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RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - vbat99 - 2012-05-06 04:49
From old MC thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53640&page=108
(2012-05-05 20:34)EZ1976 Wrote:(2012-04-17 22:59)HueyHq Wrote:(2012-04-17 22:45)trpltongue Wrote: quick question,Not that I'm aware of. Do you mean as a background task?
Can MC be setup to "auto-scan" movie folders? I've been using media center master and it has a functionality whereby it monitors the movie folders and auto-scrapes when you add a new file or folder. Pretty slick, but the scraping leaves a bit to be desired. MC seems to have phenomenal scraping capability and flexibility but I just can't seem to see if there is a way to auto-scrape.
We are busy trying to fix a few pressing issues at the moment, but once that is done, I am sure there would be some scope for some new features, and I think there is some potential for more automation!
I suggest you add a feature (um, issue; a dev has to change it to a feature) at the Media Companion site on CodePlex so we can keep track when it comes time to work on features!
i made a batch file that runs every 2 hours that update the software and then connections to my xbmc and initiate a library update.
scan.bat:
mc_com.exe -m
mc_com.exe -e
"D:\others\MediaCompanion\winscp437\winscp.com" /script="D:\others\MediaCompanion\winscp437\1.txt"
1.txt:
open root:openelec@10.0.0.52
call /usr/bin/xbmc-send -a "UpdateLibrary(video)"
call /usr/bin/xbmc-send -a "UpdateLibrary(music)"
exit
hope this helps
This seems interestings, and could possibly be an addition to MC with an option in the gui (with relevant settings, ie: logon & password etc).
I think it could also be done with TST10, instead of an install of WinSCP. TST10 could be included with MC for flagging XBMC to do an update.
Possibly an extra button so once a user is happy after checking their newly scraped Episodes and/or Movies, click the button sends command to XBMC to run an update. Even add to mc_com the options -eu and -mu for episode scrape and update xbmc or movie scrape and update xbmc.
Will add this to Codeplex site as a possible feature.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - AgeOfPanic - 2012-05-08 00:10
(2012-05-05 01:28)vbat99 Wrote:(2012-05-03 18:33)AgeOfPanic Wrote: OK, I have a little bit more information about my problem and I'm starting to think this might be a XBMC problem. I removed all information MC scraped (nfo and tbn etc) and let XBMC scrape everything itself. Everything was fine and new episodes got scraped automatically. Then I removed the source, let MC rescrape everything, and readded the source to XBMC. XBMC uses all the information and metadata that MC scraped.
I added a new episode to my Series folder without MC scraping information about it. XBMC doesn't show the new episode after updating the library or scanning for new content. Then I let MC scrape the episode. XBMC still does not see the episode after updating the library, but it does after scanning the specific show for new content.
What do you think? A XBMC problem or a MC bug? I'd like to use MC, because I need to syncronize the thumbnails between multiple instances of XBMC and having a central folder on my Home Server is slowing the library down too much. Thank you.
Interested in finding an answer for this one two, But in my testing, Dharma XBMC add everything to its library, where as I have the same issue your having with Eden XBMC. I'm running one installation of Dharma and one of Openelec Eden Beta 3.
And have two shows I need to scan for new content, and one show that misses episode 1 and 3 of season 11. Weird.
My issue is with Eden as well. Currently, I'm trying to scan everything with Ember MM to see if that makes a difference. If not, XBMC must be at fault.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - vbat99 - 2012-05-08 01:04
(2012-05-08 00:10)AgeOfPanic Wrote: My issue is with Eden as well. Currently, I'm trying to scan everything with Ember MM to see if that makes a difference. If not, XBMC must be at fault.
What version of Eden? Windows, XBMCuntu Live, Openelec, Mac or ATV.
Seems to be happening on Openelec for myself and a friend, but not on Dharma. (though I may have to eat my words, wife complaining new episode of Once Upon A Time is on the NAS but not adding to Library on Dharma. Have to check that when get home).
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - AgeOfPanic - 2012-05-09 11:46
I started a thread in the Support Forum, since EMM gave me the same problem. Link. Based on the answer I checked the log and it says that there is no correct episodeguide in the tvshow.nfo. I checked the tvshow.nfo and there is no episodeguide at all. Any way to get this in?
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - vbat99 - 2012-05-09 13:04
Commented in your other thread, where JMarshall mentioned the episodeguide tag, I just added a new show, GCB and it doesn't have episodeguideurl tag, but it's adding to both libraries A.O.K.
