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

Last post 2 hours, 31 minutes ago by JackLuminous. 1246 replies.
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  •  09-10-2008, 2:25 PM 292555 in reply to 292500

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

    Just thought I'd chime in.  I appear to be in the same boat.  All my data is stored on my main PC, and not on my VCMC (less HDDs, easier to cool, less noise).  I figured it was just a network access issue, but yeah, servernames are slow for me also...

    Schlep :D

  •  09-10-2008, 2:36 PM 292557 in reply to 292555

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

    Aiight. I'll see what i can do. If I can remove/change the offending code and get faster response times then I'll post a new build tonight.

  •  09-10-2008, 6:53 PM 292607 in reply to 292557

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

    v1.10 uploaded. Minor (MINOR) tweak to change code I was yakking about one post up....it should be a little faster accessing shares over the network.
  •  09-11-2008, 3:10 PM 292873 in reply to 259474

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

    This seems exactly what Im looking for to replace tv library..

    My only concern is how hard is it to get this up and running?

    I have a folder with TV shows and it goes like Series/Season/ShownameS01E01.avi

    Will that work with this program or do I need to change the way I archive my shows?
  •  09-11-2008, 3:38 PM 292878 in reply to 292873

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

    Senn,

    Out of the box, the app will recognize a bunch of formats (see ChangeLog.txt on the skydrive on in the zip file). If none of these formats work for you then you can change a config setting.

    If you post couple of actual examples showing the full path, myself or Schlep or someone else on this thread can cook up the config regex needed.

  •  09-11-2008, 6:10 PM 292917 in reply to 292878

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

    JL,

    Thanks for your reply.

    My full path is:
    L:\TV Shows\Series Name\Season\BlahblahS0#E0#.avi or .mkv or .mpg

    Real Example:

    L:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2\DexterS02E10.mkv
  •  09-11-2008, 6:44 PM 292931 in reply to 292917

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

    Senn:
    JL,

    Thanks for your reply.

    My full path is:
    L:\TV Shows\Series Name\Season\BlahblahS0#E0#.avi or .mkv or .mpg

    Real Example:

    L:\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 2\DexterS02E10.mkv

    I will have to see if I require episode names anywhere...if not then we should be able to cook up a regex that you could use....

    Update:

    The regular expression to match your naming format is

    (?<seriesname>.+?)S(?<seasonnumber>\d{1,2})E(?<episodenumber>\d{1,3})(?<extension>\..{3,6}$)

    However, since this string is going into xml file, we have to change it to

    (?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)S(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})E(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})(?&lt;extension&gt;\..{3,6}$)

    Anyways, edit videolibrary.dll.config and specify the ArchivedTVExpression as listed in the sample below. If you'd rather not deal with this, rename your files to match one of the formats in the first post of this thread. Someone mentioned on TGB about a TV Renamer program that would work quite well.

    (on the other hand, I could add this as built-in format but I don't want to start a trend of trying to add too many different naming formats....thinking it over)

    Sample:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

    <configuration>

    <appSettings>

    <add key="ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)S(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})E(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})(?&lt;extension&gt;\..{3,6}$)"/>

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

    <add key="WatchedFolders" value="\\storage\videos\tv shows, \\HTPC\public\downloads, c:\users\public\videos, \\storage\dvds, \\HTPC\recorded tv"/>

    </appSettings>

    </configuration>

  •  09-11-2008, 7:40 PM 292943 in reply to 292931

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

    Im so lost..heh.

    Ok, in the example listed above..is that exactly what I need to make this program work with the way I archive TV shows?

    I have over 2000 tv episodes and renaming them all is not something I'm looking forward to...
  •  09-11-2008, 8:25 PM 292963 in reply to 292943

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

    sorry. Let's start over. I recommened overwriting your C:\programdata\videolibrary\videolibrary.dll.config with the one I provided. However, change the "WatchedFolders" key to be a comma-delimited list of folders you want to use in the application. For example, If you only want to point to , say "L:\tv shows" then make the key looks like this:

    <add key="WatchedFolders" value="L:\tv shows" />

    Leave everything as I have it in the sample. Once we have that going and can recognize some of your series and video files, then we can get into the rest of issues.

