Plex-Poster-Maker (ppm) Stuff

[fresh gorge]

to be fair... the only way to know if the tmdb data is "clean" is to put the resulting images in Extr Large mode and use your eys to see if text is ther... if so, you go and assign the proper language in tmdb.... and then find a proper textless poster and upload it

which usually can end up in PPM folder as it comes from another source like fanart...

thats what I did for all my library

this way anyone that has the same shows/movies as myself, ends up with textless

[modern pebble]

Well, I guess it was working as expected, it was just pulling bad artwork. Unless you integrate OCR into the script, I don't know how it would know it was a bad poster. We just need to find another show that has a textless poster for Season 1 and no textless for Season 2 (and higher) and see if it will use the Season 1 poster for Season 2 and etc.

[fresh gorge]

correct... i am gonna do that for hanna now

[covert anchor]

This is one long ass thread. I know it’s purpose. I’m just saying…

[proud seal]

You would need to train an ai for that, OCR is not possible because of the different fonts on movie posters, also it could be text on a sign and then the ocr says its a poster with text, i tried it with tesseract and other ocr sets, i failed 😅

[modern pebble]

I didn't think it would be feasible for this

[covert anchor]

Would be cool to have this in docker

[proud seal]

Soon 🫡

[covert anchor]

I haven’t been following, but is the goal to only create posters for shit I don’t have? Or in other words, If I run and create a bunch of shit the first run, then when I add a new movie, it will only hit up the one movie I have no poster for?

[proud seal]

First run, all movies/shows, second run only missing

[covert anchor]

Ok. Cool

That would be dope. Then I’d have ”uniformly” created posters. And then where I was a different set, I just replace what’s in my assets folders with something else. Dope

[fresh gorge]

@modern pebble https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/54155-hanna/season/1/images/posters?image_language=xx

added a textless for season 1 only

[proud seal]

It also works for linux, docker will be added soon, i still have to test everything, also the schedule and such things.

[fresh gorge]

it can take up to 8 hours before the api detects this and we see it in the results of the run

[fresh gorge]

and maybe improved/enhanced log rotation logic. 😉

[proud seal]

On the list 😂

[fresh gorge]

I know... lol... are you adding these as enhance,ents to your github issues page?

QQ

what do you look for when it comes to textless on fanart?

https://fanart.tv/api/imagedata2.php?section=1&image=92636

this is textless.... on fanart

[proud seal]

Would be a good idea,

Textless on fanart is '00'

[fresh gorge]

but has a language of 00

and yet, the logic did not fallback and grab that textless

for hanna

my bad

that is a textless show poster and not season poster on fanart

ignore me

[proud seal]

🤭

[fresh gorge]

in any case, that poster is applicable as the season 1 textless poster and I have put it on tmdb.... now its a waiting game to see what happens

BTW... i also wrote a titlecard creator in python that would open up the video in question and take a snapshot of the video about 30 seconds in to be able to upload titlecards to TMDB.... this could be interesting for @modern pebble if he wanted to address the missing titlecards online

[proud seal]

That sounds like a resource hog 🤭

[modern pebble]

I would like to take a look at that

[fresh gorge]

Let me review it and I will share. At the time, I was surprised by how fast it would create the title cards.

Almost like it was able to Grab the snapshot without loading the whole media file

I could be dreaming as well...

[fresh gorge]

2024-03-06 14:20:55,821 - 2024-03-06 14:21:10,103 which is 15 seconds to process 8 files which were about 1.1GB each and across the lan and over wifi

I was not dreaming

not too bad...

[proud seal]

Noice

[modern pebble]

Well crap... I found that using the default (?) text size of 250 for season posters caused most seasons 10 and up (2 numbers) to wrap the text. Limiting it to 200 will allow it to display on one line. Now I have to go grab a bunch of season posters again. Thankfully, I don't even have to be awake for that to happen! 😀

[fresh gorge]

you have no idea how many times I have deleted the output folder of this script to rerun

[modern pebble]

Yeah, I have a super small test library.... haven't used it yet, just balls out do the full library, delete, change, run again, rinse and repeat LOL

[fresh gorge]

so i have been tweaking the title_card_clips.py file as the above was really rough

id like to add the ability to specify the time of the clip as a prompt and to have it only grab clips that are missing in the destination output. The idea is that you do one show at a time... and the clips you don't like you delete.... rerun with a different time and it only adds those... you review, see what you don't like... rinse and repeat until you have what you want and then you upload what you need to tmdb... next runs of ppm will then grab the missing titlecards instead of the fallback to the background

[modern pebble]

Sounds good

[fresh gorge]

drop file into a folder
create a venv
activate the venv
install requirements
run title_card_clips

open a powershell prompt and navigate to a folder and create a directory
cd pyprogs
mkdir title_card_clips

drop requirements and title_card_clips.py into the folder created

cd title_card_clips
python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate.ps1
python pip install -r .\requirements.txt
python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

now you are ready to run it
usage: title_card_clips.py [-h] --path PATH [--time TIME]

python .\title_card_clips.py --path "M:\media\tv\Alex Rider [imdb-tt6964748]" will default to clipping at 45 seconds
python .\title_card_clips.py --path "M:\media\tv\Alex Rider [imdb-tt6964748]" --time 170 will clip at 170 seconds

folder is created within the script subfolder called output

max of 11 logs are rotated in the folder.

[modern pebble]

O.M.G.

That is slick! Did 88 title cards in 80 seconds.

[fresh gorge]

Don't forget to submit to tmdb and help the whole community. 🙂

And the csv file for fallbacks could "feed" this python script.

Tmdb api updated and that textless Hanna season 1 image is now available.

So logic for this is resolved

[fresh gorge]

      "BackgroundPosters": "false",
      "TitleCards": "false"```

Silly question but if I wanted to run ppm, to NOT create show or movie poster, but still get backgrounds and episode cards, that's not possible, right?

[proud seal]

Ehm, i dont think that is currently possible.

[fresh gorge]

Just checking.... sounds like a possible enhancement to add to GH?

[fresh gorge]

$logFolder = "logs"
$maxLogs = 10

# Check if the log folder exists
if (Test-Path -Path $logFolder -PathType Container) {
    # Rename the existing log folder with a timestamp
    $timestamp = Get-Date -Format 'yyyyMMdd_HHmmss'
    Rename-Item -Path $logFolder -NewName "$logFolder-$timestamp"
}

# Delete excess log folders
$logFolders = Get-ChildItem -Path . -Filter "$logFolder-*" -Directory | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending
foreach ($folder in $logFolders | Select-Object -Skip $maxLogs) {
    Remove-Item -Path $folder.FullName -Recurse -Force
}

Thoughts on the above strategy for logs rotation? The maxLogs could be within config.json and logFolder would use the appropriate variable instead of "logs"

The logs folder is always with the most recent run. The oldest timestamped and renamed folders get removed based on the maxLogs value

I did not check yet, but this might need to delete $maxLogs - 1 and $maxLogs must be greater than or equal to 1

[proud seal]

Yeah, im also more a fan of folders, with only files it would get confusing when someone has more then 5 set

[fresh gorge]

Ok... let me take a crack at the folders thing and I will PR when ready.

[fresh gorge]

3PRs submitted all for the same related change of adding logs rotation. 1 for README, 1 for config.json.example, and 1 for the ps1 file.

Tested on Ubuntu and Windows.

[proud seal]

also tested in Docker, merged 🙂 thanks!

[proud seal]

Docker Container added, Please test it, in my testings everything worked.
https://github.com/fscorrupt/Plex-Poster-Maker?tab=readme-ov-file#docker

[fresh gorge]

Testing now.

First step is getting it to work on unraid

[rare tulip]

Works prefect for me... Setup it up in portainer running on my Qnap nas 🙂

I have it set to run 30min before each PMM run 👍 and then Plex-image-cleanup to run 3am everyday

[fresh gorge]

I see a possible issue with that.... what time is Plex maintenance at?

[rare tulip]

just looked the cleanup runs at 5am

[fresh gorge]

I also see another possible issue with that schedule.... first run will likely surpass 30 minutes thus not having all images run before PMM runs... so the assets might not have everything.

[fresh gorge]

So if pic runs at 5am, when does PMM run?

Separate note, what does the version line on compose file mean?

