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Hello. if I play an Atmos video through this using best quality sound settings so it sends it to my amp as multi channel, will my amp play the Atmos part of it? My amp plays Atmos. Thanks.
Unfortunately ATMOS isn't supported, though Infuse will pass the lossless TrueHD audio to your receiver.
A bit more info on the available audio options can be found here.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/217735707-Audio-Options-tvOS-
We've had our nose to the grindstone over the past few weeks, and today we're pleased to finally share the fruits of our labor with you. Infuse 4.2 is a major update, and introduces a bunch of great features we know you're going to love! Read on for full details on what's new.
Library View (aka the new hotness)
Introducing our brand spankin’ new Library View which makes finding videos to watch quick and easy. Infuse will search deep within your folders to catalog every movie, TV show, and cat video it can find and group them all together in a slick new menu. Plus, with a set of all-new Smart Filters, you can browse by genre, rating, release date, age rating, and even get an overview of all unwatched or recently added items with just a few taps.
Favorites, tailored just for you
Not only is browsing super-easy when using Smart Filters, these can also be used to create Favorites that appear right on the Infuse home screen. Want quick access to kids movies? Done. How about unwatched TV shows? No problem. With just a few taps you can customize Infuse to ensure the content you want to enjoy is front and center for whenever you're ready to view it. Even better, adding custom artwork for your Favorites can now be done right from the Apple TV menus.
Trakt ratings sync
In addition to playback progress and watched history, trakt ratings now also stay in sync between all your devices. Rated items are now designated with a shiny set of distinctive orange stars that get updated from trakt automatically. Ratings can be easily posted to trakt from Infuse on iOS/tvOS or through trakt.tv.
Spotlight search
Now it's easy to quickly find videos on iOS while on the go. Videos selected from within Spotlight will instantly start playing, and Infuse will pick up right where you left off if you happened to already start that video on another device.
What's new in 4.2 (tvOS)
Enjoy!
Library View (aka the new hotness)
Introducing our brand spankin’ new Library View which makes finding videos to watch quick and easy. Infuse will search deep within your folders to catalog every movie, TV show, and cat video it can find and group them all together in a slick new menu. Plus, with a set of all-new Smart Filters, you can browse by genre, rating, release date, age rating, and even get an overview of all unwatched or recently added items with just a few taps.
Favorites, tailored just for you
Not only is browsing super-easy when using Smart Filters, these can also be used to create Favorites that appear right on the Infuse home screen. Want quick access to kids movies? Done. How about unwatched TV shows? No problem. With just a few taps you can customize Infuse to ensure the content you want to enjoy is front and center for whenever you're ready to view it. Even better, adding custom artwork for your Favorites can now be done right from the Apple TV menus.
Trakt ratings sync
In addition to playback progress and watched history, trakt ratings now also stay in sync between all your devices. Rated items are now designated with a shiny set of distinctive orange stars that get updated from trakt automatically. Ratings can be easily posted to trakt from Infuse on iOS/tvOS or through trakt.tv.
Spotlight search
Now it's easy to quickly find videos on iOS while on the go. Videos selected from within Spotlight will instantly start playing, and Infuse will pick up right where you left off if you happened to already start that video on another device.
What's new in 4.2 (tvOS)
- All-new Library View with Smart Filters
- New artwork picker for folder and library favorites
- Personalized trakt ratings
- Auto-select first unwatched TV episode
- Episodes now grouped by season in Recently Watched
- Streamlined sign in process for trakt
- Recently used subtitle languages are now grouped together
- Mark folders to use embedded metadata only
- Resume prompt now displays resume time
- Additional Continuous Playback options
- Better support for 60+ fps videos
- Apple TV 'Dolby Digital' option now works with 7.1 content
- Improved universal remote scrolling
- Improved indexing behavior
- Improved lower shelf navigation
- Improved double-tap browsing controls
- Improved display of DTS-HD MA track names
- Improved trakt rating prompt
- Many, many other minor improvements and fixes
- Spotlight search
- Personalized trakt ratings
- Auto-select first unwatched TV episode
- Additional Continuous Playback options
- Group recently used languages near top of subtitles download menu
- Updated Dolby Audio library
- Tap outside ticket to close (iPad only)
- Local files can now be deleted with File Management disabled
- Resolved playback issue affecting some Dolby ATMOS videos
- Many, many other minor improvements and fixes
Enjoy!
