FanArt Folder Location For Series.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jaminben

Oki, I guess I misunderstood your post here. On a slightly different note, if I have auto update disabled, add a movie file then using the plugin via a remote on the Sage display ("manual" fanart search) will it still only add images and not metadata even though no metadata exists yet.

This is my fault for not clarifying the terminology. When I use the term "plugin" i'm specifically referring to the MetadataParser plugin implementation that runs behind the scenes in SageTV waiting for new media to be added to the library, and then it will automatically scan and import fanart and metadata.

The STVi fanart search (manual search) is also a plugin, too, I guess, I just don't really consider it to be the plugin

So from here on out.... I'll use the term "Automatic Plugin" to refer to the code that automatically updates metadata/fanart when new media is added to the sagetv library, or a full rescan is forced.

I'll use the term "Manual Fanart Search" to refer to the stvi code that will do a manual, interactive search for fanart.

So, now that we have that sorted out, the "Manual Fanart Search" is not capable of importing metadata. This is because we do not have a "clean" way to update the Media's Metadata once a media file is imported into sage. Eventually the "Manual Fanart Search" will also do metadata, but not until sage adds API calls to set metadata elements.

[jaminben]

Gotcha

[Nick_W]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Nick, there should be a .properties file created for each media file that is processed. That's the metadata that should get imported (automatically) into Sage.

When you say that metadata isn't working, do you for movies and TV or just the TV or just Movies?

OK, I worked out that it only imports metadata, as opposed to fanart, when stuff is actually added to the library for the first time.

So, I removed the library, and then re-added it. It got fanart and metadata for all the movies, but just fanart for the TV (TV imported under movies, if you get my drift).

I have my files named as you said, e.g., 24 S07E01.mkv

Regards,

Nick.

[stuckless]

Nick, I'm working on some diag tools that I'm hoping that will help with identifying some of the issues, but in the mean time... feel free to upload your log file and I'll take a look.

[Nick_W]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Nick, I'm working on some diag tools that I'm hoping that will help with identifying some of the issues, but in the mean time... feel free to upload your log file and I'll take a look.

OK, I have the latest SageTV BETA, and the latest RELEASE version of SageMC. I have the phoenix.jar from the latest BMT release (2.1-1).

TV fanart still does not display (it's in the right place though). Are you saying that for it to work I will currently have to use your metadata scraper, and not EP's?

TIA,

Nick.

[Nick_W]

This is what's happening for TV series (not ones recorded by Sage).

BEGIN MediaFile \\NAS1\Video\TV\24\Season 7\24 S07E10.mkv
                 Display Title: 24 S07E10

                        --- RAW Metadata Fields ---                        
                    MediaTitle: 
                     MediaType: 
                  SeasonNumber: 

                    --- Calculated Metadata Fields ---                     
                    MediaTitle: 24 S07E10
                     MediaType: MOVIE
                  SeasonNumber: 0

                           --- Fanart Paths ---                            
               Background Path: \\NAS1\FanArt\Movies\24 S07E10\Backgrounds
                   Banner Path: \\NAS1\FanArt\Movies\24 S07E10\Banners
                   Poster Path: \\NAS1\FanArt\Movies\24 S07E10\Posters

                   --- Fanart Single Files and Times ---                   
                    Background: null
          Background Time (ms): 0
                        Banner: null
              Banner Time (ms): 0
                        Poster: null
              Poster Time (ms): 0
END MediaFile \\NAS1\Video\TV\24\Season 7\24 S07E10.mkv

[real_per]

Has anybody been able to get fanart etc working for ripped TV-series under imported videos ?

My structure is similar to others mentioned in this thread, and after hours of fiddling with Mediascraper I still don't have anything to show for it..

e:\TV\series\24\Season 01\S01E01 - Title.avi

Will it ever work for imported TV series stored like this ?
The mediascraper are pulling all the right images, SageMC just won't show them..

[Nick_W]

Originally Posted by real_per

Has anybody been able to get fanart etc working for ripped TV-series under imported videos ?

My structure is similar to others mentioned in this thread, and after hours of fiddling with Mediascraper I still don't have anything to show for it..

e:\TV\series\24\Season 01\S01E01 - Title.avi

Will it ever work for imported TV series stored like this ?
The mediascraper are pulling all the right images, SageMC just won't show them..

Try:

e:\TV\24\Season 1\24 S01E01.avi

That's how I have it.

HTH,

Nick.

[real_per]

Thanks.
What do you do for getting the meta-data that support that structure ?

[bulaman]

would it be possible to give us an option to have it look for backgrounds\folder\.my files in the dir that the achieved TV file is in?


c:\TV\24\s01\24.s01.e01.mkv
c:\TV\24\s01\background.jpg
c:\TV\24\s01\folder.jpg
c:\TV\24\s01\24.s01.e01.my