Will comment to HueyHQ about this tag.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - Rodimus - 2012-05-13 00:07
Anyone else notice it's not scrapping tv shows for the last couple of days? It bombed out on me mid library scan (mid twenties out of 30+ things to pick up out of thousands of folders to scan.
It got most of them, but others it cannot scrape at the minute. Even manually sleecting them since, I get this.
With File : T:\NCIS Los Angeles\Season 00\S00E03 - Pa Make Loa (1)\Hawaii.Five-0.2010.S02E21.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.mkv
Detected : Season : 00 Episode : 03
Season : 00
Episode: 03
Multipart episode found:
Season: 00 Episodes, 03, 21,
Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo
Using Settings: TVdbID: 95441 SortOrder: default Language: en Actor Source: tvdb
**** TVDB Returned TEXT Stream *****
Scraping body of episode: 3
Using Settings: TVdbID: 95441 SortOrder: default Language: en Actor Source: tvdb
WARNING: Could not locate this episode on TVDB, or TVDB may be unavailable
TVDB is definately up though.
Tried it with the last 3 releases. All say the same thing. Tried it on 2 pc's too. All 3 versions were new installs.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - vbat99 - 2012-05-13 23:57
(2012-05-13 00:07)Rodimus Wrote: Anyone else notice it's not scrapping tv shows for the last couple of days? It bombed out on me mid library scan (mid twenties out of 30+ things to pick up out of thousands of folders to scan.
It got most of them, but others it cannot scrape at the minute. Even manually sleecting them since, I get this.
With File : T:\NCIS Los Angeles\Season 00\S00E03 - Pa Make Loa (1)\Hawaii.Five-0.2010.S02E21.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION.mkv
Detected : Season : 00 Episode : 03
Season : 00
Episode: 03
Multipart episode found:
Season: 00 Episodes, 03, 21,
Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo
Using Settings: TVdbID: 95441 SortOrder: default Language: en Actor Source: tvdb
**** TVDB Returned TEXT Stream *****
Scraping body of episode: 3
Using Settings: TVdbID: 95441 SortOrder: default Language: en Actor Source: tvdb
WARNING: Could not locate this episode on TVDB, or TVDB may be unavailable
TVDB is definately up though.
Tried it with the last 3 releases. All say the same thing. Tried it on 2 pc's too. All 3 versions were new installs.
While MC is good, it can't decipher which episode or season it needs to scrape, when you have so many numbers in the file location and filename. MC can't figure out if it's season 00 episode 03 to episode21 in one file?? I'd be confused also.
You'll find if you rename the file to S00E03 - Pa Make Loa (1).mkv and have it only in T:\NCIS Los Angeles\Season 00\ folder, MC will scrape it perfectly.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - Rodimus - 2012-05-14 07:43
Heh I tried that last night, and it worked a dream. I had assumed it was doing it off the folder and as such would be fine.
Thankyou!
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - vbat99 - 2012-05-30 00:44
(2012-05-28 10:06)trpltongue Wrote: Is there any way to manually change the movie using TMDB instead of IMDB?
I have a set of workout DVD's for my wife that are not listed on IMDB, but have perfect covers / details / etc on IMDB. Unfortunately, media companion can't seem to find them on tmdb (even though I have tmdb selected as the default scraper) and falls back on an IMDB scrape instead. OF course media companion can't find them on there either so I end up with some random movie info for all 10 discs.
When I launch xbmc it is able to use tmdb and scrape the proper info, but I really don't want xbmc managing my metadata.
Hi trpltongue
We're now posting on a new thread Media Companion V3.500 Stable Release to keep away from the earlier Gen2 version of MC
But I'm commenting to let you know your post isn't being ignored.
If I understand correctly, MC does a Google search for the title of your movie, and tries to get a IMDB id for the movie.
I believe this is in essence why your dvd's are not able to be scraped directly from TMDB. Have to check with one of the dev's and let you know, but I'll post this message in the new thread also.
RE: Media Companion V3.500 Stable Released - trpltongue - 2012-05-30 07:37
vbat99,
Thanks for posting my question in the new thread. The google search for an IMDB id makes a lot of sense because everytime I scraped the nfo file would have an IMDB id (it was bogus, but it was there). So then, what is the purpose of the "Use XBMC scraper" option in the movie preferences? I thought if I selected this option, along with "TMDB", Media Companion would try to scrape the movie using the xbmc engine from tmdb?