+- XBMC Community Forum (http://forum.xbmc.org)
+-- Forum: Help and Support (/forumdisplay.php?fid=33)
+--- Forum: Supplementary Tools for XBMC (/forumdisplay.php?fid=116)
+--- Thread: [MAC] ViMediaManager - Media Manager for Mac OS X! (/showthread.php?tid=109976)
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148
- jpf55 - 2011-09-26 17:08
Hello, I am new here marius, congratulations on a great idea.
I have read some the faqs and some of the posts after a few searches but have not found the answer. Are movies supposed to each have their own folder? My movie database is divided by genre and in each genre folder, there are numerous movies and their associated nfo, jpg, tbn and fanart. XBMC has no problem with this structures but ViMediaManager only reads one movie per folder and not always the first one either.
Thanks
- MariusTh86 - 2011-09-26 17:16
jpf55 Wrote:Hello, I am new here marius, congratulations on a great idea.
I have read some the faqs and some of the posts after a few searches but have not found the answer. Are movies supposed to each have their own folder? My movie database is divided by genre and in each genre folder, there are numerous movies and their associated nfo, jpg, tbn and fanart. XBMC has no problem with this structures but ViMediaManager only reads one movie per folder and not always the first one either.
Thanks
Hi there! and welcome to the thread!
As I understand it, your folder structure is something like this:
- Top Folder
- Genre
- MovieFile/Folder
- Genre
- MovieFile/Folder
To make it works with ViMediaManager, you would add the different genre folders to the application, and either make sure that every movie file is inside a folder inside the genre folder, or use the "Tool" menu to automate putting movie files inside folders.
Hope this helps. ^^
- jpf55 - 2011-09-26 17:31
my structure is:
movies
movies/genre/
movies/genre/title1.avi
movies/genre/title1.nfo
movies/genre/title1.tbn
movies/genre/title1.jpg
movies/genre/title1-fanart.jpg
movies/genre/title2.avi
movies/genre/title2.nfo
movies/genre/title2.tbn
movies/genre/title2.jpg
movies/genre/title2-fanart.jpg
movies/genre/movieset/title3.avi
movies/genre/movieset/title3.nfo
movies/genre/movieset/title3.tbn
movies/genre/movieset/title3.jpg
movies/genre/movieset/title3-fanart.jpg
I understand you requirement but would like more info on the tools, it is definitely a worthy job but a lengthy one as the files are on the network and access is slow.
Also, is it normal that I don't see episodes in TVshows?
My structure for TVshows is
TVshows/
TVshows/showName1/
TVshows/showName1/season1/
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.avi
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.nfo
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.tbn
- MariusTh86 - 2011-09-26 17:33
jpf55 Wrote:my structure is:
movies
movies/genre/
movies/genre/title1.avi
movies/genre/title1.nfo
movies/genre/title1.tbn
movies/genre/title1.jpg
movies/genre/title1-fanart.jpg
movies/genre/title2.avi
movies/genre/title2.nfo
movies/genre/title2.tbn
movies/genre/title2.jpg
movies/genre/title2-fanart.jpg
movies/genre/movieset/title3.avi
movies/genre/movieset/title3.nfo
movies/genre/movieset/title3.tbn
movies/genre/movieset/title3.jpg
movies/genre/movieset/title3-fanart.jpg
I understand you requirement but would like more info on the tools, it is definitely a worthy job but a lengthy one as the files are on the network and access is slow.
Also, is it normal that I don't see episodes in TVshows?
My structure for TVshows is
TVshows/
TVshows/showName1/
TVshows/showName1/season1/
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.avi
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.nfo
TVshows/showName1/season1/episode1.tbn
Correct, TV show episodes are not yet supported, though I plan to support them in much the same structure as yours.
- jpf55 - 2011-09-26 17:36
How do the tools work exactly, I have not found info on them.
I have a backup of my media drive but dont want to take chances ;-)
- MariusTh86 - 2011-09-26 17:39
jpf55 Wrote:How do the tools work exactly, I have not found info on them.
I have a backup of my media drive but dont want to take chances ;-)
The Tool that automates movie sorting searches through each path for movie files, if it finds these it creates a folder with the same name as the movie file but without the extension and moves the movie file inside this folder, it'll do this for each movie file it finds.
There shouldn't be any harmful repercussions for using this tool, though the current images and NFO files will not be moved with the movie file.
If you want to keep the current images and NFO files, you might try moving them all manually.
- jpf55 - 2011-09-26 17:48
OK, I just saw the result of "Sort Movie Files Into Folders", it only processed the first folder and no subfolders.
As you said, it only moved the movie BUT it handles bigger movies seperately, not good for xbmc: ex batman-cd1.avi and batman-cd2.avi have to be in the same folder for xbmc to play the movie correctly.
Hope I am clear
Also What does Bulk Movies Renamer do? I stopped a the warning
- MariusTh86 - 2011-09-26 17:53
jpf55 Wrote:OK, I just saw the result of "Sort Movie Files Into Folders", it only processed the first folder and no subfolders.
As you said, it only moved the movie BUT it handles bigger movies seperately, not good for xbmc: ex batman-cd1.avi and batman-cd2.avi have to be in the same folder for xbmc to play the movie correctly.
Hope I am clear
Also What does Bulk Movies Renamer do? I stopped a the warning
I guess it's not quite ready for 2 part movies yet...
Bulk Movies Renamer would rename the folders to 'Title' or whatever preferences you have said under "Movies" to rename them to, for this one to work best it should probably have an NFO file in each folder, otherwise I think it'll ignore renaming the folder.
- jpf55 - 2011-09-26 18:02
Hello again, I just tried de the bulk renamer and got "An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled. The application must shut down"
As far as I can tell, nothing was done to the files or folders
- MariusTh86 - 2011-09-26 18:06
jpf55 Wrote:Hello again, I just tried de the bulk renamer and got "An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled. The application must shut down"
As far as I can tell, nothing was done to the files or folders
Alright, I'll look into it, thanks for letting me know ^^