Media Scrapers for Videos?

[smajor]

Folks,

What are you all using for scraping data for your Videos section? I have a ton of DVDs and TV Series that I've ripped from my media.

I've been using Ember Media Manager, which was briefly dead, then came back, paused, and now being developed again. I'm fairly happy with it, but it had some quirks with my NAS... sometimes episodes/movies say "no data found for this..." when it had correctly scraped them AND the data is in the directory! Moving the file to a local drive makes everything better. Odd.

Anyway, I'm always on the look out for something better that may have come along. Is there anything that respects the file type "bling" that NextPVR makes use of?

[gEd]

I have used this for the last couple of years to grabbing metadata and background images for movies. http://www.mediacentermaster.com/
I haven't tried it for TV series as I haven't tell the need but it may work well for US content.

http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

[jam_zhou]

I'm thinking of using xmbc. I read that you can scrape using xbmc then export and all the metadata will be sent to the corresponding folders. If file names are different then will create a script to change the names. That's my plan anyway. This way it can all be done from the 10 ft UI and it'll be maintained.

[psycik]

I use ember media manager, mostly cos I like the nfo/jpg files that xbmc uses. Plex uses bits of it. Ember can also rename the files to a nicer standard that I've found plex prefers.

Some of the information is transferred to Subs videos plugin.

[stustunz]

Video in nextpvr looks for folder.jpeg be good if it also looked for Poster.jpeg that way it would all work automatically when xbmc is used to get the images

[reven]

i wrote my own after being sick of mediabrowser and the other one. cant remember what it was called.

it only really supports .nfo files at the moment, since thats all i needed it to do, but it downloads fanart, (use to get trailers until youtube changed, ill fix this at some point), posters for movies from themoviedb.org. for tv shows it downloads fanart, clearlogos, tv tunes, season thumbs etc from thetvdb.com and various other sources.

i havent released a binary yet, but the source code can be found at https://github.com/revenz/iMeta
it requires
- .net framework 3.5
- Gtk# for .NET (http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html)


some other features
- it uses gtk# so it can run on windows, linux, and mac osx.
- can down scale posters/fanart/banners to a max size (good if you dont want huge fanart/posters and have a low powered client like a raspberrypi)
- movie/ tv show editor (this needs work)
- auto groups movies into sets (this is currently a external xml file with movies i have that i made sets out of eg "James Bond" has all the james bond movies, pretty big list, easy to add new ones too, also can do regex matching so anything started with "Dora the explorer is grouped into dora etc )


if theres enough interest ill make a build of it in its current state (slightly buggy, but works well enough for me, at that point its 90% done then i lost interest because i had all my metadata, and any new movies/tv shows i just run it against).

it expects movies to be stored in individual folders, and it helps if you have the (year) at the end of the folder name (incase theres duplicates). theres also a couple of other hidden features i added ([DVD] on the end of a tv show folder to download episodes in dvd order, [whatever] tags on end of movie folders so you can have "Spider-man 2 [Alternate Cut]" etc).

[jam_zhou]

so xbmc dishes out the following:
{moviename}.nfo
{moviename}.tbn
{moviename}-fanart.jpg

I'm going to write a script to change .nfo to .xml
.tbn file to folder.jpg
.jpg to fanart.jpg

I'll release it when I get it done...unless of course someone else does this

it would be way more convenient to have this part of npvr but Sub has much more important things to do I think...but if Sub is listening...maybe make the art and xml file configurable in config.xml?

<metadata>{moviename}.nfo<metadata>
<thumbnail>{moviename}.tbn<thumbnail>
<fanart>{moviename}-fanart.jpg<fanart>

Making it configurable means people can do whatever they want without bothering sub?