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Moving Pictures is a movies plug-in for the MediaPortal media center application. The goal of the plug-in is to create a very focused and refined experience that requires minimal user interaction. The plug-in emphasizes usability and ease of use in managing a movie collection consisting of ripped DVDs, and movies reencoded in common video formats supported by MediaPortal.
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Support Sort By Field From XBMC NFO Files #1023

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I thought this could help for people like me who wants to keep the sorting 
order that we stored in the nfo file while we were organizing our movie library.
I wanted as well, to include some code to change the "watched" flag. But I 
don't know whats the variable in moving pictures, and I'm not sure what would 
be better to use from the nfo file ("watched" tag or "playcount" > 0). Thanks 
and sorryyy if I have screwed something up.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fenrisqu...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2011 at 3:03

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks I will take a look. Going to mark this as tentative though because Sort 
By is usually a calculated field. If this causes issues I may need to push this 
back.

Original comment by conrad.john on 27 Jun 2011 at 2:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Ok, just one more thing though, I have the 1.2.2 of MovingPictures and when I 
tried to find this xbmc.xml on my installation, to modify it locally, I 
COULDNT!! May I ask, why or where is it?

Lately, I've been thinking about creating a platform for standardized 
scrappers. So we can all share those scrappers (let's say Moving Pictures, 
Mediaportal, XBMC, etc). I have to say, Im from Spain, and the only scrappers 
that really work for me are the ones from XBMC. I've tested a lot of them, and 
most doesnt work, and the rest, only give me partial details (you need to know 
that many webs have only partial details).
Searching I've found the xbne tool (this allows you to edit files individually 
or in a batch. You need to know, in my family, we are crazy about movies, and 
buy full collections all the time (its cheaper, and you get loads of movies at 
once, or weekly)). We share our libraries. So It helps a lot to edit them that 
way. Now, when I last scrape them, XBMC worked like a charm, then I used XBNE 
to change all the watched flags of those movies I've watched all at once. It 
worked!! Only until I imported them with MovPics. Then I have to do it all over 
again, and one by one. We are talking about 1200 movies roughly!! (some are in 
black and white, LOL.) So I believe MovPics, would benefit from having those 
scrappers in available files, and maybe being compatible to each other. Im 
whiling to propose these ideas to the MP and XBMC teams (amongst others). The 
only difference would be how each "engine (scrapper reader)" would apply those 
results from the same scrapper.

Think about it!! I would love full detail scrappers that work with every 
system, in every language, and that might even have personal editors, so 
anybody can adapt them to their needs. Yes, I know that in some cases it would 
be a waste of time and space, certain labels that are very useful for MP might 
not be at all for XBMC and some others might not be for MovPics.

One last thing. Im sure you are tired about this, but I would love that Trailer 
button to editable to be pointed to a local trailer. Sometimes, some trailers 
are crap, while others are good (I like the idea to choose what trailer it 
would play by storing it on disk), sometimes trailers are lowres or too high. 
More often than not, internet connection is tooo slow (Ex. Your parents are 
trying to watch the trailer of a movie (streaming), you are trying some online 
gamming, and your sis is streaming crap from youtube. There you have it, even 
with a really fast line, it wont be enough. Whithout thinking about, two 
messengers running, facebook pages open, Voice comm while playing, etc.)

Thanks for reading. And dont get me wrong, I think this plugging is the shit! 
But we always want more, dont we. But Ill be happy by fixing those three little 
details, even If I have to do it manually, as long as there is something I can 
edit and change.

Original comment by fenrisqu...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 1:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Added in r1314. Thanks for the patch.

As for the location of scraper scripts, they are stored in the Moving Pictures 
database. To alter them you have to load new versions in through the 
configuration panel.

Original comment by conrad.john on 23 Jul 2011 at 8:54