Actors in Movies

[stlbearboy]

When getting properties for movies, BMT is extending the line for each actor instead of starting a new line. For Example (The Spy Next Door)


Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl,Maverick McWilliams -- Chad

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl,Maverick McWilliams -- Chad,Quinn Mason -- Carl

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl,Maverick McWilliams -- Chad,Quinn Mason -- Carl,Margaret Murphy -- Mom

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl,Maverick McWilliams -- Chad,Quinn Mason -- Carl,Margaret Murphy -- Mom,Esodie Geiger -- Principal

Actor=Jackie Chan -- Bob Ho,Amber Valletta -- Gillian,Madeline Carroll -- Farren,Will Shadley -- Ian,Alina Foley -- Nora,Magnús Scheving -- Poldark,Billy Ray Cyrus -- Colton James,George Lopez -- Glaze,Katherine Boecher -- Creel,Mia Stallard -- Cute Girl,Maverick McWilliams -- Chad,Quinn Mason -- Carl,Margaret Murphy -- Mom,Esodie Geiger -- Principal,Arron Shiver -- Scientist

[stuckless]

I'm not sure I quite understand. Is this in the display of the web ui, stv, etc? or is this in the .properties, etc.

[stlbearboy]

That is the properties file. In the WebUI it looks fine, but in Sage, when ytou go to more by people in show, all of the actors are in one line.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by stlbearboy

That is the properties file. In the WebUI it looks fine, but in Sage, when ytou go to more by people in show, all of the actors are in one line.

Ok, I see what you seeing... I didn't actually notice it in a couple of my videos, because it actually wrapped looking like a newline. I'll look into that as well.

[Fonceur]

I am assuming that those actors (and a bunch of other stuff) are what I am seeing parsing the Description field of some of my users' metadata... Any chance/plans to move them to the proper "java.lang.String[] PeopleList, java.lang.String[] RolesListForPeopleList" part of ShowAPI.AddShow?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

I am assuming that those actors (and a bunch of other stuff) are what I am seeing parsing the Description field of some of my users' metadata... Any chance/plans to move them to the proper "java.lang.String[] PeopleList, java.lang.String[] RolesListForPeopleList" part of ShowAPI.AddShow?

In Sage7, AddShow is not longer required (and that's great thing). The Actors, Directors, etc, can be set via a SetMediaFileMetadata api call, which is what I'm using. I'll do some testing to see if perhaps i'm using an incorrect delimiter when setting the Actors, Directors, Writers, etc.

[stuckless]

I just confirmed that 4.1 is using an incorrect sage delimiter for Actors and Genres. It will be fixed in the 4.2 build (coming out this weekend).

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by stuckless

The Actors, Directors, etc, can be set via a SetMediaFileMetadata api call, which is what I'm using.

OK, good! I don't know what kind of metadata grabber my users have, but it's nice to know that you are doing things properly and not just sticking everything in Description, like some other utilities are... You look at those other Descriptions and they're like the full 5 minutes text at the end of a movie...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

OK, good! I don't know what kind of metadata grabber my users have, but it's nice to know that you are doing things properly and not just sticking everything in Description, like some other utilities are... You look at those other Descriptions and they're like the full 5 minutes text at the end of a movie...

BMT/Phoenix can fetch metadata from several different sources (imdb, themoviedb, dvdprofiler, tvdb, etc), so depending on provider being used, it could fetch a pretty lengthly description for a show/movie. That being said, bmt 4.1 does not concatenate a bunch of fields together and push it into the description, although in 4.0, it would have been possible for a person to stuff fields into the description, but that was a rarely used feature, and it's been removed in 4.1.