[rare tulip]

PMM - PMM_TIMES=03:00,8:00,11:00,14:00,16:30
PPM - RUN_TIME=02:30,7:300,10:300,13:30,16:00

version of docker-compose (formatting)

[fresh gorge]

Oh

[rare tulip]

I can just offset the PPM by 60min

[fresh gorge]

So the question still remains... what time for PLeX maintenance

[rare tulip]

it only adds anything new so it runs fast

[rare tulip]

let me look for it

[fresh gorge]

Drop a meta.lig here and luma will extract it

[rare tulip]

from Plex from 2am to 5am

[fresh gorge]

Ok... so you should really steer clear of anything that would conflict with that 2-5am

I'd remove the 3am and 2:30am runs

Then that should be good

And consider a 5:30am ppm and 6am PMM run

PPM        - RUN_TIME=02:30,7:300,10:300,13:30,16:00```

Also, I think I see some extra zeroes in this schedule

Ppm run times

[fresh gorge]

It's super slow for me, but works

Like 7 minutes for -testing

[proud seal]

You definitely have to give the container more resources

[fresh gorge]

Uh oh

[rare tulip]

mine ran the same speed as running it local did

[fresh gorge]

Mine did not create files in the test folder

That could be part of the problem

I need to see what is going on...

[rare tulip]

i needed to add another volume line to point at my existing assets folder - "/share/Multimedia/Plex/assets:/assets:rw" them my config just shows \\assets

[fresh gorge]

Test goes to a test sub folder within the config folder

[rare tulip]

ahh I hadn't tried that

[proud seal]

Testing worked for me in docker, i tried that too

[fresh gorge]

so strange.... second run worked

just noticed that the -testing does not offer summary of time the run took

Write-log -Message "Script execution time: $FormattedTimespawn" -Path $global:ScriptRoot\Logs\Scriptlog.log -Type Info

[fresh gorge]

I like that you moved stuff to the RotatedLogs subfolder keeping things nice and tidy

https://github.com/fscorrupt/Plex-Poster-Maker/pull/32

to add the summary with elapsed time

[proud seal]

Merged

[fresh gorge]

docker question....

if the /config is where we are supposed to put our custom files and the container is somehow putting Plex-Poster-Maker.ps1 in that directory... arent we then circumventing the whole point of the container?

shouldnt the code be part of the conatiner and not in the /config folder?

[rare tulip]

the /config is just where the location of the config.json should be

[fresh gorge]

and custom fonts

and custom overlays

this is not the case right now

that file is the one that concerns me as it somehow ends up there...

[proud seal]

It makes sense that it has the same structure on all systems, I don't make 3 different scripts for the systems.

If someone deletes it, it will be reloaded when the container is restarted.

[fresh gorge]

just saying that someone can edit that file

its ok... i get it and was just asking

[proud seal]

On container start it gets replaced with the one from my repo

[fresh gorge]

you also have something called Start.ps1

which is one folder back

[proud seal]

the start.ps1 just handles the schedule

[rare tulip]

That is a problem I see be cause I have a PlexPosterMake (copy).ps1 in my directory 😦

[proud seal]

Why? I do not have this

[rare tulip]

it not rewriting the existing file but creating a copy each time

[proud seal]

On a container restart?

Just restarted mine, only one ps1 present.

[rare tulip]

Are you using persistant volumes?

Going to clear everything but my config file out and retest

[proud seal]

I just bind the config to my local storage, like in the yml example, i installes my container with the yml from gh

[fresh gorge]

i do not get the "copy" thing on my side

[rare tulip]

Yea looking good... I think it was me updating the Ps1 from my local laptop

[modern pebble]

These lines don't show in the logs, not sure if it's just because the API response was null or it's a real error.

[proud seal]

Thanks, i will have a look👍

[rare tulip]

I started seeing the missing poster URL also

[proud seal]

It is possible that there is no poster so thats normal, but it should not result in an error like above.

[rare tulip]

but it ran an few hours ago and update those posters

[proud seal]

Okey this is strange then 🤔 cause the result also says that it did nothing, is sometjing in the image.csv?

Please send me the complete log folder of this run.

[proud seal]

you do not have set the favprovider value the correct way, that why its looking so strange on your site, you have set FANART.TV in config file, but it should be fanart.

i saw i did not had this on readme, its now there:

[rare tulip]

Doh! LOL

[proud seal]

tmdb is the recommended one, because we can update missing files easier then on fanart.

[rare tulip]

Changed it 🙂

[proud seal]

it still searches on fanart for fallback tho!

[proud seal]

okey changed the container part with the script, its now inside container, you are right, better this way.

was only a small change 🙂

[fresh gorge]

whats actually pretty cool about this container is that I could put other ps1 scripts in the config folder and run them

interactive session, launch pwsh and then run ps1 files

[proud seal]

Yes, that how i run my tautulli/arr scripts to, via cron and docker exec

[fresh gorge]

docker exec -it ppm sh

[proud seal]

Cron job on host:
* * * * * docker exec ppm pwsh anyscriptyouwant.ps1 >/dev/null 2>&1

Like here:
https://github.com/fscorrupt/docker-tautulli2discord

[fresh gorge]

i am on unraid, and my server is more than 10 years old... so its just slow in general for me... compared to running the ps1 from my more modern and powerful workstation.

[proud seal]

time for an upgrade 🤭

My "server" is an intel nuc, and im more then happy with that power 😅

[fresh gorge]

I submitted an [FR] that you wrote about the other day

is that where you run docker from?

the intel nuc

[proud seal]

Yeah

[fresh gorge]

did you try giving the title_card_clips.py a whirl and see how quick or slow it is?

[proud seal]

Not tried it yet, is it cpu intense ? Or does it utilize igpu too?

Running 50 containers on that machine 🤣

[fresh gorge]

nice.. so to answer your question.. I honestly dont know because I am just importing 3 python modules and expecting them to optimize how its done

[proud seal]

Just checked the modules, file handeling and image processing with PIL = CPU intense, so no GPU 😬

I like the idea of your script i may look into it with ffmpeg and integrate it to directly upload it within the PlexPosterMaker script to tmdb 🤔

[misty cobalt]

Does this add all the images to plex once it's done creating all the images for everything?

[proud seal]

No, it renames the files in the format that pmm needs, so that you can then use it as asset for further processing by pmm.

[misty cobalt]

ohhh okay

just got it running to test with

[proud seal]

Either with flat or folder structure depending on what you have set in config file, default is library structure.

There is also a testing switch where you can create all possible posters with a predefined text, so you can see how big the boxes and fonts are, before you mass run it on libs.

[misty cobalt]

Once you've got a solid base I'll start making some suggestions 😄

[proud seal]

😅 Should I be scared?

[misty cobalt]

Nope, just things I know that TCM ran into

[proud seal]

Ive not done the switch yet, im still using tcm for my titlecards

[misty cobalt]

The main one being character replacements for fonts

… vs ... for example, most fonts won't have the first one

[proud seal]

And "cyrillic", shōgan is a good example, one of mine font just added sh gan to the poster, cause it did not had ō

[misty cobalt]

yeah 🙂

also top vs bottom heavy text preference

[proud seal]

But that is already on my todo list, i have an function from years ago for that case back where i wrote scripts for an rus company 😅

[misty cobalt]

the adventures of
tintin

vs

the
adventures of tinin

so yeah there'll be a lot of niggly things 😄

[proud seal]

I know, will give me another headache for sure 😅

[misty cobalt]

I could go on and on 😉

[proud seal]

I appreciate any feedback or suggestions, but whether I can incorporate them is uncertain.🤣

[fresh gorge]

Well... not sure I understand.... when you write this versus taht.. I dont know if you mean... I like this over that... or that you want an option to do this and to do that

FONTS issues are more a factor of the font you use, no?

if your font does not support characters, then it will "fail" to render on the poster

bottom and top heavy are not concepts I understand and furthermore do you prefer one over the other?

[proud seal]

You can script it to do another split on line if it begins with The or any other pref. And char escape to use another char instead of the cyrillic one so o instead of ō

[fresh gorge]

so lets break that down a little more.. one thing at a time...

fonts wise... if the font does not support the character, you would want to replace it with the equivalent character that is supported by that font?

i ask because on both of these points, I did a lot of research when we built the 7 styles of People Posters

[proud seal]

Yes and no, just replace with the equialent non cyrllic char,

So every öòōőœ and so one would be an o

[fresh gorge]

ok, but how would you know when to do that?

you would rely on the user to add something to the config.json that says replace_characters: true?

[misty cobalt]

you have a character mapper

[fresh gorge]

just trying to understand conceptually how that would work

so a character mapper

[misty cobalt]

which is specific to the font you're using

[fresh gorge]

yeah... definitely the way to go but painful in so many ways... for me personally... I'd rather ask the font creators to make better fonts

[misty cobalt]

for example on titlecardmaker's default font:

FONT_REPLACEMENTS = {
        '[': '(', ']': ')', '(': '[', ')': ']', '―': '-', '…': '...', '“': '"'
    }

[fresh gorge]

that support more of these characters

[proud seal]

It is also possible with .net you can do a char measuring to see if that char gets displayed with that font, if not it has a lower lenght

[fresh gorge]

ok.. so conceptually I now understand the request in terms of character_mapper

[misty cobalt]

re top/bottom heavy, this would be classed as "top heavy" since the majority of characters go to the first line

people may prefer bottom heavy so that their text is

         THE
ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

[fresh gorge]

as far as the weight goes... how would you envision where to "split" text?

