icedragonslair 10 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) Is there a way to create an extension such as ,BRY (just an example) to allow MB3 to list movies that we have on disc but not one the media server for reference for our theaters. We accomplished this with .disc extensions in xbmc (using metabrowser for metadata) and it worked great, it even allowed us to make a note that told us that you needed to insert the disc to play it. I was wondering if this was possible with MB3 and if so is there a way to make it show whether it is a physical dvd or blu-ray disc, or do I need to get creative with the metadata to achieve this with MB3? Thanks loads, Ice Edited January 29, 2014 by icedragonslair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 This would be a good feature. You can get most of the way now with the only problem being that the clients won't know the items aren't playable until you try to play one. Just create a dummy .avi file and we will pick everything up as normal. Then you could edit your metadata for that item to indicate that it is off-line. We have a long-time user out here that does something like this and I even added a special cover to CoverArt (Offline) so he could map all the items that were done like this and have them show the Offline cover treatment. The only drawback is that the clients won't realize the item can't be played. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yes, that's right. You do get a bunch of errors in your server logs you just need to ignore. Forgot about that because I'm so used to seeing them. I have a lot of dummy content like this on my dev setup for testing different things. This would be a good feature to add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Create a little movie in Windows Movie Maker that says "Insert Disc" and plays for about 30 seconds. Copy that into your movie folder with the name of the movie. MediaBrowser will then gather metadata and artwork for the movie. When selected, the "Insert Disc" movie will play. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 At the moment it's not possible without some hacking, but it's a good idea for later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 With the windows server you may see some error dialog boxes coming from ffprobe due to it failing to scan a dummy file. Unfortunately we're not always able to suppress them, so it's really better that we know ahead of time that it's not a valid. I think the ideal scenario will be to support the xbmc .disc convention due to that and the reasons Ebr stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedragonslair 10 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Thanks all, Wayne Luke - that is a great idea until this actually becomes a feature of mb3 and the MBT or MB Classic clients. For now I just made dummy mkv's for it to work and overlayed a Blu-Ray logo over the poster, plus added a notice in the description/plot. If anyone does make a 'Please Insert Disc' movie please let me know. If I was adept at doing it I suppose I would make both a 'Please Insert DVD Disc' & "Please Insert Bu-Ray Disc' movies to make it easier (very large collection) Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Someone had posted one on the old tracker but the search is broken on it so I can't find it. Maybe they'll notice this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoupe 63 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Add me to the list of those who would like to have this feature. I've got used to having it via MyMovies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn 655 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Thanks all, Wayne Luke - that is a great idea until this actually becomes a feature of mb3 and the MBT or MB Classic clients. For now I just made dummy mkv's for it to work and overlayed a Blu-Ray logo over the poster, plus added a notice in the description/plot. If anyone does make a 'Please Insert Disc' movie please let me know. If I was adept at doing it I suppose I would make both a 'Please Insert DVD Disc' & "Please Insert Bu-Ray Disc' movies to make it easier (very large collection) Thanks again I have a couple of videos you can use. One has a DVD logo, the other has a Blu-ray logo. Both say "Please Insert Disc". 30 seconds each with a black fade-in/fade-out. They look like this: Here are the links: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3vdoljnunfzc43j/insert_bluray.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpxm6q9d5l2g5gj/insert_dvd.mp4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedragonslair 10 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 (edited) Outstanding bigjohn, thanks so much. Until this is integrated this will work so well... Thanks again folks, Ice Edited February 2, 2014 by icedragonslair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekec 7 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Liking the recently added .disc feature for cataloging offline content -- works well; however, I'm now just a couple steps short of what I need to smoothly include my Sony CX777ES DVD changers and physical DVD disc content into MBT. ie. If the .disc extension could be included with the external player file extensions, then the system would know that I wanted to launch my "external player" which is really just the executable that communicates with the DVD changer and video switcher. Of course, in a perfect world, the metadata editor would allow me to record location info for the offline content(such as changer# and slot#) and that could be passed to the external player as a variable in the command line arguments. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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