    Again, this app is not quite at the "anyone can use it"/user-friendly stage yet. Consider it at the tinkerer level. Kinda like 'hacking' dvd library and setting it up to load metadata for DVDs ripped to your HD using dvdid.xml files. If you can stomach getting dvd library setup then I think this will not be so bad.

     

     

  •  09-12-2008, 5:50 AM 293063 in reply to 292607

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

    JackLuminous:
    v1.10 uploaded. Minor (MINOR) tweak to change code I was yakking about one post up....it should be a little faster accessing shares over the network.

     

    Jack, that did the trick.... Way faster load times thank you so much.  I cant begin to tell you what a great app this is... Thanks

  •  09-12-2008, 6:07 AM 293071 in reply to 293063

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

    Mogulbasher, Thanks for that. Yeah, it's must quicker on my setup too.

    Senn, I think I am going to support your naming convention natively in the app. The regex will allow

    SeriesNameSnnEnn.extension or SeriesName-SnnEnn.extension.

    I decided that, for some shows, I just don't care to look up and type out the episode name...or some shows (like my wife's QAF that I'm archiving for her) don't really use episode names.

    In other news, BIG THANKS to MSBob for helping me out with the JIL issue. MSBob, now that I understand the whole deal w/ the timer.Start, I almost have it working the way I want.

    Long story short: the 3sec delay is gone. I am now deciding whether I want to scroll as you type or wait 1.5 seconds then scroll.

    Update:

    Testing regex against

    DexterS01E02.*

    Dexter-S01E02.*

    Dexter.S01E02.*

    Dexter.01x02.*

    Dexter-01x02.*

    Dexter - 01x02.*

     

  •  09-14-2008, 11:26 AM 293760 in reply to 293071

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

    Anyone notice any bookmarking problems when playing through a movie for more than 15 mins or so? Since I made some small (but should not be necessary) change, I have not noticed any bookmarking problems.

    Also, I am going to consider the JIL issue resolved. I have no gripes about how it works now; thanks to MSBob, it's working almost like the DVD Library's JIL

    Find Info UI is now functional. It is as ugly as !$%)@# but it's working. So far I can only test for tv shows --I can't test for movies because movie-xml is down...again.  I'm considering adding Amazon as  a data provider.

    Any dev familiar w/ Amazon's EULA regarding using their web services?

  •  09-15-2008, 2:40 PM 294125 in reply to 293760

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

    I got around to installing the program and put in my folder in the config file.

    I'm running into a few problems:

    I have no pictures for the shows. No banners for series/seasons/episodes etc.

    The metadata shows up only for a few shows and not for others and only for the series synapsis. There is no metadata for a season or individual episodes.

    How can I fix this?
  •  09-15-2008, 4:22 PM 294168 in reply to 294125

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

    In situations like this, it would help the troubleshooting process to know if there are any xml files in the .\metadata folder and what the status tag indicates. Are you certain that ALL of your episodes are in the same format?
  •  09-15-2008, 5:14 PM 294184 in reply to 294168

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

    JackLuminous:
    In situations like this, it would help the troubleshooting process to know if there are any xml files in the .\metadata folder and what the status tag indicates. Are you certain that ALL of your episodes are in the same format?


    All of my episodes are in the same format, yes.

    Okay for example:

    The show Chuck has a folder for Season 1. In the main folder the .metadata folder has a file called Chuck.folder. In it it says:
    <Title>Chuck</Title>
      <NeedsMetadata>false</NeedsMetadata>
      <NeedsUserSelection>false</NeedsUserSelection>
      <Status />

    In the season folder there is a .metadata folder with all the episode xml's called ChuckSNNENN.video. In it it says:

    <Title>Chuck S01E01</Title>
      <NeedsMetadata>true</NeedsMetadata>
      <NeedsUserSelection>false</NeedsUserSelection>
      <Status>Could not find any possible matches for 'Chuck S01E01'</Status>


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