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Message: <blockquote data-quote="p13man" data-source="post: 339554" data-attributes="member: 84802">It is designed to parse each file seeking two items of info: the name of the artist and the title of the song. I've found the most effective way is to name the files "artist - song title.ext". So sacrifice by Elton John would have the filename "Elton John - Sacrifice.mp4". The plugin treats the first hyphen " - " as a delimiter so whatever comes before the hyphen it assumes is the artist's name snd what comes after the hyphen as the song title. You can have spaces in the filename or not, as you wish but it makes for easier reading if you do. Be sure that there is nothing other than the artists name before the hyphen and know that whatever follows the hyphen will be treated as the song title. You can add extra hyphens and other stuff after the song title if you want to, for your own purposes, mvids will ignore any further hyphens, so "Elton John - Sacrifice - DVD RIP - Live - 4 minutes 30 seconds - poor quality.avi" will be read as "Elton John- Sacrifice.avi" BUT it will read "Elton John - Live Concert - Sacrifice.avi" will lead it to read the artist correctly but it will treat the song as though it was called "Live Concert.avi"The one problem people were having was that this structure needed you to have all your video files in one folder and with collections of over 100 that was unwieldly so the author has been tweaking it over the past week or so (this system starts with mvids_02.0). As things stand you can have a folder structure but you must inform the plugin what that structure is by using a mask. At the simplest level, then, you might put all videos by the same artist in their own folder e.g "root folder\artist\video file.extension". To use the example above that would be (say) "D:\Elton John\Sacrifice.avi". On the relevant page of the plugin configuration you will find a text box for you to tell it the root folder: "D:\" and below that is another text box for the mask, in our example that would be "%artist%/". You can use other tags if you wish, a useful one is to include the tag that last.fm uses for the artist - it saves you been quizzed by the plugin if it's got the artist right or not. The mask for that is "%last.fm%". So, for our example the structure you would use is "D:\Elton+John\sacrifice.avi" and the mask, "%last.fm%/". You can get as complicated as you want after that using whatever tags and folders you prefer. "D:\Classic Rock\Elton John\Elton+John\Elton John - Sacrifice.avi" and the mask, "%genre%\%artist%\%last.fm%\".This is dragging on a bit I know but I'm just giving you the information I wish I had. Finally, if you don't like the idea of masks and arcanery, you can create a textfile with notepad which you must call "info.txt" and put that in the folder which contains the video. In the file you put the information you want mVids to know with each piece of data on a separate line. Example: artist=Elton Johntitle=Sacrificelast.fm=Elton+Johnand then, it shouldn't matter what you call the file, EJSac.avi should work.One final point, there's no need to have the.bup files and the .ifo or video_ts files present. I rip mine with DVD decrypter, split the DVD by chapters (which usually corresponds to a song) and rename the file changing the '.vob' extensions to '.mpeg'. There's no need to recode the file .vob is synonymous with .mpeg - it's just an mpeg 2 file with a sophisticated name. You wont get menus this way (which saves time anyway) but the video will plkay with the same quality as the original. I used to recode to DivX but hard drive space is so cheap, it's much faster to use a file renamer program. I've just done everything I've written here with over 700 videos and mvids recognised them all. It's a little miracle.Good luckjburnette wrote, Yes, you're right, you can see what I do from my post above. ffdshow handles vob files which have been renamed .mpeg without error as does Intervideo decoder. FFdshow also works with mpg-1s also renamed to .mpeg but if you make a mistake and miss out the letter 'e' (i.e. 'mpg') it still renders the file but it plays upside down!Thanks too to pilehave - what a great combination, MediaStream and mVids. I've tried every media center program I can find, Open Source and commercial, on windows and Linux and this is easily the prettiest, simplest and most unbreakable combination I've seen. Great work guys! I can't wait for the tweaked skin from pilehave tomorrow. Christmas is coming early this year!Right now the only small annoyance is that I can't get mVids to appear in the myHome menu - I have to access it via myplugins but I'm starting to understand the xml structure and, anyway, it's no real hardship.Does anyone know a quick way to rip these 250 or so DVDs that are sitting on my desk? Do you two geniuses know anything about robotics? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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