SageMC: XML movie info

[SidKnee]

Thanks for the help guys - I'll let you know how I get on

Cheers,
SidKnee

[Sweep]

Hi guys, good news!
What worked for me was an upgrade from java 1.4.2 to 1.5.

Both local and generic collection.xml now work!

Cheers

[Sweep]

hmm, just ran into another problem.
It so happens the foldernames are not exactly the same as the <title> tags in the xml (generated from imdb). Therefor I cannot use the 'generic' collection.xml, but place local xml files in each folder (per movie). This is actually my prefered method as well.

But... The local xml file must have the same name as the movie file! Having it named as the folder doesn't work (while the folder name is used to look it up in the generic collection.xml and in the original sagemc thread it is said to work).

This poses problems with full dvd's (VIDEO_TS) and movies split into more parts.

Stanger is it possible to change this, so instead of just looking for a local xml file named as the movie file, it also looks for a local xml file named as the folder ?
Or even better a local xml named collection.xml ignoring the title ?

Thanks!

[stanger89]

As for searching for something differently, I'll leave that to mlbdude, since it's part of the STV, not the java class.

As for the names, a couple of tips, I believe (not 100% sure since I don't remember how old the java class mlbdude is using is) the class should strip out bad characters from both the title before looking, so the folder/filename doesn't need to match exactly, here's what I do:
I remove anything that's not one of these "a-zA-Z0-9$()#_'`~@{}%! &-". So if you take exactly whatever's in the XML, remove anything that's not in that list, and name it that it should find it.

FWIW, here's a little newer build that may work better for finding stuff (should be case insensitive and remove bad characters). It should also be a bit faster, since I changed the way it searches.

Make sure you backup your old files first, then just replace them with these (should go in the DVDPro2Sage folder in your SageTV directory). This is sort of my "personal" build, it works with nearly all my DVDs (except for the box sets which I haven't figured out a good way to do yet), but may not work with the STV (I don't think I changed anything important).

[Sweep]

actually the same sort of behaviour as with the icon's/images:
1. specific local <name>.xml (<name>.jpg) for specific files
2. a local collection.xml (folder.jpg) as a default for all files in the folder
3. check for title in the generic collection.xml

[stanger89]

Sweep, it should work fine for DVDs, that's all I have, it just looks for the DVD title matching the name of the folder containing the VIDEO_TS folder ie:
You've got:
National Treasure\VIDEO_TS
it will search for National Treasure. The only exception would be if it doesn't think that's a DVD file.

[stanger89]

I think we're coming close to mailbombing here

Originally Posted by Sweep

actually the same sort of behaviour as with the icon's/images:
1. specific local <name>.xml (<name>.jpg) for specific files
2. a local collection.xml (folder.jpg) as a default for all files in the folder
3. check for title in the generic collection.xml

I'm leaving this up to mlbdude, since it's part of his STV, all the class does is search for and retrieve info for whatever the STV wants. Shouldn't be too hard, just change it so when using a local XML, just skip the findDVD step and default to index 0, but there's not really any way to do that in the java class.

-edit

Well technically I could, I could probably base it off the filename of the XML, but that would start adding specific behavior to the class, that really should be present in whatever is using the class.

[Sweep]

Hi Stanger, thanks for the quick reply.
With DVD's, i just ment this is poses a problem with local xml files. With a generic xml file, my only problems remains with the titles not exactly matching.
I'll have a go with your 'personal build' and hopefully mlbdude can help.

cheers

[Sweep]

Originally Posted by stanger89

I think we're coming close to mailbombing here

hehe, another one, just before turning in ;-)

Originally Posted by stanger89

Well technically I could, I could probably base it off the filename of the XML, but that would start adding specific behavior to the class, that really should be present in whatever is using the class.

This can only work if the class decides what xml file to open, doesn't it ?
if so, then its not that wrong a place for the exception ;-)

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Sweep

hehe, another one, just before turning in ;-)


This can only work if the class decides what xml file to open, doesn't it ?
if so, then its not that wrong a place for the exception ;-)

But it doesn't, it gets passed the filename of the XML to open. Theoretically, you could say "if collection.xml, search for name, else, not", but that's really not the kind of thing that should be done in a library, that should be done in the calling app, IMO

[Sweep]

Originally Posted by stanger89

But it doesn't, it gets passed the filename of the XML to open. Theoretically, you could say "if collection.xml, search for name, else, not", but that's really not the kind of thing that should be done in a library, that should be done in the calling app, IMO

Indeed, besides this behaviour is in the stv already when you name the xml <moviefilename>.xml

Maybe mlbdude can help, for now I'll be using the <moviefilename>.xml

[Sweep]

Attached a small app which will scans your movies folder (see .config) and tries to create an xml file per movie(folder).

It looks for IMDB links inside *.nfo or *.url files and optionaly (see .config), when not found, searches IMDB on the movie folder name.
When an IMDB link is found it searches for the first .avi or .mpg and creates a <moviefilename>.xml

[Sweep]

Originally Posted by Sweep

Hi guys, good news!
What worked for me was an upgrade from java 1.4.2 to 1.5.

argh, upgraded to java 1.5.02 and again... the nullpointer exception
(the same as in http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...66&postcount=1)

Stanger any clues ? What java version are you using ?

for now reverting back to 1.5.01


cheers

[Sweep]

sorry, as it turns out it had nothing to do with the java version

With the installation of the new java version I also lost the included class xerces.jar (used with the XMLTV plugin) which apparently was causing a conflict, now movieInfo was working but my EPG was no longer updating.

Downloaded a new xerces.jar (Xerces-J-bin.2.6.2.zip from http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/download.cgi) and everything seems to be working again.

Hoping it stays that way, cheers
Sweep

[stanger89]

[oshapir]

Could you please post the xerces.jar file you use? I'm having problem getting it...

[stanger89]

FWIW, you don't need that for the XML movie info/DVD Profiler stuff. At least you shouldn't.

[Sweep]

This is the one I'm using now (for xmltv as Stanger mentioned):
http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xerce...-bin.2.6.2.zip

(use the file: xercesImpl.jar)