James,

Just go to thetvdb.com, find the id for the series you want then update the .series.xml as follows:

NeedsMetadata = true

<ID>[put id from thetvdb.com]</ID>

ImageSize=Large | Small
SortOrder=Title | ReleaseDate | FileCreatedDate | SeasonAndEpisode

JJohnson:

I might have forgotten how, but I've got the new Doctor Who series, and how do we get that series to recognize again?  I reset the metadata, but it's pulling from the old 60's Doctor Who, not the new one.

Also, what were the options available for:
  <ImageType>NotSpecified</ImageType> (Cover, Banner, Thumbnail)
  <ImageSize>NotSpecified</ImageSize> ?
  <SortOrder>NotSpecified</SortOrder> ?

James

JJohnson:

...I'm running through a few tv series, and I'm getting a few 'media center extensability host' errors that crash the VL, returning me to MCE.  Has anyone else encountered this as well?

James

I've not had an extensibility host error but I've seen some instances where app stops responding normally. I can move the focus rectangle around but that's it. maybe the same thing w/o the actual crash being reported by MCE. Still trying to find out why....it seems almost random for me

 

Wex:

The .ogm extension you so kindly added for me works...almost. The episode data isn't being read correctly. All my episodes have the same metadata from the series.xml. The video.xml for each episode is full of information about each episode, but the tags aren't being pulled in. I can play the files fine and they're in the correct order. I can even change the order by changing the season.xml, so something is being read...

I'll take a look. By design, all episode data in video.xml contains the series information.

So you're saying when you view the details for the eps on screen it doesn't show any of the metadata?

It shows the metadata from the series.xml. For example, my Entourage episodes show all information correctly when you're browsing episodes. The <subtitle> shows, the episode number shows and the information about each episode shows all as you move through the shows in a single row view. My Cowboy Bebop ogm files have all of the information in the video.xml for each episode. When I browse the episodes though they show the title name under the thumbnail, but the information displayed below is all the same. It says the series name and the information about the series, instead of showing the information for each show, the episode number and the title of the episode.

JJohnson:

I might have forgotten how, but I've got the new Doctor Who series, and how do we get that series to recognize again?  I reset the metadata, but it's pulling from the old 60's Doctor Who, not the new one.

The new series is called "Doctor Who 2005" on the tvdb site so if you rename the folder to Doctor Who 2005 it picks it up properly. Not sure, but you might need to rename the files as well. Prolly not though.

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http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/

Wex:

It shows the metadata from the series.xml. For example, my Entourage episodes show all information correctly when you're browsing episodes. The <subtitle> shows, the episode number shows and the information about each episode shows all as you move through the shows in a single row view. My Cowboy Bebop ogm files have all of the information in the video.xml for each episode. When I browse the episodes though they show the title name under the thumbnail, but the information displayed below is all the same. It says the series name and the information about the series, instead of showing the information for each show, the episode number and the title of the episode.

Can you PM me or post a screenshot, Wex?

Thanks

I was able to reproduce the extensibility error, when going into Doctor who, while downloading the series info while looking at the same folder it's downloading, the error will pop up.

James

Side question: How many plan to install TV Pack in the next 60 days? How many don't plan to?

JackLuminous:

Side question: How many plan to install TV Pack in the next 60 days? How many don't plan to?

Been a little busy the past couple days and havn't been able to follow the thread...

however, I do plan to install the TV Pack soon. I noticed the list of issues with this and the TV pack, so of course it would be great if everything worked together =)

UPDATE:  I have changed my mind and decided to support (not require) movies in their own folder. Someone on here in this thread (and someone else, I think, on the OML thread) suggested using a VIDEO_TS folder to distinguish between an arbitrary collection of video files (regular folder) vs. an actual movie folder (like a DVD). This was a brilliantly simple solution to the main issue of differentiating the two.

