2009-03-01, 05:50 AM
I've written a small program that will scrape IMDB and get thumbnails and relevant data for the .XML file - is there a valid entry for a MyMovies.XML file that'll point GBPVR at a file in a directory other than that file? If not I'll stick with individual .XML files rather than merging an entire scan into a single output file.
I know there's other apps that do the same job, for for some reason they're all painfully slow, taking upwards of 20 seconds per video file, mine usually takes around 4 seconds per file, should be less if you've got a better link to IMDb than I have. (Using the XBMC scraper often takes the best part of a minute per file).
I'm not much of a coder, the whole thing is written with AutoIt, is under 300Kb, all it does is run from the root movie folder, scour all directories for any supported videoformats and then downloads .JPG thumbnails and metadata, writing it to a moviename.XML file. It's simple, and it works. It misses sometimes when imdb returns odd results, but it's approx 95% accurate. The only graphical element is asking if you want to rescan existing files, and a progress bar show what it's up to.
I've had a look, but didn't turn anything up, is there a complete list of valid .XML metatags that GBPVR accepts somewhere?
Thanks.
I know there's other apps that do the same job, for for some reason they're all painfully slow, taking upwards of 20 seconds per video file, mine usually takes around 4 seconds per file, should be less if you've got a better link to IMDb than I have. (Using the XBMC scraper often takes the best part of a minute per file).
I'm not much of a coder, the whole thing is written with AutoIt, is under 300Kb, all it does is run from the root movie folder, scour all directories for any supported videoformats and then downloads .JPG thumbnails and metadata, writing it to a moviename.XML file. It's simple, and it works. It misses sometimes when imdb returns odd results, but it's approx 95% accurate. The only graphical element is asking if you want to rescan existing files, and a progress bar show what it's up to.
I've had a look, but didn't turn anything up, is there a complete list of valid .XML metatags that GBPVR accepts somewhere?
Thanks.
