Possible to scan folders instead of files? (2 Viewers)

[stoked]

Solis66,

Could we get a update for RC2? Thanks in advance!

 

[solis66]

That wouldnt be to hard, but I cant find the source code for RC2.
Dunno if its the same as RC1 trunk rev 19675. Cant find any newer.

Otherwise its no problem...

 

[egg]

Hi,

I love this plugin. However, the way it searches into sub-folders and outputs some weird options is strange.

Can it be configured, so it only looks at the top level folder for the name?

 

[solis66]

Hi egg.
Not sure I now what you mean.

searches into sub-folders and outputs some weird options

Can you give some example?

 

[egg]

sorry.. my current folder structure is as follows:

/movies/
/movies/blade.runner/
movies/blade.runner/sample/
movies/blade.runner/sample/sample.mkv
movies/blade.runner/b-r.mkv
movies/blade.runner/otherjunk.xzy

in cases like this, often the movie is picked up as "sample" and imdb calles is simple men or some other random film

So I'm thinking, how can it be forced to use the foldername in this case? Or simply turn off the subfolder feature? (which i guess causes some of the issue)?

 

[solis66]

Hi
I see your point here.

Don't you think Sample is a good movie?
*joking*

Well, I think the subfolder structure has to be there to be able to scan a hierarchy of moviefolders.

/movies/
/movies/action/blade.runner/
/movies/action/die.hard/
/movies/comedy/MontyPython/

The easiest fix is to just exclude some hardcoded foldernames like "sample". The next step could be to add a section in xml file and read data from the xml file where a user could add his own names to exclude.

I'll think about it, but I will release the dll file in few days based on the RC1 trunk code, since RC2 is not labeled yet, so i just stick to the hardcoded part right now.

Any other suggestions for names besided 'sample'?

 

[stoked]

My samples are usually kept in the same directory as the movie folder so I guess I don't see this problem, but can see how it would affect it. BTW, it'd be nice if MP would be able to just play the movie file when the folder is selected and if there's more then one movie file in the folder then drilldown into the folder like it does now. I'm guessing this may be beyond the scope of your patch Solis66.

That wouldnt be to hard, but I cant find the source code for RC2.
Dunno if its the same as RC1 trunk rev 19675. Cant find any newer.

Otherwise its no problem...

I asked the devs which SVN RC2 is, it's 19657 and they said they tagged it now.

 

[solis66]

Ok, i'll use 19657.
I will release the patch later this week

it'd be nice if MP would be able to just play the movie file when the folder is selected

Yes, you are right about that and I don't think its too hard to implement, but I'm going away for a three week holiday on Saturday so that feature will have to wait till after the vacation.

Btw, stoked. If you have sample files named sample.avi or something like that, then there must be wrong file added to db when scanning if you have two files named
/sample.avi
/Terminator.avi
in the same folder, or...

 

[stoked]

Ok, i'll use 19657.
I will release the patch later this week

it'd be nice if MP would be able to just play the movie file when the folder is selected

Yes, you are right about that and I don't think its too hard to implement, but I'm going away for a three week holiday on Saturday so that feature will have to wait till after the vacation.

Btw, stoked. If you have sample files named sample.avi or something like that, then there must be wrong file added to db when scanning if you have two files named
/sample.avi
/Terminator.avi
in the same folder, or...

Thanks Solis66! Got your PM as well. As to the the sample video file, I don't have a problem like egg does. My files are usually like:

./Terminator/Terminator.avi
./Terminator/Terminator-sample.avi

If you do manage to add the play movie when movie folder is selected, adding an exclusion for *sample* should suffice.

Anyhow thanks again! Have a good vacation!

 

[egg]

looking forward to any updates. As a workaround, I'm just gonna scrap all my extra files that i dont need.

I'm also trying to remember how my XBMC setup worked... that seemed to have some good logic, as I dont recall having to mess too much with files etc. Just made the folder names correct and it was all good...