When I try to obtain the content info (Options => Get Content Info) on movies with long filenames, I am getting a rather weird error message saying “Network Not Available”. I verified that my network is connected. When I rename the file names to a shorter name, I am successfully able to retrieve the info. I know I could just work around this problem by renaming the movies, but I’d rather keep the original file names around since they contain information about the movie’s release. Here are some example file names that cause this problem:
Long filenames doesn’t necessarily mean torrents :)
Agreed, but I am guessing that everyone looking at “-publichd.mkv” in the first post understood exactly where it came from. :dizzy_face:
I don’t use the internal scraper, but with Thumbgen I have no problems with long file names that include the year and some other data such as HD or BluRay.
Long filenames doesn’t necessarily mean torrents :)
Agreed, but I am guessing that everyone looking at “-publichd.mkv” in the first post understood exactly where it came from. :dizzy_face:
I don’t use the internal scraper, but with Thumbgen I have no problems with long file names that include the year and some other data such as HD or BluRay.
Long filenames doesn’t necessarily mean torrents :)
Agreed, but I am guessing that everyone looking at “-publichd.mkv” in the first post understood exactly where it came from. :dizzy_face:
I don’t use the internal scraper, but with Thumbgen I have no problems with long file names that include the year and some other data such as HD or BluRay.
your telling the scrapper to look for the following items
ghostbusters - probably successful
1984 - probably not an issue when combined with name
REMASTERED
1080p
bluray
dts
x264-publichd
so you’ve got 2 out of 7 that have a reasonable chance of producing the desired result
or a 5 of 7 chance of getting nothing or completely wrong data
Totally agree on that, and i probably should have been more specific in my ‘happens to me too’ and mentioned that for me the filenamed are normalized.
The problem is not so much the fact it cant find nothing, thats all well and good and will happen, its more the fact taht with the error message “Network not Available” i cant even look it up manually nor correct spelling errors (should there be any) or year issues - certain movies have one release year in imdb.om and another in themoviedb.com strangly enough. With the above mentioned error message all i can do is “ok”
the internal scrapper is admittadly pretty basic, without much control
the external program thumbgen, does allow you all those options and more
for hard to find stuff, I tell thumbgen to look up the imdb id, problem solved
TG should not have any problem with names like the OP posted. I tried them both and came up with linksheets/Thumnails for Ghostbusters and Groundhog’s Day without issue. I can’t speak for the internal scraper as I have not used it.
Well, this is really no surprise. You’re asking the database for a bunch of garbage, and it’s not going to find a match.
Well see, what SHOULD happen is that the scraper will not find the movie but then prompt me to enter the correct movie name – which would allow me to retrieve the Info. But INSTEAD what happens is that I am presented with a bizarre error message and I cannot do anything about it.
danielsan wrote:> But INSTEAD what happens is that I am presented with a bizarre error message and I cannot do anything about it.
You could use Thumbgen, Hubgen or one of the other 3rd party scrapers that are more robust. I agree that an error message is not that helpful, but sometime ya gotta find workarounds to get exactly what you want out of an $80 device.
You could use Thumbgen, Hubgen or one of the other 3rd party scrapers that are more robust. I agree that an error message is not that helpful, but sometime ya gotta find workarounds to get exactly what you want out of an $80 device.
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Absolutely. But maybe it’s a trivial fix and WD was unaware of the problem. Is this forum the right place to make such bug reports? Or should I report them somewhere else?
I’ll “accept” the thumbgen suggestion as a solution. I do have a mac though and I’ll probably give http://www.hubflowapp.com/index.html instead a try.
which for me is the case, all my movies are stored in a structure like this
