JackLuminous:

jagowar,

1. actually I was expecting the same performance or a little better. For the movies that it doesn't find, can you find them off movie-xml.com?

2. "Folder.xml" is no more. If the folder is identified as just a plain folder --ie. it's not a series and not a season folder -- then the filename you want is [my folder name].folder.xml. The imagetype attribute is the same as before but I may have  borked things up with the default values. They may be "NotSpecified" by default.

3. In the case of your "tv folder" are these the archived tv files stuff? The archivedtvexpression handling is the  same so you can use the same one you used before.

Since there are no longer any seriesmatches.xml or moviematches.xml files anymore, what i WILL DO is give a user-friendly description of why there's no metadata.

For example, "no matches could be found" or "Multiple matches reported but could not identify the correct one", or "Movie metadata provider, Movie-xml could not be contacted". Since I killed the *matches.xml file, this feedback went missing as well....

1. it actually did a substantially better job at getting metadata this time around....  before it would never find metadata for more than one movie and this time it was around 50% of my 80 movies.

2.  thats what i was asking because before there was the folder.xml file that was generated in the metadata folder and this time there was nothing so i didnt know what it should be named.

3.  i never got the expression working right the first time which is more than likely the problem (which is one reason i just stopped having it try to view my tv episodes folder).  all of my stuff is divx so its kinda useless anyways until the 360 supports divx.


And just one other little question how do i go about getting metadata now?  i had one of my movies that does not have metadata yet (havent run the video library since i added it) and the old code doesnt work anymore (through movie-xml.com).  also want to try to add some metadata to my dvr-ms movies and make sure those are now adding the metadata right.

2. Oops!  I misunderstood. So basically, if you have a "Macross movies" folder there should be a Macross Movies.folder.xml that gets generated the first time you browse to that folder inside the app.

4. Movie-xml changed their API (again...) and I guess broke the previous 'tv library' build. Are you talking about how to 'hack it' to download movies?

For your dvrms, it should detect it as a "DVD ripped to dvrms" if  IsMovie is set to true and StationCallSign (I think?) is not set or is empty. So, you browse into a folder containing one of these types of *.dvrms files and you don't have any matching *.video.xml files for them. The download/attribution thingy will first see the file as recorded tv. It will then try to grab metadata out of the dvrms. It will do 2nd check as described above. If those requirements are met , it will then try to grab info from movie-xml.com.

If when you convert to dvrms, you set IsMovie and StationCallSign atttributes in your conversion software then it should work automatically. If not, you should be able to go back and edit the generated video.xml, set ismovie=true, needsmetadata=false, (and ensure needsuserselection is also false....althought it should be false already in this scenario), then browse back into it.

I am going to check this bit tonight.

 

jagowar:

1. it actually did a substantially better job at getting metadata this time around....  before it would never find metadata for more than one movie and this time it was around 50% of my 80 movies.

2.  thats what i was asking because before there was the folder.xml file that was generated in the metadata folder and this time there was nothing so i didnt know what it should be named.

3.  i never got the expression working right the first time which is more than likely the problem (which is one reason i just stopped having it try to view my tv episodes folder).  all of my stuff is divx so its kinda useless anyways until the 360 supports divx.


And just one other little question how do i go about getting metadata now?  i had one of my movies that does not have metadata yet (havent run the video library since i added it) and the old code doesnt work anymore (through movie-xml.com).  also want to try to add some metadata to my dvr-ms movies and make sure those are now adding the metadata right.

Hey, I saw the date of the .zip file on SkyDrive changed so I thought maybe you posted a new build? But after reinstalling, I get the same error as before (no tuner/null/whatever) so I'm guessing it's not a new build, just the date of the file changed somehow. Har har. Can I suggest you put the build number in the filename?

Err, I just looked in the GAC and it looks like you're just using 1.0.0.0 as the AssemblyVersion so scratch that idea I guess. Also, mental note, Vista's search box in Explorer doesn't seem to work on the GAC. Weird.

Anyway, somewhere I have code for generating a Microsoft style version number. Where version is: major.minor.build-date.subversion-revision. Major and minor you set manually, built-date is generated by an algorithm and the subversion-revision is generated using the Svn cmd line tools. It's all packaged into an MSBuilt Task.

Hmm. Deja vu. Did I already ramble about this in a previous post?

The problem I'm seeing is it installs, but I can't see the app within VMC.  I installed it again tonight, and it's listed as installed, but just doesn't show up.

James

Didn't show up for me until I closed and restarted the Media Centre interface. Then it was listed in the program library.

