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video library app for viewing videos/movies and tv episodes with metadata

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  •  09-02-2008, 7:11 PM 290142 in reply to 290137

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    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    My gut feeling is that we now need some kinda PlayReady SDK though everything I'm reading about PlayReady says it's mostly for mobile stuff. Strangely enough, it says PlayReady doesn't work on the Zune. Nothing about the 360 though so I could be wrong as Media Center still seems to be able to play protected content on the 360 when it's running as an extender.

    Why won't they just update the SDK? There's a post on the Sandbox site about this and the answer was "search the forum for Fiji" which revealed... nothing. Grr.

  •  09-02-2008, 7:15 PM 290146 in reply to 290142

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Ya, it's weird. I've gotten this very mixed impression from Microsoft about how they feel about plugins. It's like... they kind of create a decent SDK but then haven't looked at it since the day they published it. And naturally, VMC gets updates, fixes etc.. and no one bothers to make sure the SDK is not only updated but even works with the new stuff.

    In a nutsehll, they want to enable plugins but don't really either.


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    Travis Bell
    themoviedb.org | The open movie database

  •  09-03-2008, 7:38 PM 290485 in reply to 290146

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    v1.09 should be up tonight or tomorrow evening at the latest.  Change log included below:

    video library

    Change Log

    A. Changes

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    version v1.09

    1. Fix - Season metadata (cover and defaults) updated when new season folders are added to a series folder

    2. Fix - In TV Pack 2008, when you start playing a video and then try to play another video, the previous

    video always resumes playing. In addition, the Now Playing info is either "NowPlaying" or doesn't change

    3. Fix - Jump-in-list key remains visible if you switch to another folder before the displayed key value disappears.

    4. Change - Fan art are now downloaded from thetvdb.com

    5. Change - Images downloaded to /providercache are now contain the banner type in the file name.

    Ex. fanart.1280x720.74852-3.jpg, poster.680x1000.74852-1.jpg, season.74852-3.jpg

    6. New - Built-in archived TV regular expression now detects more naming conventions.

    See Section B below.

    7. New - Built-in archived TV regular expression no longer restricts the filetype extension so now more file formats

    are supported in the regex.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    version v1.08

    1. Fix - Seasons were sorted incorrectly because they were treated as strings instead of numbers

    2. Fix - Durations were not being calculated for video files (excluding recordedtv, dvd, streams)

    3. Fix - Small cover gallery view now uses properly sized images. The result looks similar to the built-in dvd library.

    4. Change - Minor change to movie gallery so that it shows Year, Rating, Duration below the Title

    5. New - Use FFW button on the remote control to toggle between 1- and 2-row views. Each folder remembers this setting

     

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    version v1.07

    1. Fix - App now properly uses banner image instead of cover image when rendering ImageType=Banner

    2. New - Proper banner gallery view to list banners from thetvdb.com

    3. New - Added ImageSize property to folder/season/series xml to support two different image sizes: Small and Large. Large size is the 1 row layout you're accustomed to. Small just provides a 2-row layout.

    4. New - JIL is implemented based on ahelseths' writeup.

     

    B. Supported Naming Conventions

    ---------------------------------

    The following examples illustrate the different file naming conventions that video libary supports

    out-of-the-box as of version 1.09:

    Babylon 5-S01E02-Soul Hunter.avi

    Babylon 5 - S01E02 - Soul Hunter.avi

    Babylon 5.S01E02.Soul Hunter.avi

    Babylon 5.s01e02.Soul Hunter.avi

    Babylon 5-S01x02-Soul Hunter.avi

    Babylon 5-01x02-Soul Hunter.avi

    Inspector Morse - 04x02 - The Sins of the Fathers.avi

    \\SERVER\Heroes\Season 01\01. Genesis.avi

    \\SERVER\Heroes\Season 01\01.Genesis.avi

    \\SERVER\Heroes\Season 01\01 Genesis.avi

    \\SERVER\Heroes\Season 01\01-Genesis.avi

    \\SERVER\Heroes\Season 01\01 - Genesis.avi

     

    C. Known Issues

    -----------------------------

    1. When you use the remote to toggle between Small and Large view, the focus switches to the first item in the list

    2. There is a 3 second delay before media center even does anything with the keypresses. There are no timers involved with triggering any keypresses or anything so I'm stumped...

