I had the exact same problem. What i did was redownloading the XBMCnfo.bundle and putting it in again. Restarted my MBP... And then it suddenly worked...
I have no idea what was different the first time, but then is suddenly worked...
Good luck to you :)
Are there any news on scanning more information like actors and so on?
For some reason it seems that you need to restart plex proper too and not just pmm.
Also, I've been thinking about implementation of this. It seems that pmm reads everything fro the _combined/info.XML except the title. Is there a technical reason for this? Is the movie id tied to the name? Is the XML bundle based on the display name and therefore would need to change every time a name change has been made? Ideally, we would not need a Framework change, but instead have pmm Get the display name from the XML, which is already changed with the existing agent.
That does not work consistenly for me. Actually, most of the time I cannot get the agent to load - any idea why that may be? Someone suggested file permissions...?
Also, could someone suggest how read actor/role, director(s), genre(s) data from the nfo?
I’ll add that stuff MTI. I’ll fix the plot/outline thing too and post a new one.
Harley, great! 
Now we just need to uncover why some of us have troubles getting the agent to load… :o
have you checked Console to see if there are any messages as to why it’s not loading? open up console and search for xbmc and you should see all the logs and error codes.
I’ll do that. But it will have to wait until tomorrow - it is almost midnight here, and I have an important job interview tomorrow
Just did a quick check with your latest code - it loaded fine… Strange, I’ll see if I can reproduce tomorrow…
In some of my previous attempts I changed the name of the scanner inside of the python code (changed the name of scanner to “NFO scanner”) - perhaps that is not “allowed”?
changing the information inside of a plugin has been known to not have them load. I saw this a lot last week when I was coding up some new apps.
updated nfo agent.
can’t get it to grab duration or studio though. can’t tell why.
I really want to try that but I'm not sure if I understand it right:
Can I have a .nfo and write an own description inside? I don't want to link it to imdb I just want to add infos and a poster.tbn and a fanart. Is this possible with this scanner?
<xml><br />
<movie><br />
<title>Movie</title><br />
<outline>Description.</outline><br />
<plot>Description</plot><br />
<genre>Action, Adventure</genre><br />
<actor><br />
<name>Someone</name><br />
<role>Himself</role><br />
</actor><br />
</movie><br />
</xml><br />
It wont change the display name of your movie yet, but i think you thing should work. just need to have the nfo as the same name as your movie. go to go->utilities->console->plex plugin logs->search for xbmc, and you can see what this guy is grabbing.
I cleared the logs before I tried again. There is nothing about XBMC. I have the plugin moved directly under IMDB. The file is named as you said but still no luck on refreshing info.
EDIT: It works BUT I can only add information when the movie is found. (even its the wrong one) If it is completely unknown then I can't add own infos.
If i rename the movie to ice.mkv I can add infos because it finds it as Ice Age. The real name isn't found in the internet and this leads to no info, no poster and no fanart.
I can manually search for any movie and only then it takes the poster and the info - but the the title is wrong...
BTW: The genre seems not to work.
I added comedy but I cant find it in the genre list.
I have another question concerning NFO’s…
Is there any way in the current architecture of Plex, that we will be able to write NFO’s back to file again? So when we add a movie and (once PMM will support it) edited the movies the way we want with textual information as well as posters, fanart, trailers,… will we be able to save all this information the way XBMC does it?
I’m just thinking of “what if one day i’ll have to make a clean install of OS X again” or… what if i move my movies from HDD1 to HDD2…
Short: will there be a possibility to write something like an export agent?
I think this would really rock!!!
Welcome to plexnnine where IMDB is the main arbiter of movies found on your system. I am going to write a scanner tonight that should help locate movies that are not on IMDB. Note, IMDB does not need to be the main arbiter, bthTs just the default. Stuff like this adds functionality to pmm because the framework is already in the system.
That's great - thanks for your effort.
Is it impossible to give a completely unknown movie own information with a nfo/tbn/fanart or is this part of what you are programming?
I have chapters of very local documentaries that never will be on any list in the internet. With plexeight I could give them posters very easy.
For a movie to recieve information it must have a name. I am goingto make it so that movies outside IMDB can be scanned and found. Once it is found, it can then review info. No think it has to do with the new nfo/XML data structure. Should be fixes tonight though.
Just wanted to let you know that James has fixed the bug around the name, so as soon as we push a new framework update you'll be able to get the name in the search() function.
*bowsdown* Marvellous.
Two things i'd like to someone to comment on:
1. passing posters (movie thumbs) works by using metadata.posters whereas passing fanart goes by using metadata.art, right?
Harley commented this out in his scanner so I'm curious if the PMM was designed to work/to retrieve info this way.
2. what else is possible to be passed this way: trailers, extra thumbs?
If there one day is a perfectly working nfo scanner, one thing I'd like to see would be the ability to export an nfo xml for a single movie right from the pmm. (Not yet a feature request ... just some brainstorming)
Thanks in advance. Great work done in here...
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I added tagline and writers support. I found and corrected the studio issue it should work so.So everything is pulled from .nfo except title. Currently problems: genre reads as one genre not multiple (ex Action, Adventure reads as one genre). Duration is still broken tried multiple formats and strings no luck.
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