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Just updated to 4.2 and gave it a quick spin. The new library view looks *really* good. Finding unwatched stuff is super easy now. I selected a TV season that I'm currently watching and it even went to the first unwatched episode automatically. Browsing by genre and release date is very useful too. Great update!
You can create a Favorite from any category/filter found in the Library and have it displayed on the home screen. Custom artwork can also be set for these Favorites by following the steps found here.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090977-Streaming-From-Other-Devices
Awesome! So glad to hear you're enjoying it.
Can't you just stay in the library view before you leave the app? It should still be there when you start it again (unless you force quite the app in the meantime). But yes, an option to immediately start in the library view might be a good idea.
You can create a Favorite from any category/filter found in the Library and have it displayed on the home screen. Custom artwork can also be set for these Favorites by following the steps found here.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090977-Streaming-From-Other-Devices
Perfect thank you! Have turned off Library View on the home screen and set it up so I have "All Movies" and "All TV Shows" as the favourites on their, which loads each of them as category views. It's great to have seasons grouped together so thank you!
Maybe we should have a "Share your Custom Artwork" Competition.
That's not a bad idea the only problem is it doesn't refresh when I add new items unless I go back out and back in.
Good idea!
Quite a few early submissions can be found here.
https://firecore.com/forum/topic/13990
Pro tip: Clicking the 'Last Update: xxx' text will trigger a Library refresh.
Finally bit the bullet!! I will say this! Its awesome! The only thing I would like is to be a little more organize like Plex is! but great work! DTS plays amazing!
All I wanted from library view was the 'old view' that Infuse version 3 offered, so just a long list of the original file names of the files present on the applicable share. I don't want my files to be scanned for meta data, just list the files present on my share 'as is'. Does this new version 4.2 offer such library view?
You can create a Favorite from any category/filter found in the Library and have it displayed on the home screen. Custom artwork can also be set for these Favorites by following the steps found here.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090977-Streaming-From-Other-Devices
Awesome! So glad to hear you're enjoying it.
When I load infuse 4.2, I have Movies / Tv Shows as favorites (stars next to them) then Library.
Is there a way to get rid of the Movies / TV shows, and just have library on the main screen?
Welcome to Infuse! Happy to hear you're enjoying it so far.
A list view option is in the works for 4.3.
Yep!
If the Movies and TV Shows items are folder based favorites, you can hide them from the home screen but keep them indexed by Infuse by long-pressing on them and choosing the 'Hide Favorite' option.
Does't read my library correctly which is setup perfect for kodi (and Plex reads with a few minor tweaks after)... I'd say about 80% accuracy overall on my library... Some TV Shows come up as Movies so it thinks there are more movies than I actually have. Is it possible to specify location of TV Shows and Movies for the Library, or set content type of a favourite?
When I go under Library, I have Movies, Tv Shows, and Other (not sure what other is, not a folder I made).
Under Tv Shows, All TV shows, I only see 1 season/1 episode of a show. Not everything is listed. However, if I go under my TV Shows Favorite, I can see all my seasons/episodes. Any idea why this is? I have refreshed, still nothing
Under Tv Shows, All TV shows, I only see 1 season/1 episode of a show. Not everything is listed. However, if I go under my TV Shows Favorite, I can see all my seasons/episodes. Any idea why this is? I have refreshed, still nothing
One more question: Infuse has classified my movies and TV shows almost perfectly, with one exception: One of my HD-DVD rips of "Terminator 2" has been classified as "Other" instead of "Movie". I have two versions of this movie (the theatrical and the DC, since the HD-DVD had both) that are each in a directory of their own with nfo files. The DC is named "Terminator 2 (Special Edition)" in both the nfo and the filename. But Infuse has the DC under just "Terminator 2". How can I force Infuse to use (only) the information from the nfo, and what causes it to classify one version as "Other"?
