At the moment, the app should keep downloading metadata until you exit out of it. I am not using/communicating w/ a separate windows service.

If you find [series name].folder.xml then that's a sure sign that the app is not recognizing your series folder as a series based on teh files. In other words, if the app can't identify your files as tv eps, it will just think teh series root folder is a plain folder

swears:

Ok, so I've tried editing the config file but with no

If 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?

mikegb,

there is no limit per se...wait..not entirely true. The regex will recognize up to 99 seasons and 99 episodes. ie. SnnEnn or nnxnn.

Also the app is based on the series/season n/[episode file] type of structure.

Mikegb:

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

haven't seen that one before.

Your feature request is reasonable. Also, for now, it seems best to put this on 'skip button menu' because folders don't have a detail page, per se.

This will be the next thing I work on.

anastasis:

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.

Hey Jack, I've got it working pretty well atm (I'm using the default naming scheme).

It turns out the x64 version was giving me all kinds of problems though. Every time it started pulling down data, it would give me the extensibility error and crash (surprisingly it doesn't leave a log file for me though). This made for a lot of incomplete data and pictures which I had to manually pull down from TVDB.

I've managed to get around this by running the program from a networked x86 PC w/ VMC to pull all the data down.

I also tried installing the 32-bit version on my main x64 media center pc which actually worked, however It would not show up in VMC(i checked programs too). Is their any way to get the 32-bit version working properly on 64-bit vista? Or is that like making square circles?

My videos are all .mp4. Unfortunately nothing is added to the log file as a result of this crash.

Just now, I tried to reproduce the crash by deleting the metadata/thumbnail for one episode of a series, and it re-created the metadata and thumbnail for that one video again no problem... So I removed the files for three episodes, and this is what I got...

"Media Center Extensibility Host has stopped working"
Description:
  Stopped working
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    ehExtHost.exe
  Application Version:    6.1.1000.18273
  Application Timestamp:    486c7cc0
  Fault Module Name:    unknown
  Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:    00000000
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    0000000002937220
  OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:    1033

Just for kicks, I clicked "Debug the program", which gave me the following information....

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    BEX64
  Application Name:    ehExtHost.exe
  Application Version:    6.1.1000.18273
  Application Timestamp:    486c7cc0
  Fault Module Name:    mscorwks.dll
  Fault Module Version:    2.0.50727.3053
  Fault Module Timestamp:    4889e870
  Exception Offset:    000000000052b729
  Exception Code:    c0000409
  Exception Data:    0000000000000000
  OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1:    a6ce
  Additional Information 2:    d30d6f0e573eac908a4ffe507d39e845
  Additional Information 3:    6475
  Additional Information 4:    28d871c8fef0c167ae7614e7818e39ed

And in media center, I get the following message:

"Program Not Responding"
The video library program has stopped responding and you will be returned to Windows Media Center.

Anyways... It downloaded the metadata again for all three files, but only two of the thumbnails were created before the crash occurred.  I've been looking for a pattern of some sort as far as which videos it downloads the thumbnail for, but it seems completely random.  If I add five files to a series, it will download thumbnails for anywhere between 1 and 4 of them, in no particular order. (It might get the 1st, 3rd and 4th episode, for example).

Here's a copy of my .config file...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\s-\s(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,1})(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,2})\s-\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[mp4|avi|mpg])" />
    <add key="CombineDuplicateFolders" value="true" />
    <add key="WatchedFolders" value="D:\video" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

All of my videos are located in D:\Video, with a folder/file structure that looks like this...

D:\Video\The Simpsons\Season 2\The Simpsons - 203 - Treehouse of Horror.mp4

Let me know if there's anymore info that would be helpful...

swears:

Is their any way to get the 32-bit version working properly on 64-bit vista? Or is that like making square circles?

bingo! x86 and x64 look for the registry settings in different places. For the record, both versions are really the same compiled code. All i do for the x64 version is set the platform to x64 in my Visual Studio 2005 Installer project -in other words, i rebuild the installer package not the actual assemblies/dlls

Thanks for the reply,

"The regex will recognize up to 99 seasons and 99 episodes. ie. SnnEnn or nnxnn" 

In my case for the Formula 1 races in the TVDB  it would be  S2008Enn,  as 2008 is the race season that we are currently in!

