Movie Meta data

[jd1940]

I hate to tell you how much time I've spent trying to get movie metadata for my NPVR movie files. I've tried ThumbGen and Ember and none of them come even close to giving me what I want. All I need is the cast/description/runtime basically, text format is fine. I just want to be able to read it as I can the TV info I can now see in the latest version of NPVR. I can get all sorts of pretty but illegible stuff from ThumbGen but that's useless for me. Any ideas on a quick and dirty way to get basic info and get in installed into NPVR? I've tried searching here but most of the info appears confusing and dated.

[sub]

I used Ember Media Manager (1.3.x) to download the metadata and artwork for my movie collection. It did a pretty good job, and got 90+% of them automatically. The request were slightly more obscure movies, or named badly, or chose the wrong move.

This downloaded the metadata and artwork, and shows up in the NextPVR's Video Library. I should mention, NextPVR doesn't show the cast information though, so you wont get this regardless of what you use for downloading the metadata.

[jd1940]

Unfortunately, EMM appears to not be supported any longer as it won't scrape IMDB which makes for a tedious hunt and paste task. Also, what output format did you use for display in NVPR. I never got it do display anything even when I looked up the IMDB tt#.

[sub]

Unfortunately, EMM appears to not be supported any longer as it won't scrape IMDB which makes for a tedious hunt and paste task. Also, what output format did you use for display in NVPR.

I just used whatever was the default in EMM and it did a pretty good job. NextPVR already supported a few formats, from which uses had supplied sample files, and this just happened to be one of them. Its not clear to me if there is official names for any of these formats (which often have the same names, but slightly different xml contained within them).

Alternatively, you could supply some sample output from other metadata apps, and I can try to tweak the app to support those formats too.

[mvallevand]

iGL will grab movie metadata from themoviedb.org for your NextPVR recordings. It also downloads the json and stores it in an XML format NextPVR will understand.

Code:

<OpenSearchDescription>
  <movies>
    <movie>
      <adult>false</adult>
      <backdrop_path>/acYjm1JZSFFNs06wrs45c3Ip751.jpg</backdrop_path>
      <belongs_to_collection />
      <budget>0</budget>
      <genres>
        <id>27</id>
        <name>Horror</name>
      </genres>
      <genres>
        <id>53</id>
        <name>Thriller</name>
      </genres>
      <homepage />
      <id>157547</id>
      <imdb_id>tt2388715</imdb_id>
      <orginal_name>Oculus</orginal_name>
      <overview>A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.</overview>
      <popularity>15.6436173240513</popularity>
      <poster_path>/sPo8wZfKcqeQA88R5JIUzhuh73o.jpg</poster_path>
      <released>2014-04-11</released>
      <revenue>0</revenue>
      <runtime>105</runtime>
      <spoken_languages>
        <iso_639_1>en</iso_639_1>
        <name>English</name>
      </spoken_languages>
      <status>Released</status>
      <tagline />
      <name>Oculus</name>
      <vote_average>7.6</vote_average>
      <vote_count>4</vote_count>
    </movie>
  </movies>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Currently I don't store the cast. If you want that a better thing to do is let iGL rename it and Ember or full movie scanner grab all the meta data.

Martin

[jd1940]

I've looked at IGL but, frankly, my eyes start to glaze over when I see things like "command line" and "batch files". All I'm interested in is movie metadata. I don't care much about the art. Is there a simple setting for IGL that I can use to get that, or at least to get me started? Also, what file format do I need to have in each movie folder so NPVR will display the info when I select the movie title. I can get a "folder.jpg" file to do that but so far that's all that works and the programs I've tried that can create that file give me text that's too small to be legible on my 42" screen.

[mvallevand]

I've looked at IGL but, frankly, my eyes start to glaze over when I see things like "command line" and "batch files". All I'm interested in is movie metadata. I don't care much about the art. Is there a simple setting for IGL that I can use to get that, or at least to get me started? Also, what file format do I need to have in each movie folder so NPVR will display the info when I select the movie title. I can get a "folder.jpg" file to do that but so far that's all that works and the programs I've tried that can create that file give me text that's too small to be legible on my 42" screen.

No you get cover and metadata. http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...geGrabLite If you want movies I'd go for option 2 in PostProcessing.bat and add --zap2it if you use Schedules Direct or mc2xml

Martin

[jd1940]

I did as you stated but I'm seeing nothing happening. What else am I supposed to do?

[mvallevand]

Next time you record a movie you will have meta data for it.

Martin

[jd1940]

So this won't provide metadata for existing movies?