[misty cobalt]

The third option is to calculate the amount of characters and try to get as close to an even split as you can

[proud seal]

Basically a function that combines both, checking font if it is capable of displaying that char, and then a hashtable for replace if not.

[misty cobalt]

THE ADVENTURES
  OF TINTIN

[fresh gorge]

if you make your box smaller in width you might achieve this

but then it would break for other strings

[misty cobalt]

Or a fourth option is that people may have preferred characters to split on

for example splitting on the :

TAYLOR SWIFT:
THE ERAS TOUR

[fresh gorge]

so the split logic is also going to be based on a set of "rules"

[misty cobalt]

yes

[fresh gorge]

so yeah... thats gonna take a while I would say... the idea here originally was not to replace tcm

[misty cobalt]

Yeah of course, I did say once it's more stable

[fresh gorge]

and frankly I will most likely use it to pull textless

and not do any image processing

[misty cobalt]

I get that but you're going to get the exact same requests that TCM did

😛

[fresh gorge]

Yes.. I understand...

[misty cobalt]

"Oh I wanted to use this font but it doesn't like the é in beyonce so now I have beyonc☐"

[fresh gorge]

I an looking for a GAP replacement... not because I dont like GAP, but it serves two different purposes

Tell the Queen Bee to change her name

[misty cobalt]

🤣

[fresh gorge]

lol

totally understand Yoz

so the abiklity to pull textless posters was a huge feature for me and GAP could not fulfill that

so yeah... a split feature is cool and a character_mapper feature is also cool

[proud seal]

Over time, these things will surely be incorporated in some form, but currently, I'm quite happy with how well it's working. After all, it's only one month old and emerged from my fun and laziness.🤣

[fresh gorge]

100%

Yozora, do you know if TCM can extract titlecard clips from videos? LIke it lets you clip a frame from 30 seconds in or something like that?

[proud seal]

Havnt seen anything like that in webui release, its main feature are the blueprints.

[fresh gorge]

always based on existing titlecards then.. ok

[proud seal]

Yeah, it pulls the info from tmdb to, for episode pictures.

Thats the way i do it, i have one backdrop picture per show and i set this backdrop picture on each episode inside the show.

With tcm

I think it looks cleaner then having an different pic per ep

[fresh gorge]

yes and no... I guess its personal preference at the end of the day...

I mean.. yes its definintely cleaner

no as in I prefer seeing different episode titlecard clips

but if they dont exist on tmdb, then I want to know and create and upload to tmdb

[proud seal]

Yeah, i will have look at this next week i may can integrate a function to upload missing ep pic inside the ppm run to tmdb.

[fresh gorge]

hmmm.... I think i have heard that api to upload images directly to tmdb is not permitted... however I am likelye wrong about this and just misread something

[proud seal]

You are right, travis thinks it would create chaos 🥹

[fresh gorge]

because it would... look at the default language issue... do you have a direct communication link with him?

would love to understand why my proposal for a fix would be so drastic

[modern pebble]

@fresh gorge If I run the title_card_clips more than two times it has an error trying to rename the log file.

[fresh gorge]

Oh??please share

[proud seal]

Nah, just searched on forum and found an old thread

[fresh gorge]

I also updated things in my GH so maybe it's been fixed...

[fresh gorge]

Just need to fix some documentation

[modern pebble]

I cleared the logs, grabbed the latest off your GH, and ran it. This was the result of an attempted third run.

[fresh gorge]

thanks... I am still updating my GH and will start standardizing the logging and other stuff in my hodge-podge of python scripts... stay tuned

[fresh gorge]

thanks for your patience... the readme has been updated and the script has as well. please try it now. Still working through the other python ones, but tcc should be fixed

[modern pebble]

No worries, I was just deleting the logs and running. I did find out TVDB is pretty picky about uploaded images 🙁

[fresh gorge]

TVDB?

I prefer updating tmdb

since its a primary source of images for ppm

[modern pebble]

I was doing both

[fresh gorge]

oh wow...

[modern pebble]

Well, for one series anyway.

[fresh gorge]

i think tmdb has the right balance of restrictions and freedom...

[modern pebble]

Seems to. They didn't delete the poster and background I uploaded like TVDB did.

I created a second directory to run PPM to download artwork without processing and then I'm going to go through and upload to TMDB for the stuff that needs it.

[fresh gorge]

yup with 0 image processing

[modern pebble]

yep

[fresh gorge]

finding textless posters and season posters can sometimes be challenging

[modern pebble]

Yes, which is where TCC comes into play. I did find I sometimes need to run it at a variation of times to get a really "good" image to upload.

But it makes it so easy.

[fresh gorge]

yes... I think I mentioned that... delete teh ones you dont like... change teh time, rerun and see the results

[modern pebble]

Yes. And I like that it skips the images you keep

[fresh gorge]

yup... is logs fixed?

[modern pebble]

I actually haven't tried it yet. Just killing a little time before we go meet friends for dinner.

[fresh gorge]

ahhh... np... enjoy

[modern pebble]

Log issue appears to be fixed, thanks!

[fresh gorge]

FR - spawn multiple (up to 10) parallel posters for magick processing to improve overall performance.

[proud seal]

Denied, logic is per lib and per item in lib, only first run takes some time, after that its finished in under 7min. To be able to process more at once it would require a complete rewrite and also it must be handled differently as it currently does.

[mystic junco]

Processing your request...

[mystic junco]

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[fresh gorge]

Yup. Understood.

[rare tulip]

keep getting this error but every thing else is ruuning fine

also any plans on adding discord notifications for start and end of script like in PMM? 🤞 😎

[fresh gorge]

can you share youre redacted config.json file

[fresh gorge]

.\notif.ps1 -WebhookUrl 'YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL_HERE' -Username 'Plex-Poster-Manager' -Content '' -EmbedTitle 'PPM Started' -EmbedDescription 'PPM Just ended...' -EmbedColor '16711680'

or as a function inside the script:

function Send-DiscordMessage {
    param (
        [string]$WebhookUrl,
        [string]$Username = 'Plex-Poster-Maker',
        [string]$Content = 'I guess I can put whatever I want here',
        [string]$EmbedTitle = 'Optional Embed Title',
        [string]$EmbedDescription = 'Optional Embed Description',
        [string]$EmbedColor = '5763719' # Hex color code for green
    )

    $Embed = @{
        title       = $EmbedTitle
        description = $EmbedDescription
        color       = $EmbedColor
    }

    $Body = @{
        'username' = $Username
        'content'  = $Content
        'embeds'   = @($Embed)
    }

    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $WebhookUrl -Method 'post' -Body ($Body | ConvertTo-Json) -ContentType 'Application/Json'
}

# Example of using the function
$webhookUrl = 'https://discord.com/api/webhooks/YOUR_WEB_HOOK'

# Call the function with desired parameters
Send-DiscordMessage -WebhookUrl $webhookUrl -Username 'Plex-Poster-Manager' -Content '' -EmbedTitle 'PPM Just Ended' -EmbedDescription 'It just ended now' -EmbedColor '16711680'

[fresh gorge]

I get this error as well. Looks like for the season poster, when it finds text for Swat Season 2, it falls back to fanart and you get the error

Might be because there is a variable that was not reset or something...

[proud seal]

I will integrate apprise 👍

[fresh gorge]

Very cool... never even knew about apprise

[fresh gorge]

I was able to repro your issue

[fresh gorge]

Wow... you put all in 1 folder

That would drive me nuts

I use folders

[fresh gorge]

specifically: "LibraryFolders": "true",

[proud seal]

ohh boy ^^ 😄

but it will only work in docker container with apprise.

[fresh gorge]

Really... all those options and flexibility and it must be in docker? Too bad

[proud seal]

yeah cause i dont want to handle python installation in my script

apprise is only available via python or via a selfhosted docker container or i install it directly in my container image
To be able to use it in script on windows and on linux i would have to cover the install process

but PRs are welcome if you want to integrate it 😄

in container its only 2 lines in dockerfile

[rare tulip]

It's the dump all asset folder that PMM uses. I am not using folders now because it is easier to show large pics view and just mouse wheel scroll looking for messed up posters (like ones that somehow are foreign or an incorrect match)

[proud seal]

and this is an example from windows where i have to point to the apprise exe, that would differ on so many systems 😄

[fresh gorge]

What are your thoughts on offering a fallback to the function I posted above? Where it's just a simple discord webhook? Apprise for docker and Unix, while windows would ignore that and use the function?

