Personal Video Database

It already does this without any changes, so in your example c:moviesmovienamemovie_5.1_en.nfo would be created. You can lso specify smth like nearfiles="..foldername%t%-%o(%y%)%.nfo" in the latest version of the plugin.

hi Nostra
i was not thinking about a fixed naming standard but using the actual file name and path of the movie from where it is saved on the hard drive. (using info scanned from hard drive)

what i am thinking is having an option for using data from file import.
Where it imports movie details (.avi, iso etc) from harddrive.
This writes a entry to (labeled) file path: eg c:\movie\mymovie.avi
This contains path where file was imported from and filename.
What i am thinking is then being able to use this info to export files into the directory where the files are physically stored.
(All this happens now)

something like nearfiles="%p%%f%.nfo"
where  %p% = path to where files are stored and %f% = file name

so if i have 3 movies stored in:
c:\movies\movie1\good_movie1.avi
c:\movies\movie2\chic_flic.iso
c:\movies\movie3\action01.avi

PVD does a scan folders on hard drive.
Populates "file path:" entries info with the 3 entries above.

i can then export into the directory where the files are stored.

so when i export.
good_movie1.nfo and poster.jpg gets saved to  c:\movies\movie1\ folder
chic_flic.nfo and poster.jpg gets saved to  c:\movies\movie2\ folder
action01.no and poster.jpg gets saved to  c:\movies\movie2\ folder

just need options in nearfiles to reference file path: (path and filename)

  Hope my ramblings make sense

Hi Deazo.
I'll try to explain how it works and then you can modify to suit.
Also - it will only extract info that exists in PVD so make sure fields are populated.
Also download notepad++ - It makes working with text files much much easier.

Anything that does NOT have something that looks like {%value=something} will not be populated
eg
<trailer></trailer> will not have data entered into it.

Main template file is XBMC2.ptm
%OPTIONS%
replace="http://www.imdb.com/title/<->"  <=== Leaves only imdb No (as per xbmc format)
filter="XML Files|*.nfo" <==== Did this to force recognition of .nfo
imagenameformat="%t%%ext%" <==== Exports posters as titlename.jpg
nearfiles="d:_test%t%.nfo"   <==== Exports individual .nfo files. I found I needed to have a file pathe here: eg c:xbmc
NB: You Need to change this path to suit where you want to save your files to.

%OPTIONS%

In the main body, i tried to match best I could, but couldn't find all the fields. eg both plot (detailed  and plot summary don't seem to exist in PVD. So I reused some fields.

%HEAD%
<movie>
<title>{%value=title}</title>  <==== Imports title
    <rating>{%value=rating}</rating> <==== Imports IMDB rating
...
...
<outline>{%value=tagline}</outline>  <==== Outline uses PVD tagline
<plot>{%value=description}</plot> <==== Plot uses PVD description
{%value=tags template="tags.tpl" maxvalues="3"} <==== This calls the file tags.tpl and  limits the No of tags to 3
...
<thumb>{%value=poster}</thumb> <==== Path to poster. Found poster image had to be in same directory for xbmc to find it.
...
<id>{%value=url}</id> <==== This is the url in PVD. Needs some work to limit it to only imdb No.
<genre>{%value=genre}</genre>
<director>{%value=directors}</director>
...
{%value=actors template="actors.tpl" maxvalues="3" params="full"} <==== calls file actors.tpl and limits the No presented to 3
{%value=Credits template="credits.tpl"}  <==== This doesn't work.
</movie>

I tried best as I could to match what is exported from xbmc.
If you have other fields that need to be populated or what I am populating could be changed, let me know and I'll try to fix it up.

From what I have gathered, it seems that XBMC is quite rigid and has its own restricted fields. I also think their search options are not that great. That's why I would still love to use PVD as the brain and XBMC as the face...

xbmc is highly customisable, has web front ends is open source and has huge support base.
so big that its really hard to find info on what you want (theres so much). it has web interface and db support (don't know about for firebird though). i though about web interface to pvd (firebird) server running in backend, (should be possible) but for the limited amount of stuff i stream it is probably not worth it. I may get around to it if i ever have time (or ask script kiddies in xbmc forums to have a go)     i mostly use pvd as movie catalogue/ filing system so i know where everything is. xbmc is pretty much used just to watch stuff. (this doesn't include music. i use xbmc library extensively to filter music)

hi - sorry been away.
template is mostly finished i think. havn't worked on it for while so not sure where i am up to.
i was waiting for Nostra to do some fixes. (nearfile) so I can save images to same directory.
Need to pull apart what nostra has done now and try and figure out how it works  .

