JackLuminous:

Sam uses ".metadata"

hmmmm .... the ruby script used to populate the metadata seems to create the folder withouth a proceeding period and I can't find any folders on the NAS device with a period either they're all just called metadata.  Additionally as I started testing Sam's before TVLibrary I found TVLibrary overwrote my Sam's metadata confirming your both using the same folder name I would think?

From the ruby script
@episode_xml_path = (filename.dirname + "metadata") + (drop_extension(filename.basename).to_s + ".xml")
Dir.mkdir(@episode_xml_path.dirname.to_s) 
IO.popen("ATTRIB +H " + "\"" + @episode_xml_path.dirname +  "\"")

Note that of course in the case of this ruby script the ATTRIB command does nothing to hide the folder on the NAS it's still viewable in explorer etc, just doesn't show in Sams MCE interface later.

I am having i problem which i posted quite a while ago but no one answered. Its like this every time i have stopped a movie or its finished. After about 40 seconds of browsing in the menu or looking at another movie the screen goes black and a window opens and says: Media Center has Stopped Working Trying to find a solution then seconds later it says restarting media center and it restarts and i don't get any info at all....

Log

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

 

sorry, Trev, I have not seen that before....

I've got a solution to the problem of crashing when using Samba shares on a NAS. If you can get into your samba config file - usually in /etc/samba/smb.conf you can add hide files = to automatically hide all the metadata:

    hide files = /metadata/
    comment=
    path = /mnt/disk1/Video
    browsable = yes
    printable = no
    writable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    force create mode = 666
    force directory mode = 777

If you've got a Linkstation it's worth checking nas-central.org for some detailed info, or send me a message.

J

Thanks J, I had actually considered doing this but it seemed a little OTT in my situation, my NAS run's unRaid which is distributed on a thumbdrive as a bootable *nix image and whilst I can make changes to it, it would need to be done after evey upgrade.  http://lime-technology.com

Don't get me wrong it's definitely a workable kludge for some, but would be nice if you would consider in a later release using the period approach which should work for everyone with samba shares (or better yet simply allow us to configure the name of the folders in the tvlibrary.config file so we could tailor it to suit our own needs).

Many thanks.

I´ve just started to try this out today but I cant seem to get it to work.

I´ve got all my TV shows on my server in this structure, for example:

\\SRV\Videos\TV\Seinfeld\Season 6\6x01.The Chaperone.mp4

Is there a proper/working regex for this structure?

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/Niklas

@*#)*#()*@#! ...[calming down]... :-P....ok, cache folder will now be renamed to ".metadata" in addition to being tagged hidden.

Gremlin:

Thanks J, I had actually considered doing this but it seemed a little OTT in my situation, my NAS run's unRaid which is distributed on a thumbdrive as a bootable *nix image and whilst I can make changes to it, it would need to be done after evey upgrade.  http://lime-technology.com

Don't get me wrong it's definitely a workable kludge for some, but would be nice if you would consider in a later release using the period approach which should work for everyone with samba shares (or better yet simply allow us to configure the name of the folders in the tvlibrary.config file so we could tailor it to suit our own needs).

Many thanks.

many thanks !!! :) .... I'd be more than happy to donate a few $$ to your cause, or sponser you with some free webhosting, send me a PM if there's anything you need :)

Gremlin:

many thanks !!! :) .... I'd be more than happy to donate a few $$ to your cause, or sponser you with some free webhosting, send me a PM if there's anything you need :)

lol ...no donations or anything needed but thanks for the offer!

my current build is buggy as hell so I am working through some issues. The .metadata works as it should on windows and I just ensured that all code loading folder contents ignore hidden folders and the cache folders.

*Solved

 

im so happy YEssssssssssss

Trev,

How did you solve it? What was going on? Details, man, details! :-D

Trev_95:

*Solved

 

im so happy YEssssssssssss

Hey,
     I have enjoyed the tv library app on my 32-bit Vista, but since moving to 64-bit, I can't seem to get it to work.  Would you know any reason it might not work, or a workaround?

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

James

Good morning, James,

I don't have nor will have access to x64 so I have no way of testing. I am using standard stuff. What problem are you seeing?

PS. I can reproduce that annoying problem you mentioned a month or so ago where, depending on the item, it crashes when you move left or right....trying to isolate it cuz it is DRIVING ME BATS*** crazy!

I think I found a common denominator: in 3 different cases I had a folder in the first position with rest being either series or videos. I don't know how this comes into play but I can reproduce this consistently.

At first I thought this only happened if I had a folder in the first spot; however, more testing revealed that this problem occurs when you have a mix of folders and non-folders (ie. videos or series). For example, let's say I browse into a folder containing (in order, 2 folders then a video). I can move the focus to either of the folders but when I move the focus to the video, it craps out hard.

JackLuminous:

PS. I can reproduce that annoying problem you mentioned a month or so ago where, depending on the item, it crashes when you move left or right....trying to isolate it cuz it is DRIVING ME BATS*** crazy!

Edit: Ditto if you mix folders and series in a given folder...ARGH

Exact cause of problem described above was identified and resolved. You can now mix folders, videos, and series in the same folder without it crashing...[fingers crossed]. I should have a build available next week or so but it doesn't have the find series/movie info yet. This build is primarily focused on backend stuff (.metadata folder, object identification and info downloading) I decided not to do a full blow-up-and-rebuild on the UI/pages yet. I wanted to see if the same UI works with the newer backend code first. Towards this end, I might need a few folks to try it out on a limited and focused basis. More info later this evening...