DyStiC:

Frozty2k:

As for the sort by date, seems to work fine, the only thing I've noticed is if someone uses the regular video browser in MCE then a thumbs file is created with a new date and that movie jumps to the top.

I think you mean the same thing as i described;

DyStiC:

Yeah the sort by date doesn't really work out for me either, but i think that's more because of how linux acts. Don't know if you mean the same thing;
I guess when using 'sort by date' in Video Browser it uses the 'created' date from the folders to sort, however in linux (or at least on my NAS) when i put a new file or change a file in a folder, this folder gets a new create date (instead of only changing the 'modified' date for the folder as it works in windows). So after i change something in an old folder it appears unfortunately back on top.
But apparently thats more a strange behavior of my NAS.

Makes the 'sort by date' kinda unusable on my box, too bad.
An option would be to look at the create date of the actual media files in the folder, but i don't know of that is possible to implement.

how about a <by year> option that uses the metadata value, then at least you could select by this if your folder dates wern't working/correct.

 

DyStiC:

Frozty2k:

As for the sort by date, seems to work fine, the only thing I've noticed is if someone uses the regular video browser in MCE then a thumbs file is created with a new date and that movie jumps to the top.

I think you mean the same thing as i described;

DyStiC:

Yeah the sort by
date doesn't really work out for me either, but i think that's more
because of how linux acts. Don't know if you mean the same thing;
I
guess when using 'sort by date' in Video Browser it uses the 'created'
date from the folders to sort, however in linux (or at least on my NAS)
when i put a new file or change a file in a folder, this folder gets a
new create date (instead of only changing the 'modified' date for the
folder as it works in windows). So after i change something in an old
folder it appears unfortunately back on top.
But apparently thats more a strange behavior of my NAS.

Makes the 'sort by date' kinda unusable on my box, too bad.
An option would be to look at the create date of the actual media files in the folder, but i don't know of that is possible to implement.

Probably possable but more work. I imagine it only looks at the date of the folder (which would be the newest file inside).

There are several ways around the thubms issue,

1 - Make the folder not writable so MCE can't make the thumbs in the first place (not ideal if you wan't it writable)
2 - Don't view the folders in windows / MCE video browser
3 - If it's a linux box it wouldn't be hard to make a quick script to run say hourly and delete any thumbs files

DyStiC:

To bad there isn't much posting in this treath. But i guess that's because this plug-in just does what it is supposed to do, and it works great.

However, after using for some weeks now i found that when after you watch a video and you return to the list menu, you can no longer use the quick navigation by using the number keys, nor can you select the category.

Also the auto playlist (which is a great feature!) doesn't always work right. For example i got two files in a folder:
Crash.2004.UNRATED.DC.DVDRip.XviD-ESPiSE.CD1.avi and
Crash.2004.UNRATED.DC.DVDRip.XviD-ESPiSE.CD2.avi, but the CD2 file is played first.
Maybe you can fix this in a future release.

Keep up the good work!

Going to try and reproduce the playback issue with Crash right now.

*edit*

Confirmed that cd2 plays first with those files names for crash running samba.

Installed this and works well.  Would be nice not to have to make the shortcuts per user, but it does work well.

I've use the ruby thetvdb scraper script and it runs well except for some like Brothers & Sisters.  I am trying the following c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe tvdb_scraper.rb "F:\TVShows\Adults\Brothers & Sisters\"  but it complains that the directory cannot be found although I am 100% sure it exists.  Any thoughts?  Maybe it's the & special char?

thanks,

-D

This would appear to tie into the bug I just hit, I think its an enconding issue with the ISO language used to query / handle the return from the web and local disk.

I tried searching for Prison Break S03E1 and one episode is called Orientación. This turns out as 01 - Orientación.

Mark

MarkSewell:

This would appear to tie into the bug I just hit, I think its an enconding issue with the ISO language used to query / handle the return from the web and local disk.

I tried searching for Prison Break S03E1 and one episode is called Orientación. This turns out as 01 - Orientación.

Mark

Yeah I think it may not be able to handle the & in my case.  Although I changed it to "Brothers and Sisters" and that didn't work either, even though there is a different show from the 70's on the site as well.  I'm stumped.

-D

Great tool, can't believe I managed without this for so long :-)

A few comments;

1. Any way to use more fancy folder icons for the folder views inside the app? Something like the tile logp for the "short cut folder" would be good

2. When I gointo a root folder say, Prison break. Anyway of getting the banner from tvdb to appear as the folder?

3. When in a folder, I find the metadata does not appear for the first episode till I've moved down to the next and then back.

Just minor things, hope these help to take it forward. Great work to you and King Manon, the meta scrapers you put together are fantastic.

dravor,

I'm having trouble reproducing this on both linux and windows xp with latest ruby:

C:\Documents and Settings\sam\Desktop>ruby tvdb_scraper.rb "Brothers & Sisters"
Brothers & Sisters/Season 1/1.avi
found: 1 - Patriarchy - Brothers & Sisters

If any tv series plays up you can always do a manual override by creating a series.xml file in the series dir and setting the series_id manually in the xml file

I escape the stuff before i send it to thetvdb so special chars should work.

I will try to add a manual override into the script at some point, just in case.

