salami:

pete1122:

I cant figure out how to add the path to my videos on the tvdb scraper to get it to run, I'm no good at this crap.

I replied to your topic in the video browser's forum: http://bbs.wasnotwas.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17

Salami,

are you the one that has written salami's movie browser, the alternative for MyMovies? I'm using it and I must say it's a great program (especially for the moviemeter.nl support => gives me metadata in my own language). I'm also using the video browser from samsaffron.

Now it has TV episode support! great! But I need metadata for my downloaded TV series.
It would be great if that was possible to get with salami's movie organiser; maybe you can connect with tvdb.com or something to get the metadata? Will you consider implementing this feature?

soultaker:

We will be providing styles in a future release to accomodate our users who prefer black, or blue, or gold, or pink..., however, in the short term you cannot override the default background.

We already support TV episodes, all you need to do is download the Ruby Scraper and follow the instructions on use.

 

Do you support it in your current release or in your upcoming version.

About the Ruby... that is not really a user friendly way to get the metadata. I asked Salami to implement it in his movie organiser, which is great for movies.

About the Ruby; you have to rename your files... but I don't understand to what? Your guide says:

What file names does it recognize?

1. 201 – blablbl.avi means Season 2 Episode 1

1. s02e01 – another episode.avi means season 2 episode 1

So eg. Lost-S04E02.avi it would not recognize?
Would it recognize desperate.housewives.s04e13.0TV.Xvid.avi ?
Can it handle other file types than AVI ? like *.mkv ..

Is there a fast way to rename your filenames? Mine are all different :X

best wishes

Justchill:

It would be great if that was possible to get with salami's movie organiser; maybe you can connect with tvdb.com or something to get the metadata? Will you consider implementing this feature?

The script is acutally pretty good, I didn't find much that is missing. A GUI driven grabber for TV shows would require a a very different approach than SMO, so if I did wirte anything it would probably be a new separate program.

Maybe I can just write a GUI for the current script if there's demand for that?

Justchill:

About the Ruby; you have to rename your files... but I don't understand to what? Your guide says:

So eg. Lost-S04E02.avi it would not recognize?
Would it recognize desperate.housewives.s04e13.0TV.Xvid.avi ?

The ruby script scans for a known numbering scheme in the entire filename. It doesn't matter that your files start with "Lost-", since you are using "s04e02" in it. The script will get metadata for the episode that got aired as season 4, episode 2 according to thetvdb.com (watch out for DVDs that ship in a different order).

Another widely used scheme that is not mentioned in the docs is "4x02".

Justchill:

Can it handle other file types than AVI ? like *.mkv ..

Yes.

Justchill:

Is there a fast way to rename your filenames? Mine are all different :X

I love the "Multi-Rename-Tool" from Total Commander, you can do pretty much anything with that.

salami:

Justchill:

It would be great if that was possible to get with salami's movie organiser; maybe you can connect with tvdb.com or something to get the metadata? Will you consider implementing this feature?

The script is acutally pretty good, I didn't find much that is missing. A GUI driven grabber for TV shows would require a a very different approach than SMO, so if I did wirte anything it would probably be a new separate program.

Well, if you could make a GUI for the ruby program, that would be very nice... Now it's not a user friendly method, but I'll try it anyway.

(btw I've installed TVCollection Manager, but that crashed on my PC and I guess it's output format does not work with the movie browser...) Perhaps you could create a better program that works..

Am I right when I'm saying that when there is a "S04E02" piece of text in the filename
, it's ok for the script to work?

Justchill:

Am I right when I'm saying that when there is a "S04E02" piece of text in the filename
, it's ok for the script to work?

Yup, tested it with the filenames you posted, works perfectly.

salami:

Justchill:

Am I right when I'm saying that when there is a "S04E02" piece of text in the filename
, it's ok for the script to work?

Yup, tested it with the filenames you posted, works perfectly.

OK, nice... will you let us know here if you're going to make a GUI ?

grtz

Justchill:

OK, nice... will you let us know here if you're going to make a GUI ?

I'm not going to make any promises :) I had a closer look at the scraper script and I might be able to write a GUI driven scraper from scratch. Might take a while though!

Salami,

I've been using your movie organizer as the only source of movie data gathering and it rocks! It was so easy to use and it was a small package. If you added TV-Scraping with perhaps a "watched folders" thing - it would be fabulous.

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I've been using the Ruby Scraper and have noticed that some series do not have episode pictures (Big Love, Over there).  Is there a way to add the picture yourself?

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BTW Salami, I think I found a bug in your SMO. Where can I report it?

best wishes

Justchill:

BTW Salami, I think I found a bug in your SMO. Where can I report it?

The preferred place would be this forum: http://fladivision.com/index.php/forum?func=showcat&catid=2

So Sam, is there a new version available or is it a beta version?

GREAT GUIDE! This works amazingly painless:) Is there any way of getting a picture of, lets say the TV show "friends" when i find the friends folder in my MCE before i Choose the season? ans mybe adding a picture for each season as well?

Lothe

Lothen:

GREAT GUIDE! This works amazingly painless:) Is there any way of getting a picture of, lets say the TV show "friends" when i find the friends folder in my MCE before i Choose the season? ans mybe adding a picture for each season as well? Lothe

You can manually add a folder.jpg for each folder, so yes you can.

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

Is there a guide or doc and how to install and configure this?  How do I collect all the data and pictures for my movies and TV shows if I use this proggie?