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[Justkidding]

Hello everybody,

I am using Kodi for some years now but also own a license of JRiver for over a year.
Till now I only used jriver as external player for bluray (iso/bdmv) playback with menus.
As MC26 is just getting released I would like to move from Kodi to JRiver.
Unfortunately, I have two major problems.
I hope you can help me out here.

1.) I am using Ember Media Manager to scrap all my media. When I am for example looking at my movie Ant-Man I have the following structure:

Ant-Man (2015)
- Ant-Man (2015).mkv
- Ant-Man (2015).nfo
- Ant-Man (2015)-banner.jpg
- Ant-Man (2015)-poster.jpg
- Ant-Man (2015)-trailer.mkv
- .actors

I can't get JRiver to use these existing files when importing the files. Even worse JRiver always recognizes a file with -trailer.mkv as an own movie.
Can you please explain to me what is the best to import my files with such a structure?

2.) I have madVR setup to run with MPC-BE video player and configured it to my wishes. So when playing any 4k HDR file with MPC-BE it is working flawlessly. No stutters or anything like that. Unfortunately, when I play any 4k HDR file with JRiver it stutters a lot. I get hundreds of dropped frames and presentation glitches.
But I already updated madVR of JRiver to the same version I am using with MPC-BE and it also uses the same settings file.
Do you have any idea what could be the reasons for the playback problems in JRiver?

Thanks a lot for help
justkidding
 

[Moe]

I can't really help you with #2, but I can help with #1.

If all of your trailer filenames are like your Ant-Man example and all end in -trailer.mkv.  You could easily search for those and change the Media Sub Type from Movie to Trailer which would keep it separate from your movies. 

To use your poster image right click the movie, choose "Cover Art" and then choose "Add From File..." and select your poster. 

As for the other files, I am not sure how you want them to be used.  I am not sure how you'd want to use the banner.  If you're willing to really get your hands dirty, you may be interested in this thread

I know that MC does support .nfo files, but I don't have any experience there.  I am sure a search of the forum/wiki could bring you lots of info.  I don't know what .actors is.

[tij]

1) If your poster is named exactly like movie file, MC will use that (thought that was standard for Kodi too)

Moe already told you how to fix what was imported

To automate new imports ... in auto import configure ... edit setting for movie folder ... in apply these tags add a rule for Media Sub Type

if(regex,/#trailer#/,0,0), Trailer, Movie)

2) to use MadVR in MC ... need to use Red October HQ mode in video option (I remember ppl reported issues if use Custom ... it was resolved but I do not recall what was causing stuttering) .. MC uses its own copy of MadVR which is latest (unless you want to use experimental builds which MC developers do not recommend to use)

[Justkidding]

Thank you guys

If MC would use the poster that would be enough for me.
Do you mean with exactly named like the movie file without the addition of "-poster"?
So when my movie is named "Ant-Man (2015).mkv" the poster must be named "Ant-Man (2015).jpg"?
In import settings I also so the option "Analyse audio / video files" but this takes really long.
What is this option doing exactly?

Regarding madVR:
Yeah, I want to use the beta versions madVR as these are really adding an huge benefit to madVR - especially when watching 4k HDR movies. So I set video settings to custom in MC.
Still I get the stuttering.

@Moe: Thank you for the link! I will look into this when I have more time and the basics are working fine . It looks really interesting.

[tij]

Yup ... so movie.mkv ... movie.jpg would be considered its poster (there are other options too like folder.jpg but this doesn’t work if you have multiple movies in same folde)

Analyzing audio determines its peak and dynamic range ... generally it’s for music ... if your audio has been analyzed ... you can then apply DSP so all your tracks will be adjusted to similar volume

Audio analyze is not so useful for movie ... plus audio has to be converted to pcm for volume leveling to be applied ... and you loose atoms and dtsx if you do that

[tij]

I think stuttering in Custom has something to do with Lav filters ... try searching forum I distinctly remember this being discussed

You can try replacing MC MadVR with version of MadVR you want to use (somewhere in app data/roaming profile)  ... then RedOctober HQ will use that MadVR version and its internal LAV filter (which more stable) ...  but do not expect any help from developers as they only give support to MadVR version shipped with MC

[TheShoe]

for madVr/Red October HQ, try first to use the defaults that MC provides.   See if they make a difference.

From there you can always customize, which for madVR can be a challenging task.  note that selecting a pre-defined setting in MC will overwrite your custom settings, so back them up first if needed.

For trailers and such, beyond what others have already posted, you can also stack titles which i use extensively.   this would for example group your related content together.  with some work you can generally get MC to display things in any view the way you want it.