Serviio

Hi everybody.

I have a Synology DS413j nas with your product installed on. The streaming works perfectly on my Sony TV, but there are problems with metadata. There are some movies with the wrong name (there are at least 10 with the same wrong name and thumbnail) I've already edited the .mkv files with mkvtoolix's metadata editor and even after the metadata rescan in serviio web ui nothing has changed.

Where can I manually edit the serviio metadata database? I mean a file which I can edit in simple text editor or something to accsess these data .
I wall looking for some kind of configuration files in /volume1/@appstore/Serviio but can't find anything.

Thanks much for helping me.

open up the serviio console and checkout the metadata tab, there are several options for metadata. the default pulls all the info from a website.

Changing to 'MyMovies' option didn't helped. Now the whole movie library is empty.
Also tried the 'swiccsenter' with the same result.

'Online metadata sources' is the only correct way but makes lots of mistakes.

Seriously there is no way to modify this library database manually?

Those are for different meta data formats so that won't work for you.

Try naming the problem files the same as I appears on themoviedb.org and include the release year, e.g. Title (Year).mkv

I renamed all the files like you recommended. But now all these items are gone from the list. These files are the "Pixar shorts collection" and other short movies. Before all had the name of "For the Birds" but after renaming them to "Title (Year)" format, none of them is in the list. The same problem is with the Lord of the rings trilogy. Before renaming only the "Two towers" was in the list. I renamed them all 3 and now they are not in the list.

And now I found an other problem:
Adding a new shared folder in serviiio console 1.2 is not possible. When I click "Add local" I cannot select folder just the root folder "/". When I add path, somehow the last letter is cut and the wrong path is given there. I save the added folder. But after refreshing this last added folder disappears like nothing happened. So now I cannot add folders on other data volume.

Oh ... after updating the serviio it seems everything woks fine with the new filenames. But there is one short ("Day & Night (2010)") which it identifies as the movie "Knight and day" and some more film like The lord of the rings 3 still missing from the movie list.

But there is someting I don't like : mixing shortfilms with movies and 3D movies

is there a possibility to somehow categorize them ... or just give a mark in the name that it is 3D or not? There are seme movies I have in 2D and 3D version .. how van I add a 3D mark on it?

I whould really like to edit the metadata manualy, change the folder sequence in visibility and add categories there like "Shorts" and "3D movies". Is it possible?

NO, you can't edit metadata. There is also no option to distinguish 2d/3d.

If a may ask, how/where are the metadata saved if there is no option to edit them manually?

it's buried in the library but you don't want to mess with that. I would say try creating xbmc info files for your media then using that option in the console, I am fairly certain there is a way to edit those locally.

So I've created the .nfo files in format like I've found on http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/movies

for example:
<movie>
<title>Cars 2</title>
<year>2011</year>
<genre>Animation</genre>
<genre>Adventure</genre>
<genre>Comedy</genre>
</movie>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216475/

Now there are just half of the movies in the library that I have on the disk and there is no thumbnail picture.
What are the tags I must add there to have everything OK.
What format should i follow for series? because now none of them is recognized.

I think there should be a automatic generator for these files based on IMDB and/or themoviedb link. Making all NFOs manually takes long time (for all my films and serials).

There is - I was playing last night with free software called My Movies Collection Management for Windows. This package uses imdb to create nfo files, downloads cover art etc for those that it can find. You can then edit these files.

It wasn't for me, but you may find it useful. Not affiliated in any way.

Thanks!

But as I see it's too complicated for me .. I don't want to make my own database. I just need an application where I add an IMDB or Themoviedb link and the file and generates the .nfo.

So .. I've implemented a small application that gets data of a movie from iMDB and generates XBMC NFO file.(NFOs not tested on Serviio yet because I'm not at home right now) But i still have no idea what tags int the XBMC NFO are required to make the Serviio work perfectly. Please can somebody tell me?
And the second big question is the nfo for Serials. Do I need to do an nfo for all the episodes or just one for the whole series.

(By the way, if Serviio could generate these nfo-s based on online sources that would be great. The user should just edit them if something is wrongly recognized.)

It looks at (movie.nfo or filename.nfo)

• title
• plot
• actor
• director
• releasedate or year
• id
• genre
• season
• episode
• aired

and for episodes additionally (from tvshow.nfo):

• title
• genre

Thanks.

@ LGstudio,

did you manage to get the metadata working ?

I am using a DS213 and have created this NFO file

<movie>
<title>XYZ</title>
<plot>In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.</plot>
<year>2013</year>
<id>tt2024544</id>
<genre>Biography-Drama-History</genre>
</movie>

Have saved it as "movie.nfo" in the same dir on the NAS where the movie is, have set the descriptive metadata source as "XBMC .NFO files", rescanned the video metadata, but the only change has been that the movie thumbnails have disappeared.
I am not even sure how I could access the metadata info, via a clicable thumbnail in the movie dir ?
Thank you !