...still not there.  I'm not sure what is entailed in 64-bit compiling, so I'll do a little research.

James

I haven't put out a new build yet....but I will try to put the version in the zip file name.

JJohnson:

...still not there.  I'm not sure what is entailed in 64-bit compiling, so I'll do a little research.

By default, when you make a new .NET project in Visual Studio, the "target platform" is set to "Any CPU". One of the advantages of .NET is that "assemblies" are just MSIL "code" that gets translated to native machine code at runtime (first run I believe). So really there shouldn't be any issues when running on x64 unless there's something special with Media Center that I don't know about or something with "interop" code that, again, I don't know anything about...

HI All

I just got the latest version 1.2 and installed it.

Can someone tell me where the installer dumps all the files cause I cannot find them to set up the config files like in the previous version.

I can find the following

C:\Program Files\video library+  with only a png image in that is used in VMC and also C:\ProgramData\VideoLibrary

When I run the plugin in in VMC I get a Program not responding error and it throws me back to the start up screen.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Mike

 

There's a hidden folder on your OS drive called ProgramData

ie: C:\ProgramData

The config file is in there. You'll need to turn on hidden folders (control panel - folder options) to find it.

I don't know whats up with it,  I have already found that folder and nothing for this program is there apart from an empty folder.  When I install the old version it works fine but with this one, nothing is in the data folder and in VMC is just throws a program not responding and quits:

this is the error in the log file that gets produced, and there is no config file for me to set anything

07/08/2008 20:07:26.483 - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at VideoLibraryEngine.Services.VideoDiscovery.GetDefaultRecordedTVFolders()
   at VideoLibraryEngine.Services.VideoDiscovery.GetDefaultWatchedFolders()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.CreateDefaultConfiguration()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.LoadConfiguration()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.Start()

Got a quick one for metadata matching, don't know if there's a way to fix it, might just have to wait for the UI.

The movie 'I now Pronounce you Chuck & Larry' is listed as exactly that on movie-xml.com, and this is fine.  It appears metadata matching needs to be exact at the moment, so I changed my 'and' to an '&' in the .video.xml file.  This caused the application to crash completely.  changing it back to 'and' works fine, but doesn't match the movie.

Any advice on why my Spanned Folders aren't working..?

Cheers,

Schlep :D

I'll just strip out the default watched folders for now until I debug it  This was supposed to create a .config file and initialize it with some default media center folders. Apparently, I am not handling the absense of certain registry keys properly --for people without tuners....

....expect 1.3 tonight or tomorrow night.

Mikegb:

I don't know whats up with it,  I have already found that folder and nothing for this program is there apart from an empty folder.  When I install the old version it works fine but with this one, nothing is in the data folder and in VMC is just throws a program not responding and quits:

this is the error in the log file that gets produced, and there is no config file for me to set anything

07/08/2008 20:07:26.483 - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at VideoLibraryEngine.Services.VideoDiscovery.GetDefaultRecordedTVFolders()
   at VideoLibraryEngine.Services.VideoDiscovery.GetDefaultWatchedFolders()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.CreateDefaultConfiguration()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.LoadConfiguration()
   at VideoLibrary.LibraryApplication.Start()

schleppel:

Got a quick one for metadata matching, don't know if there's a way to fix it, might just have to wait for the UI.

The movie 'I now Pronounce you Chuck & Larry' is listed as exactly that on movie-xml.com, and this is fine.  It appears metadata matching needs to be exact at the moment, so I changed my 'and' to an '&' in the .video.xml file.  This caused the application to crash completely.  changing it back to 'and' works fine, but doesn't match the movie.

Any advice on why my Spanned Folders aren't working..?

Cheers,

Schlep :D

I'll look at it again. It nose-dives because "&" is another xml reserved word....Lemme read back and see what the spanned folder prob was

Schlep,

FYI, the "CombineDuplicateFolders" setting would only apply if you had more than one watched folder with the same name in your config.  The spanned folder setting should be automatic. I'll check it out again tonight.

schleppel:

However, I seem to have stuffed one thing up.  My Spanned folders aren't working properly anymore.  my videos.folder.xml file has these lines in it (direct from the previous file that worked).

  <SpannedFolders>
   <SpannedFolder Content="\\STUART\My Videos 2" Enabled="true"/>
  </SpannedFolders>

and I also have this line in my .config file

    <add key="CombineDuplicateFolders" value="true" />

I can't remember if there was anything else, but this did work and now isn't too happy with me :)