Cheers
Sam

Mark,


> 1. Any way to use more fancy folder icons for the folder views inside the app? Something like the tile logp for the "short cut folder" would be good

> 2. When I gointo a root folder say, Prison break. Anyway of getting the banner from tvdb to appear as the folder?

> 3. When in a folder, I find the metadata does not appear for the first episode till I've moved down to the next and then back.

regarding 1, you can always add a folder.jpg file to any folder and it should display ...

regarding 2, ill look into it

regarding 3, its a known issue I have been having trouble resolving

> This turns out as 01 - Orientación.

I think I've seen this before, I have some missing unicode escaping stuff somewhere... ill look into fixing it

Ok,

For the next release I will look into sorting the following

1. The phantom 1st selection issue, where you do not get metadata for the first show until you move around
2. A more robust algorithm for determining the created date (look at the earliest data of the movies in the folder instead of folder date)
3. Fix the bug where some NAS's do not return files in alphabetical order, so some automatic playlists play out of order
4. Implement a metadata cache in memory so genre and runtime sort options appear right away

Sorry, I'm going to stay with the black background for the time being

Anything else I should add here?

sambo99:

dravor,

I'm having trouble reproducing this on both linux and windows xp with latest ruby:

C:\Documents and Settings\sam\Desktop>ruby tvdb_scraper.rb "Brothers & Sisters"
Brothers & Sisters/Season 1/1.avi
found: 1 - Patriarchy - Brothers & Sisters

If any tv series plays up you can always do a manual override by creating a series.xml file in the series dir and setting the series_id manually in the xml file

I escape the stuff before i send it to thetvdb so special chars should work.

I will try to add a manual override into the script at some point, just in case.

Cheers
Sam

 

Nevermind, figured it out, my recordings for that show are wmv, so the wife can view them over the Extender.

I hope you don't mind, just edited your script by adding the wmv file extension. 

From:

if filename =~ /\.(avi|mpg|mpeg|mp4|divx|mkv)$/

to

if filename =~ /\.(avi|mpg|mpeg|mp4|divx|mkv|wmv)$/

Works great now!

Thanks!

 

 

-D

sambo99:

Ok,

For the next release I will look into sorting the following

1. The phantom 1st selection issue, where you do not get metadata for the first show until you move around
2. A more robust algorithm for determining the created date (look at the earliest data of the movies in the folder instead of folder date)
3. Fix the bug where some NAS's do not return files in alphabetical order, so some automatic playlists play out of order
4. Implement a metadata cache in memory so genre and runtime sort options appear right away

Sorry, I'm going to stay with the black background for the time being

Anything else I should add here?

hi sam, would love to see my suggestion to add a <by year> selection that uses the metadata year of the movie to sort by, thats if everybody agrees with my suggestion of course :-).

This sounds good, the short cut bit you are right, I was being lazy ;-) I guess its best to leave this for people to customise as they see fit.

The banner thing I think should be looked at, if you can pull this from tvmdb and have a pointer in the Series.xml that would be cool. Then we could select this banner to watch the show. The content on TVDB is good, we may as well use it :-)

Great work, looking forward to a new build.

Mark

Sam, have you taken a look at XBMC (http://www.xbmc.org)?  XBMC, for those that don't know, started out as XBox Media Center, which was a hack for the original XBox (not the 360) which offered a full-featured media center interface, along with full support of VOB files (amongst many other file formats).  It also features really good skinning capability.  It's open-source and the project has continued (with many people still using first-gen XBox's quite happily).  About a year ago, someone came out with an AppleTV skin for it.  More recently, the main development focus of the main application has been on porting it over to OS X  and Linux, but very, very recently a few folks have started porting it over to Windows.

It would seem to me that a lot of people interested in Sam's app are, like me, Windows users who prefer a more AppleTV-style movie interface over the UI offered by MyMovies.  I'm wondering if Sam and/or other developers skilled in whatever language the XBMC source is offered in (I'm fairly certain it's C++, which I'm not experienced in) might have interest in helping to push that project along.

Again, sorry if this suggestion offends anyone (for whatever reason), and sorry for temporarily hijacking this thread.  I started a new thread about this in the "MCE Alernatives" forum so that any discussion about it could continue there and wouldn't interrupt this thread further, but because of the AppleTV skin available for it and Sam's programming talents, I wanted to bring the whole thing to the attention of everyone following this thread.  The new thread I started can be found here:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/246056.aspx

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sambo99:

Ok,

For the next release I will look into sorting the following

1. The phantom 1st selection issue, where you do not get metadata for the first show until you move around
2. A more robust algorithm for determining the created date (look at the earliest data of the movies in the folder instead of folder date)
3. Fix the bug where some NAS's do not return files in alphabetical order, so some automatic playlists play out of order
4. Implement a metadata cache in memory so genre and runtime sort options appear right away

Sorry, I'm going to stay with the black background for the time being

Anything else I should add here?

Great features, i like em all. Hope you get them working.

Maybe another nice thing would be to display the <overview> part from the series.xml when selecting a folder which contains the episodes of a TV show. Kinda like it does with movies now, so it gives you a general description about the show.

Anyway, looking forward to the new release!