Yadis2mede8er

[hdmkv]

Can anyone download Yadis 2.2 via the Mediafire link? It looks to be removed.

[funkycochise]

Could somebody tell me what is the difference between Yadis for Mede8er and Thumbgen?? Thank you!

I don't know thumbgen but I think I can answer.

To generate jukebox views in mede8er, you need 2 images files : about.jpg and folder.jpg.
Both should be present in a folder named by the movie title.
Inside this folder you will also find the movie file itself and a xml file.

To create those image files you can use Yadis or Thumbgen.

Yadis has many setting and theme that should fit any requirement.
The only problem with Yadis is that it doesn't create the xml file, formated to mede8er needs.
That's where Yadis2mede8er enters in the scene, it finalize the xml and the pictures creation process.

I suppose that thumbgen creates also images that can suit mede8er requirements, but I don't know for the xml.

I hope it's more clear.

[Lupissimo]

Thank you!
Thumbgen does the creation of the folder.jpeg, about.jpg and the xml file within the moviefolder. ( For moving the movie into its own folder I use files2folder ).
I had hoped Yadis would create a folder for mede8er containing the folder.jpeg, about.jpg and the xml file PLUS a dynamic link to the movie so that you have ONE "Jukebox"-Folder containing the aux-data which would be a FAVORIT link on the mede8er. With by now 8000 plus movies spread over different storage locations this would have been a step towards the XBMC behaviour for me.

[funkycochise]

Thank you!
Thumbgen does the creation of the folder.jpeg, about.jpg and the xml file within the moviefolder. ( For moving the movie into its own folder I use files2folder ).
I had hoped Yadis would create a folder for mede8er containing the folder.jpeg, about.jpg and the xml file PLUS a dynamic link to the movie so that you have ONE "Jukebox"-Folder containing the aux-data which would be a FAVORIT link on the mede8er. With by now 8000 plus movies spread over different storage locations this would have been a step towards the XBMC behaviour for me.

It does, it's aggregate jukebox
It will be available with firmware 2.0

[Lupissimo]

with dynamic links? and can I just move my existing artwork into theJukebox-folder and have yadis create the dyn Links without creating artwork?

[funkycochise]

with dynamic links?

Depends of what you expect by dynamic link.

You defines all your movie collection in yadis and yadis2mede8er
creates the jukebox structure with the link to files.
The jukebox is then aggregated with all links inside.
If links change, you'll need to run the process of creation again.

[jer1956]

with dynamic links? and can I just move my existing artwork into theJukebox-folder and have yadis create the dyn Links without creating artwork?

Your almost describing  the new Aggregated Jukebox for the x3d.  It will use a link in the jukebox to  access media. It can't be that  dynamic..as the media has to be at the other end. Becuase links are used, the media can be stored across multiple locations.


http://www.mede8erforum.com/index.php/topic,10218.0.html

This requires the code to use the link, and not the database.  So new code is needed to do it, and this is currently at the alpha stage, and planned for release with V2.  We also need to account for those who only want to add the link, and copy the rest, as you have pointed out.  

[Mr Eric]

Can anyone download Yadis 2.2 via the Mediafire link? It looks to be removed.

small problem with Mediafire. Yadis 2.2 is now also hosted here : http://www.mede8er.org/Firmware_Final/YADIS/yaDIS_2.2.exe (thanks to Mede8er1)

[Boulder]

For some reason some clips do not appear in my jukebox.

For example I have a folder of this name: The Police - Synchronicity Concert (1984) , the xml file is The Police - Synchronicity Concert (1984).xml and the video The Police - Synchronicity Concert (1984).mkv. The folder.jpg and about.jpg are there. When browsing the main folder, I can see the folder there with the correct thumbnail but no text appears in the bottom of the screen.

This is the contents of the xml file:

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<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="UTF-8"?>
<details>
<movie xmlns:xsi="http:--www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http:--www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<title>The Police: Synchronicity Concert</title>
<year>1984</year>
<rating>0</rating>
<plot>Final tour by the Police, recorded in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 1983.</plot>
<date>27.1.2013</date>
<runtime>75 min</runtime>
<genres>
<genre>Music</genre>
</genres>
</director>
</cast>
<path>P:\Music videos</path>
<filelink>smb://192.168.11.25/hdd1/Music videos</filelink>
</movie>
</details>

By the way, is it possible to make Yadis use the IMDB rating?

[Lupissimo]

This may be due to the rather restricted character set in the foldername allowed by the mede8er firmware.
It is too bad that those restrictions are nowhere listed even after a request to do so here in this forum. So you have use trial and error to find out.

[funkycochise]

Using : in the name of the movie is not a good idea as those chars are reserved by system for share URL.
try to replace  ':' with ',' it should work better.

For the listed restriction, in fact I am also discovering them as time goes by.
Usualy it's more due to thing that are expected.

But that doesn't mean that It will remains like that.
Some things like jukebox are still their early developements, and are improved every day.

[starwarsclark]

I am seriously thinking about moving over to use Yadis as I have some issues with Y2M and it sounds as though the support for Yadis and that it is easy to use means that more and more people are using it now.
However before I take the plunge could someone please advise me as to whether I need to amend/delete/whatever any of the existing Y2M pictures/fanart etc BEFORE I run Yadis, or will Yadis just overwrite the Y2M files?

[jer1956]

I would do the aggregated test and find out.  Copy a few movie "folders", with everthing thats  there for normal jukebox, into a test parent folder.  Yadis should do it's thing by creating it's scape in it's workspace, the source folder is just that, a source. Then use the latest Yadis2mede8er beta to create an aggregated jukebox. You don't need multiple stores to use it.

[funkycochise]

I am seriously thinking about moving over to use Yadis as I have some issues with Y2M and it sounds as though the support for Yadis and that it is easy to use means that more and more people are using it now.
However before I take the plunge could someone please advise me as to whether I need to amend/delete/whatever any of the existing Y2M pictures/fanart etc BEFORE I run Yadis, or will Yadis just overwrite the Y2M files?

As mede8r needs about.jpg and folder.jpg, Im pretty sure that Y2M creates these files, so Yadis2Mede8er wil overwrite them.
It's less obvious for the xml file, depends on how Y2M is naming the file.
Yadis2Mede8er names it like the folder name.
So, Just take a look at your current movie folders.

Else, if you want to clean your library from any previous jukebox file,
launch a MS DOS Console, go to your Movie root folder and run :
del *.jpg /s and del *.xml /s

[TonP]

Is there anyone who can provide a method to create flag images of countries that are not included in Yadis at the moment ?
I know how to add them to Yadis, but I haven't found anything that can deliver me flag images in the same style.

Ton