OK, let me preface my post by acknowledging that this is taconaut's code - not mine. I certainly don't intend on claiming any ownership nor do I want to misrepresent the project in any way. I don't believe taconaut is still active... but if you are and you (or admins) prefer that I edit my post, please let me know. Secondly, let me add that I have no real idea what I'm doing. The below is a result of exploration, trial, and error.
With that out of the way ... I *think* I have successfully re-compiled taconaut's KodiNfoImportPlugin and UMS-MLX from his original git source.
The Rebuild -
(feel free to scroll down to 'The Result' if you have no interest in the steps I took to rebuild)
My primary objective was to track down the
KodiNfoImportPlugin. It's not included in the last official UMS-MLX release (v1.4 on top of UMS v5.3.2) but the source code does exist in a couple of git commits made by taconaut from Dec2015. My first attempt was to focus solely on the plugin by following the dev walkthrough here
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... es/plugins. I hit a dead end once I realized that I didn't know how to properly recreate the gradle build file. From there, I tried my hand at re-building the entire UMS-MLX package. A prerequisite to the plugin dev is to setup a build environment as detailed here
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... r/BUILD.md. I replicated this but cloned taconaut's UMS-MLX git source rather than official UMS.
Initially, the UMS-MLX build failed in a couple of places. I wasn't overly concerned since I was only interested in KodiNfoImportPlugin.jar. I was able to work around enough issues to reach successful Plugin/JAR compile. I grabbed the jar, popped it into a working UMS instance, and ditched the rest from the build attempt. Womp womp, didn't work, java errors from the plugin in the log. I didn't troubleshoot these once I re-read previous comments from taconaut saying that there core UMS changes he made to accomodate the plugin. I assumed that it was broken since I didn't have the latest core changes.
I then learned that I could checkout an earlier git commit. So I proceeded to roll back to 2015-12-02 where taconaut first introduced KodiNfoImportPlugin. I stepped through similar build steps and landed myself a working version of KodiNfoImportPlugin.jar. As far as I know, there aren't any dependencies here. I briefly tested using UMS-MLX v1.4 and found it to be operational
using the .NFOs taconaut used as reference points.
It bugged me knowing that there enhancements made beyond the 2015-12-02 release. So I returned to the master commit from 2015-12-04 and attempted the build again. If I recall correctly, I needed to bypass surefire test failures (?) with "mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true", hardcode a download URL for jwbroek.cuelib, and manually correct a missing instance of avisynth.exe. I personally can't call the result a total success since I'm weary of the surefire test failures BUT the build did complete resulting in UMS-MLX 1.5 snapshot installs for x86, x64, and without JRE. I gave without JRE a whirl but that failed to open after install. I tried the full x64 install and was thrilled to see everything working as intended!
The Result
- KodiNfoImportPlugin (v1) - this is the initial KodiNfoImportPlugin released by taconaut on 2015-12-02. It should be version independent meaning that you should be able to drop it into a working install of UMS-MLX v1.4, the most recent "official" release.
- UMS-MLX v1.5 with KodiNfoImportPlugin (v2) - this is a test release of UMS-MLX which includes the KodiNfoImportPlugin released on 2015-12-04. As labeled in the application title bar, this release is "FOR TESTING ONLY, POSSIBLY UNSTABLE". I can't vouch for all the changes between v1.4 and v1.5 but this test build includes core UMS code changes neccessary for use with the 2015-12-04 v2 release of KodiNfoImportPlugin. To further emphasize the "testing only / possibly unstable" disclaimer, UMS-MLX v1.5 looks to be built on top of UMS v6.5.4. This in itself is mildly confusing to me since UMS Core v6.5.4 was released at some point in 2017, 2 years after taconaut originally put UMS-MLX v1.5 together.
- Example .NFOs - these are the reference .NFOs that work with KodiNfoImportPlugin.
UMS-MLX Library to NFO Mappings - Depending if <movie> or <series> is imported, some tags or properties might be left blank (ie, EpisodeNumber for movies)
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<movie>
- Name : <title>
- Original Name : <originaltitle>
- Year : <year>
- Sort Name : <sorttitle>
- Director : <director>
- IMDB ID : <id>
- Homepage : not mapped
- Trailer : <trailer>
- TMDb ID : not mapped
- Rating : <rating>
- # Voters : <votes>
- Certification Reason : not mapped
- Certification : <mpaa>
- Tag Line : <tagline>
- Budget : not mapped
- Overview : <plot>
- Revenue : not mapped
? Active : ???
- Genres : <genre>
- Actor : <actor><name>
x EpisodeNumber : n/a
x FirstAired : n/a
x Network : n/a
x SeasonNumber : n/a
x SeriesName : n/a
x Writer : n/a
</movie>
<episodedetails>
- Name : <title>
x Original Name : n/a
- Year : <year>
x Sort Name : n/a
- Director : <director>
x IMDB ID : n/a
- Homepage : not mapped
x Trailer : n/a
- Rating : <rating>
- # Voters : <votes>
- Certification Reason : not mapped
- Certification : <mpaa>
x Tag Line : n/a
- Budget : not mapped
- Overview : <plot>
- Revenue : not mapped
? Active : ???
x Genres : n/a
- Actor : <actor><name>
- EpisodeNumber : <episode>
- FirstAired : <premiered>
- Network : <studio>
- SeasonNumber : <season>
- SeriesName : <showtitle>
- Writer : <credits>
</episodedetails>
- demonstrates an what the example NFO looks like with an AutoFolder grouped by Actor
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delbocavista wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:26 am
I think the MLX version of UMS offers a TON of added functionality. I am struggling with a couple of items though as discussed here @
https://www.universalmediaserver.com/fo ... =6&t=12860 that I would love some help on. Trying my luck here as this seems to be the most relevant thread to the MLX project. I've also sent a message to taconaut but unsure if they are still active.
Does anyone here happen to have the original JAR version of the KodiNfoImportPlugin that taconaut references? If not, anyone willing to walk me through building (compiling?) my own version off of the
linked GIT code?
taconaut wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:37 am
@mediamelt I'm done with a first version you can try. It can be downloaded from
here (
code); just place the jar in the plugins folder.
Some notes:
- NFOs for movies and series are supported (tested with the ones you've attached).
- Only the NFOs having the same name as the video file (with *.nfo extension) will be used; tvshow.nfo is not being used.
- For now thumbnails are being downloaded from the web if a link is included in the NFO. I might change this, but currently there is no mechanism in place to pass a link to an existing file in the file system und just use it.
- Your NFOs got some bad encoding for special characters e.g. Umlauts; this has to be fixed/configured on the kodi side.
Give it a go and tell me what's missing