[fresh gorge]

Ahhhh yes... for sure... when you are first trying to clean things up and add posters and stuff to tmdb, having it all in one folder is the best way

[proud seal]

already in testing 🙂

[fresh gorge]

FS, were you able to repro the issue that Riptide reported for the SWAT 2017 show?

[proud seal]

yeah, but im still searching for the "why"

[fresh gorge]

I repro'd it late last night and did not have the time to step through it and see what was going on.

[proud seal]

@rare tulip i saw in your config that you prefer en over textless but you also do all image processing with text apply and so on, is this right or just a typo in config?

[fresh gorge]

My config?

[proud seal]

forgot the tag

[fresh gorge]

I saw the same but then still got the same error.

With xx, en, de

I am at office today so limited to 0 access to my machines as I am only able to reach them over my little phone screen....

I did get it down to, poster creation for swat, deleted only the season posters, reran, and problem shows up

Other oddity, season 7 has a textless, but ppm still downloads the text version.

And seemingly a duplicate of season06

If I delete just season7 poster, then it downloads the textless

If I delete season6 and season 7, problem comes back

Just trying to find a way to simplify the logs and troubleshooting....

Also noticed a logging issue. See the space in the filename? Seems to be logging related only which is strange to me... this happens on all files and not just swat

[proud seal]

okey i think i found it why it searches on fanart, i do have a logic issue in there, gonna have a look on thuseday, im also not at home right now, because its a poster with text it searches on fanart, related to the only textless order i had before, i may have forgotten to adjust that part.

[rare tulip]

As a 99.9% remote worker I despise office days 🤣 ... but I run Tailscale in docker in my lab and then have total access when remote 🙂

[fresh gorge]

Our laptops are locked down so I can't get to my home network

[rare tulip]

That sucks... I am lucky enough to be able to use my own laptop

[fresh gorge]

Makes sense from what I am seeing as well in my limited review of this bug

[fresh gorge]

Well, pros and cons I guess...and they won't let me connect a personal machine to the work network, so I am kinda stuck. But that's fine... I make do...

[proud seal]

but back to my question: @rare tulip

[rare tulip]

LOL I go back and forth... I liked the textless but was having a bunch that were really ugly looking so I went back to normal. You guys are fine tuning everything so I might go back to textless

[covert anchor]

i can't wait for this to be docker

[fresh gorge]

It is

Docker compose is there https://github.com/fscorrupt/Plex-Poster-Maker

[covert anchor]

well shit, that last i heard it was still being worked on

i would like to set this up on my synology, is that possible?

[fresh gorge]

I don't see why not

I got the compose to work on unraid

[covert anchor]

the poster magic is what i'm not sure of

[fresh gorge]

How do you mean?

The container has all you need

You just need to setup the config file

[covert anchor]

ok, so it's all built into the container

[fresh gorge]

Yup

[covert anchor]

ok, then do i still go in the .json file and edit whatever keys and shit?

[fresh gorge]

1 config file and decide on what fonts and overlays you want to use

Yup

Just like you would the config.yml file

[covert anchor]

will this setup, so that i just have to copy the shit to my asset folder?

[fresh gorge]

Also, it comes with a prebuilt font, and a prebuilt overlay for poster and title cards

Exactly

[covert anchor]

cause i don't want to overwrite some of my existing posters like my diiivoy neon shit

[fresh gorge]

Or point it to assets2

Then you can flip config.yml to assets2

It's not suppposed to overwrite

[covert anchor]

are there any issues i need to watch out for?

[fresh gorge]

Captures differences

Yes.

Hence I suggest assets2

This way you can see how it works

Decide on if you want borders or not

Textless or not

Text overlay or not

Raw file or with a gradient overlay

First thing is to get all your keys and stuff in order. The tmdb one is not the same as PMM tmdb key

Once that is done, decide on your primary source. I suggest tmdb

Then decide if you want textless, then en, then another language for posters

Like if you want to grab Spanish posters, you would put es, xx, en

This would prefer Spanish, then if that's not found, textless, then English

I use xx,en

I want textless

Then you decide how you want to alter the downloaded images. Font, color, border, border color, gradient overlay. They can all be switched on or off depending on what you want

There is a -testing mode where you can try it out and it shows you what the output will look like so that you can decide if the boundaries you gave it for text and borders is acceptable

The readme is pretty thorough.. take a peek at that as it's pretty easy

[covert anchor]

@fresh gorge f me... LOL

i set up the docker compose, where do i download or setup the config file? that's not listed in the docker compose section

[fresh gorge]

Just take the config.json from the site?

[covert anchor]

the file is asking for i have magick installed

[fresh gorge]

Ignore that part for docker

Leave it as is

It will download it for you if needed

[covert anchor]

do i have to create a new tmdb account?

[fresh gorge]

No you don't

Login to your account and go to the section for apikeys and you will see the other key to use

[covert anchor]

i'm trying to figure out how to generate a new key, but don't want to eff up my pmm key

[fresh gorge]

my config

[fresh gorge]

You don't need to

[covert anchor]

do i use the long ass read access key?

[fresh gorge]

Exactly

Its like 7900883892 characters long

[covert anchor]

can i skip fanart?

[fresh gorge]

It's a fallback

I guess you could

Never tried to

[covert anchor]

there doesn't seem to be a free version

[fresh gorge]

I setup my account and forgot about it

It's free

[covert anchor]

i've tried to find a free api and don't see it

[fresh gorge]

One sec

[covert anchor]

nevermind, it dorked me around.

now how do i properly set my asset path? do i put the "real" path to where my assets are located?

[fresh gorge]

I wouldn't until you are comfortable

You could place it right off the config directory

./assets2

Or map another volume

[covert anchor]

sorry dude, i'm just trying to get shit all setup

so do i need to map my pmm assets folder to ppm?

[fresh gorge]

Well... that's an option

Where is your assets folder now?

[covert anchor]

ok, so what should i do right now while i'm trying to get it tested

[fresh gorge]

./assets

[covert anchor]

i like your idea of assets2, to test

[fresh gorge]

Use that path

Or ./assets2

[covert anchor]

so do i put that in the asset path?

[fresh gorge]

That will create the folder in the same directory that you have config.json

[fresh gorge]

Yes

[covert anchor]

what's the proper file name for titlecard or background for pmm?

[fresh gorge]

Magick installation: ./

[fresh gorge]

Not sure what you mean?

Title cards are for show episodes only

Background applies to movies and shows

All can be pushed by PMM to Plex

[covert anchor]

"overlayfile": "overlay.png",
"backgroundoverlayfile": "backgroundoverlay.png",
"titlecardoverlayfile": "backgroundoverlay.png",

[fresh gorge]

Those files are available on the GH

I use different ones

[covert anchor]

imageprocessing to false?

[fresh gorge]

Well... for image processing... do you want to apply text to the image?

Do you want to apply a gradient?

Do you want to apply a border?

Those are all "image processing " tasks

[covert anchor]

do i put all this shit in my ppm directory?

[fresh gorge]

Yes

If you don't use image processing then the zip stuff not needed

You have a test library in Plex?

[covert anchor]

not at the moment, but i can create one

[fresh gorge]

You should add all libraries to the exclude line and only do one so you see the results

You can also stop the run and it will just continue where you left off

Wipe the directory and it will just start over

Change the path and it will "start over"

The other thing once it's started is I would docker exec -it ppm bash

[covert anchor]

so once i have it going, then i can set it to my pmm assets, and then it would only add missing shit?

[fresh gorge]

Yes

But I would always recommend a backup first

To be sure

You use flat or directories in your assets in PMM?

[covert anchor]

directories

[fresh gorge]

So set library folders: true in ppm

Wanna share a redacted config.json before you run it?

[covert anchor]

will luma redact?

[fresh gorge]

Nope

Luma is for PMM

Not this

[covert anchor]

do i need to create the assets2 directory?

[fresh gorge]

Nope

It will create it right off the folder where config.json is

If you used ./assets2

[covert anchor]

can i dm you the config?

[fresh gorge]

If you like. Sure

Looks fine.

Not sure if you gonna like the font

But log into container interactively and ls -al

You should see two ps1 files

[covert anchor]

i don't remember remember how to log in interactively

[fresh gorge]

docker exec -it ppm sh

Assuming that your docker is called ppm

[covert anchor]

yes, i see them

[fresh gorge]

Type pwsh

[covert anchor]

ok

[fresh gorge]

This will activate the powershell within the interactive session

Now run Plex-Poster-Maker.ps1 -testing

This should kick off a test session to give you an idea if things are setup ok and what the output will look like

A sub folder called test will have all the results

[covert anchor]

dammit

error message

[fresh gorge]

Screenshot please?

[modern pebble]

Isn't it PlexPosterMaker.ps1?

