Before on the window's side there were a plethora of tools, to massage the movie data. ember media manager, yamm, long list. So eventually on my 2nd hd drive, i have a movies folder, and each movie has it's own folders. 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. Although I would love to be able to figure out how to download subtitles via bash. 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. Another of my projects is to help take all the stuff i've learned to help create a totally bash based movie data massager. 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. yeah media is the juice of today, and being able to play media on any device, on any network is what is cool. Although it is a major pain in the ass to get the data so perfect that it plays everywhere. 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. Wish you all a great morning! On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Thomas Lunde <tlunde at gmail.com> wrote: > Since there seems to be some interest in hearing how folks organize their > local media, here's my $0.02 > > For my part, I store movies as 1234567.iso (using the imdb number as the > filename) because: > (a) it makes the imdb lookup from a script later unambiguous and > (b) it is easy to have a parallel directory of hard or soft links that are > The Movie Title (year) > > 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. > > Google Images makes the search and the specification of a "large" image > easy. www.impawards.com is another good source. > > > > At one point, I hit the imdb.com site quickly with a script and my IP > address got banned for a while. > > So, now, I keep a local lookup table of imdb number:::The Movie Title > (year) > and only the site for an unknown movie. Checking this file first is also > significantly faster than a remote lookup. > > 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. > > Keeping the ISO online is best for quality, special features, etc. but few > devices will play it directly. > > If I were starting over, I'd use tmdb instead of imdb. > > Thanks for the pointer to the API site. > > Thomas > > > On May 21, 2012, at 3:46 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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 allmusic.com data using bash scripts (that had a lot of perl code > inside). > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120521/330f8949/attachment-0001.html>