eduo Wrote:C-Quel: I know you think you're being wittily helpful but the whole point of searching through name is scraping all info. As well, there are some that don't keep a single NFO file as they look untidy.
If the scraper is not accurate then it's not accurate. There are problems existing in XBMC for OSX for scraping that are reflecting in different ways, and this is one of them. For some, things that the xbox version found perfectly are not being found in the OSX version.
For me, the scrapers don't work at all and actually freeze XBMC and eventually crash the system.
God knows I've been snarky in the past but I truly believe it's not the proper attitude against the slew of new users the forums will receive, none of which has run XBMC on an Xbox. This could be a real bug but the snarkiness keeps it hidden.
All that said, I'm all for sending people off to read the FAQ and the Manual, as long as we're sure they're properly linked and easily locatable.
Eduo is right. There are problems with the IMDB scraper to be sure. Adding the year or manually teaking the name sometimes doesn't help.
Here is a perfect example, "3:10 to Yuma (2007).AVI" will not find the correct title regardless of what you try. I mean you can spell it forward backward, with or without year or just type part of the title like 3:10 or just Yuma. It will pull all kinds of unrelated stuff, with the title "Johnny Yuma" at the top.
I have other movies that do the same like "300" and others. TV titles are worse, sometimes you will try getting the title multiple times and occasionally after 4 or 5 tries it will work, sometimes not.
The problem seems to be with the scripts. So here is what I tried and seems to work just fine:
I copied the contents of the scraper folder from my T3CH XBMC SVN that's on my Xbox (1/8/2008), and used it to replace the scraper folder on elan's XBMC v.0.1.2. It now works, at least all the movies that were previously detected wrong now work just fine.
To do this, either download T3CH's SVN (
http://t3ch.yi.se/), or if you have an Xbox with one of the latest SVNs, FTP into it and copy the "video" folder from "System/Scrapers". Then right click on the XBMC application, click "Show Package Contents", navigate to "System/Scrapers" and replace the video folder in there with the one from the SVN.
You might want to back up the original "Video" folder just in case this one doesn't work for you.
Anyway, try it, it might help. It certainly did for me.
Dudeman