[NMJ v1] NMJToolbox - A Windows editor for the NMJ (Updated 15/10/2012 v1.0.4.6)

[Rom]

(02-09-2011 11:22 PM)surfymark Wrote:  Hmm ok. I am not sure quite what to do now really. I have spent such a long time building my database that I don't really want to scrap it all and start again.

If I could guarantee that at the end of it I would be able to add a Poster, Thumbnail and Wallpaper to every movie and it would work then I would do this. But I can't.

How do you have it on your system? How many movies do you have and do you have the NMJ working ok for you? Have you added Posters, Thumbnails and Wallpapers for all of them?

cheers
Mark

There are no guarantees but I have 3 DBs. One on the internal drive on my C200, one on my internal drive on my A210 and one on my 8TB NAS.

The most videos I have on one store is 1200.

The NMJ on my NAS is running a little slow and there are issues with playback of High@4.1 or above with subtitles (in that the NMJ won't play them when they have subtitles). Though they do play in list mode.

I am trying to get information from the Syabas developers to see how to correct this.

Other than that all 3 of my DBs are working fine.

[surfymark]

Ok so your store with 1200 movies. They all have Posters, Previews and Wallpapers? Have you done a bulk update using the NMJToolbox (so they have the full Cast Lists for all movies)?

I think this may be another issue with my NAS then (Synology 1511+). The NMJ already has an issue where I cannot run the Update command from the Popcorn (but it can build the initial database).

I have a second store which is an internal hard disk in the Popcorn but it is only 1tb and only currently has about 40 movies. I haven't even touched this store with your tool as yet.

cheers
Mark

[Rom]

(02-10-2011 12:06 PM)surfymark Wrote:  Ok so your store with 1200 movies. They all have Posters, Previews and Wallpapers? Have you done a bulk update using the NMJToolbox (so they have the full Cast Lists for all movies)?

I think this may be another issue with my NAS then (Synology 1511+). The NMJ already has an issue where I cannot run the Update command from the Popcorn (but it can build the initial database).

I have a second store which is an internal hard disk in the Popcorn but it is only 1tb and only currently has about 40 movies. I haven't even touched this store with your tool as yet.

cheers
Mark

To clarify my statement:

The internal PCH drive has 566 'Show' records, attached to this are 1200 'Episode' records (there are a lot of TV shows on there - Star Trek TNG for example - 7 seasons, 24 episodes in each season).

All shows have a poster and thumbnail but very few have wallpapers as this is a manual job in NMJT and I have been too busy tracking down bugs and doing enhancements to actually make my NMJ 'nice'

[surfymark]

Ok thanks for this.

I remain convinced that it is the wallpaper slowing it so dramatically.

If I go through and change the Wallpaper back to 1 (the empty image) will this help do you think? Should I also then remove all the JPEGs that are stored in the media folder?

cheers
Mark

[Rom]

(02-10-2011 01:27 PM)surfymark Wrote:  Ok thanks for this.

I remain convinced that it is the wallpaper slowing it so dramatically.

If I go through and change the Wallpaper back to 1 (the empty image) will this help do you think? Should I also then remove all the JPEGs that are stored in the media folder?

cheers
Mark

'1' is supposed to be the current image but it does not always show so it probably will not sort you out. If you want to test clear all the wallpapers then you can get the SQLite Browser and execute the following SQL:

UPDATE SHOW SET(WALLPAPER) VALUES('');

Note: the part VALUES('') is two single quotes.

Once you have done this, if you want to clear out the image folders there is a function in NMJToolbox to do this for you on the utilites tab. (it does not delete them it moves them to a backup folder).

[surfymark]

Sorry totally missed this post!

Ok excellent I will try this.

Many thanks again
Mark

[surfymark]

(02-10-2011 01:47 PM)Rom Wrote:  '1' is supposed to be the current image but it does not always show so it probably will not sort you out. If you want to test clear all the wallpapers then you can get the SQLite Browser and execute the following SQL:

UPDATE SHOW SET(WALLPAPER) VALUES('');

Note: the part VALUES('') is two single quotes.

Once you have done this, if you want to clear out the image folders there is a function in NMJToolbox to do this for you on the utilites tab. (it does not delete them it moves them to a backup folder).

So I tried this last night. The forum was actually broken but I managed to remember the command luckily! It cleared the Wallpaper column in the database and I then used the utility to clear out the images files themselves.

Then I fired up the NMJ on the Popcorn. It seemed faster than before to start with and seemed to me to get further but eventually the spinning circle slowed down and then stopped. I checked again this morning but it was still frozen.

I wanted to show off my Popcorn to a friend who is coming to stay this evening so this morning I moved the whole NMJ Database folder off to somewhere else (effectively deleting it but keeping a backup just in case) and started the NMJ building a new fresh database.

When I get a chance I will start to use the NMJToolbox again to first add just Posters and Previews, then add Wallpapers (having back up the db first) and then maybe looking at updating everything using the Bulk Update command and see at which stage it breaks. Is there any option to not update the Cast Members when doing the Bulk Update (I forget now).

I will let you know how I get on.

cheers
Mark

[jcfay]

(02-11-2011 10:57 AM)surfymark Wrote:  eventually the spinning circle slowed down and then stopped

Just to throw my hat in the ring (again), my NMJ has developed the same behavior for some weird reason. It was working fine a couple of weeks ago, and now it behaves in exactly the same manner when I try and view the wall. NMJT is working great, so not sure what the problem is, but I'm going to try a few things to see if I can remedy the situation. But at present, I just end up having to do a hard restart and play from the standard non-NMJ file view (or whatever you'd call it).

