New version of Thumbgen released 1.2.11.0 [ Edited ]

[Tinwarble]

For those that use Thumbgen to generate your data, there is a new release that now correctly generates the xml data for TV shows.

www.thumbgen.org

Just go to OPTIONS / Input/Output Naming, then in the dropdown box next to "Movieinfo export" select "Export using WDTV Live HUB format (new fw)".

Also, for those that need it, you can also generate the Thumbnail as .metathumb.  However, I suggest generating everthing as .jpg and not using the .metathumb extension.  You should only use the .metathumb extension if you also use the internal scrap to get you content.

[thomfam]

Tinwarble, you have omitted the "g" in thumbgen in your link.

[Tinwarble]

Fixed!

[thomfam]

Hi Tinwarble, I just gave the 'new' version of Thumbgen a try and I loved the info it found. The info I found for Prime Suspect, S7 Part 2 was excellent in the latest version compared to what I find using 1.2.7

However when I went to generate the new sheets I found there were several omissions on what appeared on my screen. 

First Aired is where the date appears on the new xml sheet when it should be in Year. 

<firstaired>2006-22-10</firstaired>

when it should be like this:  <year>2006- 22-10</year>

I also found the actors' names wouldn't show on the screen and nor would the background sheet generated by 1.2.11.  Instead the SMP went online and found a sheet there.

The actors' names now appear on the 1.2.11 xml sheet as

<actor>Helen Mirren/Tom Bell/John Benfield/John Bowe/Zoë Wanamaker/Bryan Pringle/Tom Wilkinson/John Forgeham/Gary Whelan/Jack Ellis/Craig Fairbrass/Ian Fitzgibbon/Mossie Smith/Philip Wright/Andrew Tiernan</actor>

However they do show correctly on screen when presented as (1.2.7):

<actor>
    <name>Helen Mirren</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Stephen Tompkinson</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Laura Greenwood</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Eve Best</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Gary Lewis</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Katy Murphy</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Frank Finlay</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Tom Bell</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Robert Pugh</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Brendan Coyle</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Robbie Gee</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Russell Mabey</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Laura Doddington</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Heshima Thompson</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Carolyn Pickles</name>
  </actor>

I thought I did the settings the same as my 1.2.7 version but maybe I missed some, not sure.  It looked the 'same' setup on either version.

[Tinwarble]

If you are using the lastest firmware version on the SMP, then the correct xml format for TV shows looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<details>
  <title> 1: Awakening</title>
  <originaltitle>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century</originaltitle>
  <overview>In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its life support system and sends it into a long elliptical orbit of the Earth. In the year 2491, Ranger III again approaches the Earth, and is intercepted by the alien flagship Draconia, which is on a peace mission to Earth. Aboard the Draconia, Buck is revived by Princess Ardala and her second-in- command, Kane, whose true plan is to attack and conquer Earth. Buck is sent to Earth with a hidden homing device, which is soon discovered by Earth's Defense Directorate. After Buck convinces the humans of his true identity -- a man from the past -- he helps them to repel the Draconians' attack, with the aid of the mechanoids Dr. Theopolis and Twiki</overview>
  <firstaired>1979-09-20</firstaired>
  <series_name>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century</series_name>
  <episode_name>Pilot</episode_name>
  <season_number>1</season_number>
  <episode_number>1</episode_number>
  <runtime>60</runtime>
  <trailer></trailer>
  <rating>8.1</rating>
  <imdb_id>tt0078579</imdb_id>
  <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa>
  <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
  <actor>Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc, Tim O'Connor, William Conrad, Eric Server</actor>
  <director>Daniel Haller</director>
  <studio>NBC</studio>
  <backdrop>BUCK ROGERS.S01E01_sheet.jpg</backdrop>
  <url cache="tmdb-.xml" function="GetTMDBThumbsById" />
  <prevtitle>BUCK ROGERS.S01E01.mkv</prevtitle>
  <prevgenre>N/A</prevgenre>
</details>

Thumbgen will actually generate it like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<details>
  <title>He** On Wheels - Pilot</title>
  <series_name>He** On Wheels</series_name>
  <episode_name>Pilot</episode_name>
  <season_number>1</season_number>
  <episode_number>1</episode_number>
  <firstaired>2011-11-06</firstaired>
  <overview>A former confederate soldier journeys to the transcontinental railroad to seek vengeance.</overview>
  <year>2011</year>
  <plot>He** on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier (Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to **bleep** on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.</plot>
  <runtime></runtime>
  <trailer></trailer>
  <rating>8.1</rating>
  <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa>
  <imdb_id>tt1699748</imdb_id>
  <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa>
  <genre>Drama</genre>
  <genre>Western</genre>
  <actor>Anson Mount/Colm Meaney/Common/Dominique McElligott/Tom Noonan/Eddie Spears/Ben Esler/Phil Burke/Jeff Hänni/Christopher Heyerdahl/Robin McLeavy/Duncan Ollerenshaw/Diego Diablo Del Mar/Dohn Norwood/Gerald Auger/Barb Mitchell/Ian Tracey/Kasha Kropinski/James D. Hopkin/April Telek</actor>
  <director>David Von Ancken</director>
  <studio>AMC</studio>
  <backdrop>HE** ON WHEELS.S01E01_sheet.jpg</backdrop>
  <url cache="tmdb-.xml" function="GetTMDBThumbsById" />
  <prevtitle>HE** ON WHEELS - S01E01.mkv</prevtitle>
  <prevgenre>N/A</prevgenre>
</details>

That's how it has to appear for TV shows to display the correct metadata.  If your metadata isn't displaying correctly, then it is most likely because it is not tagging it as a TV Show and is seeing it as a Movie, which uses a different format.  The most likely reason for this is because your shows xml doesn't contain the correct MPAA, which I believe is how the SMP knows which is a TV show.

