Movie Info Plus / News: Recent posts

Add's a ton of new features and embeds image magick into MIP for additional resize and compression options for movie posters and fanart, as well as fanart for shows and tunes!

Supports xbmc skin based tagging options!
Tons of new features and fixes.

see xbmc forums for more details

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47071

Manage your movies, tv shows, and music with Media Info Plus. The 2nd Generation of Movie Info Plus.

See the release notes for details!

Rev 2319 uploaded

Key items
TV Show stacking - Tested and works with the latest svn build of XBMC.

More icon choices for TV Shows, like Movies it now pulls mediaicons.org data.
-Notes: 3d box shots are the most common for icon types, some shows have hundreds of them, i've added 90 something to the gui (96 i think), and allow up to 100 to be downloaded in the settings, the default is 8 icons, you will want to increase this for tv shows to something higher, the downfall is that it does take time to load all those icons.
-Look at the bottom of the application window to see what icon its saving it as, it's in the big old font where movies show the folder data
-There some more work to do yet in that area, but it's getting better
-Ignore the long vertical line in wide icon view, it's going to be used to scale those boxes for the number of icons selected, but currently is fixed and visable, it's not your eyeballs playing tricks on you.... read more

Adds in limited icon, poster, and fanart selection for TV Shows

Dec 12, 2008
Beta 2 - Build 2295 has been posted, this is a full install and will remove your config.xml file
If you already have a version of beta 2 installed, and don't want it to extract the cached xml's, create a blank text file in c:\program files\movieinfoplus called noextrez.txt - "c:\program files\movieinfoplus\noextrez.txt"
What's new/changed/not working
Not yet working - TV Show icon selection is not yet working
New/Changed
- IMDB Scanning has been updated and improved, it should find all the shows now
- Change to loaded .nfo information
- It will look for <moviename>.nfo as a full valid .nfo file, then any .nfo file in the folder
-- It looks first in the file for <id>tt000000</id>, then for just for any tt000000 in the file
- TV Show changes, TV Shows now work like movies, you select the root folder and not the individual show file
-- Example - for the following you would only add d:\media\TVShows
--- d:\media\TVShows\House
--- d:\media\TVShows\Heroes
- Multiple fixes to initial scan and locating movies in imdb has been completed, this should work much better
- Labels for size and resolution has been added to the TMDB posters
- Includes Image resize for GUI display of folder.jpg and .tbn file
- Includes features from the test builds
- Fixed a bug with 0k fanart crashing the gui, if it fails to load a valid image, it will automatically remove that 0k file

Fixed multiple issues with TVShows and the new configuration wizard. See release notes for specific details and instructions.

A test build of beta 2 has been uploaded.
Please rename your old movieinfoplus folder prior to install and test out the movie functionality and report back any issues.

Tv Shows are partially implemented, it will create the content, and give a very basic amount of details on the tv show. Folder.jpg, the tbn file, and the fanart will load, seasons it finds and the episodes will show the name, other data has not yet been pulled back into the gui.... read more

I posted the 2237 patch for build 2211.

Install 2211, then the patch.

Revision 2211 has been posted.

Multiple Fanart bug fixes as reported in tracker
Image check for posters and fanart to ensure they are valid files and to automatically remove invalid (less then 5k in size) files.

Labels for IMPawards posters for resolution and file size
Labels for Fanart for resolution and file size

Fixed a loop error that occurred when the 2nd image (or higher) of the IMP posters was invalid and failed during load.... read more

Beta 1 Build 2203 w/Resizable gui and color schemes

See release notes for bug fixes

new build coming tommorrow

- Added TMDB High Res posters
- Added TMDB Version 2 API for Fanart and Posters
- Fixed issue with auto-pilot crashing after a successful run with larger numbers of movies
- Generated new build options, include the update only package

- Update Only: Use if you had the previous beta build (2137)
- Lite: Use if your using the Fat32 file system on your hard drive, or do not want the IMDB Cached information
- Full Install: Everything included and embeded... read more