Andy, see 2 posts back for the update on the problem.

Works like a charm!

thank you so much for the speedy resolution!

Andy...

No prob! I was on federal holidays so I had a chance to work on it.

For everyone else, v1.17 has been uploaded for both x86 and x64. Big thanks to robbiecrusoe, pluckyhd, and swears for the bughunt.

Updated to 1.17, very nice.  Lovin the new(?) transition effects on the series/movie info screens. I really appreciate your attention to detail with this plugin. 

Just wanted to post an update to some of the problems I reported earlier... After seeing that you run the TV Pack 2008 update, I decided to give it a go myself.  It actually solved the problem I was having with the "Play Random" feature becoming slower and slower after repeated uses.  It also fixes the jittery transition to and from the video that is currently playing.

Now the only problem I have is the plugin still crashes while downloading thumbnails.  It gets metadata and series information/banners just fine, but it always crashes after downloading one or two thumbnails. Works great once I add them myself, though. 

Looking forward to future developments!  Keep up the good work!

'sup, fellow Virginian!

It crashes on thumbnails? What format is the video in? Does it log anything at the time of the crash?

Hi

I've gpt a quick question, is there a limit on the number of seasons that the app will pick up?

I've started to get some formula 1 races and they are using the year in the season name on the TVDB e.g. Season 2008, and the tv app is not picking it up,  so I am thinking there might be a limit to the season numbers??

Mike

Hi Jack,

Have been following the program since it's inception and must say you've done an excellent job on it! I have also learnt a bit about xml files by playing around with the program in the early days, so have a fairly good understanding of how it works.

The only issue i seem to be having with it is that it does not transfer the covers for each series across from the "providercache" folder to the "season" folder. This results in no cover being shown for the season when browsing episodes or watching a series. I've just loaded v0.117 onto my computer and have tried the following to no avail:

1. Deleting the .metadata folders from a couple of series where metadata was previously downloaded to see if it will update automatically. Nothing changed at all, but I have found that in the <SERIES_NAME>.series.xml file found under the topmost directory of the series the status message was:

"Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '0'  Key being added: '0'"

Is it possible to reset this status so it will pick up the data again?

2. I had a brand new series which had not been loaded prior to loading v0.117 that picked up all the metadata and providercache information automatically and also loaded it into the topmost folder so the initial tv series folder shows the banner/cover/thumbnail properly, but there was still no cover for the actual season in the .metadata folder under each season.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Cheers,

Mark

BTW: There is one regex which I think is a fairly common one that may be a handy to add to the "defaults":

SERIES NAME - XX.XX - Episode Name.avi

the regex is:

<add key="ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\s-\s(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2}).(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})\s-\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)(?&lt;extension&gt;\.avi|\.mpg|\.mkv|/.lnk)" />

Great app, been using it for a while now.  Just updated to the latest version and have one issue and one feature request.

I like the option to choose small and large images, and switch between covers and banners, etc.  One problem I noticed is that when I choose large banner view on series page, it darks the images out and becomes non-responsive to remote commands.  It just stays locked in the "darked out" banner view. I can pull out my keyboard and use the mouse and it kicks back in, but for some reason it doesn't play nice with my remote.  I don't have the same problem with small banners, or large/small cover views.  Not a huge issue, and could be related to my hardware.  Anybody else able to replicate this?

Feature request:  I'd like a way to delete .metadata folders and refresh the metadata from within the VMC interface, without doing the folder browsing and manual delete. If anyone else would find this useful, is there a way to add this functionality to the interface, perhaps under a setting choice on the "skip button menu"?  If not, its really not a big deal.

Thanks for all your hard work on this program.

Hi Jack, I installed the new build today and it looks great.

I'm having some issues though.

First, there is no more metadata being pulled down (only 2 series got done). I think this may be caused by the regex expressions.

My naming scheme is similar to one of the examples except I have a space inserted like so:

Heroes\Season 01\Heroes - S01E01 - Genesis.avi

Is their anyway I can add those spaces to the example listed below?

\\SERVER\Heroes\Season 1\Heroes-S01E01-Genesis.avi
"(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)-S(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})E(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})-(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[avi|mpg|rmvb])"

If so, am I supposed to just paste that somewhere into the .config file?


Also, is their any way to hide hidden folders. I have a "metadata" folder in the series that got pulled down right. I don't know that's from this program or another one(I use TVScout to pull down data for using sam's video browser plug-in). Is their anyway to hide this?

Thanks, I really appreciate the support!

Ok, so I've tried editing the config file but with no success. I think \s stands for a space so I've inserted it into my config file like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="CombineDuplicateFolders" value="true" />
    <add key="WatchedFolders" value="\\STEVE-MC\Storage_1\TV-Series" />
    <add key="ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\s-\sS(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})E(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})\s-\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[avi|mpg|rmvb])" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>


But still, nothing is being pulled down.

BTW, how do you know when it start to grab information? Does it take a long time?

Wow, awesome!!  - This is a great app and it is much appreciated.  All it needs to do know is download my shows automatically! lol

I have had one issue though that I thought I would bring up...I installed the newest version 116 on two computers - one vista home and the other ultimate.  Once I tried to run the app it crashed and i got the disable app?  window in MC....this happened on both computers...just wondering if anyone esle has had this issue or if it's just me...

Thanks again I love this!!!

Hotshot, make sure you specify a value for your watched folders in the config file in \programdata. Look at my post above for reference.

Alright I finally got it to pull down data(I renamed all my files to the default setting).

Unfortunately it also crashing for me as soon as I go into the episode view(described below).

rvaslacker:

I'm having a problem with the x64 build of this plugin.  When I launch it, I can briefly browse my video library and it starts downloading metadata (evidenced by the .metadata folders), but then it crashes.  I get an error about the "Media Center Extensibility Host" followed by something regarding Data Execution Protection.  Just to see, I disabled DEP for ehExtHost but that had no effect.  This happens with all versions since at least 1.08.  I'm running Vista SP1 x64, but not the TV Pack update.

Otherwise, great plugin! I briefly used it before I had to upgrade to Vista 64.  This is library browsing done right...

Swears thanks....

Regarding the metadata folder that you see - it's from another program.  The one that is used for Video Library is hidden and it's named:   .metadata (with the period in front)  I had some issues with the data being pulled too so I deleted all the metadata folders (I had them to from another app as well) and then I chagned the folder options and deleted the hidden folders .metadata too.  This seemed to refresh everything and I was good to go!

swears, I think the app should recognize your format automaticaly; you don't need to specify an expression. I use .metadata and the xml is not compatible w/ VB.