Vengence,

sure,

Ill have a look at adding a special case for ignoring the word "the" when it shows up at the start of a sentence

Please make this configurable, I for one do not want the 'the' word to be ignored when sorting!

Since no one else had mentioned the metadata folder I had thought it might not display if it's hidden. My issue would be then that all my files are actaully on a mounted linux filesystem. I don't think it's possible to set the hidden flag the same way very easy, some samba setting possibly. Linux usually takes a period as the first charage for a hidden file but that doesn't seem to work.

Love this plugin.  Great Job.

I am having a problem running the ruby tvdb_scraper.rb.  My problem seems to be with spaces in the path name.  For example I am trying to retrieve data for Dexter.  The path name is
Z:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2
when I run the script I get a directory not found error because it stops at Z:\TV

So I decided to just remove the spaces between TV and Shows and Season and 2 and it worked.  The problem now is that when I remove the spaces form another show, Doctor Who (2005) it doesn't recognize the show name so I am kind of stuck.  Am I allowed to have spaces in directory names?

Thanks

Forgot to mention Z: drive is a network drive if that makes a difference.

Zagor,

Try passing:

"Z:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2"

It should work...

I tried doing jus as you said and I get the following error:

C:\ruby>ruby tvdb_scraper.rb "Z:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2"
Z:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2/03.avi
tvdb_scraper.rb:50:in `initialize': undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass (No
MethodError)
        from tvdb_scraper.rb:277:in `new'
        from tvdb_scraper.rb:277:in `get_details'
        from tvdb_scraper.rb:340
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:39:in `find'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `catch'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `find'
        from tvdb_scraper.rb:332

There are only three files in the season 2 directory named 01.avi 02.avi and 03.avi


Update:

Nevermind, it worked after I deleted the series.xml file from the directory (not sure where it came from).

thetvdb.com

sometimes plays up, I was getting that error as well ... the series.xml is created by the scraper to identify the series (if you delete it it gets regenerated)

keep in mind there is also a refresh option (--refresh) that should clear that for you.

Ok so unless anyone knows how to set the hidden bit on a linux fs/samba can we have the plugin understand period as first charage to be hidden as well?

Also I did some testing and in linux at least when using -f to force the name change if there are two files it thinks are the same episode one will be overwritten and in linux case gone forever, anyway to modify the ruby script to prevent this?

Frozty

I fixed the script so it does not destroy files it thinks are duplicates (download latest from my site) , so --fixnames should be safe now

I will change VideoBrowser to always hide folders named "metadata" unless someone complains ...

Sam

sambo99:

Frozty

I fixed the script so it does not destroy files it thinks are duplicates (download latest from my site) , so --fixnames should be safe now

I will change VideoBrowser to always hide folders named "metadata" unless someone complains ...

Sam

Thanks a lot, sounds good. If people might complain (i don't see why) might be easier just going with the linux standard. If the first letter of a file/folder is a period it's hidden/not displayed.

Just reporting a minor "bug".

If you have folder named with numbers as the first charecter, the order will be uncorrect. Example:

1
10
11
2
3
4
5
...

It should of course be:

1
2
3
4
5
...

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Sam, thanx for this plugin! i was looking for an app to replace VMC until i found you plugin.
I love the list view (the video thumbnails that VMC uses aren't really practical imo), finally also good cover display for non-dvd files (outside the VMC DVD-library you could only get those square cover thumbnails) and the metadata is great!

I agree with Frozty to hide the 'metadata' folders. I also have my media on a linux based NAS so i can't make those folders hidden in Windows and now they show up in my TV show lists.

About the movie metadata;
I've used MyMovies in the past, but i really hate that is screws up my 'folder.jpg' files, which i already have for all my movies (searched for and have carefully selected the hi-res ones). Since you don't have an option in MyMovies to only let it generate xml files for the movies and leave the images alone, it would be great if the Ruby script did the movie metadata as well.
Or how did you guys solve this? or are you fine with the MyMovies cover images?

DyStiC:

About the movie metadata;
I've used MyMovies in the past, but i really hate that is screws up my 'folder.jpg' files, which i already have for all my movies (searched for and have carefully selected the hi-res ones). Since you don't have an option in MyMovies to only let it generate xml files for the movies and leave the images alone, it would be great if the Ruby script did the movie metadata as well.
Or how did you guys solve this? or are you fine with the MyMovies cover images?

Finally somebody thinking like me :) DyStiC I have made a small windows application that can fetch metadata and images. Send me a PM if you are interested in getting a very early beta. And to everyone else, if you want in, PM me, don't post it in this thread!

EDIT: This tool, MetaBabel, is no public software, get it at http://ornskov.dk/wordpress/metababel/

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OxfordRob:

I have been toying with the TV Library app when I stumbled on Sam's little gem. For a work in progress it is fab.  I failed to get it read from MyMovies metadata and besides have all my films as AVI files now rather than DVD's or ISO's. I managed to locate a Ruby compiler but on testing the ruby script with the Heroes folder it just seemed to think each episode was the same. Not disheartend it showed me the structure I needed.

Say you have a folder d:\tv\heroes\season1

Create a folder called metadata ie : d:\tv\heroes\season1\metadata

In this folder create xml files with the same names as the .avi files in the directory above this. ie in the Season1 folder I may have a file "S01 E02 - Don't look back.avi" in the metadata folder I then should have a file "S01 E02 - Don't look back.xml".

The contents is then something like:

<Item>
<EpisodeName>This is the episode name or film name</EpisodeName>
<Overview>This items description of the tv episode or film</Overview>
<filename>episodes/your image.jpg</filename>
<SeasonNumber>Season number or perhaps actors</SeasonNumber>
<ShowName>Name of show or perhaps you could put genre</ShowName>
</Item>

The bit that got me a bit puzzled was why you need to put the episodes/image.jpg when the image you want to use it in the metadata folder but it works. ie for each episode of avi film put a jpg into the metadata folder and refer to it in the form:

<filename>episodes/image name.jpg</filename>

I hope that makes sense and helps some of you?

Now if any one has any way of removing all the unwanted menu strips from the MCE I would love to hear from them. All I want is a menu for Pictures, a menu for Music, a menu for Films and TV and then an Exit/Settings option.

Ho well

 

hi im trying to do just this, but its just not picking up the metadata, the sample content of the xml file above, is this correct?, can somebody provide me with a sample xml file that i can use as a basis, i really dont want to have to run a script or install mymovies just to get metadata for my movies.

paul.

Paul; send you a PM with a sample.