MetaData Files

[Caseyjones]

Well at last after how many years? I have finally updated my kit and moved over to V5. It looks like there have been some changes or I don't understand how the metadata files work now. Below are my notes and questions, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I have a Sample Structure below that I have tested against

TestVideo
    folder.jpg
    folder.xml
    TestDir1
       folder.jpg (this gets created automatically from sample1.jpg)
       sample1.mkv
       sample1.jpg
       sample1.xml
       sample1.nfo
    TestDir2
       folder.jpg
       sample2.mkv
       sample2.jpg
       sample2.xml
       sample2.nfo
       sample3.mkv
       sample3.jpg
       sample3.xml
       sample4.mkv
       sample4.jpg
       sample4.xml


From the Windows NextPVR Client

TestVideo Highlighted 
    folder.jpg image shown (in image only layout)
    tried changing imagename to TestVideo.jpg, does not display
    Is there anyway to get an xml displayed here as well? ie Image and Text display

TestVideo Selected enters into the directory
    .. highlighted
       folder.jpg shown

TestDir1 Highlighted
   Sample1.jpg shown (or possibly the created folder.jpg) (as Image and Text layout screen)
   Sample1.xml displayed
   Sample1.nfo displayed (if no xml)

TestDir1 Selected goes to new V5 play screen, shows jpg and xml (or nfo) together
   if TestDir1 contains any directories then it enters the directory instead
   if TestDir1 contains multiple movies it displays differnet XMLs but same folder.jpg

Note. At some point above the Sample1.jpg is copied to folder.jpg

TestDir2 highlighted
   folder.jpg shown

TestDir2 Selected enters into directory (what I would call the old V4 display,)
   .. highlighted
      folder.jpg shown
   What determines whether it uses the V5 screen or V4 screen?

   Sample2.mkv highlighted
      Sample2.xml shown (screen layout has space for image on left hand side)
      Sample2.nfo shown (if no XML) (screen layout has space for image on left hand side)
      Sample2.jpg Not Shown (did show in V4)

   Sample3.mkv highlighted
      Sample3.xml shown when no xml (screen layout has space for image on left hand side)
      Sample3.jpg Not Shown (did show in V4)

   Sample4.mkv highlighted
      Sample4.xml shown (screen layout has space for image on left hand side)
      Sample4.jpg Not Shown (did show in V4)



Notes.
All tests done on latest version
Clear NPVR-data/Thumbs each run
I've tried editting the pictures.xml but no success

There are a few questions above, hopefully someone can give me a steer on where I am going wrong.

[sub]

It's not very easy to follow your post above. Are you talking about the Recordings screen, or somewhere else?

In general, NextPVR v5 stores it's artwork in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\media\shows. It automatically downloads that artwork when you view a show in the TV Guide, or when it starts a recording.

The nextpvr.exe client does also use C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\thumbs for resized versions of artwork. If you manually change images or metadata in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\media\shows, then you may need to empty your thumbs folder to force nextpvr.exe recreate the the thumbnails.

[mvallevand]

It looks like he is playing mkv's in one folder via Video Library, not recordings and filename.jpg is not being displayed for selected files.

The highest level doesn't seem to have any metadata.

Martin

[Caseyjones]

Sorry sub, missed the important information. This is for the Video Libraries section.

I've got all my avi's etc I have taken over the years nicely organised with relevant jpg's. Moving to V5 seems to have broken it now.

TestVideo is the top level directory. It has some files and 2 sub directories TestDir1 and TestDir2.
Each of the sub directories have avi, jpg and xml files.

[sub]

TestVideo Highlighted 
    folder.jpg image shown (in image only layout)
    tried changing imagename to TestVideo.jpg, does not display
    Is there anyway to get an xml displayed here as well? ie Image and Text display

TestVideo Selected enters into the directory
    .. highlighted
       folder.jpg shown

Looking at the test directories I had for this in the past, in the folder you could have a fanart.jpg which is used as a background, and tvshow.nfo which provides a description. These are shown when TestVideo is highlighed. When you enter the directory, the fanart.jpg continues to be used as the background.

Once inside the directory, and navigating between items, I can see a couple of quirky things, which I'm take a look at now.

In case it's not obvious, the focus on NextPVR the last couple of years has been more about recordings, and not focusing so much on being a generic media player for movies you may have downloaded. Infact the web app doesn't even have the equivalent of the Video Libraries screens.

That said...the nextpvr.exe client does still contains the same screens as v4 did, and is supposed to behave the same way.

What determines whether it uses the V5 screen or V4 screen?

There was no new v5 screen for video library. If it looks different to what you saw in the past, you may need to need to set this in your config.xml:

Code:

<ShowMetadataScreensInVideoLibrary>true</ShowMetadataScreensInVideoLibrary>

[sub]

This updated dll fixes one issue I did spot, where the fanart background would sometimes unexpectedly disappear while navigating through the list of files in a directory.

[Caseyjones]

Sorry for taking a while to get back. I haven't worked with the fanart before so was trying things out. Also the issue you mentioned with it disappearing didn't seem to get resolved with the updated dll you sent. I even re-installed and reapplied to no effect.

I checked the config file and already had the setting to True. 

I've included a screen snapshot, it shows no fanart, although this was displayed when first entering the directory. I've also put a note on where the image used to display in V4.

[sub]

Can you zip up a small sample directory? Replace the actuall movie .mkv files with some small text file renamed to .mkv. This should give me enough to reproduce it here.

[Caseyjones]

Sub, thanks for looking at this.

Zip file enclosed.

The screen layout I get varies when entering a directory but I'm not sure what drives the layout choice.
What I call the V4 layout appears for TestDir2 but TestDir1 has a different (what I call V5 as I never saw this in V4) layout.
Example images included in zip file