diggityDawg:

JackLuminous:

App Update:

Sorry, maybe I'm missing something, but where are these new builds your talking about?  The link in the first post seems to be a build from 5-16, but you've got notes about new versions up to just a couple days ago...  Are those builds somewhere else?  Where can I download the newest build?

Thanks for an amazing app!  Really appreciate your work!

Eddie

eddie, i'm not talking about new builds per se. I was just giving  a status update on a rebuild to better deal with some scenarios

Trev_95:

Hi

I was just wondering how i change the pictures in the first menu. for ex. in the gallery mode i have three diferent categories Movies,Recorded and Tv Show and i want each of them to have a different jpeg picture but i can only seem to get one working by going into the metadata and renaming a pic folder.cover.jpg?

 

Any help appreciated

what's happening in the others that don't work? is the getmostrecentvideo setting = true?

The others don't show up since they have to be called folder.thumbnail (2)/(3)

C:/user/main folder/metadata

folder.thumbnail.jpg for TvShows                        Shows up

folder.thumbnail(2).jpg for Movies                     Does't Show up

folder.thumbnail(3).jpg for Recorded                  Does't Show up

Get most recent video is off since i want to use jpgs instead. Is it possible??

JackLuminous:

Jimbob_UK:

Bad new JL. Removed the apostrophes but it still gives the same error. I'm not that surprised though becuase I was thinking, if it was the cause of the problem, I would have had the same problem when I ran TV Library from my C drive instead of NAS share wouldn't I?

Thanks for continued support

No problem. thanks for the followup. I'll revisit it next week (house guests this weekend so no computer for me..says the wifey) and try to see what's going on.....

A bit more info, I did a diff between the working directory on C: and non working on NAS X: The only diffs were that on the NAS there were some directories under metadata:

X:\Bones\metadata\metadata\folder.xml

X:\Bones\Season 3\metadata\metadata\folder.xml

It's the same story in other series, so my theory is that it's recursing up it's own - well you know - if the metadata folders aren't hidden.

Hopefully there will be a build that ignores the metadata folders, but will investigate sorting out the Linkstation in case there isn't

J

Basically, it's not ignoring folders called "metadata" --which it should have been. Hm..I'll check to see if I told it to ignore hidden folders or if I told it to specifically ignore folder called "metadata".

JackLuminous:

Basically, it's not ignoring folders called "metadata" --which it should have been. Hm..I'll check to see if I told it to ignore hidden folders or if I told it to specifically ignore folder called "metadata".

Think this hidden folder stuff might be the beginning of more trouble for me. I imagine my media library will now pick up all the jpegs in the metadata folders if they aren't hidden, but hey, that's old technology once tv library works I have started having dreams about databases at night, I wonder what that could mean

J

One Thing i have seemed to notice is every time i open tvlibrary,after playing one video and when i start a second and it crashes. Sencing it might be a conflict????

Any help appreciated

Ive got the log but im very sorry its translated from swedish by me:

 

 

 

Problemsignature:

P1: ehshell.exe

P2: 6.0.6000.16386

P3: 4549b55e

P4: mscorlib

P5: 2.0.0.0

P6: 47577b16

P7: 3404

P8: 15a

P9: System.UnauthorizedAccess

P10:

Unauthorized files:

C:\Users\Otto\AppData\Local\Temp\WER7D8D.tmp.version.txt

Files can be available att the following place:

C:\Users\Otto\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report14a39645

 

Please help its very annoying when every time you finish watching a video media center has to restart

Basically, it's not ignoring folders called "metadata" --which it should have been. Hm..I'll check to see if I told it to ignore hidden folders or if I told it to specifically ignore folder called "metadata".

Just disocvered this app today, looking very nice. I have an issue when browsing episodes though which will be related to the above, becuase the folder metadata is showing up in my episode list when ever I try to move left or right through the list it simply crashes the application (with nothing written to the log unfortunately).

I guess this effects anyone whose media library isn't on a Windows based storage device, most NAS or homebrew solutions tend to be *NIX based using Samba shares which obvisouly means setting the folder attibute to "hidden" doesn't apply.

