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- gooms9 - 2010-05-19
Rescraping the file does not seem to fix anything. Also, I renamed the nfo file to .xml and it loaded fine in IE so I'm guessing no XML errors. The XML looked solid to me. Here is the XML that is generated.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<movie>
<fileinfo>
<streamdetails>
<video>
<width>620</width>
<height>256</height>
<aspect>2.422</aspect>
<codec>DIVX</codec>
<format>DX50</format>
<duration>1h 56mn</duration>
<bitrate>719 Kbps</bitrate>
<container>.avi</container>
</video>
<audio>
<codec>MP3</codec>
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>112 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>
</streamdetails>
</fileinfo>
<title />
<sorttitle />
<year />
<rating />
<votes />
<top250 />
<outline />
<plot />
<tagline />
<runtime>116 min</runtime>
<mpaa />
<genre>problem</genre>
<credits />
<director />
<studio />
<trailer />
<playcount>0</playcount>
<createdate>99999999</createdate>
</movie>Edit: Upon trying your suggestion and scraping a movie that's not hosted over the network, everything seems to work as expected. Strange. Any ideas as to what to check as far as network setup is concerned? The files are hosted on a linux machine on a drive that's formatted ext4 if that makes a difference. Thanks.
- gooms9 - 2010-05-19
I tried out Ember media manager and it worked fine first shot on my networked library without changing any of my setup. So I'm not sure what the deal is. It's too bad though because I preferred Media Companion. Still hoping that there is a solution so I can use your awesome tool.
- k1282 - 2010-05-22
i have a similar problem here. my files i stored on a NAS and what media companion does, is to just add the root folder of the NAS and not the subfolders.
what happened as a conclusion?
media companion just scanned my root folder for all media files, not understanding the difference of my movie and tv series sub-folders, rescraped my already scraped tv-series folder and replaced all the files with files, that did not fit the series. so it actually totally messed up my tv-series folder.
and indeed, ember is able to select a specific folder as opposed to media companion.
why is that? any fix coming soon?
- k1282 - 2010-05-23
media companion just started to work for me. i dont know how, but it works now.
however, i have 1 question regarding the scraping:
do i always have to remove and add my movie folder in xbmc, so that my xbmc library is updated correctly after updating via media companion? or does automatic scanning of libraries suffice?
- jives00 - 2010-05-24
I've been having trouble with locking tv shows lately (v3.293). It shows a padlock in the left hand side by the show name, but still checks it whenever I search for new episodes.
I was able to get around this by opening the tvcache file and changing the <locked> status to -1, but then when I go back into MC and unlock/lock it, it continues to search the directories.
Any thoughts?
- ekim232 - 2010-06-14
Is this still under development?
Just checking because the IMDB scraper is partially broken. Studio and mpaa are getting scraper error messages.
Fanart is also not showing on intial scan. If you click the fanart button it will allow you to select them and then it shows on the main page.
- rudeboyx - 2010-06-15
what version are you using. the latest version can only be found on the media companion website in the forum under the "announcements" section.
See the first post for the official website link.
- billyad2000 - 2010-06-15
There will be a new scraper library available from the media companion forums later today.
- ekim232 - 2010-06-15
Thanks once again!
- zoing - 2010-06-15
Has the sort of reading .nfo files has changed? I have a small problem with the correct display of the runtime from my movies in my libary. As runtime there is only 1min. ord 2 min. displayed. I have haved checked the xbmc wiki and the runtime is correct in the .nfo files as stated there. When i delete the .nfo file from a movie and scrape with the build in scraper from xbmc then the runtime is displayed correct. I also tried different skins without avail.
Has somebody a clue?
thanx
- Waffa - 2010-06-15
If your build is very recent here's your clue
http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/30825
It's up to the skinners to display it properly.
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9334
- billyad2000 - 2010-06-15
Waffa Wrote:If your build is very recent here's your clue
http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/30825
It's up to the skinners to display it properly.
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9334
Thanks for the update.
- zoing - 2010-06-16
Thanks for pointing in the right direction.:o Is there a easy way to edit the .nfo files? As XBMC read the runtime info now from the duration entry, but the format is false. In the runtime entry the format is "122 min" but in the duration entry the format is "2h 02min".
Thanx
- billyad2000 - 2010-06-16
zoing Wrote:Thanks for pointing in the right direction.:o Is there a easy way to edit the .nfo files? As XBMC read the runtime info now from the duration entry, but the format is false. In the runtime entry the format is "122 min" but in the duration entry the format is "2h 02min".
Thanx
There will be a new build of Media Companion this weekend if you can wait that long.
The new build will output the new runtime method, and updating all nfo's will be as simple as selecting the 'Rebuild Movie nfo files' menu item.
This menuitem was created for just this purpose, so that any changes to the spec could be applied easily to all nfo files.
- zoing - 2010-06-16
billyad2000 Wrote:There will be a new build of Media Companion this weekend if you can wait that long.
The new build will output the new runtime method, and updating all nfo's will be as simple as selecting the 'Rebuild Movie nfo files' menu item.
This menuitem was created for just this purpose, so that any changes to the spec could be applied easily to all nfo files.
Thanks for the quick reply! I can wait.
You saved me from a lot of work. I have over 700 movies.
And thanks for this great app.