Blah blah blah...so I have it implemented in the latest build I have not put out yet. Simply add a "VIDEO_TS" folder to a folder and the gallery will recognize it as a video file, download metadata then play all files in the folder in alphabetical order. The folder name becomes the video title/name.

Refresh my memory: is this how MyMovies does it?

I am testing it now and so far it works ok except for two situations:

1. Saving the correct 'position' which could really be in any of the individual 'parts'.

2. Retrieving thumbnails

This is using *.wvx just like the folks who cracked the DVD library on extenders problem.

I am undecided whether to require the movie parts to be in VIDEO_TS or just have the empty VIDEO_TS present.....

Feedback requested.

notyouraccount:

JackLuminous:

Side question: How many plan to install TV Pack in the next 60 days? How many don't plan to?

Been a little busy the past couple days and havn't been able to follow the thread...

however, I do plan to install the TV Pack soon. I noticed the list of issues with this and the TV pack, so of course it would be great if everything worked together =)

....plug-in devs don't even know what's changed at the SDK level.....

JackLuminous:

Side question: How many plan to install TV Pack in the next 60 days? How many don't plan to?

I've already got it installed as does everyone I know IRL that uses MCE.

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Media Browser (Formally Video Browser) Developer
http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/

JackLuminous:

UPDATE:  I have changed my mind and decided to support (not require) movies in their own folder. Someone on here in this thread (and someone else, I think, on the OML thread) suggested using a VIDEO_TS folder to distinguish between an arbitrary collection of video files (regular folder) vs. an actual movie folder (like a DVD). This was a brilliantly simple solution to the main issue of differentiating the two.

Why don't you just add a new config option that points to Movie Folders and 1. assume all folders under those are folders with a single movie in each folder (may be a multi-file movie, but only one movie per folder) and 2. don't bother supporting "an arbitrary collection of video files" because the built-in Video Library seems to work just fine for stuff like that? I mean, I can't be the only one that already has 100's of movies already in their own folders? (Maybe I am?)

JackLuminous:

1. Saving the correct 'position' which could really be in any of the individual 'parts'.

Can't you just save the current-playing-file and position in that file and play from there?

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http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/

Ogre:

Why don't you just add a new config option that points to Movie Folders ... and 2. don't bother supporting "an arbitrary collection of video files" because the built-in Video Library seems to work just fine for stuff like that? I mean, I can't be the only one that already has 100's of movies already in their own folders? (Maybe I am?)

I don't see the logic of saying the Built-in Video Library works just fine..?

The Built-in Video Library doesn't support any form of xml data and therefore doesn't even come close to being comparable to this application.  When the question was originally asked, there were a number of people (myself included) that said they use a single folder with all movies stored in it.  You definitely aren't the only one with 100's of movies in their own folders, which I'm guessing brought on the statement from JL that he would move from his original mindset of only supporting the "arbitrary collection of video files" (not sure why having all files in one folder therefore means it's unorganised as opposed to having them in folders.?, without different folders for each movie would suggest they would have to be more organised, not less..) to catering support for both an "arbitrary" collection of movies, and a collection where people have them in seperate folders, as a compromise from leaving it the way it is (which is the way JL designed it) because of the expression that others aren't unlike yourself, and have multiple folders in their movie collection aswell.

I, for one, don't wish to move all of my 100's of movies from the single organised folder they are in to individual folders for each movie.  The reason mine are in one folder, as it is one less button press to actually play the files when using the built-in Video Library (that the MCE in my bedroom is still using).

Schlep.

I hope I hadn't offended anyone by saying "arbitraty collection of files". Not my intention at all :-P.

I wasn't thinking at all about whether it was organised or not. I realized this was the easiest way of supporting multi-part files. The way I have it right now, it kinda ('kinda' because of resume issues...) does that. The user just drops a video_ts into the folder and, if the folder had not been 'identified' before, the app will detect this video_ts and identify the folder as a moviefolder mediatype.

No one has to really re-org their stuff. it's more of a..opt-in approach, I guess.

For me, some of my content as stored in one large folder and it works just fine.