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XBMC not picking up movie listed in IMDB - Brad P - 2010-08-06
I have the 'Beastie Boys: Sabotage' dvd that I ripped as an ISO to my movies folder. It's listed on IMDB and I have that selected in my scrapers. But XBMC doesn't recognize it or something. The scraper works as it detected another movie. The filename is 'Beastie Boys - Sabotage'
Here's the info
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167030/
Is there something I'm missing here? Is it because its not a film like Avatar or something?
Thanks
- steelman1991 - 2010-08-06
Just a thought try removing the '-' from the filename (Beastie Boys Sabotage). Obviously you cna't use the character : in the name, but ignoring and having a just a space between the words allows a clean scrape.
- Errorist - 2010-08-07
Why don't you scrape it with ember? You can manually enter tt0167030 and find it.
- steelman1991 - 2010-08-07
Why add another tier to the scrape (xbmc has never failed to produce correct scrapes for me). Always found that a reasonable naming convention will produce accurate results without the need for 3rd party scrapers - can't understand the need for them myself.
- quebert - 2010-08-07
I use Ember because of the control it gives me, I scrape the show automatically with it and can easily chose different fanart of posters. I've had a few movies like you brought up here where XBMC just wouldn't scape them correct. While I'll agree XBMC does a phenomenal job all on it's own. Even if you don't want to use something like EMM all the time, it's an absolute life saver in instances where XBMC won't scrape a title properly, or doesn't recognize it at all.
- steelman1991 - 2010-08-07
That may well be the case, but the point I was making is that with a correct naming convention xbmc 'will' scrape correctly and recognize the title (I would bet that any failure wasn't as the result of xbmc, but the naming of the file/folder). I have some non-mainstream movies in my collection and xbmc has never failed to scrape them. Having trawled these forums over the last few years, the vast majority of failures seem to be a result of incorrect/unusual naming conventions, as soon as you move away from that, problems invariably occur.
I wasn't criticising the use of Ember just can't see the point - and its as easy to download and correct fanart/posters within xbmc (and it can be done without leaving the GUI) as it is with any 3rd party app.