Version 1.7.1.2- Tool to scrape TV Show Information for the WDTV Live Hub [9/17/2012]

  1.  The XML Fetcher doesn’t do anything with FOLDER thumbnails, only EPISODE thumbnails.

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:

season 2:   http://www.freeimagehosting.net/eidkd

season 4:   http://www.freeimagehosting.net/kxlyt

I’m guessing you meant ^s^E instead of ^e^S? An, no, the title format doesn’t need to match the file name.

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Whoops thanks Tony!

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?

You can use any of the JPGs as a folder by copying it to a file named “folder.jpg” and putting it inside the folder.

Hi,

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?

thanks.

What am I missing? Just cannot get any info to display. Have tried several Naming Template options.

All data is stored on a WD NAS Media Server on LAN. 

Is there anything I need to do/setup for theinfo to display or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks for any and all help.

Ed

Using TV series ‘Body of Proof’ (167591)

Below are the original files and the xml and jpg generated

and the XML generated for S01E03

Will have to wait for a moderator to approve the images.

Hopefully you can see them here.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/705/screen3e.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/screen2pj.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/687/screen1zi.jpg/

Thanks

Ed

Yes, I can see those.    Everything looks correct.

What version of firmware is your WD using?

Hi Tony

Thanks for that confirmation … I think :slight_smile:

Running latest FW 3.03.13.  

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.

Thanks again

Ed

Yep, it’s purely in the filename matching.

So, just to confirm:

These files are on a NAS.

The NAS Share is added to your Media Library (via the Media Library Manager)

Your Content Source is set to “My Media Library”

You nailed it!

The share was NOT added to the Media Library. Just set it up and works like a charm.

Thanks again

Ed

Great job BTW

Now I have to add some more info and a question. Not sure if you can do this but never hurts to ask.

Typically I store my media on the WD MyBookWorld NAS. It is connected directly to my router (Gb ethernet). This device has a built in media server (Twonkey I believe). This is what I normally select when accessing media from this device.

If I access through this method, the scraped info doesn’t show. When I add the share and select ‘Windows shares’ instead of ‘Media Server’ as COntent Source, the scraped info worls fine.

Can this info show up when using the Media Server instead of Network Share? I willl play a little more later to see what else I can see.

Thanks again

Ed

No.  DLNA doesn’t support metedata.

I’ve no idea how to get this working. I have the necessary stuff to run it. When I click the button it opens some kind of XML file in my browser.

If I click the install button nothing happens at all.

When you hover your mouse over the “Install” button, you should see this URL in the status bar:

http://www.tonysown.net/XMLFetcher/Deploy/setup.exe

If you do not see that, then you do not have Microsoft’s .NET framework or Java installed correctly as per the prerequisites.

The Download webpage uses Java to determine if you have .NET framework installed.  If Java thinks you do, then it passes that XML to the ClickOnce component of .NET to perform the installation.

You can try manually installing it using that URL above, but it may not work either if .NET isn’t installed or correctly registered to your computer…

hey ;D just boght myself a smp so first off i love this tool :smileyvery-happy: so thanks for it ;D. have read the entire thread and havent found a solution other then one person saying dvd order works but when i try to get it in dvd ore i get over a 100 episodes (firefly) )stargate season 1)( 4147) just to name some because they are listed as episode 1.1 the scraper list it as epside1- so i wont get the actual episode 1 before episode 11. its the same with firefly my actual episodes is episode 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,110,120,130,140 is there any way around this otherwise perfect piece of software ?

 p,s is there a way to handle double episodes ? e.g Stargate.SG1-s01e01&e02.Children.of.the.Gods-part.1&2.mkv

again tx

thanks for your wortk  Tonyph12345