I've got some issues with the code at the moment. Basically it works wonders on my dev machine, but trying to run it on my media box in the livingroom a few problems showed up which wouldn't let it run at all. Doing my best to get it sorted asap.

Anyhow, here's a few screenies whilst waiting. These are not the final (or rather current) layouts as there are more buttons and whatnot at the moment, but gives you sorta an idea of what to expect.

"Main" menu

Season menu without overview

Season menu with overview

Found new show on startup

Episode menu

Adding shows

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Looks great so far!  I can't wait until I can get my hands on this to try it out. 

Is it possible to have the season number and episode number beside the actual episode name?

I have my tv shows on 2 different harddrives as the first one is full, can you select more than one source of tv shows?

The font color for the episode description seems to suit the background a lot more than the black used in the actual tv show description in the first screenshot, well i think so anyways ;)

The dvd covers for seasons look great.

 

btw anyone have problems with thetvdb.com site, slow as hell and most shows dont load up at all

 

This looks excellent.  Exactly what I've been looking for!!  I'd happily pay for this add-on if it works as good as it looks.  Also sending PM for beta testing.

I agree that it looks great . What kind of folder/ file naming structure does it expect?  Where does it get the data/ pictures from?  

moontan: Season & Episode numbers (as well as other information) have already been implemented. The screenshots was taken from a slightly older build so expect a few minor (and some major) changes from what you've seen there to what will be in the first release.

jhoff81: Very much configurable. Basically it lets you add any number of [root]folders to watch, in these folders you'll have separate folders for each TV Show. The plugin then tries to match these foldernames to the database and grabs the correct information. Certain foldernames are hard to be matched and will then bring up a list of possible matches for you to choose from. As for seasons, it's up to you if you want to have separate folders for each season or not. As for filenames, as long as they include the Season and Episode numbers you should be fine. I.e. it should recognize S03E04 as well as 3x04 and hopefully in most cases 304.

My personal folder structure looks like this though

\\STORE\Video\Television
                        \2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
                        \3 Lbs.
                        \30 Rock
                                \Season 1
                                         \30 Rock S01E01 - Pilot.avi
                                         \30 Rock S01E02 - The Aftermath.avi
                        \Amazing Race Asia, the
                        \Amazing Race, the

Which is what I've lived with for years now. Works wonders and makes things very easy to find, however with this plugin I've "forgot" to rename files as of late An added bonus is that the plugin will have a userconfigurable setting for renaming your local files to a preset format - the code is there, although I'm still working on the UI.

Oh, Show/Season/Episode images are all downloaded as part of the matching process. If no image exists for the Show or Season it will give you a blank one for the time being, but recheck online every so often to see if one is available. If the episode image is missing it'll extract it from the file itself, but again recheck online every so often.

The support for "locking" information is already there (just haven't got around to writing a UI yet) so if you so choose you could supply all your own image data and never have it update from the online sources.

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This is looking fantastic so far - I think you've pretty much thought of everything I've ever wanted from a TV archive.

I think it got mentioned earlier, but the only other thing I would look for is a visual indication on the episode screen as to which ones have been watched.

Also, further to an earlier suggestion getting a screen showing the latest added episodes (especially unwatched ones) would be great - major, major WAF in there!

Keep up the most excellent work!

will it be possible to have a list view aswell?

Thumbnails can make access to some network drives very slow, dont understand why vista mce itself doesnt seem to have list view

Hadn't thought of implementing a listview, but I guess it's doable. Only problem I can see is that it will have to be a setting that is either on or off as MS won't allow us developers access to the 'i' button .

However, if the only reason you want this is so thumbnails wont slow down the experience.. Well, this isn't an issue with the myTV as it gets all it's information from a local (or remote if you so chose) database. The imagefiles are then cached in %AppData%\senseIT\myTV\cache\[episode|season|show]Images folders giving you lightning quick access.

Now, do any of you guys have any experience with WiX? I'm trying to set the SQLExpress as a prerequisite for myTV and if it's not already installed ask the user if they already have a SQL db on their network or install it. Can't seem to get this to work though :(

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ye that sounds good, sure we'll see anyways whenever your happy enough with it to release a beta.

 

Just trying to get the installer working now and I'll email download links to those who asked

Gonna play around with WiX a bit longer to see if I can get it going, otherwise I'll just post it as is for the time being and let you sort your own SQL database.

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Very nice! Today is looking so much brighter after reading this post!

Can't wait to try it.  For future versions though, I have a suggestion of a random episode type button, where when you press it, it plays a random episode of whatever show it is you're watching (this would be great for when I'm in bed and put on random House or Family Guy episodes to fall asleep watching.)

Another feature I'd love to see is a play season type mode, for serial shows like 24, it'd be nice to just have a button pressed and let it queue up the entire season (yes, I've watched a season in two days before), but since its not that big a pain to select individually, its really not that big a deal if its not possible.  

ahelseth:

However, if the only reason you want this is so thumbnails wont slow down the experience.. Well, this isn't an issue with the myTV as it gets all it's information from a local (or remote if you so chose) database. The imagefiles are then cached in %AppData%\senseIT\myTV\cache\[episode|season|show]Images folders giving you lightning quick access.

Do you know if the image files will get cached onto a ReadyBoost drive as well? If you need that tested, be more than happy to

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jhoff81:

For future versions though, I have a suggestion of a random episode type button, where when you press it, it plays a random episode of whatever show it is you're watching (this would be great for when I'm in bed and put on random House or Family Guy episodes to fall asleep watching.)

I've already requested the random episode feature.  Just to be clear, I mean choosing the random function after selecting a show, and let it choose from all available episodes from all available seasons of this show.  I'm not meaning something that would pick a random episodes from all available shows - I would like it constrained to only episodes from an already chosen show.

I can't wait to start testing this!