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Couple of quirks, observed using foldername scraping:
1) if a movie that has not been scraped is selected, thumbs for the last selected movies will be shown.
2) File: will be shown as <foldername>.nfo rather than <actual filename>.nfo
Wouldn't it be best to read the filename rather than generate it?
3) If incorrectly detected, "Re-Scrape Movie" will not open the dialog the allows "select another title", it will simply rescrape the data of that incorrect movie.

sho Wrote:Couple of quirks, observed using foldername scraping:
1) if a movie that has not been scraped is selected, thumbs for the last selected movies will be shown.
2) File: will be shown as <foldername>.nfo rather than <actual filename>.nfo
Wouldn't it be best to read the filename rather than generate it?
3) If incorrectly detected, "Re-Scrape Movie" will not open the dialog the allows "select another title", it will simply rescrape the data of that incorrect movie.

1 - will fix soon

2 - The Full filename and path is stored, but for the first versions a seperate variable existed which contained only the filename, This is still the case when using filename scans, but for folder scans the folder title is stored instead. I overlooked the File label text, will fix soon

3 - re-scrape was more for files that already had the correct nfo file but perhaps had scraping errors, or maybe people wanted to update the movie stats etc. There is an option to change the movie within the edit form. I'll look into adding a seperate menu item to start this from the main window.

For your point from the previous post, the ability to use foldernames for the search is optional and only should be used by those who have only one movie in a correctly named folder. This was for the benefit of a couple of previous posters who stored their movies like this :-

Appleseed.2004.DVDRip.XviD.AC3-NDRT-cd1
Appleseed.2004.DVDRip.XviD.AC3-NDRT-cd2
ccfactory.fs.cd1.lrc.xvid
ccfactory.fs.cd2.lrc.xvid
hls-cwtc

As you can see IMDB would return no results for the above filenames. They did however say that each movie was in a correctly named subfolder. So I added a method which allowed the program to use the foldername instead.

This is also purely optional. In the Menubar/options, make sure the "Use Folder names instead of Filenames" is not checked. If this option is not checked then the program will use the filenames (minus the extension) for IMDB searches.

For people who have unformatted movie filenames such as those above, and have them all stored in a common drive then I would recommend that the movies are scraped in the normal filename way. This will still give zero IMDB accuracy, but these can be corrected manually. If all those movies are stored in a common folder, say "movies", then the combobox would show every movie as "movie".

For those that don't like the folder names listed in the combobox and would prefer the original filename then after the scan is complete and all the nfo's have been added then you can disable the folder name option to get the original view.

trying the new version now, but i wanted to say thanks for the hard work, and the fast responses to the bugs we come across.

i also wanted to mention something else, just as an FYI. if you add movies to the program, and it writes a blank nfo, make sure you update it before updating your XBMC library. i had a bunch of movies that i hadn't updated yet and XBMC went by the nfo instead of scraping for the movie itself and i ended up with a bunch of blank entries. not really a big deal because i'll update them and then update the library, but i was a little confused at first.

still having an issue with movies that have more than one file associated with it. i'm even using the folder name instead of the filename, and am ending up with 2 nfo files. i think it's just happening on the initial scrape though, because if i delete the second one and re-scrape, it only saves one. it might also be doing 2 thumbnails on the initial scrape.

also, whenever i have to manually search for the title (in the edit screen), i always got a popup from imdb. it's pretty annoying. it'd be nice if it used the default web browser (FF for me) so you get the features of that browser (like adblock and such).

i love that you can choose the thumbnail you want. i'd like to see it start over from the beginning if you get to the end and keep going. and maybe if you change the thumbnail, it can automatically check the box to overwrite the old one. more than once i've forgotten to check it and i have to re-scrape and then find the one i wanted.

i've also had it do an initial scrape and find the movie, but not save the thumbnail (saved everything else though). so i had to go in and re-scrape for it to save the thumbnail.

overall, it's coming along nicely thought.

New Build looks great! I still wish it would scrape more than imdb for posters though as I have manually entered a url for a poster on every nfo I have created. Other than that this thing is awesome Thanks again.

Rand Al Thor Wrote:New Build looks great! I still wish it would scrape more than imdb for posters though as I have manually entered a url for a poster on every nfo I have created. Other than that this thing is awesome Thanks again.

Among other things I am looking at additional scrapers. http://www.movieposterdb.com/ seems a likely candidate as its guaranteed to return correct movie art, and would be fairly simple to scrape.

billyad2000 Wrote:The Default behaviour is NOT to save the IMDB thumbnail.

When you re-scrape a movie via the edit screen the IMDB thumbs wiull be downloaded, But unless select to overwrite via the checkbox, it wont be saved.

The auto scan should only save imdb thumbnail if a tbn file doesn't already exist

Undestood. But I'd rather have the option not save ANY imdb thumbs, since I for the most part rely on other, superior thumbs (IMPA, movieposters). I imagine many others do the same.

I just now realized that the program will not read imdb urls from nfo files for identification purposes.
(at the same time I found out it overwrites my imdb nfos if they exist )

How about having an option to save nfos with imdb urls, not xml files?

The scanning process seems to create multiple .nfo files if there are multiple video files in the subfolders, say movies with 2 parts, or trailers or samples. Would it be possible to limit this to one .nfo per subfolder ?

Apparently it does not observe XBMC stacking.

hotzenpl0tz Wrote:The scanning process seems to create multiple .nfo files if there are multiple video files in the subfolders, say movies with 2 parts, or trailers or samples. Would it be possible to limit this to one .nfo per subfolder ?

I need a way of doing this. While it will be fairly simple to disregard multipart movie containing cd2, disk2 in the filename etc, although moviea and movieb would be useless. I also dont know how to differentiate a trailer from a movie. I need to know peoples naming methods.

Another possibility would be to add a dummy file for files to ignore,

for example:-

movie_cd1.avi
movie_cd2.avi
movie_cd2.dng - dummy file

if the dng file exists then the program would ignore the file. Let me know

In the meantime it would be helpful if people let me know their naming methods for multipart movies, trailers etc.

In the long run I intend to attach a DB to this which will make it much easier to flag media as unwanted.