So, TG is generating the info correctly.  Tested and works.

[Gendji]

Can i just install it over the old version? or do i need to install the templates, profiles, common folder again also?

[thomfam]

Hi  again mate,  Sorry to be a nuisance about this.

I have just attempted to create movie sheets for the latest episode of The Newsroom using the latest version of ThumbGen.  I got out your Tutorial pdf and set up the latest version as per your instructions.  I even found a couple of spots where I hadn't properly setup as per your instructions.  I named the file as The Newsroom.s1E3.mp4 

It found the episode perfectly and created the sheets.  However when I looked at the mpaa it was like this:

<mpaa></mpaa>

Is there a setting I am missing?

I even tried adding <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa> as per your example but with no luck.

[Tinwarble]

Did you click the green check mark after adding it in TG?

If you meant you manually added, then did clear the media library afterwards.  I've had no issues and it should display the metadata like this:

Also, and I'm not sure about this, but if you live in a differnent country, you may need to use your countries rating system.

If you are still having issues, you can try creating a dummy folder, with a dummy file in it, then use the "Get Content Info" function to get the metadata.  Then look at the xml file that was created and make sure that the ones you created with TG match the one created with the SMP.  The order doesn't matter as long as the TG file and the internal scrapper file contain the same info (don't worry about any extra info in the TG created xml).

[thomfam]

Hi Again, 

By manual I meant that I manually added the information to the xml sheet. 

I am in Australia. 

I added TV-14 to the ThumbGen info and saved it (green tick).  No good. 

I changed the Classification Country to Australia, and still no good. Here in Australia the mpaa is M for Mature.

As I can see from your pic in the post above I don't get anything like that, the program is (as you say) seeing it as a movie rather than a TV show.  I would have thought the 'preview' of the movie sheet in the lower right hand corner of ThumbGen would show as a TV show but it doesn't, it comes up as the standard Mojo_Glass_sheet2  The preview doesn't look at all like your pic above.

Can I send you/upload my TV Shows.tpg file?  Would that help?

Thanks for persevering with me.

Below is the xml information from a TV show I was trying today.  I set the mpaa to TV-14 as you can see below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<details>
  <title>Wire In The Blood S6E2 Falls The Shadow </title>
  <series_name>Wire in the Blood</series_name>
  <episode_name>Wire In The Blood S6E2 Falls The Shadow </episode_name>
  <season_number>6</season_number>
  <episode_number>2</episode_number>
  <firstaired>2008-26-09</firstaired>
  <overview>In Falls the Shadow, the second episode in series six of this compelling drama series, forensic clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill (Robson Green) is brought in by Inspector Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) to uncover the identity of a serial murderer who is killing prostitutes and experimental psychologists in a very specific sequence.</overview>
  <year>2002</year>
  <plot>Based on the Val McDermid novels, the show follows the Major Incident Team of Bradfield Metropolitan Police's CID, focusing on the assistance provided to the detectives by clinical psychologist and serial offender profiler Dr Tony Hill.


Made by Coastal Productions for Tyne Tees Television for the ITV Network.</plot>
  <runtime>50</runtime>
  <trailer></trailer>
  <rating>8.3</rating>
  <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa>
  <imdb_id>tt0337792</imdb_id>
  <mpaa>TV-14</mpaa>
  <genre>Crime</genre>
  <genre>Drama</genre>
  <genre>Mystery</genre>
  <genre>Thriller</genre>
  <actor>Robson Green/Mark Letheren/Emma Handy/Mark Penfold/Simone Lahbib/Hermione Norris</actor>
  <director>Richard Curson Smith</director>
  <studio>Coastal Productions</studio>
  <studio>Circle Multimedia</studio>
  <studio>Independent Television (ITV)</studio>
  <backdrop>Wire In The Blood - S6E3_sheet.jpg</backdrop>
  <backdrop>Wire In The Blood - S6E3.jpg</backdrop>
  <url cache="tmdb-.xml" function="GetTMDBThumbsById" />
  <prevtitle>Wire In The Blood - S6E3.mp4</prevtitle>
  <prevgenre>N/A</prevgenre>
</details>

[Tinwarble]

After you manually changed the xml, did you make sure to clear the media library?  With the latest firmware it can be really difficult to get the new info to take.

If clearing the media library doesn't seem to work, try changing the folder name, then clearing the media library.