fekker Wrote:Ran cleanname on title and on actor name, that should strip out or change chars to something human readable.. well hopefully

midgetspy Wrote:Hmm I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how MIP works - I give up. All I want MIP to do is take the existing NFO files for my movies and update the studio field with the Aeon-style Media Info.

I have my movies all in a single folder. Each one has <moviename>.nfo already generated and hand-customized. No matter what I try I can't seem to get MIP to use the information already in the current NFO, it always tries scraping the movie and making a new NFO using the IMDB info.

Is there any way to make MIP simply update the media info in the existing NFO rather than re-scraping the movie from scratch?

Note: To be clear, the "Media info only" button which just erases the whole NFO except the media info. It's as though MIP doesn't know the NFOs already exist - it doesn't show the existing NFO info in the program either, just the info it tries to scrape from the cached IMDB stuff.

ethan_9219 Wrote:I'm more than glad to help with anything...But my technical knowledge is next to NONE... What are you referring to when saying specific rating string? Do you mean the Australian ratings as opposed to MPAA?

Forgive me...

MrTourettes Wrote:OK I am stuck on something. I am posting this here to start with incase its something to do with MIP. If it is not I will then create a thread somewhere else until I find what has happened.

Everything was working fine a couple of days ago but I got home today and did some updates.

MIP Updated with build 2831
XCMC install Rev 19102
Stark v091

I when through one directory of movies in MIP and checked all posters, info, etc etc and all was ok.

I Deleted the movie database and added a new source.
Inported all movies in that source to library.

Now when I browse through movies im getting about 80% of them ok but some are just coming up with stupi info.

Philidelphia for example. Has posters and fanart which was set in MIP but the info is saying its Michael Palin's Great Rqailway Journeys.

Anyone have any idea what the hell is going on here?

fekker Wrote:rating in coming next build, it's there, just not in the last test build that was released.

certification will just pull whatever matches the string, i'm guessing some folks will modify per movie basis if things go all crazy like with it being changed. i think it only list the current one on imdb, but could be wrong.

for #3 it's just a display issue, the data is written correctly, but how it's displayed in the gui is off.. if you look in the .nfo it's there, also if you load the movies again, it'll show up.. just need to modify the active object in mem when that item is refreshed.. consider it a bug

once the media info stabilizes and everything is in there, i'll open it up for editing from the gui, i figure there will be more changes when hd flagging is incorporated.. i'll see about something though

to ignore folders
create a text file in the folder called specialfolder.nfo (doesn't have to contain anything) that tell's the app to ignore it.
although those should already be ignored by default, so it's a bug

beavis Wrote:Hello,

I'm new with MIP2 and been having problems it downloads all the images and nfo files right but when I try using the tag button I get an error every time.
I'm running it on Windows XP and my movie(s) are saved on my ReadyNAS (Network Access Storage Unit). I'm unable to figure it out. I try using it with the tag and reloading XBMC to see if it finds the tags but they not show eg BluRay,720p or DTS. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks

mindweaver Wrote:Hi

Nice to see how much work you put into this. What I can't figure out is why none of these windows scraper programs are as good as the xbmc scraper. I have my movies organized like this.

Top directory is called "Movies"
then all movies in their own subdir. All have scene release names. Then some movies are unpacked some are not (xbmc handles rared movies great, something I don't believe MC or MIP does). but let's keep this example to movies that I have unpacked!

-> Movies
--> Battle.In.Seattle.720p.Bluray.x264-SEPTiC
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.mkv
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.nfo
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.tbn
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts-fanart.jpg

Now to my problem. What MIP should do is clean the folder name to get the actual movie name "Battle In Seattle" then scan the folder for files. As you see it already has all the files needed (exported from xbmc). It should use the existing files! and if I make changes it should overwrite the files.

What it does (MIP) is that it creates new files? based on the folder name, which is why MIP is a dealbreaker for me. I would love to use it to add media flags but I can't since it does not support xbmc way of scraping/naming.

this is what MIP does with my folder after I have clicked Battle.In.Seattle.720p.Bluray.x264-SEPTiC in the movie list:

-> Movies
--> Battle.In.Seattle.720p.Bluray.x264-SEPTiC
---> Battle In Seattle 720p Bluray x264-SEPTiC.nfo
---> Battle In Seattle 720p Bluray x264-SEPTiC.tbn
---> Battle In Seattle 720p Bluray x264-SEPTiC-fanart.jpg
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.mkv
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.nfo.oldversion
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts.tbn
---> bis-septic.720p.bluray.dts-fanart.jpg

EDIT: It should use the video file name as reference, not the folder name. Same happens when you have a rared release. It creates fanart, tbn, nfo with the folder name not the name of the videofile inside the rars.

EDIT2: And as midgetspy said. Why can't it use the fanart, tbn and nfo that I already have in my folder? It always overwrites it with its own scanned version.

That is a mess Any way to fix it?


EDIT3: What is the url to your SVN? I'm more of a c# programmer but would be nice to have a look at the code

Quote:EDIT2: And as midgetspy said. Why can't it use the fanart, tbn and nfo that I already have in my folder? It always overwrites it with its own scanned version.