Howdy,
I’ve spent a fair amount of time learning my way around my new WD TV Live SMP as well as makemkv, but I’m coming up dry on a couple of items. I’m hoping you guys can help out the newbie…
1) Movies starting with “The” in the title (The Fugitive, The Dark Knight, etc.)
I’d really like these to show up in my movie list sorted as if the “The” wasn’t there at the beginning. The Dark Knight should be in the D’s and The Fugitive should be in the F’s. I tried changing the file names from “The Dark Knight (2008).mkv” to “Dark Knight, The (2008).mkv”, but it doesn’t help.
SMP is still able to lookup the metadata with file renamed like that, but once it does, it gets sorted back into the T’s instead of the D’s.
Any suggestions on how to fix this one or just something I have to live with?
2) What file names to make “Firefly: The Complete Series” work correctly?
Seems like a couple of twists to make my rookie-self crazy on this one. The Bluray discs include the episodes in the order they were produced and meant to be broadcast in. Of course, they weren’t actually broadcast in that order and not all of the episodes on the set even aired.
What’s the right way to name these so that I get the correct metadata AND so they’ll stay in the intended order?
2b) How to handle the two-part pilot?
For other (simpler) series, I’ve done this with filenames and directories:
TV Series</font>
seriesname</font>
seriesname.s01e01.mkv
seriesname.s01e02.mkv
…
What’s the right way to handle the 2-part Serenity pilot episode?
3) Wrong cover art on screen for several movies
On several of the first few BDs I ripped with MakeMKV, the cover art on screen doesn’t match the image from the metathumb file downloaded when I hit “Get Content Info”.
I think this is only happening on movies where I included the cover.jpg attachment inside of the track when I was checking what to include in MakeMKV. Not knowing any better, that seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I stopped including that when I’m doing the rip and the SMP seems to use the metathumb as I’d expect it to.
Presumably, SMP sees the image in the MKV and is using that rather than the metathumb image. I’ve tried rescanning the library and downloading the metadata again, but the SMP keeps displaying the crappy image embedded in the MKV rather than the metathumb.
Any way to force SMP to use the metathumb other than re-ripping (ugh!) the mkv?
Thanks!
Jay