I don't have a large db, either. Only 300 or so total entries. No music, no photos.

[noj]

(02-11-2011 10:57 AM)surfymark Wrote:  So I tried this last night. The forum was actually broken but I managed to remember the command luckily! It cleared the Wallpaper column in the database and I then used the utility to clear out the images files themselves.

Then I fired up the NMJ on the Popcorn. It seemed faster than before to start with and seemed to me to get further but eventually the spinning circle slowed down and then stopped. I checked again this morning but it was still frozen.

I wanted to show off my Popcorn to a friend who is coming to stay this evening so this morning I moved the whole NMJ Database folder off to somewhere else (effectively deleting it but keeping a backup just in case) and started the NMJ building a new fresh database.

When I get a chance I will start to use the NMJToolbox again to first add just Posters and Previews, then add Wallpapers (having back up the db first) and then maybe looking at updating everything using the Bulk Update command and see at which stage it breaks. Is there any option to not update the Cast Members when doing the Bulk Update (I forget now).

I will let you know how I get on.

cheers
Mark

This sounds like the old problem a number of us had with having large thumbs. I shrunk all my thumbs to a size of height 185 about 7k-12k each. I left the posters and wallpaper as high quality and this fixed the speed issue. I have about 530 movies and a dozen tv series.

If you look back Rom suggested using EasyImageModifier free tool (#461) which can be used on your complete thumbs folder (assuming you store the images in the NMJ Folder option).

I did this and it was an instant fix to the speed of displaying and browsing the wall.

Have you tried this/ruled this one out?

[jcfay]

(02-12-2011 09:24 PM)noj Wrote:  This sounds like the old problem a number of us had with having large thumbs. I shrunk all my thumbs to a size of height 185 about 7k-12k each. I left the posters and wallpaper as high quality and this fixed the speed issue. I have about 530 movies and a dozen tv series.

If you look back Rom suggested using EasyImageModifier free tool (#461) which can be used on your complete thumbs folder (assuming you store the images in the NMJ Folder option).

I did this and it was an instant fix to the speed of displaying and browsing the wall.

Have you tried this/ruled this one out?

Alright, I just did the same. Resized all thumbs to 185x124, and although the db lost a few images in the process (I just re-added them), it was also an INSTANT fix. No problems loading the wall, no problems navigating the wall, no slowdowns, etc. I had a bunch of images I had uploaded myself, and only a few added with the MovieDB functionality of NMJT, so I assume it was what I had put in place myself, much higher res images. They weren't huge file sizes, by any means, but I'm thinking that they really need to be 185x124. Rom - this may have already been covered, but are all images added from the MovieDB with NMJT into the thumbs category resized to this? I love being able to add the movie art from NMJT now; it's so much easier. I just want to make sure that I can keep my wall running, and if I need to resize my thumbs to 185x124 then I'll do so.

Thanks!!!

[noj]

(02-13-2011 03:51 AM)jcfay Wrote:  Alright, I just did the same. Resized all thumbs to 185x124, and although the db lost a few images in the process (I just re-added them), it was also an INSTANT fix. No problems loading the wall, no problems navigating the wall, no slowdowns, etc. I had a bunch of images I had uploaded myself, and only a few added with the MovieDB functionality of NMJT, so I assume it was what I had put in place myself, much higher res images. They weren't huge file sizes, by any means, but I'm thinking that they really need to be 185x124. Rom - this may have already been covered, but are all images added from the MovieDB with NMJT into the thumbs category resized to this? I love being able to add the movie art from NMJT now; it's so much easier. I just want to make sure that I can keep my wall running, and if I need to resize my thumbs to 185x124 then I'll do so.

Thanks!!!

Glad that helped, just be aware that a rescan may undo this depending on how and where you store your images. I do not use rescan any more and do it all manually through NMJT. Each time I add a movie or TV series I create a small image for the wall and retain high quality for poster and wallpaper.

[jcfay]

(02-13-2011 11:15 AM)noj Wrote:  Glad that helped, just be aware that a rescan may undo this depending on how and where you store your images. I do not use rescan any more and do it all manually through NMJT. Each time I add a movie or TV series I create a small image for the wall and retain high quality for poster and wallpaper.

I haven't "rescan"ed in months, and I don't plan on doing it again until NMJ ver. 2 comes out (and then I'll still have multiple backups of my db available, just in case). I'm just wondering if NMJ Toolbox should automatically (if possible) resize thumbs to these dimensions if this is this large of an issue?

Thanks again!

[Rom]

NMJToolbox does resize the images you drop/get from the movie db if you uncheck the 'disable resize'. It does not have a facility to resize images that are already in the database though.

[lordairivis]

Am I doing something wrong, or does the "Update" button not work? NMJ polled a lot of my TV episodes as the same IMDB tt# and title as other episodes in the same season, and I can change them manually in the Episodes tab, but when I put the new TT# in the edit dialog and then click "Update" nothing happens. The episode title doesn't change, the release date doesn't change, nothing. Does this have something to do with the "update episodes" checkbox in the season edit dialog? When I check that and update, nothing happens there, either, and the "update episodes" checkbox is unticked again.

[congo181]

Rom - any chance that NMJT can remember the checked options in a file?
I keep forgetting to uncheck 'disable resize' and I'd like it to remember that I want this option by default.
Cheers, Jim