Obviously your program is great and it’s helped so many people, but I just can’t get it to work. Any help you could give me would be really appreciated heaps. I must be doing something slightly wrong.
Thanks,
Olpol.
What you have set for the FILE NAMING TEMPLATE doesn’t match your file names.
You need to set it to match. In your case, it looks like it should be:
Thanks very much Tony. I was a bit confused by the tooltip for the “file naming template” because it says it’s how the fetcher will name files. I misinterpreted that to mean that’s how it’d rename my files for me.
I’ll give that change a go.
A few more questions if you don’t mind:
Can you determine why I got the same picture for both seasons, rather than a season specific thumb for each season folder?
To use the “hidden folder” function, how do I create a hidden folder in the file structure called “.XMLFetcherBackdrops”? I got an errors saying “you must type a file name”. I think starting the name with a dot confuses it into thinking I’m typing the extension.
Using the newest WD TV Live Streaming Media Player, do I need to tick "hide thumbnail jpeg files (live/live+ compatability)?
Is there a way to slow down the rotation of backdrop pictures? They seem to change every second or two. Maybe they could change every 5 seconds or so?
Thanks again for your time in answering my questions, and for all the effort you put into making this app.
2. To use the “hidden folder” function, how do I create a hidden folder in the file structure called “.XMLFetcherBackdrops”? I got an errors saying “you must type a file name”. I think starting the name with a dot confuses it into thinking I’m typing the extension.
Windows does not allow “.” in a folder name. You need to use Dos Command Prompt. eg.
C:>mkdir .XMLFetcherBackdrops
Another way… Open Notepad and type mkdir .XMLFetcherBackdrops then save it as foldermaker.bat
Now, double click on the foldermaker.bat file and it will create your folder.
4. Is there a way to slow down the rotation of backdrop pictures? They seem to change every second or two. Maybe they could change every 5 seconds or so?
The Timing and Transitions for Backdrop Pictures in Video Gallery View is controlled by the ’ Photo’ Settings.
Okay so it’s obviously using the image in each season folder called “-1” as the season folder image in lieu of a specific image.
Is there a way I can get the DVD season art to become the folder image for each season?
So I went and renamed my TV show files into the format that I prefer: Series Name 101 - Episode Name.ext
Then in the scraper tool, I changed the File Naming Template and the Title Format (do these always have to be the same format?) to " ^T ^e^S - ^t " and redid all of the scraping for the entire season.
However the result was that only the following episodes scraped properly: 101, 202, 303 etc. The rest remained unchanged.
This is what ended up in the folders for seasons 2 and 4. Note that instead of creating xml files called 201, 202 203 etc, it created files called 102, 202, 302 etc. So the only coincidental cross match in each season was the episode number that matched the series number:
How do I get the “season art (click to change)” image to be the folder thumb for the each season folder within the series folder? And similarly, how do I assign a thumb for the series folder?
Can i ask which theme these tool is aimed at? i just ran this against Alcatraz and pulled in episode images that are 400x225 so wide art… yet this doesn’t display well in the default theme or Delirous them… they come up squashed due to the images wanting to be portrait.
any tips on how to make it look proper… i ticked options per your suggestions.
only time the episode title is shown as 01 - Pilot is in the view with 7 tiles at the bottom… yet the image on the upper left is not the series art… i would like a more Season 1 boxset type art. is there any filename i can use for that?
This is the first time I have tried your software and am looking forward to getting it working.
Just wondering, what is the link between the video file and the XML? Is it just based on the filenames? I searched to see if there as anything in the WDTV that could be causing issue but can find nothing!
To eliminate network issues, I will drop some video on the internal drive and try from there.