Ember Media Manager with Boxee Support released

[mbryanr]

Haven't had a chance to try out the new version 1.3.0.7, but includes a boxee module
http://ember.purplepig.net/projects/embermm

[darcilicious]

Thanks for the heads-up! I'll try to play with this newer version later this week (I've gotten behind in NFO'ing my recorded movies...)

[jfearon]

I contributed the change for boxee compatability. The module is very basic at the moment, it's for TV shows only - and all it does is save the id into a different field in the xml.

looking at doing the same for movies, and maybe fixing the runtime next, but I don't get a huge amount of time to play with things, so may take a while (the movie writing out is not as simple as the tv stuff, plus I have mainly tv!). Having said that I am happy to consider requests for extra changes....

[mbryanr]

Thanks jfearon! You got the obvious one...runtime. The other one would be the formatting of the "genres" listing, so it will allow multiple genres within the Boxee interface.
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.ph...ultiple+genres

[darcilicious]

This is from the Boxee support page for NFO files:

<genre></genre> - Can contain only the supported descriptors, designed to identify the movie genre. See list below for supported descriptors.

The genres tag can include only the supported descriptors, they should be separated be space and comma. “,”.

Genre List: ACTION, ADVENTURE, ANIMATION, COMEDY, CRIME, DOCUMENTARY, DRAMA, FAMILY, FANTASY, FILM_NOIR, HISTORY, MUSIC, MUSICAL, MYSTERY, NEWS, ROMANCE, SCI_FI, SHORT, SPORT, THRILLER, WAR, WESTERN

[Catherine22]

Really thanks for your sharing. I also want to check it out.

[cigamit]

Having said that I am happy to consider requests for extra changes....

Maybe change it to so that it doesn't write "Rating" into the mpaa movie rating.
<mpaa>Rating PG-13</mpaa>
would instead be
<mpaa>PG-13</mpaa>

I wrote my own autoit script that modifies all my NFO files in bulk to do this, since my boxee shows them as Rating: Rating PG-13

[jfearon]

I submitted a patch today to allow the runtime field to be specified the same way for tv shows as it is for movies. The default behaviour when switched on is to put the runtime as minutes:

<title>The One With Phoebe's Cookies</title>
<runtime>20</runtime>
<aired>2000-10-19</aired>

But you can enter the same format as the movie text if you want. Hopefully it wont take too long to get properly released.

Next is to hide the id for movie nfo's, but the movie code is proving to be much harder to modify.

[bowlingblogger]

I'm sorry to post to an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone could provide or point me to instructions for installing jfearon's patch. I'm running EMM 1.3.0.7 (latest as of this writing) on Windows 7 64-bit and figured out how to download the patch into a text file (by adding "patch" to the URL), but I'm clueless on how to proceed. I looked all over github to try to figure it out, but I'm not a Linux guy so it's mostly Greek to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

[rridgway]

For me this vesion of EMM is not working correctly - had to revert to my previous version 1.2.x
Is anyone else having issues getting latest EMM to work correctly?
(Not picking up newly added movies, incorrectly id movies)

Also seems to be horribly unstable - crashes if you just look at skew