Movies beta

[duicy]

Did you check update mode on the settings screen when building the XML?
You must have nfo file for the movie, video file (based on VideoLibrary extensions in config.xml), id tag in the nfo, title tag in the nfo to make it to the output xml.
I've posted an example nfo earlier for reference. The tags are lowercase in the nfo.

The Movies.log should give you info in case of exceptions/errors.

Please find below a copy of the Movies.log info.
Yes I did check the update box. The error message below is what I get when I first run xml build.
The settings.xml file is built but not the output.xml file.
I have tried to crate an output.xml file but I get error logs pertaining to elements and tags not being correct


Settings:
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Data Directory: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\
Settings XML: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\Movies\settings.xml
Movie Extensions: ^.+\.(mpeg|mpg|m2v|avi|bdmv|ty|avs|ogm|mp4|mov|m2ts|wmv|cdg|iso|rm|dvr-ms|ts|mkv|vob|divx|flv|ratDVD|m4v|3gp|rmvb|wtv)$
Output XML: C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml
Movie Directory: C:\Users\Hank Duis\Desktop\New folder
Update mode: True

Warnings/Errors:
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Cannot load XML file C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml - Could not find file 'C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml'.

0 movie(s) currently in xml:
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0 movie(s) read from directories:
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Removing 0 movie(s):
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Adding 0 movie(s):
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No change was found!

[vik]

Please find below a copy of the Movies.log info.
Yes I did check the update box. The error message below is what I get when I first run xml build.
The settings.xml file is built but not the output.xml file.
I have tried to crate an output.xml file but I get error logs pertaining to elements and tags not being correct


Settings:
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Data Directory: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\
Settings XML: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\Movies\settings.xml
Movie Extensions: ^.+\.(mpeg|mpg|m2v|avi|bdmv|ty|avs|ogm|mp4|mov|m2ts|wmv|cdg|iso|rm|dvr-ms|ts|mkv|vob|divx|flv|ratDVD|m4v|3gp|rmvb|wtv)$
Output XML: C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml
Movie Directory: C:\Users\Hank Duis\Desktop\New folder
Update mode: True

Warnings/Errors:
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Cannot load XML file C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml - Could not find file 'C:\Users\Public\Npvr\Plugins\Movies\output.xml'.

0 movie(s) currently in xml:
-----------------------------

0 movie(s) read from directories:
-----------------------------

Removing 0 movie(s):
-----------------------------

Adding 0 movie(s):
-----------------------------

No change was found!

It seems the build doesn't pick up any nfo files in "C:\Users\Hank Duis\Desktop\New folder". It has to be either movie.nfo or <moviename>.nfo. 1 nfo per movie.
The "Cannot load ... output.xml" is normal for the first build.

[vik]

I have tried to crate an output.xml file but I get error logs pertaining to elements and tags not being correct

I didn't intend for users to create the output.xml manually. The build should take care of it. If it's already created by the build you could tweak it e.g.: if it's picking up wrong video file in case your movie is in multiple parts, or you have a trailer or samplevideo, or you are not happy with a plot description etc...

Imagine the output.xml as a database table, the movie tags are the records in the table, the tags under the movie tags are the fields (e.g.: id, title, plot etc...) it's for internal use, but since it's an xml it's easier to see what's in it (you don't need any tools to do it, other than notepad).

As a reference I attached a zipped output.xml just to give you an idea. At this point I'm not using all the tags in it, but most of them correspond to the elements on the skin(s).

[duicy]

I have now got the plugin working.
Thank you for all your help.
a very good plugin

[buribu]

This is a great plugin and it looks really nice.

I have two improvement suggestions, probably it's possible to implement them?

• If there is a list of country specific values in the <certification>-tag, you try to extract the US ratings. Is it possible to make this country configurable in the settings-page, so that I can extract the german ratings?
  
• I use mediacentermaster to create my nfo-Files. This tool creates a single tag for each genre:
  
  Code:

      <genre>Action</genre>
    <genre>Adventure</genre>
    <genre>Fantasy</genre>
    <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
  Is it possible that you put this single genre-tags together in your genre-field?
  

Many thanks

Stephan

[vik]

this is a great plugin and it looks really nice.

I have two improvement suggestions, probably it's possible to implement them?

• if there is a list of country specific values in the <certification>-tag, you try to extract the us ratings. Is it possible to make this country configurable in the settings-page, so that i can extract the german ratings?
  
• i use mediacentermaster to create my nfo-files. This tool creates a single tag for each genre:
  
  Code:

      <genre>action</genre>
    <genre>adventure</genre>
    <genre>fantasy</genre>
    <genre>sci-fi</genre>
  is it possible that you put this single genre-tags together in your genre-field?
  

many thanks

stephan

ok

[vik]

Movies 2.0 - see details and Movies2.zip in the first post

vik

[gEd]

Downloaded, installed....(nice timing with it being the weekend and I just got back from a short vacation)

Setup categories for Adults and Family - works perfectly which is fantastic as that was the one feature that was missing for me.
It seems to read the classifications perfectly as well (I entered UK,U.K.,United Kingdom in Misc tab)

Many thanks for an fantastic update to an already excellent plugin.

[jghanisco]

I had 20 recordings that had errors with their audio, so I am in the process of converting these from .ts files to .mp4 files. When I put these into the proper folders, I change the npvr database to point to the mp4 file. But of course since Movies is searching for xxx.ts, it won't play when selecting the file (although all the nfo & jpg files are still the same, so it shows up on the list still.) One time I managed to update the Movies database to play the video, but I don't know what I did, and I can't get it to work again. Any clues on what I should be doing??? I don't mind manually updating these if that's what it takes, since it will only be 20 or so files...

By the way, nice add-on; we have a free preview of some movie channels, and I've grabbed almost 200 movies and changed them to a _Movie prefix for the title, so they show up in one folder in the Recordings view, but I couldn't get them to run in alphabetical order, so this is awesome. Works great on the popcorn hour client!

[vik]

I had 20 recordings that had errors with their audio, so I am in the process of converting these from .ts files to .mp4 files. When I put these into the proper folders, I change the npvr database to point to the mp4 file. But of course since Movies is searching for xxx.ts, it won't play when selecting the file (although all the nfo & jpg files are still the same, so it shows up on the list still.) One time I managed to update the Movies database to play the video, but I don't know what I did, and I can't get it to work again. Any clues on what I should be doing??? I don't mind manually updating these if that's what it takes, since it will only be 20 or so files...

By the way, nice add-on;

You can simply go ahead and manually update the <filelocation> tag for these files in the output.xml. Or manually delete the output.xml and run the build again. Or run the build from settings with rebuild checkbox checked (it's going to ignore the current output.xml).

Thanks