One relatively simple & quick solution for 95% of those of us that fall into this category would be for TVLibrary to just change the folder name from "metadata" to ".metadata" and set the directory attribute to hidden, on most NAS devices that aren't Windows based any directory prefixed with a period would become hidden, and on those using windows filesystems setting the attribute would take care of hiding it

I'll think about it. I didn't consider this issue at all since I assumed the files would be on the HTPC or on a windows share....

Gremlin:

Basically, it's not ignoring folders called "metadata" --which it should have been. Hm..I'll check to see if I told it to ignore hidden folders or if I told it to specifically ignore folder called "metadata".

Just disocvered this app today, looking very nice. I have an issue when browsing episodes though which will be related to the above, becuase the folder metadata is showing up in my episode list when ever I try to move left or right through the list it simply crashes the application (with nothing written to the log unfortunately).

I guess this effects anyone whose media library isn't on a Windows based storage device, most NAS or homebrew solutions tend to be *NIX based using Samba shares which obvisouly means setting the folder attibute to "hidden" doesn't apply.

One relatively simple & quick solution for 95% of those of us that fall into this category would be for TVLibrary to just change the folder name from "metadata" to ".metadata" and set the directory attribute to hidden, on most NAS devices that aren't Windows based any directory prefixed with a period would become hidden, and on those using windows filesystems setting the attribute would take care of hiding it

I just rechecked the code and confirmed that I am ignoring hidden files and folders and specifically ignoring folders called "metadata". Since I don't have a *NIX-based NAS or 64-bit or SAMBA shares etc., I had not run into these issues..

ahelseth:

Hehe, I really don't understand your unwillingness to use a DB approach, but what the heck, if it works for you :)

The best reason I can think of is that using a file-based XML system allows multiple MCE machines to share the same folders and data.

BTW, I've been lurking but haven't had much time to post.

Jack, any ETA on when we'll have a new build to test out your new features and stuff?

I'll test again, but I tried creating a folder called "metadata" which I did not hide on a windows box and this folder showed up in the interface in my episode listing too which if folders called metadata were being ignored I'd have not expected to happen ... perhaps I've just got an early build and you've fixed it in an unreleased version.

Just as a side note AndyC's TVLibary app had this exact same issue initially too but was rectified in about the last build he posted (around page 30 of the thread http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/211592/211529/ShowThread.aspx#211529 ) but I'm not sure what he did to get around it

EDIT: Just thought of one other thing too and that is that Sams Video Browser which I've been playing with today too does seem to succesfully hide/ignore metadata folders on the NAS (I'm using an unRaid array) so perhaps it would be worth seeing how his app does it and see what the difference is (I believe Sam's browser is Open Source and available on Google Code).

Sam uses ".metadata"

Gremlin:

I'll test again, but I tried creating a folder called "metadata" which I did not hide on a windows box and this folder showed up in the interface in my episode listing too which if folders called metadata were being ignored I'd have not expected to happen ... perhaps I've just got an early build and you've fixed it in an unreleased version.

Just as a side note AndyC's TVLibary app had this exact same issue initially too but was rectified in about the last build he posted (around page 30 of the thread http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permalink/211592/211529/ShowThread.aspx#211529 ) but I'm not sure what he did to get around it

EDIT: Just thought of one other thing too and that is that Sams Video Browser which I've been playing with today too does seem to succesfully hide/ignore metadata folders on the NAS (I'm using an unRaid array) so perhaps it would be worth seeing how his app does it and see what the difference is (I believe Sam's browser is Open Source and available on Google Code).

Hey, Ogre,

Work is cutting into my hobby-time. it's 2:54EDT and I am working from home..egad!

Anyways, i've finished the engine code (lots of reworking for metadata). Now, I am working on incorporating the *current UI* with the newer engine. Once I can get back to the same level of functionality I will move to the next step of redoing page architecture and adding the "Find Series Info" and "Find Movie Info" UI.

I've got a working build but it's too buggy. I'd like to say another few weeks but I don't think with work that i can guarantee it. damn...so much to do ..so little time :-/

Ogre:

ahelseth:

Hehe, I really don't understand your unwillingness to use a DB approach, but what the heck, if it works for you :)

The best reason I can think of is that using a file-based XML system allows multiple MCE machines to share the same folders and data.

BTW, I've been lurking but haven't had much time to post.

Jack, any ETA on when we'll have a new build to test out your new features and stuff?