Hello everyone. I just finished adding all my movies, almost six hundred movies to my eXtreme Movie Manager collection. I want to use the Media Browser plugin to browse my movies using Windows Media Center. I went ahead and downloaded the latest version of Media Browser and used the "Re-initialize Media Center" command to create the folder structure and all for Media Browser. My problem is that when I open Media Browser in Windows Media Center, some of the movies do not display their information. I noticed some movies show parenthesis and the Movie ID at the end of the movie name. Those that show the parenthesis and Movie ID at the end do not display the movie information when I select them. The ones that don't display the parenthesis and Movie ID display the information. I went into the Media Center directory "[database]_mediacenterdir" and I noticed that all the folder names included the Movie ID in parenthesis at the end of the movie name. I experimented and erased the parenthesis and Movie ID of one movies that was not displaying the information before and sure enough it began to display the information. The problem seems to be the Movie IDs added at the end of the folder name. I have just under six hundred movies so it is not practical to rename one by one. Is there any way to create the folder structure without the Movie ID or can I rename the folders to exclude the Movie ID at the end? For some reason Media Browser displays some movies correctly, but others not. If I just erase all the Movie IDs from the folder names, I'm sure that will solve my problem. Thanks for your help.
By the way I am latest version of each program: eXtreme Movie Manager 7.1.0.8 Media Browser 2.3.0
I am also running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (I don't think it's a 64 bit problem lol)
I found a program "Metamorphose" and used it to remove the parenthesis and movie ID from the end of the folder name. This resolved the issue for some of the movie, however, there are still a few which display "Runtime." Can I get some help with this matter please?
Alessio, I thought renaming the folders would resolve the issue and it did for most but their are still some that I am having problems with. Some of the movies show the description/actors but no backdrops and some show "Runtime" and no information or backdrops. Is this an issue with Media Browser? I can't imagine that it is because most of the movies are working. I have read the FAQ section of theirs and it says that the main reason why it does not display information correctly is because the folder names are incorrect. I have made sure that the folder names match those on themoviedb which is the provider MediaBrowser uses but still some do not display. Any suggestions?
I figured it out. It turns out that the XML file "mymovies.xml" XMM creates is causing a problem. I opened it up to see what could be causing a problem and it turns out there is an incomplete <Title> tag at the beginning. The end tag </Title> is all the way at the bottom of the file. I added the movie title and moved the end tag to the top and those I had trouble with began to work. So if you can fix that, it would be great.
Should be like this: <Title>Movie Title Here</Title> But for some reason the title is not put in and the end tag winds up at the bottom of everything in the file.
For anyone else having trouble with this, what you need to know is that MovieBrowser uses themoviedb.org to download images and metadata and you need to make sure that the title of the folder is the same as the title on of the movie on themoviedb.org and that the title on in the XML files is also the same.
Windows Media Center Issue
Posted - 02 Feb 2011 : 07:13:39
