Describe Your AppleTV Media Using ATVFiles
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ATVFiles does not support those as far as I know. Those rating limits are something for the built-in movie player only.

Hello, I enabled parental controls with "TV-PG" threshold in the AppleTV general settings, with a four digit code.

I set "R" ratings to some TV episodes and the "R" icon is well displayed by ATVFiles, below the cover art, but there is no prompt for the 4-digit code...

Does ATVFiles really support TV/Movies ratings? What went wrong?

Thank you for your help.

I uploaded a new version to the google code website. It no longer is required to have movies sorted per movie in a separate folder. It should now also work with one big unsorted folder. http://code.google.com/p/appletvdatamaker/

Anyone tried this app AppletvDataMaker lately? It does xml for me but writes zero byte image files. Cover Art does not work. Any advice would be appreciated.

moe: it gets the TV data from tvrage.com as that was the first one I found to have decent data and an open API to use. Never looked at others (including Yahoo).

@ Thomas: Thank you very much for this great app. I've used it yesterday and it worked greatly ! I owe you loads and it surly unlocks aTVFiles hidden features. And I appreciate you making the code available for all to modify. One question though, where does the app get the tv show data ? And is it possible to have Yahoo TV to generate the meta data implemented in the app ?

crazyastro (and maybe others): I uploaded the latest version of my code to googlecode, so you can explore all dirty details. It is available at http://code.google.com/p/appletvdatamaker/ Enjoy!

I also made an automated ruby script to do the same, and grab all the movie details from IMDb.
I will also make this available once it is more refined.
The existing MediaGrabber app didn't work at all for me, but I am excited to try yours out! :)

There are some automatic tools available to make those files. I myself wrote one, which I do not really distribute nor support, but which can be found at http://www.degroote.org/AppleTVdataMaker.zip if you would like to try. It requires Leopard to run, mainly for the used php5 code inside. It can make the XML files, but also does download (Dutch) subtitles and movie covers. For series it does not download the covers, but makes screenshots of the movie. If someone is interested, I will distribute the source code for free.

I use a "blank" XML file, edit it for each movie, and do a Save As. I think you should add Step 9: Copy over a JPG/TIFF/PNG file of the move poster, which you can easily find thru Google, etc. Note: The XML and JPG must have the same name as the video file (ie) Simpsons.avi - Simpsons.xml - Simpsons.jpg