    3. Fiji/TV Pack 2008 - Changes/breaks Transport API so bookmarking (Resume button) doesn't work reliably; sometimes it will resume normally and sometimes it will restart.

    4. Fiji/TV Pack 2008 - Chnages/breaks playback API so when you stop a video you are not returned back to the video details page

  •  09-03-2008, 8:56 PM 290504 in reply to 290485

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Awesome, can't wait to see those issues get fixed. Nice to see development continue! ;)
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    themoviedb.org | The open movie database

  •  09-04-2008, 3:41 AM 290562 in reply to 290504

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Thanks very much for the great plugin.

    Do we need to uninstall 1.08 first before we install 1.09?

  •  09-04-2008, 1:25 PM 290738 in reply to 290562

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    I have installed the new update and I'm testing it right now.

    I´m not sure, but I think that before, when you pushed the stop button, you came back to the current movie index, now only seems to pause it.

  •  09-04-2008, 3:08 PM 290762 in reply to 290738

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    sigh....did  you read the Known Issues section of the ChangeLog.txt? I'm going to guess that you have TV Pack 2008 installed, right?

    c_belda:

    I have installed the new update and I'm testing it right now.

    I´m not sure, but I think that before, when you pushed the stop button, you came back to the current movie index, now only seems to pause it.

  •  09-04-2008, 3:09 PM 290763 in reply to 290562

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    It should detect and uninstall the previous version but to be on the safe side, you can always uninstall then install

    ghw69:

    Thanks very much for the great plugin.

    Do we need to uninstall 1.08 first before we install 1.09?

  •  09-04-2008, 3:36 PM 290772 in reply to 290763

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    He he.... Sorry

  •  09-04-2008, 4:04 PM 290778 in reply to 290772

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    I see the changes re fanart.  Can 1.09 now show fanart and if so how.  A

  •  09-04-2008, 4:06 PM 290779 in reply to 290778

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Mogulbasher:
    I see the changes re fanart.  Can 1.09 now show fanart and if so how.  A

    Like everything else It just downloads the image you can copy that image as either the .season.cover.jpg or .season.thumbnail.jpg, etc... where are you trying to use fanart?

  •  09-05-2008, 8:02 AM 290974 in reply to 290779

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    oh, I was wondering if I could use it as a background.  I saw in the series.xml in the cache folder the XML for <fanart /> and wondered if I put the link to the fan art in there it would use it as a background.

    No worries.  A

  •  09-06-2008, 8:05 PM 291384 in reply to 290974

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    You mean the background for the entire page?

  •  09-06-2008, 8:09 PM 291386 in reply to 291384

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Another problem with TV Pack discovered. I could be mistaken but I see this on my main MC.

    When you're in the Watch Series page then click on Watch Episode, the video starts but the screen doesn't go to the playing video. You have to back out to the previous page then select the Now Playing window down below...WTF!?

    This doesn't happen on the regular video details page. The only difference I can see is that the watch series page does not have the now playing control on it.....

    I wish MS would provide some guidance on the sh*t they changed so plug-in devs can update their code accordingly....

  •  09-08-2008, 1:59 PM 291814 in reply to 291386

    Re: Proof-of-concept for a tv library app for watching series in order

    Would it be possible to add a "things left to watch" feature - something that would only show unviewed episodes in a series/show so that if you are watching lots of different series you know which ones you've got unwatched episodes / series for?

    Just a thought.... other than that I'm 100% satisfied user Smile [:)]

    JB
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