[fresh gorge]

Yup

My bad

[covert anchor]

which you can see i tried that

[modern pebble]

maybe .\PlexPosterMaker.ps1

[fresh gorge]

ls -al

And what MyPostigId said

[fresh gorge]

I usually start typing Plex and hit tab to auto-complete

And it should decide if it needs the .\PlexPosterMaker.ps1 -testing

[covert anchor]

this worked

now it's running

[fresh gorge]

Cool so you able to see the contents of the test folder?

Like with your macOS?

[covert anchor]

yeah

[fresh gorge]

It should create about 8-10 images

[covert anchor]

yes

[fresh gorge]

So that's the font you chose

[covert anchor]

is that what the font looks like?

[fresh gorge]

Rocky

Yes

[covert anchor]

what font did you use?

[fresh gorge]

I used the same as we use on our defaults

ComfortAa-Medium

Which is why I sent you the zip file that contains other fonts

But you can drop whatever .ttf file into the directory and then update the config.json

[covert anchor]

ok, that i'm ready to run, do i just change the run time in my docker compose?

which i tried, and it isn't creating the assets2 folder

[fresh gorge]

I'd just run without the testing

[covert anchor]

so do i do the same thing, just drop the -testing

[fresh gorge]

It's in the same directory as the the config.json file

That's where assets2 will be created

[fresh gorge]

Exactly

[covert anchor]

it only did one movie and was finished

[fresh gorge]

Huh?

[covert anchor]

where the hell is my ./assets2 folder

i can't see it in my config directory

[fresh gorge]

Where is the test folder?

Should be right there as well

[covert anchor]

did the container create it, but i can't see it in my macOS?

[fresh gorge]

In your screenshot, are you able to go one directory back?

[covert anchor]

i can see it when i do ls -al, but doesn't show in macos

[covert anchor]

right, but why can't i see it in macos

[fresh gorge]

I feel like your path might need to be ./config/assets2

[covert anchor]

how do i delete that directory in powershell

[fresh gorge]

Can you cd into that directory?

Then ls -al

And share what's in there

[fresh gorge]

cd assets2

[covert anchor]

i'm there already

[fresh gorge]

I need to know what issue there

Oh

Sorry

Ok. cd ..

[covert anchor]

ok

[fresh gorge]

rm -rf assets2

Recursive delete of the assets2 directory

[covert anchor]

ok, it's gone

now that i change my asset path, should i try again?

[fresh gorge]

Yes

Is it safe to say that you have a Plex library called Movies - Not Shared

And your config is excluding all the others.

[covert anchor]

yes,

[fresh gorge]

Ok. So try with the new path

[fresh gorge]

There you go

So consider that if you add overlays, you may want to resize the textbox

If you look at my config you'll see what I think are decent settings for ComfortAa-Medium

[covert anchor]

some shit doesn't have an image in the folder, does that mean it oculdn't find anything

[fresh gorge]

Depends on the logs

Should tell you what happened

There is a csv file that also has details

[covert anchor]

that's with your settings

[fresh gorge]

FYI, if tmdb has posters that are labelled "No language" but they contain text because people did not classify things correctly, then you might not get textless images. Just set the language to the proper language and when the api updates, if there is a textless, it will grab it.

[fresh gorge]

Did you delete the file before rerunning?

[covert anchor]

yes

[fresh gorge]

Oh... interesting. I did not think those were my settings

[covert anchor]

well unless i copied the wrong shit

[fresh gorge]

But I have been testing like crazy so who knows

[covert anchor]

so this creates a folder for each library, but i don't want it to do what

[fresh gorge]

You said that is what you did in PMM

That's not my config btw as my textbox is narrower

[covert anchor]

my assets directory in pmm is straight up /config/assets/<<movie name..

[covert anchor]

i copied your config from above

unless you have another config somewhere?

[covert anchor]

dammit, i think i figured out what i did. i copied the numbers to the example instead of to my own config

[fresh gorge]

There you go

[covert anchor]

but how do i still use the folders, but not have it put a separate folder for each library?

[fresh gorge]

And set LibraryFolders: false for a flat structure

Kill run with ctrl-c

Update config.json

Delete the folders

Rerun

You could delete the whole assets2 from macOS

I also use a different gradient overlay

Not as dark

But you can decide

[covert anchor]

my pmm assets structure is /config/assets/<<movie name>>/poster.jpg

[fresh gorge]

Movie name is the folder name, no?

[covert anchor]

yes, i just don't have them in a library folder

[fresh gorge]

Lemme think for a second

So it's not flat

The issue is that you end up with an assets folder that has ./assets/<library name>/<movie>

[covert anchor]

like so

all my movies, no matter the library are thrown in the "Movies" asset folder

[fresh gorge]

Well... mine are separated

So I guess this would be an enhancement request

[covert anchor]

so if i only want it to use textless, do i just not use en as a fallback?

[fresh gorge]

Well yes

But this was designed to give you something instead of nothing in each directory

But yeah

xx only

And then empty folders would mean textless not found on tmdb or fanart or tvdb or IMDb

It may still have a final fallback of downloading text as a last resort from your preferred site

[covert anchor]

so my next question, what's the easiest way to integrate with pmm?

[fresh gorge]

The csv produced will tell you

Well...if you "trust" it as your asset source, point the PMM assets to it per library

Done

[covert anchor]

but i still want to use some of my existing assets? do i just copy those over to the ppm directory?

[fresh gorge]

Or the other way

Up to you

Here is a suggestion

Rename your current and live assets folder to assets2

Make ppm assets the new source

Copy from assets2 to assets for the posters from diiivoy and others that you want

Done

[covert anchor]

do then i just need to map the ppm assets so that pmm can use it right?

[fresh gorge]

Or the other way around

In the ppm, new additional volume map to point to where PMM sees the assets folder

This way you ain't touching anything on your PMM config

Well config.yml would still need to point to libraryfoldee per library as a change as well

[covert anchor]

and in essense, my assets would stay up to date, because as i added shit ppm would search for a poster on it's daily run

[fresh gorge]

There is no "merge" that exists in ppm for the library types

Exactly

[covert anchor]

what do you mean?

[fresh gorge]

I think the container has a built in schedule

Twice a day

Ppm can't merge all movie libraries into one folder

Like you currently have

Bedtime for me

[covert anchor]

thanks a bunch for your help

[covert anchor]

@proud seal and @fresh gorge did find one issue. i had a couple assets already that were named poster.png. PPM still created a poster.jpg

[proud seal]

I need log files 🫡

If you have another folder structure then ppm has with libraryfolders true then its normal that it recreates them. My script only checks in his desired location. So for assets in: path you specified/lib folder name/title folder name/poster.jpg

And in flat asset path you specified/poster.jpg

[fresh gorge]

Two things....

I have 4 libraries defined in Plex: TV Shows, Movies, TestTV Shows, TestMovies

This script will output (LibraryFolders: true) 4 folders:
assets/TV Shows
assets/Movies
assets/TestTV Shows
assets/TestMovies

In PMM, I have two folders defined for assets. In both sections of my config, for TV related stuff, I point to: assets/tv and in the movie related sections, I point to assets/movies

As such, people with existing structures as I have described above would need to make some changes and in theory, duplicate folders exist... because a 4K library and a non-4K library for the same movie would need 2 posters instead of just one.

Secondly

And I have not reviewed this... again, people with existing assets, if they drop into the assets, gif, jpg, jpeg, png (or any other poster.ext) and since you drop in .jpg files, only if the .jpg does not exist will you write to the folder.

And if they only have poster.png there, then they end up with poster.png(their original) and the ppm .jpg one.

[fresh gorge]

He has a library folder setup like I described where movie based libraries are all in 1 movies folder and then each movie name as sub folders off that

So 4K Movies, Movies in his assets is:
assets/Movies/Ant-Man/poster.jpg

Not:
assets/Movies/Ant-Man/poster.jpg
assets/4K Movies/Ant-Man/poster.jpg

And in his case, he has some folders with:
/assets/Movies/Ant-Man/poster.jpg
/assets/Movies/Ant-Man2/poster.png

After running ppm ends up with:
/assets/Movies/Ant-Man/poster.jpg
/assets/Movies/Ant-Man2/poster.png
/assets/Movies/Ant-Man2/poster.jpg

Just verified that you check for the existence of jpg files in 40 places (searched for jpg)

Maybe this:
$PosterImageoriginal = "$AssetPath\$LibraryName\$FolderName\poster.jpg"
Should be:
$PosterImageoriginal = "$AssetPath\$LibraryName\$FolderName\poster.*"

But always create .jpg

[proud seal]

yeah i know, but i wont cover all those kind of structures, if he want to use ppm he has to adjust his current config in pmm.
It only bloats the code unnecessarily, the change in pmm only takes a few seconds.

i may could change the test to poster.* but the structure change is something i wont add, cause some other peaople could have other wishes too 😄

i will have a look on all this including the logic part tomorrow

[fresh gorge]

I agree on the folder structure

It is extra maintenance for people with multiple libs and same movie in both... when doing things manually

Not here

Where it's automated

[rare tulip]

If he is using PMM then all he needs to do is add a volume line in the PPM yaml file that points "assets" to the existing folder. My assets go in Multimedia/Plex/assets which is what PMM pulls from so I just add - "/share/Multimedia/Plex/assets:/assets:rw" to the yaml and put /assets in the config

[fresh gorge]

I think he figured that out... and thanks for sharing as we never saw what he ended up with

[fresh gorge]

Replacing .jpg with .* will reduce overall character count by about 80... lol

Btw, did you ever mess around with magick and the -quality setting for outputting jpg files?

