Before on the window's side there were a plethora of tools, to massage the movie data. ember media manager, yamm, long list.<div><br></div><div>So eventually on my 2nd hd drive, i have a movies folder, and each movie has it's own folders.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now in linux i found this sweet app called "Subdownloader" that is reasonably easy to download subtitles for movies. I like subtitles because i am both hearing impaired, and plus some of the videos I watch are asian, so i like to read. </div>
<div>Although I would love to be able to figure out how to download subtitles via bash.</div><div><br></div><div>All movie associated files have the same file name as the folder name, except different file extensions of course. So there will be a folder called "A History of Violence (2005)" and the files will be "A History Of Violence (2005).avi, A History Of Violence (2005).nfo, A History Of Violence (2005).srt" etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Another of my projects is to help take all the stuff i've learned to help create a totally bash based movie data massager.</div><div><br></div><div>I love how all the different plugin's of xbmc can add, stuff to the movie folders, like fanart, posters, subtitles, actor photos, youtube trailers, etc. I want to be able to do the same thing for all my videos. just automate it to make the movie playing experience rich with data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>yeah media is the juice of today, and being able to play media on any device, on any network is what is cool.</div><div><br></div><div>Although it is a major pain in the ass to get the data so perfect that it plays everywhere.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And the reason I went web-based is that apps like xbmc can be really performance draining. I love them I love all the features, but there has to be a lighter-weight way to deliver video content to my pc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Wish you all a great morning!</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Thomas Lunde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tlunde@gmail.com" target="_blank">tlunde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Since there seems to be some interest in hearing how folks organize their local media, here's my $0.02<br>
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For my part, I store movies as 1234567.iso (using the imdb number as the filename) because:<br>
(a) it makes the imdb lookup from a script later unambiguous and<br>
(b) it is easy to have a parallel directory of hard or soft links that are The Movie Title (year)<br>
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Movie posters are great, but the ones at the imdb are pretty low quality. At the same time that I put the movie in the server, I find a good quality (at least 750x500 and mostly 1500x1000) poster or artwork and save it as 1234567.jpg. Again, using the imdb number as a filename / database key makes it unambiguous to match the right poster and movie title. Because some titles get reused, this can otherwise be a problem.<br>
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Google Images makes the search and the specification of a "large" image easy. <a href="http://www.impawards.com" target="_blank">www.impawards.com</a> is another good source.<br>
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At one point, I hit the <a href="http://imdb.com" target="_blank">imdb.com</a> site quickly with a script and my IP address got banned for a while.<br>
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So, now, I keep a local lookup table of imdb number:::The Movie Title (year)<br>
and only the site for an unknown movie. Checking this file first is also significantly faster than a remote lookup.<br>
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Having some local resources makes it straightforward to use MP4Box to add metadata like the cast info, poster, et al into a transcoded version of the file that can be thrown on an iPad, played by a Roku box, put on an Android phone, etc. HandBrake is, I think, the most straightforward solution to this.<br>
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Keeping the ISO online is best for quality, special features, etc. but few devices will play it directly.<br>
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If I were starting over, I'd use tmdb instead of imdb.<br>
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Thanks for the pointer to the API site.<br>
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Thomas<br>
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On May 21, 2012, at 3:46 AM, Mike Miller <<a href="mailto:mbmiller%2Bl@gmail.com">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I wrote a little script that reads in a DVD ISO filename, which for me is a movie title with a year, and it creates an IMDb query string, launches firefox and shows the result. It does pretty well at that, but I have to make sure it grabs the right page.<br>
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> To do what I think you are doing, I guess I would just need to supply a list of IMDb accession codes in a hash table with the filenames. But then there is the tricky part of parsing the IMDb pages. I did a lot of that with <a href="http://allmusic.com" target="_blank">allmusic.com</a> data using bash scripts (that had a lot of perl code inside).<br>
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