Imports?

Channels DVR Server
#273

I put up some that it is either not correctly identifying, or not identifying at all. I would like to see a checkbox to turn off auto detection and just let the filenames show thru. I'd also like a checkbox to ignore finding movies and just let us traverse the tree structure that we put together ourselves.

"Wattle and Daub presents Tarrare The Freak (2017).mp4" doesn't even show up, while "Tarrare The Freak (2017).mp4" shows up as " Ramblin' Freak (2017)".

"Eugenius! The Musical (2017).mp4" shows up as "EMO the Musical (2016)".

"How to Occupy an Oil Rig - Daniel Bye (2013).mp4" doesn't even show up, while "Cookies - The Film (2017).mp4" shows up only as a link that says "Cookies - The Film (2017)".

#274

Can Behind The Scenes be added as a folder to ignore?

2020/05/05 20:54:15.153463 [SCN] Imported movie Sneakers (1992)/behind the scenes/The Making of Sneakers.mkv

#275

It’s gonna be tough to blacklist folder names like that as theres no real standard for these names. People could have different names for these.

#276

I'm seeing that the folder featurettes is hidden. Would it be possible to use a standardized list like Emby/Plex suggested?

Movie extras

Special features for movies can be stored as video files in an extras folder under movie folders. Nested folders are not supported.

In addition to extras, several other sub-folder names are supported:

    extras
    specials
    shorts
    scenes
    featurettes
    behind the scenes
    deleted scenes
    interviews
    trailers
#277

With a list existing already and others probably following this, this seems legit. We'll look at adding the list.

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#278

Providing some feedback after playing with this beta feature. I did provide my setup and requested information in the other thread: RESEARCH: Media Library Organization

Longtime Channels DVR user. Bravo on the attempt to bring in other media, but doubt this feature / capability set will ever replace my other media software without significant development time put in. If this capability were to ever make it into Channels as a primary feature it is competing with software that has been in active development for 16 years (XBMC / Kodi) and 12 years (Plex) respectfully. To this day they are still trying to get it right.

A few missing features that would be essential for me to consider switching to using Channels for my primary Movie viewing...

  1. Use the NFO and image files in file structure if present, else go ahead and scrape away.
  2. Honor sort title meta data in NFO.
  3. Option to ignore articles (A, An, The,...) that are in movie titles while sorting. "A few good men" should sort as "Few Good Men".
  4. Support for movie sets and group movies by set.
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#279

I'd like this even without the movie imports. Channels currently sorts all entries based upon their reported title, including articles. It's annoying, against common sense, and easily fixed by using a separate sort title field, or using a regex for sorting that uses something like s/^[The|An?]\s//, perhaps.

#280

Gah, this was on my list to finally do in 4.0.

I’ll get to it soon. This is lazy, sorry.

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#281

We are testing a possible fix for this in the latest TestFlight build for Apple TV.

#282

I think @tmm1 meant to reply to you

#283

Tried it out on my ATV 4K and can confirm the bug appears fixed. And I am able to seek thru 35GB+ rips like butter. So quick and smooth. Great job!

I’m not sure how much of a factor the ATV model plays and I’ll be trying out my normal ATV soon.

I haven’t played with imports since I posted that, but I’m noting the matching appears much improved as well. Are you still looking for reports on matching, missing content, false positives, bugs and suggestions related to that?

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#284

Works great with regular (non 4K) ATV as well!

Gonna play with this some more.

First things I’m noticing—

  • When importing all of my new content, it treats the items as “recently added” based on when the scanner got to the files, whatever order that was in. It would be nice for initial import if it would order the files based on the file’s datetime so newer files would show up as more recent.
  • Seeing several things with bad matches (will make a list and look at sources later) where it seems the scanner should have had bad confidence it it’s choice. It would be nice if “low confidence” matches were flagged and not shown in the library until dealt with OR show them but use the file name and don’t associate artwork etc with the low confidence match. Because of this issue it makes finding bad matches very difficult.
  • It would be nice if I could somehow sync my watched/unwatched state with PLEX or maybe export the data from PLEX and import into channels.
  • There are a ton of genres. I think this is due to the data sources. I would really love to have a more narrow list of genres AND I would like the movie’s primary genre to be considered the genre. Without this it is not great browsing by genres because there are so many and switching between them shows lots of the same movies.
#285

Having an issue fixing an incorrect match because the movie I’m looking for as the correct match is never in the list no matter how I search. I think I’ve seen this for a couple of others as well.

Thanks!

Folder structure: Movies/9 (2009)/9 (2009)[480p].mkv

This is the correct movie:

Here is a screenshot of the attempt:

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A few others giving me issues:

2 Guns (2013) with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg
Alien 3 (1992)... 3 is a superscript in movie title

#286

Our data provider is having issues with titles that have numbers in them. As dumb as that sounds, it's true. We're not happy about it. But I want to make sure you all understand the explanation for that.

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#287

Tried this out about a month ago when I first migrated over to my RaspberryPi DVR. Copied over some TV episodes that I wanted to keep - it found metadata for most of them and I was able to find the correct metadata for one remaining show via the web interface. Thought it was cool then. Yesterday I moved over a DVD/movie rip. Worked perfectly. Love that I can use the Channels app for my other-than-TV video content and don't need to jump out to something else.

#288

I just found this feature yesterday as I was setting up my new raspberry pi and I was going to ask about plex integration, but that is not needed due to this features. Super sweet thanks. It did not do the best at finding the right meta data but the web interface was good enough to fix most of it. Oddly enough I cannot find Frozen II in your database. Am I missing something? And if it just is not there is there a method to manually add the right data?

#289

For Frozen II, enter this into the search box: MV010390160000

Experimental: TV/Movie deep-links via imported .strmlnk files
#291

How about X-Men? I can’t find it no matter what I search. Is there a database we can search for the ID numbers if we can’t find a match?

I also had Frozen II that wasn’t picked up and I couldn’t search for it. The post above solved that - Thank you!

#292

I ran a google search on the Frozen II ID : MV010390160000

Not many results, but:

Search for movie, then hover over the "watch now" (note I do not have an account, so I can't actually "watch").

In the link, you should see the MV # , and looking at X-Men, I see:

MV000861010000

#293

You can also use zap2it.com to find the IDs but it’s not 100% foolproof either.