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#jpg

[proud seal]

no, never looked at this

thoughts?

[fresh gorge]

I might try to do a run with -quality 100 which is not lossless to compare with a default and see the size diff

Tip on your embed... put your logo as an embed image at top right

That way it's always your logo

Put logo on GH and point to it when creating embed

Or to the downloaded local version

[rare tulip]

for example

is this what you mean

[fresh gorge]

Yes

[fresh gorge]

Consider putting Errors as a header with a number instead of within the sentence as you have

Errors, Fallbacks, etc...

[fresh gorge]

Also, if clean run, embed color is green. If errors, red. If testing, blurple. If fallbacks or not textless/primary language, then yellow.

It's looking great.

[proud seal]

yeah gonna play with it tomorow currently i only have red and green

sadly apprise does not support payloads for discord, so i have to use for discord a seperate notification as when someone puts telegram or gotify as apprise url :/

[rare tulip]

For some reason I can't get the container to run this morning. I killed everything and started from scratch but still just getting this error. Anyone else having an issue?

I noticed that the .ps1 is not downloading into the folder

the only thing I added is the config and font

[covert anchor]

i've adjusted, the issue still is as explained. i have poster.png, and you're savign a poster.jpg

[proud seal]

remove the ppm image too, i think it does not get updated, the ps1 file is now in container not in config folder

[proud seal]

i know, is noted, the check will be added in next release

[covert anchor]

thanks bull, i thought i shared that was working. that's when i discovered the issue with the poster.png and poster.jpg

[proud seal]

yeah good catch 👍

[covert anchor]

this service is cool. i just put it on hold until the extension fix

[covert anchor]

when will be next release? LOL

[proud seal]

this week 🙂

[covert anchor]

now that i got it working, i'm anxious. LOL

[rare tulip]

Killed everything and rebuilt and now working 🙂

[proud seal]

im on a trip and have limited access, thats why there is no release earlier, but i return tomorrow and will then integrate/fix all the things, after testing it gets published 🙂

[fresh gorge]

Would you be ok with me adding a PR to allow for outputQuality: 100% in the JSON and adjust the 82 lines with the -quality argument for magick.exe? My tests ran well... and I will share the results here of the test folder output at different quality levels

[proud seal]

better after i added my changes, cause i already changed a lot on script 😄

[fresh gorge]

No problem and this is why I asked

Just seeing if I could help on some small stuff... and not have you duplicate efforts

Oh... and it seems that default compression is as documented.... 92%

Going from 92% at 5.25MB ends up at 10.4MB at 100%

Ringing and other artifacts are improved though.

And this might make me have to re-evaluate whether all the defaults should be redone at 100% as people have complained about dithering and ring artifacts in the past

A mere 100K files to regenerate

💩

[covert anchor]

In my opinion, this is dope as shit

Gives most posters the same general style / look as far as title overlay. But then my pmm overlays. Lol. I use about every overlay

[fresh gorge]

Like me... so I might end up with ImageProcessing:false allowing me to leverage all the overlays without them covering any text from the poster image as I prefer textless.

The idea is that with the test folder, you can apply overlays to that to tweak your ppm settings so that your overlays and the textbox don't collide

As well, maybe tweak your PMM overlay locations to avoid collisions

[covert anchor]

Ok. What exactly is the image processing again?

[fresh gorge]

So a possible workflow... take a movie that has ALL the possible overlays or at least the one with all the bottom overlays. And take that movie and add it to your test Plex library.

Then you replace the poster with the one from the test output from PMM, AND you remove the Overlay label.

Then you run your PMM against the test library and see what happens.

If there are overlaps,
Tweak the PPM settings, recreate the test, replace the poster in Plex and remove overlay label, rerun PMM for overlays only against Plex test library and review the results

This is an iterative way to find your optimal settings for ppm when image processing is true

[fresh gorge]

In ppm, this means no gradient-overlay.png, no borders, and no text applied to anything.

[covert anchor]

Haha. I like the gradient and the text

[fresh gorge]

So then you can turn off borders by setting that to false in all sections of config.json

So you leave imageprocessing to true and you turn off the borders in the other sections

      "ImageProcessing": "true"
    },
    "PosterOverlayPart":{
      "fontAllCaps": "true",
      "AddBorder": "false",
      "AddText": "true",
      "AddOverlay": "true",
      "fontcolor": "white",
      "bordercolor": "white",
      "minPointSize": "95",
      "maxPointSize": "250",
      "borderwidth": "30",
      "MaxWidth": "1300",
      "MaxHeight": "500",
      "text_offset": "+300"
    },
    "BackgroundOverlayPart":{
      "fontAllCaps": "true",
      "AddBorder": "false",
      "AddText": "true",
      "AddOverlay": "true",
      "fontcolor": "white",
      "bordercolor": "white",
      "minPointSize": "95",
      "maxPointSize": "250",
      "borderwidth": "30",
      "MaxWidth": "3200",
      "MaxHeight": "500",
      "text_offset": "+200"
    },
    "TitleCardOverlayPart":{
      "AddOverlay": "true",
      "AddBorder": "false",
      "bordercolor": "white",
      "borderwidth": "30"
    },
    "TitleCardTitleTextPart":{
      "fontAllCaps": "true",
      "AddEPTitleText": "true",
      "fontcolor": "white",
      "minPointSize": "95",
      "maxPointSize": "250",
      "MaxWidth": "3200",
      "MaxHeight": "280",
      "text_offset": "+300"
    },
    "TitleCardEPTextPart":{
      "fontAllCaps": "true",
      "AddEPText": "true",
      "fontcolor": "white",
      "minPointSize": "80",
      "maxPointSize": "100",
      "MaxWidth": "2000",
      "MaxHeight": "140",
      "text_offset": "+150"
    }
  }```

[covert anchor]

I guess I like this cause I can keep playing. If I don’t like it, I just change borders and try again. Right now I’m still undecided on the borders. But, I have tended to gravitate to posters without

[fresh gorge]

Exactly...

And PMM with assets makes it really easy to apply to your Plex

[covert anchor]

Yeah. I honestly think the assets process is pretty simple. Even more simple with the folders

[fresh gorge]

Search for -composite and replace with -quality $global:outputQuality -composite

    "OverlayPart":{
      "ImageProcessing": "true",
      "outputQuality": " 92%"
    },

# Poster Overlay Part
$global:ImageProcessing = $config.OverlayPart.ImageProcessing
$global:outputQuality = $config.OverlayPart.outputQuality

@proud seal , that is essentially what I did to config.json and the ps1

[fresh gorge]

Oh! Just remembered how a bunch of new real estate arrived now that flixpatrol is gone

[covert anchor]

@fresh gorge yeah, i realized i had that. we need to move aspect somewhere else. it sit's it's fat ass right in the middle of most titles

maybe all this shit @fresh gorge

[modern pebble]

Is that Universal logo the studio overlay?

[fresh gorge]

Gonna shift aspect

Content_rating, and studio

[covert anchor]

yes

[covert anchor]

cool, let me know where you throw them (template variables)

[fresh gorge]

Like gonna mess with this tomorrow

[modern pebble]

Is that new in the nightly? Using the 1.20 release and not seeing it.

[covert anchor]

no it's not new in nightly. it's been that way since at least 1.19 i think

[modern pebble]

I'll have to check my config, maybe I'm not using studio for movies.

Not seeing it on any of my movies

[covert anchor]

i use most, if not all the overlays

[covert anchor]

what are you doing on the right with flags? you have just the flags and no language text. what variables do you use for both the language, and language (subtitles)

[modern pebble]

Looks like I'm only using the studio collection and not the overlay. Going to have to change that!

Are you guys using the mediastinger overlay? I am and that's where I'd put the studio overlay so I need to find a spot for it. I really only like the overlays along the top and bottom edges (plus the ribbon). I didn't want to "clutter" up the poster with a bunch of stuff.

[covert anchor]

yes, i use the mediastinger

[modern pebble]

I think I'll stick it top right. I think it will get covered by the watched check but if unwatched it will be apparent.

