Some Ideas for new releases.

Hi Petr

Here are a couple of Ideas you may or may not want to include in future releases of Serviio

1. Metadata Lookup errors.
Can you modify the Normal Logging log file so that Meta Data lookup errors are shown?

  Code:

2011-03-12 08:43:28,282 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Aeon Flux' (X:\web\Film\Films\Aeon Flux.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:03,593 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'After Life' (X:\web\Film\Films\After Life.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:10,437 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'After the Sunset' (X:\web\Film\Films\After the Sunset.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:18,405 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Air America' (X:\web\Film\Films\Air America.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:26,827 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Airplane!' (X:\web\Film\Films\AirPlane.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:34,561 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Al Murry Pub Landlord' (X:\web\Film\Films\Al Murry Pub Landlord.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:42,514 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Aladdin' (X:\web\Film\Films\Aladdin.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:52,154 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Alexander' (X:\web\Film\Films\Alexander.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:44:59,763 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Alice in Wonderland' (X:\web\Film\Films\Alice in Wonderland.avi) in Library
2011-03-12 08:45:05,482 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'Alien 3' (X:\web\Film\Films\Alien 3.avi) in Library


As you can see from this log "Al Murry Pub Landlord.avi" is picked up by Serviio but the Metadata lookup fails on this file and no metadata is retrieved so it won’t appear under Movies and won’t have any genres information. Would it be possible to change “INFO” to maybe “WARN” if the metadata lookup fails to make it easier to identify which ones need to be looked at.

I have noticed you sometime get this in the log as a “WARN” but this appears to be when it has trouble downloading it rather than not being available

  Code:

2011-03-12 11:41:43,546 WARN  [LibraryManager] Cannot read metadata of file X:\web\Film\Films\Futurama\S01E00-Into the Wild Green Yonder.avi via extractor ONLINE_VIDEO_SOURCES. Message: Cannot retrieve episode details (series = 73871, season = 1, episode = 0), file not found
2011-03-12 11:41:43,655 INFO  [LibraryUpdatesCheckerThread] Updated 'S01E00-Into the Wild Green Yonder' (X:\web\Film\Films\Futurama\S01E00-Into the Wild Green Yonder.avi) in Library


2. Series order (Aired vs DVD)
A lot of Series which are release on DVD have a different play order to when they are aired on TV. Serviio currently uses only the Aired series order when doing series lookups although the DVD lookup is also available on “theTVBD”. Could you modify the series lookup to look for maybe "DVD" in the parent folder or file name to indicate to use the DVD order.

IE
c:\Series\FireFly-DVD\S01E01-Serenity.avi (DVD Order)
c:\Series\FireFly\S01E01-The Train Job.avi (Default Aired Order)

As a number of series run for 5 or more season and can have 26 or more episodes that is a lot of possible incorrect lookups which need to be manually adjusted. (Stargate SG1 is 10 Seasons with 26 Episodes in each… Then had specials as well)


3. Home Moves, .NFO Files, Online Lookup.
There are a lot of comments on the Forum around Metadata lookup. I think this is because Serviio is so close to having this nailed but just needs a little tweak. In the console you have the choice of "Online Metadata Sources" , "SwissCenter" or "XBMC .nfo" but you can only select one. Would it be possible to enable these so you could select them as an order.. IE I could select XBMC .nfo First, Online Lookup Second, SwissCenter Third. This would let me create .NFO files locally for the files the Online Lookup gets wrong or home movies but still use the online lookups for the 98% of films that Serviio gets right. Serviio gets most films right but the ability to specify the lookup order and use a local NFO first would make the lookup even better.

4. User Manual?
Is there a user manual?. The getting started and FAQ on the web site are very good but don’t cover everything you can do with Serviio. I had a look on the site and queried the forum but couldn't find a link to one.

[Cerberus]

1. This is done by an external library i dont think ZIP will be able to edit this.

2. Add a bitbucket ticket for it and maybe it can be added in later release

3. https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... e-than-one

4. No there is NO manual for serviio but to be very honest one is not raelly needed and what would you rather ZIP spent time writting a manual or spent his time making serviio better ???

[zip]

1. can be done, create a bitbucket ticket
4. if someone wants to take a stab at it then great

[Cerberus]

i was gunna do a whole wiki for it but not till we have more bugs fixed. or maybe sugest having a section of the forum that was locked and just contained information and howto's.

[zip]

sounds good

Hi Guys,

Thanks.. Ticket numbers are

1. #294 (Lookup Metadata Failures in normal log)
2. #295 (Series Order (Aired vs DVD))

I think I may have found another small tweak last night. I spent a couple of hour going through the full Metadata list checking that the file name matches the Metadata name pulled back. What I found was that because of the return order from TheMoveDB, Sequels are returned at the top of the list.

IE.

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
No Retreat, No Surrender 2
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

This means that file name "No Retreat No Surrender.avi" actually returns "No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers". I have fixed the problem by putting the year into my file name but long term any film which gets a sequel will need to be edited again when the sequel is added to the database... "I Robot" returns "I Robot 2", "Blues Brothers" returns "Blues Brothers 2000", etc

I was thinking If you parse the return results from TheMoveDB from the bottom up this problem should go away.

[zip]

I was thinking If you parse the return results from TheMoveDB from the bottom up this problem should go away.

Good find, but I think rather than tweeking Serviio, this looks like a 'bug' of themoviedb.org. You could post on their forum to see if they can fix this.

Hi Petr,

I think I may have found another small tweak last night. I spent a couple of hour going through the full Metadata list checking that the file name matches the Metadata name pulled back. What I found was that because of the return order from TheMoveDB, Sequels are returned at the top of the list.

IE.

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
No Retreat, No Surrender 2
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)

This means that file name "No Retreat No Surrender.avi" actually returns "No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers". I have fixed the problem by putting the year into my file name but long term any film which gets a sequel will need to be edited again when the sequel is added to the database... "I Robot" returns "I Robot 2", "Blues Brothers" returns "Blues Brothers 2000", etc

I was thinking If you parse the return results from TheMoveDB from the bottom up this problem should go away.

Good find, but I think rather than tweeking Serviio, this looks like a 'bug' of themoviedb.org. You could post on their forum to see if they can fix this.

I was having a hunt on TMDB.Org forum and came across this posting (http://forums.themoviedb.org/topic/1657 ... order-asc/)

http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.browse/en-US/xml/APIKEY?order_by=release&order=asc

Looks like you can specify the result order through the API.

Hope this helps

Mike.

[zip]

very good, thanks