the initial scan. I spent about a week in My Movies finding art and renaming movies and reallocating genres and couldn't fathom doing that again. I know a better cover art scraper is coming but I practically guarantee it will not find the 25% crazy Korean horror movies and Italian Giallo/Crime movies I have! Most of those took careful Googling to find.
I read that an import on the images from My Movies is coming which is awesome, but I really need to get the whole DB as it stands into the new plugin. While I enjoy foreign movies I prefer their display names to be the English AKA from IMDB, or failing that, just the filename (which I have correctly formatted to "Movie Name (Year).avi". Also I find the genre choices from IMDB lacking, and prefer to keep my Horror movies seperate from my J-Horror and K-Horror, and my Giallo away from the generic Crime/Thriller.
2. Already mentioned but just re-iterating: After the initial scan and my library went from 0 to 600+, if I close the plugin admin GUI and then the MP admin GUI, I have to wait for the process "configuration.exe" to die off before re-entering the admin. This takes about 5-7 minutes with my 600 movies in the library. Not waiting and re-entering MP Configuration completely corrupts the DB and it needs to be deleted. MP informs you that the plugin is not compatible and will be excluded.
3. Very minor but may help you in improving matching. Any movies that on IMDB have parenthesis in the name will not be found, for example: "Black Cat (Gatto nero) (1981)" would not match. I had to use the manual override to scan for just "Gatto nero".
4. Automatically add cover art from the folder the movie is in if it is named the same as the movie. Eg. "Iron Man (2008).avi" should find "Iron Man (2008).jpg" along side it and add it as a cover. As the IMDB scrape on this plugin is so good, and as the plugin watches folder similarly to MP-TvSeries, in many cases no matter how obscure the movie is, all I would need to do is drop the movie.avi and movie.jpg (and movie.srt!) into the watch folder hierarchy and it will be added correctly (with only the genre perhaps needing to be tweaked). This improves the WAF ten-fold, not having to drop out to Windows and edit file details.
5. Multiple disc movies. How does this work currently? On my first scan, any movie suffixed with -CD1, -CD2, -Disc 1, -Disc 2 etc. were added to the database as two seperate movies. Only on ONE occasion did it correctly combine the movies - "The Midnight Meat Train (2008)-CD1.avi" and "The Midnight Meat Train (2008)-CD2.avi" were added as one movie with multiple files. However, after my database became corrupt (see point 2) and needed to be re-scanned, this same movie was picked up as two movies. The only difference between the two occasions was that on my initial import first time around I did not have the movie, and it was auto-matched during a subsequent import. The second time was after the DB crashed so it became part of the initial scan.
5. "No cover" default image is really needed for non-list views!
6. Filtering by genre, last 25 added, etc. though I know everyone has already requested this; just raising my hand as well!
I think that is everything I can think of. Really awesome work and thank you for reading my post, I hope it is useful.
For me the best part of the plugin is the scanning and matching. Not only does it find more films than My Movies but the admin GUI to quickly scan, match and fix via drop downs made my 600+ movie import complete in under half an hour (about 15% manual fixing - I have lots of foreign films).
I have added onto the Google bugs list but thought I would consolidate my issues/requests in one post:
1. Import from My Movies. While I said above that the scan found my movies quickly, unfortunately due to my tastes in film this is not enough for the initial scan. I spent about a week in My Movies finding art and renaming movies and reallocating genres and couldn't fathom doing that again. I know a better cover art scraper is coming but I practically guarantee it will not find the 25% crazy Korean horror movies and Italian Giallo/Crime movies I have! Most of those took careful Googling to find.
I read that an import on the images from My Movies is coming which is awesome, but I really need to get the whole DB as it stands into the new plugin. While I enjoy foreign movies I prefer their display names to be the English AKA from IMDB, or failing that, just the filename (which I have correctly formatted to "Movie Name (Year).avi". Also I find the genre choices from IMDB lacking, and prefer to keep my Horror movies seperate from my J-Horror and K-Horror, and my Giallo away from the generic Crime/Thriller.
2. Already mentioned but just re-iterating: After the initial scan and my library went from 0 to 600+, if I close the plugin admin GUI and then the MP admin GUI, I have to wait for the process "configuration.exe" to die off before re-entering the admin. This takes about 5-7 minutes with my 600 movies in the library. Not waiting and re-entering MP Configuration completely corrupts the DB and it needs to be deleted. MP informs you that the plugin is not compatible and will be excluded.
3. Very minor but may help you in improving matching. Any movies that on IMDB have parenthesis in the name will not be found, for example: "Black Cat (Gatto nero) (1981)" would not match. I had to use the manual override to scan for just "Gatto nero".
4. Automatically add cover art from the folder the movie is in if it is named the same as the movie. Eg. "Iron Man (2008).avi" should find "Iron Man (2008).jpg" along side it and add it as a cover. As the IMDB scrape on this plugin is so good, and as the plugin watches folder similarly to MP-TvSeries, in many cases no matter how obscure the movie is, all I would need to do is drop the movie.avi and movie.jpg (and movie.srt!) into the watch folder hierarchy and it will be added correctly (with only the genre perhaps needing to be tweaked). This improves the WAF ten-fold, not having to drop out to Windows and edit file details.
5. Multiple disc movies. How does this work currently? On my first scan, any movie suffixed with -CD1, -CD2, -Disc 1, -Disc 2 etc. were added to the database as two seperate movies. Only on ONE occasion did it correctly combine the movies - "The Midnight Meat Train (2008)-CD1.avi" and "The Midnight Meat Train (2008)-CD2.avi" were added as one movie with multiple files. However, after my database became corrupt (see point 2) and needed to be re-scanned, this same movie was picked up as two movies. The only difference between the two occasions was that on my initial import first time around I did not have the movie, and it was auto-matched during a subsequent import. The second time was after the DB crashed so it became part of the initial scan.
5. "No cover" default image is really needed for non-list views!
6. Filtering by genre, last 25 added, etc. though I know everyone has already requested this; just raising my hand as well!
I think that is everything I can think of. Really awesome work and thank you for reading my post, I hope it is useful.
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Sutekh: Please get yourself an account at themoviedb.org (TMDb) | The open movie database and you can add your "good" covers to those hard to find films (such as the giallo titles and j/k-horror). This way if your hdd crashes, you:
a) won't have to google your ass off to find them again
b) help all the other fans of these genres
I'm aware that some films might even be totally missing from that site, but it's not very hard/much work adding them yourself. Just copy pasting from IMDB takes a maximum of 5 minutes per film (if they're totally missing that is).
Emph
a) won't have to google your ass off to find them again
b) help all the other fans of these genres
I'm aware that some films might even be totally missing from that site, but it's not very hard/much work adding them yourself. Just copy pasting from IMDB takes a maximum of 5 minutes per film (if they're totally missing that is).
Emph
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