Hi all,
I am new to Filebot and discovered it while looking for info on how to create a movie database for a Popcorn Hour.
I know they are obsolete now but I have a second sata drive full of movies that I would love to use and have the media player show the cover art for.
So i have Filebot and have matched a few movies as a test. I can see the covert art if I browse the sata drive on my PC, but the Popcorn doesnt display it.
Does anyone know if this is even possible these days?
Cheers.
Using Filebot with Popcorn Hour C200
Re: Using Filebot with Popcorn Hour C200
How does Popcorn Hour display artwork in the first place? I'd start by looking into that. Maybe FileBot can do "it" but we first need to find out what "it" is. Does it require standard naming so that it can identify the movies and then independently fetch artwork from TMDB? Does it just use the folder.jpg file from the same folder? Perhaps some other pre-defined file path? Does it use artwork embedded in the *.mkv file? All of the above? Or something else?
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Hi and thank you for replying.
From what I can tell Popcorn Hour media players use a NMJ (Network Movie Jukebox) to automatically fetch movie data and cover art. I have a drive that works correctly which I have browsed using my PC. There are PHP files, index lists etc etc so it definitely not something you can just add manually.
I eventually found an old movie jukebox set up file online, but the program is looking for a database file to be able to scan for media. Again, that database file seems to be automatically generated by the player itself.
As the Popcorn series have been discontinued for some time, none of the online features work which is why I was hoping Filebot may be able to help.
I am not sure it can on this occasion though, unfortunately.
From what I can tell Popcorn Hour media players use a NMJ (Network Movie Jukebox) to automatically fetch movie data and cover art. I have a drive that works correctly which I have browsed using my PC. There are PHP files, index lists etc etc so it definitely not something you can just add manually.
I eventually found an old movie jukebox set up file online, but the program is looking for a database file to be able to scan for media. Again, that database file seems to be automatically generated by the player itself.
As the Popcorn series have been discontinued for some time, none of the online features work which is why I was hoping Filebot may be able to help.
I am not sure it can on this occasion though, unfortunately.