SUGGESTION BOX: Additions for the Rename database system (1 Viewer)

[Bernard]

That movie is a collage of TV segments that is not considered a "proper" movie in the series. However I've added it as 'I' as well, which due to alphabetical order of subtitle will put it first. I didn't even knew (or rather forgot) they had released a collage movie of the TV series.

Hi RoChess, to be honest, I don't know anything much about Monty Python, I was about to get rid of them all, just because they are not really "movies" in my definition. But when I realised that you sorted the other 3, I thought, well at least they will now stay together and not "contaminate" my movie collection. And then I added the "other" movie as well. Because this movie starts with "A" it sorts to the first few movies, and then I saw it each time I was browsing for a movie to watch, that just irritated me... lol. But now it is way down on the list, and because they form a "group" I wil one day sit and watch them all back 2 back... hopefully I will then understand why other people have enjoyed it enough so that it stayed alive so long.

I think the mere fact that they are so weird and still people enjoyed them enough to put them in a group, intrigues me, so I will just have to watch them some time...

Anyways, thanks for the script updates, I never would have thought that the mere fact of grouping a few movie series together will make me so much more proud to scroll through my collection! And it encourage me to get the missing ones!

 

[RoChess]

Yup, I never understood the idea behind making a sequel have a totally unrelated title.

"The DaVinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are prime example on that. Without IMDb+ it would require a good memory to remember they belong together and easy to watch them out of order. Or the Matrix movies that when sorted alphabetically even with each title containing "Matrix" puts them in the wrong order.

I couldn't figure out how to help add this function to the MovPic plugin itself, but I did knew enough about scraper-scripts to push it to a new limit, which eventually resulted in IMDb+

 

[zpower]

I´ve config IMDB+ to english names but the movie "The Sessions" give me translate name for portuguese.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/

 

[RoChess]

I´ve config IMDB+ to english names but the movie "The Sessions" give me translate name for portuguese.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/

That is because IMDb website detects you are from Portuguese IP, so it looks up if it has any Portuguese title entries. In this case it does "Seis Sessões -- Portugal (imdb display title)" so that is what the website will show when IMDb+ scraper-script tries to obtain title.

For some reason no USA AKA title entry exists, which then freaks my system out. Can you please give me the HTML source code on:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/​

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas​

That way I can verify what is different between the way IMDb website shows it for my American IP and how you get it on your Portuguese IP. In worst case I'll have to add an entry to the title rename system to force an English title, but this will also impact users who do want to show the Portuguese title. So get me those HTML sources (attached in a reply or use paste2.org or alike site please) and I'll see what is possible.

 

[Bernard]

Just quickly: I noticed that step up 4 is not in the scraper script!

Cheers!

 

[Bernard]

28 days and 28 weeks later is missing. But they do "list" after each other, so technically don't need grouping. But I'm getting so used to looking for the "I", "II" and "III" in my movie list to know that I'm missing a movie in a sequence, that I thought 28 days/weeks should also be added.

I'm not sure what to call the group "28: ", "Twenty Eight: " or "28 Days Later I", "28 Days Later II: 28 Weeks Later". I'm leaving it to RoChess...

 

[kiwijunglist]

I prefer as is. ^

 

[RoChess]

I prefer the as-is way as well, and unless they add a "28 months later" that sorts inbetween first and second movie, I just left it for users to sort out and add it to their custom rename database if they really want it

You are right on the I/II part missing, as I'm using that myself as part of a movie-series filter. Results in a nice category that shows all the IMDb+ movie-series together. But a full rewrite on that is in the works for v3.0 of plugin that is just taking way longer then I like it to take (also want to add multi-language support for the movie-series rename system).

At the same time progress is made on MovPic itself to finally add movie series grouping support within, so have to keep an eye on that as well and modify IMDb+ for it if needed.

 

[Bernard]

I prefer the as-is way as well, and unless they add a "28 months later"

What would you suggest then? Because I can't see a proper rule to apply to my custom naming then! I see that they "want" to do a 28 Months Later, but so far have internal issues to resolve first, which may not happen at all.

But a full rewrite on that is in the works for v3.0 of plugin that is just taking way longer then I like it to take (also want to add multi-language support for the movie-series rename system).

At the same time progress is made on MovPic itself to finally add movie series grouping support within, so have to keep an eye on that as well and modify IMDb+ for it if needed.

We look forward to these updates!

 

[RoChess]

What would you suggest then? Because I can't see a proper rule to apply to my custom naming then! I see that they "want" to do a 28 Months Later, but so far have internal issues to resolve first, which may not happen at all.

If you want the roman numerals then:

<rename id="tt0289043" title="28 Days Later... I" sortby="28 Days Later 01" />
<rename id="tt0463854" title="28 Weeks Later II" sortby="28 Days Later 02" />
<rename id="(unknown)" title="28 Months Later III" sortby="28 Days Later 03" />

Otherwise:

<rename id="tt0289043" title="28 Days Later..." sortby="28 Days Later 01" />
<rename id="tt0463854" title="28 Weeks Later" sortby="28 Days Later 02" />
<rename id="(unknown)" title="28 Months Later" sortby="28 Days Later 03" />

Is what I would use, choice is yours

PS: Don't think 3rd one is going to happen, http://www.imdb.com/news/ni36608533/