Confusion about Plugins and movie descriptions
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Re: Confusion about Plugins and movie descriptions
The plugin code has been disabled in one of the 7.x versions (I'm not sure which). It seems like they didn't bother to update the documentation.
There had not been any updated plugins for years, I think I did the last update to the MovieInfo plugin in early 2016 (https://github.com/Nadahar/MovieInfo). You're right that there's no compiled version for download there, I guess I thought that others would take care of it. I only did the bare minimum to get it to work at all, but it has since been broken again. The reason that it "breaks over time" is that both the UMS code changes and that the websites it use to gather information changes.
If you want this to work, I think you'll need to use an older version of UMS and either find a built version of the "latest" version of MovieInfo or build it yourself. Even if you do all that, I'm pretty sure that it won't work because the information sources have changed.
There had not been any updated plugins for years, I think I did the last update to the MovieInfo plugin in early 2016 (https://github.com/Nadahar/MovieInfo). You're right that there's no compiled version for download there, I guess I thought that others would take care of it. I only did the bare minimum to get it to work at all, but it has since been broken again. The reason that it "breaks over time" is that both the UMS code changes and that the websites it use to gather information changes.
If you want this to work, I think you'll need to use an older version of UMS and either find a built version of the "latest" version of MovieInfo or build it yourself. Even if you do all that, I'm pretty sure that it won't work because the information sources have changed.
Re: Confusion about Plugins and movie descriptions
I don't think there ever were any "centralized" plugin registry, so it's hard to know what exists, but there were none other that did this as far as I know. The UPnP AV browse protocol doesn't allow presenting "arbitrary metadata" for items, so what MovieInfo does is to "fake it" by creating non-existing items whose name is the description. It's quite the hack IMO, and doesn't present very well on many renderers. Since there's no "good" way to present the data, I doubt you'll find other plugins that attempt to do it.
As I said, the latest version of UMS doesn't support plugins at all. You'll thus have to use an older source of UMS. This is the commit that disables plugins: https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... 08d148d950
If you want to use the "latest" version that still supported plugins, you should go for 7.5.0: https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... tree/7.5.0
The latest version of MovieInfo that I know of is the master branch here: https://github.com/Nadahar/MovieInfo
As I said, the latest version of UMS doesn't support plugins at all. You'll thus have to use an older source of UMS. This is the commit that disables plugins: https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... 08d148d950
If you want to use the "latest" version that still supported plugins, you should go for 7.5.0: https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... tree/7.5.0
The latest version of MovieInfo that I know of is the master branch here: https://github.com/Nadahar/MovieInfo
Re: Confusion about Plugins and movie descriptions
We will bring back the plugins tab if you become an active maintainer of one