Fanart Help!

[Deano]

I'm having some difficulties and need some assistance / help.

I have Diamond and Phoenix Fanart plugins installed.

I have a handful of TV shows that the Fanart is either corrputed (the graphics are washed out red or they show only 1/2 the graphic) or there are items missing (like the poster)

I've tried to use BMT (that's installed also) to delete fanart and then update fanart. This seems to have only random success.

Is there some way to just delete ALL fanart and tell BMT to redownload all fanart? I'm OK if this takes a few hours.

Seems like I'm constantly struggling with this. The family has now grown impatient with me (as I'm always fiddling with this thing).

[stuckless]

I'll assume that you've read the bmt user guide, and that you missed this....

Refresh Fanart (4.9.5) - This will re-fetch fanart for items that already have fanart and metadata. This is used to update your fanart with newer or missing fanart, but bmt will use the metadata information from the video instead of scraping it. Even though BMT has to load new metadata in order to fetch updated fanart, the metadata is not saved or overwritten, just the fanart items are downloaded.

Typically this is used to simply add new fanart... in your case, you simply need to remove your fanart folder, and then use this option. (or just remove specific items from your fanart folder)

In addition, you'll probably want to remove cached items as well. The easiest way to do this is to remove the folders...
SAGE_HOME/cache/
SAGE_HOME/userdata/Phoenix/cache/

Removing the cached folders will ensure that the various plugins will no longer have scaled copies of the fanart, and they will need to regenerate their caches.

And lastly, the "pinkish" image issue is a known issue. There is a fix in the works, but the fix requires a new version of sagetv, so that we can leverage the image processing apis in sagetv that corroectly handles the color model, instead of using the java apis that do not correctly handle the color model.

[Deano]

Stuckless....thanks....I've missed that in the new manual.....

I'm going to give it a try.....thanks....will let you know what happens....

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Deano

Stuckless....thanks....I've missed that in the new manual.....

I'm going to give it a try.....thanks....will let you know what happens....

The problem with writing a manual/guide.. is that the more you put into it... the larger it gets, and the more likely that people will miss some parts

Good luck.

[Deano]

Stuckless,

Well, I've been able to fix most of the fanart. there are a couple of shows (TV shows) that will not seem to update. I can find them on tvdb no problem (the office is one of them). I notice when I search for all "the office" and click on the "update fanart" button, the lower left corner that shows the current search shows the word "null"

Seems like BMT does not recognize the show. I've noticed in the metadata for these shows the fanart name field is blank, but the show name is correct. Is there some way to correct this? Maybe I have another problem all together.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Deano

Stuckless,

Well, I've been able to fix most of the fanart. there are a couple of shows (TV shows) that will not seem to update. I can find them on tvdb no problem (the office is one of them). I notice when I search for all "the office" and click on the "update fanart" button, the lower left corner that shows the current search shows the word "null"

Seems like BMT does not recognize the show. I've noticed in the metadata for these shows the fanart name field is blank, but the show name is correct. Is there some way to correct this? Maybe I have another problem all together.

The office has always been a tricky one. If you search the bmt sub-forum you'll see some posts about that, along with some MediaTitles.xml entries that help fix it up. The problem is really the naming. The EPG calls it "The Office" but the tvdb entry is "The Office US" (and there are entries for "The Office UK", etc. Bmt doesn't know which one to use, so it fails.

Using the MediaTitles.xml you can force a match of "The Office" to it's tvdb id. You can look in the user guide as well, I think there is information in there on how to use the MediaTitles.xml.

[Deano]

Stuckless,

I created a files "MovieTitles.xml" and placed it in the directory per the guide. When I go to BMT and ask for say "The Office" to refresh, I still get 0 finds out of the 12 or so that are recorded.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I see that there is a *.sample of the xml file in the scraper folder. I used that as a template for intenting

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Deano

Stuckless,

I created a files "MovieTitles.xml" and placed it in the directory per the guide. When I go to BMT and ask for say "The Office" to refresh, I still get 0 finds out of the 12 or so that are recorded.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? I see that there is a *.sample of the xml file in the scraper folder. I used that as a template for intenting

Could you post your mediatitles entry? And did you reload the mediatitles after you added it? (from the web ui, Configure -> Refresh Configurations -> Refresh Media Titles or simply restart sagetv)

[Deano]

I didn't restart sage or do the refresh. I've just done that, so I'll give it a couple of hours to see what happens.

Here is the mediatitle file (I've changed the suffix from xml to txt for this upload)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Deano

I didn't restart sage or do the refresh. I've just done that, so I'll give it a couple of hours to see what happens.

Here is the mediatitle file (I've changed the suffix from xml to txt for this upload)

So, just to clarify...

        <match>
             <regex>[\\/]Adventure Time[\\/]</regex>
             <metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">152831</metadata>
        </match>

Would match all files in the "Adventure Time" directory and assign them to the to the tvdb id 152831.

[Deano]

I don't have an "Adventure Time" directory as all of the sage shows are written to a specific folder. If you mean the sagetv recording folder, then yes, I would hope that that would work.....

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Deano

I don't have an "Adventure Time" directory as all of the sage shows are written to a specific folder. If you mean the sagetv recording folder, then yes, I would hope that that would work.....

The "matchers" are pretty specific, and they match filenames/directories.

[\/] basically means match a directory seprator (both unix and windows). So [\/]Adventure Time would match a filepath that has "\Adventure Time" or "/Adventure Time". [\/]Adventure Time[\/] has a directory separator at both ends of the name Adventure Time, so this can only ever match on a Directory \Adventure Time\ or /Adventure Time/

This is covered in the manual as well, but maybe take a look at these http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54388

    <match>
        <regex>[\\/]Castle-.*</regex>
        <title>Castle</title>
        <year>2009</year>
        <metadata type="tv" name="tvdb">83462</metadata>
    </match>

This will match any filename that starts with "Castle-" (ie a recording)