FileBot TV Renamer and Subtitle Downloader

That sounds good. In what format does nfo have to be ? do you have an example or point me in the right direction which app produces compliant nfo's ? ( btw , I use Plex so metadatas are stored on the server within Plex' database )

So far I've been able to get subtitles for everything I care about watching. Sure X-Factor and its clones do not have video hash tagged subtitles , but most of the drama shows do. Thank you very much !

rednoah42 Wrote:Did add "movie identification by imdb from nfo file" now though. When fetching subtitles or renaming movies. Probably not that useful for most people but it's easy and reliable.

FileBot doesn't really care about any specific format, just looks for that tt<id> pattern anywhere in the text. So if you create a nfo file that only contains an imdb url to the show, that's already enough.

I'll be happy to test it when ready. Thanks. I can have folder action create a nfo.

Does name look up for a movies somehow detect resolution of a video file ?

rednoah42 Wrote:FileBot doesn't really care about any specific format, just looks for that tt<id> pattern anywhere in the text. So if you create a nfo file that only contains an imdb url to the show, that's already enough.

I can get resolution from the video file no problem, but i can't really match that to a subtitle filename. Tbh I've never encountered subtitles called "defendor.1280x720.rg.mkv", some have the ".HD." part, but that's also very rare.

If u can find me lots of example subtitles where that would make sense, i.e. where mediainfo can be matched to the subtitle name, post that here and i'll have a look.

wally007 Wrote:I'll be happy to test it when ready. Thanks. I can have folder action create a nfo.

But how to do u plan on getting the IMDb ID for each folder? Is the folder name useful as query? Cause filenames names usually aren't.

FileBot 2.3 released !!

Lots of things coming together for this release. Mostly improvements on existing stuff, be more smart about things and of course lots of bugfixes and little improvements everywhere.

This release features:
+ Improved Deployment / Make cmdline work out of the box
+ Improved automated subtitle match & download
+ Efficient mass-renaming of large numbers of folders/files
+ Mismatch highlighting
+ Improved File<->Episode matching logic
+ Improved Scripting Environment (support for "execute cmd" and "watch folder")

Check out:
+ Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSFKiwFLZw
+ New Forums: http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/

There are few metadata managers that are able to determine movie name and match it to IMDB using nothing but file name and/or parent folder. Most people who use XBMC/Plex have clean folder structure. I store my movies as


I should be able to create nfo files without any problems and then run your script once nfo file has been created.

rednoah42 Wrote:But how to do u plan on getting the IMDb ID for each folder? Is the folder name useful as query? Cause filenames names usually aren't.

That is a little bit tricky. Script could 'prioritize' download of subtitles returned by opensubtitles based on number of criteria.
For example if mediainfo returns that file is 720p, you'd first look for 720p in subtitle name, if none found, then 1080p in subtitle name, if none found, then HDTV in subtitle name etc
I think you get much better chance of getting subtitles right for your video file this way , rather than randomly downloading subtitle file from 20 available for any given title.

Let me know if it makes sense, or am I just talking nonsense?

rednoah42 Wrote:I can get resolution from the video file no problem, but i can't really match that to a subtitle filename. Tbh I've never encountered subtitles called "defendor.1280x720.rg.mkv", some have the ".HD." part, but that's also very rare.

If u can find me lots of example subtitles where that would make sense, i.e. where mediainfo can be matched to the subtitle name, post that here and i'll have a look.

1. FileBot is already matching subtitle to file using a text similarity algorithm, so matching patterns like 720p, aXXo, DVDRip, etc will already be taken into account to some degree, but of course this doesn't work nearly as well as specifically targeting a pattern like i do with matching by SxE.

2. If u know that the folder name is the movie name, u can just use filebot scripting like this:

wally007 Wrote:That is a little bit tricky. Script could 'prioritize' download of subtitles returned by opensubtitles based on number of criteria.
For example if mediainfo returns that file is 720p, you'd first look for 720p in subtitle name, if none found, then 1080p in subtitle name, if none found, then HDTV in subtitle name etc
I think you get much better chance of getting subtitles right for your video file this way , rather than randomly downloading subtitle file from 20 available for any given title.

That does make sense, matching not just filename but mediainfo like that, in some cases anyway, though it's again one of these things that'll need a lots of fine-tuning and testing... again it's just one subtitle per movie, someone should just do that part semi-manually with filebot gui and then submit the hashes... subtitles upload will come eventually... but no time for that yet