Media Companion Stable & Beta Release with Frodo support

(2013-06-12 21:13)Kurosau Wrote:  I've got a quick question. I've reviewed the documentation and I've searched through this thread and the last one looking for an answer but I wasn't able to find once, hence why I'm here.

When I do a Search New on my library to pickup the titles that haven't yet been scraped, I find that several of the items on my list error out stating that they can't be found on TMDB. Is there a way to get MC to prompt me when it finds an object it can't identify, so I can manually identify the film and have it scrape it properly? Or just a way I can add the raw item into the library so I can scrape it using the MC tools?

From your post I see your using XBMC TMDB scraper in Media Companion.

TMDB is very sensitive to mis-spelt/grammar issue causing it to not identity the correct movie.

What is needed is to log what movies are not scraped. We do not want to pause the auto-scraping of movies while attempting to change one movie, at a time.

With the built-in IMDB scraper, errors are almost non-existent as we use Google to auto-correct movie titles before we get the IMDB id from the results. It still gives the odd miss-match, but its almost 98% accurate.

Now, with movies that can't be found on IMDB, we have the Genre field set to "Problem" and its very simple to filter out which movies didn't scrape correctly, and the user can manually 'Change Movie" (now either by IMDB or TMDB), or they can use Explorer to change the title of the video file and 'Search New' again.

With this in minds, it should be possible to log "problem" in Genre field for movies not found, when scraping with XBMC TMDB scraper.

And I'm currently working in this scraper function in MC, adding Movie Rename and download Actor Images, including when you 'Change Movie' by TMDB. So I'll look into some sort of error catching, creating an empty nfo.

Can't promise it'll be ready for the next release, but should be in for the following one.

Scraping a movie that is a ISO file of an untouched DVD with menu and extras all intact. I get <durationinseconds>-1</durationinseconds> and
<runtime>95 min</runtime>

XBMC Frodo ignores the runtime and gets the duration wrong when it is added to the library. If I use a version of MC form about 6 months ago it doesn't create a line with <durationinseconds></durationinseconds> or if I delete that line from the NFO XBMC uses the runtime line and displays it correctly for duration.

I don't have the box checked "if runtime not scraped, fallback to file".

Do we need durationinseconds and runtime both in the NFO? Can the durationinseconds be populated from runtime if the duration can't be scraped from the file like on a DVD ISO?

Thanks

(2013-06-13 03:01)rev105 Wrote:  Scraping a movie that is a ISO file of an untouched DVD with menu and extras all intact. I get <durationinseconds>-1</durationinseconds> and
<runtime>95 min</runtime>

XBMC Frodo ignores the runtime and gets the duration wrong when it is added to the library. If I use a version of MC form about 6 months ago it doesn't create a line with <durationinseconds></durationinseconds> or if I delete that line from the NFO XBMC uses the runtime line and displays it correctly for duration.

I don't have the box checked "if runtime not scraped, fallback to file".

Do we need durationinseconds and runtime both in the NFO? Can the durationinseconds be populated from runtime if the duration can't be scraped from the file like on a DVD ISO?

Thanks

Short answer is yes.

MC and XBMC can't get durationinseconds of an iso, as it means reading every stream in the iso and determining which one is the movie, then trying to get a durationinseconds.

What we can do, is set mc to not sure durationinseconds if value is -1. And as for 6 months ago, well, there have been changes and upgrades to getting the Stream details.

Will get it in for the next release.

Thanks for the reply about my scrape error issue. I spent some time playing around with it and I've found a method that works. I create a dummy nfo file in the folder that only lists the show's title and original title. That creates a placeholder during the next refresh and that allows me to use the change movie option. It might be advisable to come up with a function that creates placeholders and lets people fill them in later.

(2013-06-14 01:14)Kurosau Wrote:  Thanks for the reply about my scrape error issue. I spent some time playing around with it and I've found a method that works. I create a dummy nfo file in the folder that only lists the show's title and original title. That creates a placeholder during the next refresh and that allows me to use the change movie option. It might be advisable to come up with a function that creates placeholders and lets people fill them in later.

I agree. There is a placeholder for IMDB scraped movies, but not for XBMC TMDb scraped movies.

To be worked on.

I noticed that sub-folders of an excluded folder are being scraped. Is there a way to prevent this, or could there be an option to also exclude sub-folders in a future version?

The latest version is working great, BTW. Thanks to all for the work/help.

(2013-06-14 06:51)Manic D Wrote:  I noticed that sub-folders of an excluded folder are being scraped. Is there a way to prevent this, or could there be an option to also exclude sub-folders in a future version?

The latest version is working great, BTW. Thanks to all for the work/help.

Will look into this as it is a valid point.

Media Companion MC3.570b Released

It's been too long since the last release, and this one has some requested fixes, as well as some minor ones.

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