Movie info plus - nfo thumbnail and poster tool

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/movieinfoplus/
--UPDATE-- Beta 1 - Build 2157 (Nov 25th '08)
TMDB API Version 2 implemented for Fanart and HighRes Posters
TMDB Posters added to the gui (limit of 24 displayed)
The Crash after auto-pilot finished it's run has been fixed.

3 ways to get the latest version
If you used any build later then 2000, use the update download
If your hard drive is fat32 or you don't want the IMDB Cache information (or already have those files) use the lite version
If you want the full installer, with everything embeded, use that one

--previous info
The missing button text issue under Windows Vista should be fixed now.
The installer is no longer using the One Click Install, now it's just a winrar self extractor that installs to c:\program files\movieinfoplus
It will automatically remove the configuration file, this is required due to the changes.

Old versions should be uninstalled first and at a minimum all XML's must be removed from c:\program files\movieinfoplus

I think i fixed the issues with changing the config.xml file manually to store different data onto different drives, if someone is using that, give it a try.

TV Show data is not yet enabled, I still have some updates and pretty much all the ties into the GUI to work on for that portion and need to embed 7zip so it can extract the zip files that it grabs from tvdb.

If you get a wget error, close and restart the program, it basically means it's hit 100 child processes of wget at the same time or your out of system memory. I've put in several delays to try to prevent that from happening, but it may not be enough if you have less then 2 gigs of ram or a slow internet connection.

There's a small utility that allows conversion from IMDB My Movies to a folder structure with .nfo's that contain the imdb id in them so that movieinfoplus can load that data and create the correct .nfo's and all the other assorted goodies (fanart, folder.jpg, tbn, etc), it's up there on sourceforge and displayed when you choose download.

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Alpha 2.0.0.1 uploaded on 11/8

- 1.5.1.2 builds on the 1.4 version, adding in the autopilot option (ability to automatically set the folder.jpg, movie.tbn, movie.nfo, and movie-fanart.jpg) to an entire collection automatically. You can now edit the movie information quickly and easily from the main screen. Information about the current folder is also displayed, allowing an easy way to see what files are associated with the movie (clicking on the movie file label will open the folder that contains the movie). Pre-cache has been updated with additional workflow to speed it up. The program will look for a file (moviename.nfo) in the folder and if it finds a <id>tt0000000</id> match in that file it will use that for the imdb id. Fanart selection is working now, it will pull the fanart from themoviedb.org and allow single click selection like the other icons.

XML files are currently used for known movie information, which works well and doesn't have the speed hit i'm running into with the embedded database. When finished, there will be a hybrid of sorts that uses both the xml and the internal database.

Feedback is requested, I'd like to have a release ready when xbmc is out of beta. I think it's close.
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Here's an overview
I wanted to get all the icons and movie information, allowing me to select which icons i wanted to use for the movie, and push the icon and imdb information to the folder on the media server. Optionally i wanted to be able to just automate the whole process for larger media collections. My movies are stored by folders, so it's geared in that manner at this time.

Initially i just used folder.jpg (which is great if you have different systems linked to the media server as it's displayed under windows, media center, xbmc, sagetv, and others).

The app is currently limited to windows, but I'm planning on re-writing it with a .net 1.1 base so that it'll run under Linux (via wine).

My media is organized by folder, i.e. -- > Movies --> Action --> Jumper .. under the Jumper folder would be the actual movie file (in various formats).

Here's a short list of what it does
- reads up folder's that you configured
- checks the local xml files and later it will check the built in imdb database (created from the IMDB txt files on the imdb's ftp servers) to see if the movie information already exists, if it does, it'll use the local information
- takes the folder name (Jumper in this example) and gets the IMBD information
- takes the folder name and grabs (and caches) all the icons (wide, box, tilted, etc) - each type is user selectable
- takes the folder name and grabs the poster (from impawards)

In the gui you can select the icons for the folder.jpg by clicking on the image (it's a paneled view of all of them for that movie)

The end goal is to be able to parse through a subset of folders and add all the different items. (folder.jpg, moviename.tbn, fanart, imbd xml (or nfo), movie trailer from apple.

I've been slacking in getting all the features finished up, but it does do some nifty pre-cache of all the icons for all the folders, and uses local cached items first, speeding things up after the initial cache.

Open source code is always welcomed for the prosperity of future applications

Sounds useful. Keep us updated!

Sounds like a great piece of work. I've been struggling myself to get my entire movie collection working this way, sounds like you'd have my solution

I'm still hammering out some issues, but should have a version ready by the end of the week and uploaded to sourceforge with the .net 2.0 reversions.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/movieinfoplus/

I added an early version to souceforge - it also needs the supplimental files (postersxml) to be extracted to c:\movieinfoplus\posterxml

I uploaded a newer version of the app today, .nfo creation works, there's a few thousand known items (xml files of parsed imdb data) that will auto extract, known impawards.com posters auto-extract, there's an option to update those in the gui.

The install location has changed to c:\program files\movieinfoplus

The internal database is not yet linked, and the path's are wrong for extraction and database updates. Initial icon loads are still slower then expected, pre-caching data helps a ton, but will take time based on movie collection size.

The more icon types, quality setting, and number of items that are displayed will impact caching time as well as gui speed the first time a movie is loaded.

Quality settings - applied to icons only (not posters or fanart)
Low quality is a small jpeg format
Medium quality is regular sized jpeg
Highest quality is a PNG file (default) that has transparency options

I've got some code cleanup to do, and then have to figure out how the svn works on sourceforge to get the source up there.

I had some issues with the last nfo's i created, but i've recreated that part from scratch and they now work!

I'm going to cleanup the code now that the alpha works and figure out the svn.

New version with new features is up on sourceforge. 1.5.1.2 is the latest, another build coming tonight or tommorrow.

I've made a lot of changes in the past week, I've rolled up those changes into Alpha 2.0.0.1

- new look and feel (which you will later be able to change the look of the gui in the settings, not yet active)
- updated folder read and internal workflow for movie handling, it's way faster now
- additional mutli-threading incorporated into slower tasks
- filtering of moves based on status (ie all movies, movies without fanart, etc.)

Hi Fekker, I've been using Alpha 2.0.0.1 and have some feedback for you.

Obviously, the application is not yet complete so it's hard to be sure whether things are just not functioning as expected or whether they are known issues so forgive me if I state the blindingly obvious!

On my pc (running XP Pro) none of the buttons have any labels or tooltips which makes things a little confusing. When I double click on a movie title in the left hand side listbox and try to display any of the artwork the images are almost always corrupt though recognisable. Double clicking a second time seems to refresh them fine though. My hard disk cache folder is now about 1GB in size so it would be nice to have an option to install the cache to a different drive to the application itself as it is generally good practice to store data on a different drive to the o/s and applications.

Overall, it seems to be coming together nicely. I had some ideas for "future enhancements" which I hope I've posted in the right place?


I look forward to the next release, well done!

JiveTalker