dtaylor 0 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Hi Total noob to mediabrowser and just finding my way around so bare with me. All my movies have .nfo files already and I have used xbmc for some time. I installed the xbmc metadata plugin so that any updates to metadata will be in the xbmc required format. A few movies appear in mediabrower to be short of some data so I tried a refresh. Nothing happens after the spinning icon stops. No metadata is downloaded?? I note in the settings that only two scrapers appear "Open movie DB and ThemovieDB " isn't there a scraper to get info from IMDB?? Anyway I switched the metadata scraper to use The MovieDB as first option but still nothing. How do I get this to work please? None of the movies are read only and I even closed down my firewall in case MB was being stopped accessing the web.
Luke 42078 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 we're probably going to need to see some specific examples, screenshots, log files, etc.
Swynol 375 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 have you got a specific name of a file, and how are they organised?
ebr 16174 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 isn't there a scraper to get info from IMDB?? No, unfortunately, because they charge an arm and a leg for legal access to their data. Unfortunate, but well within their rights. They tell me they may have an option for us later this year so we'll see. 1
dtaylor 0 Posted March 11, 2014 Author Posted March 11, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the responses. I fixed some of the problems, realizing that movies with the title not quite right were not being identified ,obvious I suppose, but I'm learning!. Also on a few movies that have been scraped previously by other software and have an .xml file I've had to go into the movie folder and delete that .xml before it will scrape properly. So far two movies have failed despite fixing these issues.Screenshot attached of one. It will not scrape but I can't figure out why. I also cannot add an exteranl ID for these If there are logs I can supply I will when I l know where and how. Also why can't MB read local metadata already scarped as.nfo. For someone like me using xbmc this is vital and would have stopped the prolonged pain of having to rescrape all these movies. Edited March 11, 2014 by dtaylor
ebr 16174 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 We do read .nfo files. When you setup the server, did you leave the metadata format selection on "Compatible"? Does the District 9 folder contain any xml or nfo files? As for logs and such. At the top of this forum: How to report a problem
ebr 16174 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Oh, shoot. That's right, we just write them. Sorry for the mis-information.
dtaylor 0 Posted March 11, 2014 Author Posted March 11, 2014 Here is a sample from the most recent log whilst attempting to download data for Fast & Furious for which I also input the imbd code.See attached. This appears to be a recurring problem log.txt
ebr 16174 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 That ampersand is gonna be a problem in an xml file and it appears it is causing it to fail. Perhaps we are not escaping it properly when we save it.
Luke 42078 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Actually we don't yet read nfo files. on the do to list.
ebr 16174 Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Once the xml has been generated, it won't be re-created unless you delete it, I think. The log you posted definitely had invalid xml and I surmised it was the ampersand since that is a special character in xml.
dtaylor 0 Posted March 12, 2014 Author Posted March 12, 2014 ampersand or "and" it still doesn't work
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