[covert anchor]

i use the defaults pretty much the way they are, minus the exception of moving the ratings to the right side

[modern pebble]

I only use a couple defaults without template variables.

[covert anchor]

so then you'll need to figure out where to put status if you put mediastinger in it's place

[modern pebble]

I'd move it to top right corner

I just realized I need to move the overlays to compensate for the border

Yeah, I forgot about the border that PPM was adding. I need to move them all in/up/down to compensate. I didn't make the streaming bigger, just the position.

- pmm: streaming template_variables: horizontal_align: left vertical_align: bottom vertical_offset: 3 horizontal_offset: 3

I think the logic I used was streaming on movies, networks on shows

Okay, I'm out. Have a good one!

[fresh gorge]

Or don't use borders?

[proud seal]

+ poster 'png,jpg..." check integrated
+ apprise/discord integrated
+ logic fixes
+ outputQuality added

[fresh gorge]

Silly thing.... for -testing, if people have a config that does not use borders, why are test outputs showing borders?

Unless I am wrong? Which is entirely possible... still early for me

[proud seal]

yre wrong, too early for you 🙂

[rare tulip]

@proud seal If I am using Discord with ppm running in docker do I just add the discord webhook? Do I need the appriseURL or should I just comment that out?

[proud seal]

you can add it either to appriseurl, discord or both, it handles in script if discord is found in url

[misty cobalt]

Complete side-suggestion

If you're planning on allowing more "styles" of posters, since you can use fanart, you could grab movie logos and recreate this style automatically

https://theposterdb.com/user/tiederian

[rare tulip]

I couldn't get the notifications to work until I used the standard discord webhook in the ApriseURL line also... but not formatted the way the example stated. now it's working 🙂

[proud seal]

i have it set like this and it works in container for me

[rare tulip]

Yea, I had the Discord line right but until the apprise line was set it wouldn't work... I'll try clearing out the discord line like you have

[proud seal]

both ways should work, i also tried with cleared apprise url (you have to restart container, cause i updated 30min ago a small bug for the notification url.)

[rare tulip]

I cleared out the Apprise and the discord works. The only thing I notice is the timestamp shows 6:09am when it's 11:09am here

[proud seal]

have you changed the TZ env in docker compose?

[rare tulip]

yes to TZ=America/New_York

[proud seal]

ah okey, its an discord utc formatting error, please restart container and try again.

[rare tulip]

That did it 🙂

[proud seal]

Nice, had to change date formatting

[fresh gorge]

Will -testing send alerts or not?

[proud seal]

Yes

Look at screenshots on GH 🫡

[fresh gorge]

Let me get all the latest code and docker going again

[fresh gorge]

Hmm... still not getting discord alerts... have you considered (at least for docker) some kind of ppm version logged to the logs so you have a good idea if the run was a Unix run, docker run, windows run, and what version of your script?

[proud seal]

Send the redacted config please.

Currently i do not have a versioning

[fresh gorge]

I am an idiot

Maybe I should turn notifications to True

[proud seal]

🤣

[fresh gorge]

Exactly

Not having the best day... lol

[proud seal]

We all have such days

[fresh gorge]

As for versioning, I guess it's a [FR]

[rare tulip]

I did the same thing LOL

[fresh gorge]

Logs to follow

[proud seal]

Cannot reproduce that, even when i completley delete my test folder i do not get those errors 🤔 not on docker and not on windows.

[fresh gorge]

magick: invalid argument for option @ error/magick-cli.c/MagickImageCommand/993.

Only on the background part

None of this gets logged to the logfiles, hence the screenshots

[proud seal]

Im looking at the shell, i do not get this errors 😅

[covert anchor]

@proud seal i simply turned borders to false, and now i get ZERO text

[proud seal]

So you took latest script and then changed the boarder part? Or what did you do?

If you did so, you also have to update config file cause there was a change for a new setting: output quality
Just tried a testrun without boarders, it works with latest script/config on my site.

[covert anchor]

i just modified my config.json

[proud seal]

Docker or windows?

[covert anchor]

docker

[proud seal]

Docker always has latest script, so you have to add that part to config file.

This setting:

I have it on my todo list to integrate a check for config changes,

But did not found a good solution yet 😅

[fresh gorge]

Check the example for all the rows. If a row is missing, report the missing row as an error and abort

Call the function something like function online_json_check

[modern pebble]

Or that lol

[modern pebble]

So with the notifications, would I just set the Discord webhook and clear the Apprise? Or do they both need to be set?

[wicked current]

Hey guys. how long does it take u guys to do the Title Cards?
atm mine is take from 23 to 50 secs. So it take roughly 255-500 hours for my 40k library if my maths is right. Is that about right or is my system being slow (its fine if it is, I just wanted to know so im not wasting time when it could be faster)?
I have it set up in a docker

[fresh gorge]

For me, docker is much slower than running on my local machine

[fresh gorge]

    "BackgroundOverlayPart":{
      "fontAllCaps": "true",
      "AddBorder": "false",
      "AddText": "false",
      "AddOverlay": "false",
      "fontcolor": "white",
      "bordercolor": "white",
      "minPointSize": "95",
      "maxPointSize": "250",
      "borderwidth": "30",
      "MaxWidth": "3200",
      "MaxHeight": "500",
      "text_offset": "+200"
    },

When -testing you check for true.true then true,false then false true. Since this is false false, nothing sets the 2126-2131 variables to the right of the magick command, and what is set does not exist because the backgroundShortText.jpg never was created before these lines

So in theory, if false,false it means no border and no overlay

And I also have no text for background

So the backgroundShortText does not exist

[fresh gorge]

4seconds per title card

[wicked current]

docker or not? I get that just running the script without docker but from 20-50 secs while in docker

I will probably run the script for initial run and use docker to maintain it. I just wasnt sure if I was being a retard again lol

[fresh gorge]

Local is 4-5 seconds per title card

Docker is slower because that machine is running 30 containers and is about 14 years old

I still have the errors with the swat tv show for the seasons. @proud seal

[proud seal]

Then you have to give the container more cpu/ram, i set it to unlimited and i have better performance in container then on my windows machine, for example, only the query takes about 5min on windows for me, on docker im finished after 1min 13sec.

[proud seal]

They dont, but you can.

[proud seal]

okey i will have a look, but that was from the beginning then 😄 cause i did not changed anything in there.

[proud seal]

should be fixed now, had no time to really look into it, it was a variable that did not get reseted to $null

+ Simple Versioning added
+ json Properties validator
+ $null changes for the season part
+ Testing mode adjusted and fixed

[fresh gorge]

In theory, false, false,false for background, title card, or poster would just be the pink landscape or portrait images

[proud seal]

should be fixed, i still apply the border but without text.

[fresh gorge]

Is setting cpu and ram something that you do within the docker compose file?

[proud seal]

i think by default, a container has no resource constraints and can use as much of a given resource as the host's kernel scheduler allows.

but i dont know unraid.
if you also have a lot of containers running at the same time you share the power over all containers, this can lead into slow script runs.

i have lot of containers running, but they do not consume much, so in my case its really fast on my docker host.

on the other hand when i run this on my windows machine where my vmware takes 80% of resources, its slow 😄

[fresh gorge]

Hmmm with compose, I cannot access the cpu pinning in unraid. I'll need to look into this.

Might be nice to post a notification when ppm starts. And with the settings used and version. This way you can also see when and if scheduled runs happen.

[proud seal]

i think this is to much, for this info you have the scriptlog. on error you also get a message in discord.

[fresh gorge]

6+6+1=13

Only 12

There are 0 backgrounds in that test folder

[proud seal]

how are the files named? i only see 3 file names.

because its a simple count: $backgroundsscount = ($gettestimages | Where-Object { $_.name -like 'back*' }).count

[fresh gorge]

Do you count before you delete the base images or after you remove them from that folder?

It's the test directory... I don't rename anything

[proud seal]

count is after

what are your settings?

i do get 13 images if i select addtext -> false on background part.

[fresh gorge]

So strange....now it's there

[proud seal]

😄

[fresh gorge]

is that what you expected$

[proud seal]

Yes, basically your settings without text, boarder and overlay

[fresh gorge]

Ok. Was not sure if that box was supposed to be there with that dimension

[proud seal]

The dimension must be your setting?

[fresh gorge]

And the issues with the number of folders is a docker one. The perms get all messed up and files can't be deleted or created... it's messed up for me... so I need to troubleshoot that. I also tested local on windows and the swat issue is resolved

[fresh gorge]

I will double check but that does not look right...

Definitely not 3200 wide

[proud seal]

What issue? For me the script behaves the same on docker.

[fresh gorge]

That's 3200 wide

[fresh gorge]

So sometimes, unraid and docker perms get to a point where the container can't write to the file system because of perms. I can't even delete the files from a windows mapped drive

I need to drop to terminal and go and delete the folders manually

My windows machine is running under my user account and in a folder that has all my permissions set... I don't currently push to the file share on my unraid server as I am testing things and need to still tweak.