For TV shows you'll want to ensure you're using one of our supported file naming styles.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090947-Metadata-101
Favorites can be unhidden through the Infuse > Settings > Shares menu.
Other is simply a category that contains anything that Infuse doesn't recognize as a Movie or TV show (home videos, etc...)
For TV shows, you may check to ensure you're using one of the supported naming styles.
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090947-Metadata-101
Infuse will classify anything it can't match as a Movie or TV Show as Other. Unfortunately TMDb doesn't have support for different versions, so the only metadata available will be for the main Terminator 2 movie. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/280-terminator-2-judgment-day
Thanks, found it.
What I'd like it to do is to prioritize metadata from the matching nfo file if present. It could easily classify the media kind based on the tags in the nfo (movies will have a <movie> tag, TV episodes will have <episodedetails>). Does Infuse look at nfo files at all?
Yes, that should be doable. A sample XML file (NFO will be similar) can be found here.
I have just created an XML file for the Terminator 2 DC after this template and placed it into the movie folder with name "<basename>.xml", but Infuse doesn't seem to pick it up, i.e. the movie is still classified as "Other" (I triggered a refresh by clicking on "last updated"). Is the naming of the XML file correct?
It would be nice if Infuse could read standard nfo files as used by Kodi and many other applications (I imagine most people are using this format). Should be pretty straightforward to convert the relevant subset of tags to the Infuse XML format.
Also, I was reading "Metadata 101" on your support page. Are the naming conventions shown in the examples the only ones Infuse understands? For example, in my case the fanart and poster are simply named "fanart.jpg" and "poster.jpg" (i.e. without the basename) as recommended by Kodi if you use separate folders per movie.
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NFO files are also supported, as are 'poster.jpg' and 'fanart.jpg' if you have your movies organized in their own folders.
One thing you can try is to use the 'Edit' option in Infuse. This will allow you to select the correct title so the movie gets categorized correctly. As long as you keep the XML/NFO file alongside the video, Infuse will read the info from that to use in favor of the info pulled from TMDb. Even if you have a complete NFO file and all your own artwork, Infuse still needs to match the title against the TMDb in order to cache the unique IMDb ID.
Hope this helps.
So you are saying that even if our NFO etc. is correct and present, it still needs to contact an online a database? With Kodi or MrMC, if I tell the location to use local info only, that is all it uses.NFO files are also supported, as are 'poster.jpg' and 'fanart.jpg' if you have your movies organized in their own folders.
One thing you can try is to use the 'Edit' option in Infuse. This will allow you to select the correct title so the movie gets categorized correctly. As long as you keep the XML/NFO file alongside the video, Infuse will read the info from that to use in favor of the info pulled from TMDb. Even if you have a complete NFO file and all your own artwork, Infuse still needs to match the title against the TMDb in order to cache the unique IMDb ID.
Hope this helps.
Also in regards to the TV shows issue I have, some of my shows are not in an Infuse compatible format since Kodi supports more variations it seems. Also I still think should be able to specify a folder content (eg. Movies or TV Shows). Both Kodi/MrMC, and Plex use separate locations for these. It would be nice to have my existing Libary, that read that I spent years on, read in Infuse (I would expect a little tweaking maybe) but the way it stands now with scraping TV and Movies together from same location makes it difficult.
Well, the problem with that is that the theatrical cut already has the "canonical" name of the movie, so there'd be no way to distinguish it from the DC on the browser screen. I guess I could try to use different artwork perhaps.
Hm, OK. What exactly does it use the IMDB ID for?