Movie Info Plus - Manage Icons, Posters, FanArt, .NFO's & more for Movies & TV Shows

Ayla Wrote:JiveTalker, you can upload your screenshots in 1 click, at picamatic:
http://www.picamatic.com/

Without registering

/Martin

Thanks for that Ayla.

I've sent the files direct to Fekker, but in case anybody else is interested, (hopefully) they are below:





Is anybody else experiencing a similar problem? If I click the movie title again then they refresh fine.

I think the corruption issue is caused by antivirus software, add c:\program files\movieinfoplus to the exclusions list and see if that resolves the issue. It did for me on one machine.

fekker Wrote:I think the corruption issue is caused by antivirus software, add c:\program files\movieinfoplus to the exclusions list and see if that resolves the issue. It did for me on one machine.

Excluding the folder from scanning by Norton seems to have fixed the corrupt image issue, thanks.

I'll add other comments about my testing to SourceForge.

Cheers JiveTalker

fekker

Can't this program work like Media Companion, I mean, write to .nfo files named after the movie filename, and not change the movie filename to match the foldername?

I would like to leave my movie filenames alone.

Thanks
Martin

Ayla Wrote:fekker

Can't this program work like Media Companion, I mean, write to .nfo files named after the movie filename, and not change the movie filename to match the foldername?

I would like to leave my movie filenames alone.

Thanks
Martin

From what I've been reading up on, the next rev. of xbmc may have movie.nfo files. Those look to allow you to use movie filenames that do not match filename for the movie. I'll see if I can get some more information about that and how fanart and trailers will work with it. The .nfo portion makes sense, on folder read xbmc will look to the movie.nfo like it does for tvshow.nfo for tv shows. I would think then that fanart would be like the tv shows, fanart.jpg in the folder with the show.

I've geared movieinfoplus to rely on the foldername and not the actual movie files for content generation. If you could add a feature request on sourceforge for movieinfoplus, I'll see if there's something i can do for your request as a one off patch or advanced option.

Build 2192 is up
Mostly a bug fix build
--Whats changed in this build (beta 1 rev 2192) -- 11/29/08
- Multiple bug fixes, pre-cache now downloads fanart and posters, more filtering options (including ignoring the year in folder), additional gui feedback provided during scans, see release notes and tracker information for additional details
- TV Shows not yet enabled
- Gui look and feel change ability not yet enabled

Build 2203 is up
Resizeable gui and 2 of the main gui color schemes are in place

open source?
THE SVN IS EMPTY

stanley87 Wrote:open source?
THE SVN IS EMPTY

Yup, open source. I just haven't been able to figure out how to get the svn setup correctly. There's no need to be rude, I do this to help out and certainly don't have to do any of it.

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Ok i think i got it. It sure would be nice if I had a svn for dummys list.. setup sourceforge, checkout the project (which contained nothing), then copy files to folder, and commit. I'm sure that's not the "right" way, but it got the files up there.

I didn't include the imdbcache or postercache (both files are placeholders). Postercache can be generated from the modify name tab, but will need to be manually cleaned up for special characters or the cleanname sub for the block char re-enabled, poster cache is requried to pull impawards data.
Imdb cache is simply that, a cache of imdb data, the full install file release has the file embeded for initial extraction and unrar.

Also, the keys for tmdb's api and tvdb's api are not in the source. There's a nice placeholder that reads "Put your key here" in the two main classes for those.

Uploaded build 2211 to sourceforge, svn is up to date.

Bug Fixes:
Multiple fanart bug fixes and one major loop error that could occur (details in tracker for fanart issues).

If the fanart disappears after you added it, go to the settings tab and check the option to "use fanart for background".

New Features:
Genre picker, dialog based selection of the movies genre, customizable via the xml file (mygenres.xml) in the root folder. (file is created the first time you use the feature)..
How to use this feature: click on the genre text field (located on the current movie tab, in the Movie Information section at the right) when a movie is displayed.

New Ideas for more stuff to make:
TV Monitor - runs in system tray, monitors the folders that your TV Shows are in, and based on a customizable timer, automatically adds any new show information. This will be based on the tv data portion already in MovieInfoPlus (currently disabled).

What I need help on:
Getting this thing to run under linux, either with Wine or with Mono. It will work fine running a VM in linux, but I'd like to have it run without that.