So I think it's related to umask and pgid puid

For example, my Plex container is as such:

[proud seal]

was a copy issue on my site, should now be fixed

[proud seal]

you can remove the pgid/puid/umask part and change it to your needs, its just how my perms are on my server.

[fresh gorge]

I am not very good with compose and stuff so I just set it to what my others are set to. Hoping that resolves it.

Minor request, I hope, anything you can do about this divider?

Maybe just use underscore? And less of them?

______

Instead of
-------

And another minor thing I just noticed... never noticed this before... running back to back runs of ppm only shows ppm banner the first time... subsequent runs don't show it.

[proud seal]

On mobile, on desktop it matches, yeah im not happy with that either, underscore does not work 😬

[proud seal]

Hmm 🤔 i thought i already fixed that

[fresh gorge]

This happens on local run and on docker run

The banner thingy

At least the version control shows there

I think it should stand out more in red, because it gets lost, but that's just minor as well.

Even consider a notification so that people that set it and forget it will know there is a new version available through a notification rather than sifting through logs. Just an idea...

[proud seal]

Yeah, it was fast implement, needs improvements

[fresh gorge]

Another minor / silly thing that would help me personally and maybe others... is having a little more information on what system ran the script?

like the top one was my current windows machine and the bottom one is the docker

[proud seal]

Do you forget where you run your things?😅

[fresh gorge]

like I said.. its mostly now because of testing, but its a "nice to have"

[proud seal]

Normally you only have 1 instance or?
Yeah but that could find his way in footer

Finished - os - version and and and...

[fresh gorge]

cool. let me pull

[proud seal]

Not added yet, just an idea 🤣

Weekend, will have a look on monday 👍

[fresh gorge]

ahh.. ok... no problem. I am trying some stuff to allocate more cpus/ram to the compose file.

[fresh gorge]

PR submitted https://github.com/fscorrupt/Plex-Poster-Maker/pull/38

[fresh gorge]

I guess I should have updated the version number to 1.0.3?

[proud seal]

Normally yea, but that was really a small PR 😅

[modern pebble]

PR #39 submitted to correct order of "parts" in readme to match config. PlexPart was after Notification, swapped order to follow config order.

[proud seal]

now you can pull 🙂

[fresh gorge]

Cute

I think docker comes back as Unknown but need to revalidate that.

[proud seal]

Tried on docker, it came back with docker 🤔

[fresh gorge]

But this was on 1.0.3 so maybe it wasn't fully ready at that point.

[proud seal]

Ah yeah, on 1.0.3 it was unknown 🤣👍

[fresh gorge]

Yeah so that's why I am rerunning to see what it becomes... it will probably say docker as it does for you... but since there is unraid, who knows...

[fresh gorge]

windows, docker, ubuntu... all testing looking great for the ./test folder

[fresh gorge]

Pretty sure I found another "count" issue or a variable that was not reset for fallback on Episode TitleCard posters

S01E01 shows fallback true in CSV, but in logs, shows that it found a textless on my primary of tmdb, so what would cause the fallback?

[modern pebble]

So I was playing with a different poster overlay and got the name wrong in the config. Log says it's not the right size, which I guess is correct since it doesn't exist, but I think there should be more of an error? The display shows that magick couldn't find the file, but it doesn't say anything in the logs.

[fresh gorge]

Yeah.. I think that we now have a way to validate that all the lines are there in the json file, and now there should be some validation that the files and paths exist before continuing... so in theory, if your file does not exist, post the error to the logs and abort run

[proud seal]

You are right, but for playing around there is the testing mode, so if you want to test, please use it 😅

For user errors in config file there is currently only validation for things that could break something, if you enter wrong names of overlays - stupid, start over or use testing mode.

But yeah, some sort of validation for at least if it exists could be integrated, i wont validate every line in config.

[modern pebble]

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "playing around". I was changing the overlay file being used but I incorrectly used an underscore instead of a hyphen in the filename. I think the line should have been written to the log file. I'm not sure what would have happened if I left it running, or how easy it would have been to find the problem if I hadn't seen the error displayed. In fact, I didn't even see where it said the file didn't exist, the yellow line caught my eye and I was going to check the dimensions on the file and then I caught the line above it.

Had it started the image processing that would have scrolled off the screen and I wouldn't have seen the error about the file.

[proud seal]

Noted and FR added.
And the way to go is - if you change something in config do a testing run afterwards, you should take those 2min before you may make a mess

[modern pebble]

Yeah, probably. I like to live on the edge LOL

BTW, this is meant as CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, not criticism. I really appreciate what you're doing.

[proud seal]

I didn't understand it any differently 🫡

Gn8 its 3am here 🥲

[modern pebble]

g'night!

[fresh gorge]

I have something that I wrote to address this and will test it later

[fresh gorge]

https://github.com/fscorrupt/Plex-Poster-Maker/pull/41 pr submitted for your review when you can @proud seal

[proud seal]

thanks, small adjustments made but its merged now 🙂

[fresh gorge]

Works. 🙂

[fresh gorge]

@proud seal not sure if you saw this. If yes, ignore me: #1206503798869196880 message

[fresh gorge]

@covert anchor here is my progress so far:
I have made adjsutments to the config.json of ppm
There is a streaming.yml overlay issue that I cannot seem to fix
Movies seems ok
Episode titlecards, needs a lot more work

FYI - I am focused on just the overlays that need to be moved, which is why you dont see all of them

[covert anchor]

@fresh gorge what adjustments did you make to the config.json?

[fresh gorge]

Well I am still running some tests but essentially the height and width of the textbox is what I am tweaking so that the ribbon and the left overlays don't touch the box. I will share later today as I get closer... just wanted to share my progress

[fresh gorge]

@covert anchor

thats what I came up with.... and thus we would end up with something like this:

[proud seal]

Could be longer, there are seasons with year in it. Like Season 2012 • episode 100 or episodes with over 1000 too 😬

[fresh gorge]

Yup... which is why I was going to ask if you would change teh default text in the script -testing to handle that. And of course, the size of the box is what matters... the font should autosize

now I need to do a full kitchen sink overlay run with all overlays to see what happens with those test images

[proud seal]

Autosize yes, but then it may is to small🤭

Yeah no prob, i can add a ultra long EP text too.

Will have a look on monday for that 👍

Season 9999 • Episode 9999

[fresh gorge]

yes... it will probably get small... but teh dimensions of the box is what I was after for now...

and moving all the defaults into a home on the poster and titlecard

I could also make that box "taller" which might resolve the size issue a bit... although having that split over two lines would not look great IMO

[proud seal]

Yeah, you would also get more space if you remove the runtime text. Like i do:

[fresh gorge]

Yes.. the text Runtime: makes it very wide

I am trying to stick to defaults as much as I can.... we'll see where it ends up

[rare tulip]

Nice... how do you do that

[fresh gorge]

template_variables:

[proud seal]

https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs/blob/master/fscorrupt/runtimes.yml

[rare tulip]

- pmm: runtimes template_variables: overlay_level: episode

This is all I have in my config

need to look up the variables

[fresh gorge]

probably text: ''

https://metamanager.wiki/en/nightly/defaults/overlays/runtimes/?h=runtime#template-variables

[proud seal]

Thats why i have it local in a file, cause i do not run nightly 😬

[fresh gorge]

pros and cons

[rare tulip]

I see what you are doing by making your own overlay with name: "text(<<runtimeH>>h <<runtimeM>>m)"

is there a way to just add that to the -pmm: runtimes

[proud seal]

I can update it any time if it changes, nightly can break things 🤭

[fresh gorge]

i just showed you

[rare tulip]

or do I need to kill it and use yours

[fresh gorge]

you are a coder and understand... others have challenges

Riptide, I gave you the link and the variable

[rare tulip]

I am looking but I don't see any examples of how they go together

- pmm: runtimes template_variables: overlay_level: episode name: "text(<<runtimeH>>h <<runtimeM>>m)"

[fresh gorge]

no

[rare tulip]

Like this?

Arrgh

Ok looking again 🙂

[fresh gorge]

    - pmm: runtimes
      template_variables:
        text: ''
        builder_level: episode

this is what I am trying

[rare tulip]

OHHH 🙂

[fresh gorge]

Because the detault is Runtime:

and the var is text

but I will need to try that against my test lib

sometimes things don't like ''

a blank or null value

[rare tulip]

I thought episode_info was the "S01E01" info

[fresh gorge]

it is... I screwed up... lol

but its that easy

[rare tulip]

Damn you had be looking sideways LOL

[fresh gorge]

fixed?

[rare tulip]

Ok, rerunning it

[fresh gorge]

Before I try the text: ''