Also need to figure out how to make credits work
see http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1481.0 if someone can help with this bit (may be fixed in new version??)

For peoples interest in how xbmc works and what im trying to do....
xbmc will scrape imdb, tv.com etc based on folder name (and/or file name??) (but definitely folder name)
If there is a .nfo file in the directory it will scrape that first.
if the .nfo has info required it will use that info.
it will also search .nfo for an imdb url and d/l missing info from that url.
So you can have a .nfo file full of crap with an imdb url and the scraper will find the url and d/l info based on that.
All this data is saved in a local sql database.

The problem (i have) with xbmc is that the scrapes are reeeaaally sloooow, the folder names need to be precise, saving/backing up database info is a bit of a pain. Not really an issue with pc based xbmc as you can use keyboard for data entry, but i'm using xbox to run xbmc

(Not really a big deal - but a matter of principle )...I don't want to have to maintain d/l the same data twice for different apps.

So what i am trying to achieve is:
Add movie into pvd, dl any required info from online sources. I can then export movie as a .nfo+image. These files can live in the movie directory. When xbmc does its library update. It will read the .nfo file first as a default and update its internal library with this info. (No need to do second d/l stuff from i/net).
The alternative is to have xbmc do the scrape from imdb and then import this info into pvd ( havn't even started on how to make this happen)

if you want to see fields xbmc is storing, do a individual export (export per movie). This will create a .nfo+images into the directory that movie is stored in. (.nfo file is xml). You can pull this apart to see what is required.

Anyway. attached what i have done so far.
Also included is an example of what xbmc will export. (I imported from xbmc and then exported to folder)

Things that i know are broken (in this version )

nearfiles needs too be fixed/checked to save images into same directory that .nfo file is generated.
associated xml entry inside .nfo file needs to be written correctly
I don't know how to make credits work (yet )


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Thanks Nostra - You're awesome 

This works a treat when you know what variables go where 
for benefit of others I have:
<movie>
{%value=tags template="tags.tpl" maxvalues="3"}
...
...In main export plugin.
and%HEAD%<tag>%HEAD%{%value},%FOOT%</tag>%FOOT%in the called .tpl file.

output looks like:
<movie>
<tag>Rancher,Marshal,New Mexico,</tag>

Yay - this works.

Note. For others who have struggled (like me) the options in tpl does not require the "s"

so my .ptm file contains:
<movie>
{%value=actors template="actors.tpl" maxvalues="3" params="full"}
....
....and the actors.tpl file contains:
%HEAD%<actor>%HEAD%
<name>{%param=name}</name>
<role>{%param=role}</role>
%FOOT%</actor>%FOOT%NB: the NO "S" in %param

im having trouble creating a template. Hoping soemone can help

i have changed latest xml export plugin to call a template file as per http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1017.0
if i call the param option, pvd crashes.

XML.ptm contains:
HEAD%
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
%HEAD%
<movie>
{%value=52 template="tpl\actors.tpl param="full"}
<title>{%value=title}</title>
<snip>
in tpl\actors.tpl contains:
%HEAD%<actor>%HEAD%
<name>{%param=name}</name>
<role>{%param=role}</role>
%FOOT%</actor>%FOOT%

if i remove param="full" setting then xml output looks like:
<movie>
<actor>
<name>{%param=name}</name>
<role>{%param=role}</role>
</actor>

any ideas anyone


 

thanks dude - imagenameformat="[format]" like a treat.
mycode
%options%
imagenameformat="%t%%ext%"
%options%
<text...>
<text...>
<thumb>{%value=poster}</thumb>
etc
this saves poster with filename of title.jpg but oinly if i have imagepath=" <something>"
i can save this into a subdirectory i guess, but then i have to manully move them = pain.

i have a cpl of things i can't workout.
i can't figure out how to save poster to the same place as exported xml
i have to have imagepath="<some text> or it won't save the poster.
if  I remove imagepath statement it doesn't save.

Also i don't understand what nearfiles=".[extension]" is for or how it works.
if i add this with an extension lile "nearfiles=".jpg" it doesn't prompt me to save the entry, but if I look in my save directory, i have a file called ".jpg" that contains xml data i am trying to export.