I’ve had a similar issue with a date I had first formatted DD/MM/YYYY (european style), but the hub could’t handle it… But testing it is the only possibility…
ok. so it appears that the hub doesn’t process the numbers it just puts them pu and adds a minutes after. so I did this… check out the screen shot to see what I did. configurable if people want just minutes or hours and minutes…
Cool program. But I cannot get it to recognize the folders on my compputer. It allows me to select the folder but will not process it. Seems like it thinks there is nothing selected.
Any ideas or thoughts?
Thanx in advance.
Does teh folder have the actual files/movies in it? or is it a folder of folders? i’m working on a “all folders” below option for 1.0.7 if that is the case.
Yes it is a folder of folders.So that would explain it not retrieving them 
I tried to run just a movie - DVD VIDEO_TS folder/VOB files but it did not retrieve any results. Do I need to change a setting to get it to search according to the folder name? About half of my rips are in VIDEO_TS format.
Thanx again
is http://code.google.com/p/wdtvlivemetadataloader/downloads/list now the correct place to get the latest version of the App?
No, that is a different application written by another member. the best place to get it is from the first post (I update that everytime… ) but teh url is : (edited to new location) wdtvhubgen.codeplex.com
Great suggestion. never htought of doing that, I’ll add it to the roadmap. just to be clear. you have a full directory of Video_TS (basically a dvd rip) in a root directory called MovieName … so I would search for the movie name, and drop in an xml and jpg for that movie, but what do you “play” when you click play inside the hub? a video__ts.vob file? becvause I will have to rename that file to the “moviename” for the metadata to work according to hub standards.
thanks
Jeff
Sometimes I click the VOB and sometimes Its the VIDEO_TS folder.The HUB doesn’t play the same files the same way with the VIDEO_TS folders. Seems it plays the VIDEO_TS folder when there is a folder.jpg image. Otherwise it makes me sleect the VOB file. Kind of strange.
I have a bunch of meta data strored on my home server as I use WMC and MediaBrowser everywhere else in the house and some of the images do show up in the HUB.
Not all of my movies are VIDEO_TS. SOme are AVI ( OLD rips ), some are mkv ( BLU RAY rips ) and some are MP4. All of them are stored in the same master folder called “Movies” on the Home Server. My HD movies are in a seprate folder called “HD” and TV series are in another folder called “TV.” All of these media folders are in the “Videos” folder on the server. Every moive has its own folder.
Hope this helps
Great description thanks. at the end you say “every movie has its own folder” does that mean every movie you have, or just the video_Ts rips? thanks.
That would be every movie. MKV, MP4, AVI, VIDEO_TS, WMV, etc. All of them, every video file is in its own folder… Each folder also contains a mymovies.xml file ( MediaBrowser uses this format in WMC for meta data ), a folder.jpg (or .png ) and a backdrop.jpg ( or .png ).
Seems like you are on the right path You may want to check into a Meta data program called MetaBrowser. I use it for my metadata on my Win Media Centers using MediaBrowser.
Thanx
Hey Jeff, finally got a chance to try out 1.06 and the tv section works now but i am having trouble with the movie section now.
I don`t know if the moviedb is having trouble but i get this everytime i click a movie
2011-03-28 19:55:51,587 [1] ERROR Error Message: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
Inner Exception: No Inner Exception
Stack Trace: at TheMovieDB.TmdbAPI.MovieSearch(String title)
at WDTVHubGen.frmMainForm.LoadMovieDetails(MovieItem item)> > edit- Must have been a problem with the site because its working now> I see in the screen shot you have hours and minutes , did you get it to work and if so where do i change it> > thanks
One thing I would suggest is batch processing and the ability to disable fanart. I personally hate the changing fanart in the background. So the ability to disable during process would eliminate them from being in the xml causing just the theme background to show.
drizzt09 wrote:
One thing I would suggest is batch processing and the ability to disable fanart. I personally hate the changing fanart in the background. So the ability to disable during process would eliminate them from being in the xml causing just the theme background to show.
It would be a lot easier if you just disable backdrop in the theme, so they won’t be shown, but still be there in case you at a point decide to use them :wink:
How to disable backdrops:
@drizzt, thanks for the suggestions
Batch processing is already supported, but currently only for one directory at a time, i guess I’m in the minority of putting my movies all together in directories and not in their own directory. I’m adding the recursive directory support in next version, should be ready for a drop probably in next few days.
Turning on and and off the backgrounds is easy enough, some have suggested that is the theme job, but i can add it easily enough for poeple that want that control.
thanks
Hi Jeff,
This program rocks. I like the fact that it renames the files as well. I used to have to use 2 different programs to get everything looking the way I want it to.
By the way I keep all my movies and TV shows in one dir like you, except that I have them separated alphabetically i.e. folder named “A” and all TV shows the start with “A” are kept there separated into seasons.
I am not a programmer at all, but is there any way to make it rename and get the xml data automatically?
For TV shows a new file comes once a week. I don’t know maybe with filters and watch directory or something like that. I use a program called SCRU that automatically unrar’s my scene release TV shows and it uses filters to be able to set the location that the mkv’s once they are uncompressed.
Just some food for thought :smiley:
Thanks for the program you are doing an excellent job.
J
J,
Great idea. I will add that to the list of “next features” basically i would put a directory watch program in the application and then process automatically teh new additions? I might acutally break this out as a seperate program, and make it a background service, seems like it would be easier then having the visual app open all of the time.
Jeff
Yes , this is exactly what I was talking about. I think that you are correct in making it a background service.
Thank-you
J
Jeff, I was just redoing all my TV show seasons and when WDTVHubGen does not do all of the shows in the folder (for whatever reason) and they still show up as unprocessed and I try to process them again WDTVHubGen crashes. I did save the message that windows displayed it is quite long I will post it if you would like me to.
Thanks,
J
Also once it has decided that it does not like the directory it seems to crash every time I try to “get shows” it crashes right away.
J,
Dang. My guess is that there is something in that directory that it can’t parse as a tv show, I have been working on this kind of error, one challenge when writing this program is test cases. If you can send me the actually file names of the files in those directories, i would really appreciate it, or just post them here.
thanks
Jeff
