Help with movies

[xDinichx]

Hello I'm planning on transferring my movies from PC to external HDD (more space)
I want to know how to get MCE to automaticlly catch synopsis from internet, dvd covers, actors and stuff withouth me to click on something. So I want to when i put another movie to my HDD that my PC will automaticlly download cover and info

Sorry for the confusion... I did that thing with file2folder and yamm but i want something that's more simple.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi,

You may find my thread, http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/10757-yammm-yet-another-media-meta-manager.html quite helpful as it's fully automated

Hope it helps


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[xDinichx]

I'll try as soon as I transfer all of my files... What do you think about Mediabrowser?

 

[DemonSeed]

MediaBrowser is the best way to go IMOP. I've been using in for years now and know ALL the in's and out's of the program, so if you need any help setting it all up, just hit me up and I'll come a running

 

[xDinichx]

Well I could use some help setting it up since I don't have any experience with it... I'm transferring movies and shows now to my external hdd

 

[xDinichx]

Ok It's transfered... if anyone has time to help me install and set up media browser

 

[DemonSeed]

Well, it's pretty self exploratory so I dont really want to write a book or anything. But if you run into a wall and need some direct help, I'll do my best to help you out.

If you do run into something just leave me as much info about what it is your doing and what your wanting to do. Then I can give you some direct answers.
Screen shots never hurt ether when helping trouble shoot things.

 

[xDinichx]

Yea actually I do have a problem... and it's the installation... it gives me some error code 2903 and when i click OK it goes on after a second it comes up with another problem and then the installation finishes... but i don't get config file or anything...

 

[DemonSeed]

hummm, Not sure what that could be.
Do you have UAC enabled? If so try running as Admin and se if that helps.

If not, I would suggest going to the MB Community Tracker and post your issues there. We have a tun of guys that know there way through things like this.

 

[xDinichx]

Yeah... I- posted log there but no one answers

 

[DemonSeed]

Yeah... I- posted log there but no one answers

Actuality they did, and requested you post the true log file, instead of trying to put it all in the post in code block like you did.

If you could upload the log file somewhere and give a link to it, they should be able to point out what went wrong.

 

[SledgeDG]

OMG There am I searching all over the net for a decent media browser and here I find it..
I tried the Movie database from Collectorz.com...useless for my collection (mostly TV shows) then I tried XBMC which isn't all that bad but still not exactly what I was looking for.
when I read your post I downloaded/installed it and there it was.
I have some minor issues with pics/Thumbs not all loading/showing but the better part of my collection is taken care of now
Thank you

-DG

 

[DemonSeed]

I have some minor issues with pics/Thumbs not all loading/showing but the better part of my collection is taken care of now
Thank you

-DG

If you would like to store your metadata localy, MB will use that info instead of waiting on content to be downloaded from the net.

There are a few tools out there available to use. Yammm (Yet Another Movie Metadata Manager), MCM (media Center Master), or Meta<Browser/>. Meta has two versions available, one free the other not.

Using a tool like one of these will vastly improve the quality of the images you see in MB and give you TOTAL control over what you do and dont want to see.

 

[SledgeDG]

That I will try. Thanks for the tip, DemonSeed.
-DG

 

[xDinichx]

Hey... it doesn't matter. I succeeded to get my movie info and pics so i don't need media browser. I'm not quite in a mood figuring out what went wrong on installation...

 

[boohbah]

Thats a shame as i am a mediabrowser convert (about 6 months now) and it is simply the best thing i have ever used for my movies ,
I have so many films i forget what some are about and just one click on the movie and i have the info i need sat there with a beautiful backdrop from the movie and pg rating file type and more ,you can browse for movies by genre and if you get adventurous you can have the movies actors details too ,
this helps ie you click on a pic of bruce willis it takes you to another page showing all the movies you have with brucie in them . it takes time and patience to set up your movie files and get the metadata (i use MCM) but when you have sorted it out then your not going to look back and now its easy to add another film and keep on top of the organising as the tricky part is the setting up at the begining.

 

[SledgeDG]

I can only agree with boohbah.The initial setup is a bit confusing, but certainly no rocket science.
About 90% of mt collection was found and processed correctly..The rest needed a little tweaking (mostly renaming of tv show folders/episode clips) If there really is a movie or a TV show MCM can't find, even after changing the scraper, you could always collect the meta data by hand, now that you can see what's needed and how it is structured. (a few times I wasn't happy with the pics so I exchanged them for the ones I found in google images)
No more clicking through endless folders....and it even tells me which episodes I haven't watched yet
My collection has never been so well organized! Thanks for all yhe good tips here!

-DG