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Showtime for me accesses TMDB just fine. Are you sure your ps3 is getting a connection?

Same thing here.
None of my movies have covers or info. My PS3 has internet connection so that isnt the issue. Is there something that has to be setup first other then enabling IMDB? ...maybe the videos have to be named a certain way?

Is there any way to manually add covers/info?

I put "[moviename].jpg" and "poster.jpg" in the folder but neither work

EDIT

Oh yah, by the way... IMDB does work in NaviX. I'm talking about getting the posters/info for my own movie collection to view on Showtime.

I can get TMDB working now but I am having a few problems. Some video files show covers etc but the majority just show the white video icon. Even though the file name is correct. I need to play around with it more to see why it's doing this.

Girish Patel wrote:

I can get TMDB working now but I am having a few problems. Some video files show covers etc but the majority just show the white video icon. Even though the file name is correct. I need to play around with it more to see why it's doing this.

The ones that are working, how did you save the image in the folder? moviename.jpg?
Maybe it has to do with the size of the image...

Instead I used the same size as the cover of multiMAN but nothing to do.

You don't need to create any covers yourself as tmdb will check the metadata of the video file and automatically grab the cover from an online source. Then Showtime stores them in its database so it doesn't have to call them twice.
My problem is that its only working for avi and mp4 files, mkv files don't work for some reason.

Ok, I replied Marcel for the cover size .

I too have the same problem.

Girish Patel wrote:

You don't need to create any covers yourself as tmdb will check the metadata of the video file and automatically grab the cover from an online source. Then Showtime stores them in its database so it doesn't have to call them twice.
My problem is that its only working for avi and mp4 files, mkv files don't work for some reason.

I guess thats why it doesnt work for me. All my files are mkv. Hope the issue gets fixed soon.

Marcel M wrote:

Girish Patel wrote:

You don't need to create any covers yourself as tmdb will check the metadata of the video file and automatically grab the cover from an online source. Then Showtime stores them in its database so it doesn't have to call them twice.
My problem is that its only working for avi and mp4 files, mkv files don't work for some reason.

I guess thats why it doesnt work for me. All my files are mkv. Hope the issue gets fixed soon.

I hope so.

I only have mkv files and almost all work.
I have a movie for each folder and the folder name is normally clean.

Try renaming the folder or file, eliminating names ripper or resolution.

Tiago windcrusher wrote:

I only have mkv files and almost all work.
I have a movie for each folder and the folder name is normally clean.

Try renaming the folder or file, eliminating names ripper or resolution.

Shoot you're right, I was renaming wrong. I forgot to add year since the file name had it.
This does work now. The image looks pretty bad tho. What is the best resolution for jpg?

MOVIES >
AVATAR (2009)>

Avatar (2009).mkv
Avatar (2009).jpg

Can info be added too, or not possible?

The code currently works like this:

Search key extraction¶

If an .nfo files exist with the same name as the movie filename Showtime will try to find an imdb URL in that file (Something that starts with "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt").

It will also try to parse the filename into a title. It does this by stripping out various known stuff such as .1080 and .720 and .x264, etc

It also tries to extract a year from the file which should be four digits.

Lookup strategy¶

These three parameters are then fed into the lookup code. Currently it tries to do an TMDB lookup based on the IMDB id first. If that fails it searches using the title and year. If multiple responses are returned the user can select between those in the item popup menu.

Also it won't do any lookup if duration < 5 minutes

If you look in the debug log (R3) you can see what the query to TMDB will be.

Looking in the debug code I dont see it mention IMDB lookup anywhere. I dont think its even attempting to look it up.
I even put the IMDB url for the movie I tested in the first line of the .nfo file.

Could it be because the movies are not on the PS3 HDD or USB Drive?

My movies are in Local Network > TwonkeyMedia Server > Video .. etc etc.

I do have a QnapNAS folder (on Local Network) where they could be played without the media server but Showtime can't access it.
"Unable to open resource" HTTP error: -1
Probably because it needs a username/password but I don't see anywhere to enter one in the settings.

I have my movies on a USB Drive, but nothing.
Now I'll try with the advice of Öman.

I have all my movies on a NAS drive. Showtime accesses the drive perfectly and plays all the files. TMDB works as I've said before avi and mp4 files.
I'll start experimenting with .nfo files to help the mkv files have artwork.

Andreas Öman wrote:

The code currently works like this:

Also it won't do any lookup if duration < 5 minutes

This could be why mkv files don't work. I've noticed that Showtime does not show a duration from any mkv file. So I'm guessing does that mean Showtime thinks the file is less than 5 minutes so won't lookup anything?

Instead, in my case Showtime show a duration for mkv files.
I also tried with .nfo files generated with ThumbGen, but nothing.

Giovanni Ambrosio wrote:

Instead, in my case Showtime show a duration for mkv files.
I also tried with .nfo files generated with ThumbGen, but nothing.

What version of Showtime are you using? As TMDB has only just been introduced.

Girish Patel wrote:

Giovanni Ambrosio wrote:

Instead, in my case Showtime show a duration for mkv files.
I also tried with .nfo files generated with ThumbGen, but nothing.

What version of Showtime are you using? As TMDB has only just been introduced.

I use the last version.