Its something that I can live with so no worries.

Mike

 

JackLuminous:

haven't seen that one before.

Your feature request is reasonable. Also, for now, it seems best to put this on 'skip button menu' because folders don't have a detail page, per se.

This will be the next thing I work on.

anastasis:

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.

Yes, Jack, you have! :-)
This was exactly my problem a few posts back!
I just explained it in another way.

I have the same problem, and I have two different computers. One that is controlled with a remote and one with a mouse and keyboard... The problem was with the one with the remote!

@anastasis:
On my set this problem starts when I have more than twelwe folders. How many do you have? Can you try it out with just a few folders?

JackLuminous,

I'm sure this has been answered, but after reading through the first 12 pages of this topic, my head nearly exploded. The main question being, since movie-xml went down, is there currently a scraper getting movie metadata, or was this functionality dropped for the time being? I notice ".metadata" folders and xml files are being created, but they are all pretty much blank slates.

Also, what movie xml scraper should I use if I want to manually get all of the info for my movies? I've tried salami's movie organizer, but when I load Video Library, it doesn't show any info that SMO gets.

Last question, what is the appropriate folder structure for movies? I currently use \\Movies\Movie Name\Movie Name.avi

I think you created a great product here... Straight forward and elegantly integrated into the whole VMC UI. Thanks for the time and energy you've put into this!

-t

anastasis:

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. 

I have the same issue with large banners.  Small banners work fine.

Yup, that wouldn't be recognized as an archived tv episode because it doesn't meet any of the formats.

Mikegb:

Thanks for the reply,

"The regex will recognize up to 99 seasons and 99 episodes. ie. SnnEnn or nnxnn" 

In my case for the Formula 1 races in the TVDB  it would be  S2008Enn,  as 2008 is the race season that we are currently in!

Its something that I can live with so no worries.

Mike

 

Correction: I haven't seen it personally on either my dev box, my LR mediacenter or BR mediacenter :-) I have 16 folders in my TV Shows main folder.

Filialen:

JackLuminous:

haven't seen that one before.

Your feature request is reasonable. Also, for now, it seems best to put this on 'skip button menu' because folders don't have a detail page, per se.

This will be the next thing I work on.

anastasis:

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.

Yes, Jack, you have! :-) This was exactly my problem a few posts back! I just explained it in another way. I have the same problem, and I have two different computers. One that is controlled with a remote and one with a mouse and keyboard... The problem was with the one with the remote! @anastasis: On my set this problem starts when I have more than twelwe folders. How many do you have? Can you try it out with just a few folders?

Clarify "series page". You mean you are looking at a bunch of season folders then you switch to large banners?

meatrack:

anastasis:

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. 

I have the same issue with large banners.  Small banners work fine.

timmy,

I use my own format which is an extension of the original TV Library by AndyC which in turns mimicks Microsoft media property attributes. There is no outside scaper that I know of.

Because movie-xml is down, this feature is currently dead. However, once the API for themoviedb.org (the guys who brought you movie-xml) is completed, I will add support for right away. Don't forget, I use this app too and I want my automatic metadata back!

Right now, you don't NEED to put movies in their own folder but you can; however, if you do so you'll have an extra click to play it. That being said, if you create an empty folder called "VIDEO_TS" then the app will generate a playlist to treat all content in that folder as a single movie. The problem that I have not solved yet is that bookmarking breaks once you move past the first file in the list.

 

timmyDOTcom:

JackLuminous,

I'm sure this has been answered, but after reading through the first 12 pages of this topic, my head nearly exploded. The main question being, since movie-xml went down, is there currently a scraper getting movie metadata, or was this functionality dropped for the time being? I notice ".metadata" folders and xml files are being created, but they are all pretty much blank slates.

Also, what movie xml scraper should I use if I want to manually get all of the info for my movies? I've tried salami's movie organizer, but when I load Video Library, it doesn't show any info that SMO gets.

Last question, what is the appropriate folder structure for movies? I currently use \\Movies\Movie Name\Movie Name.avi

I think you created a great product here... Straight forward and elegantly integrated into the whole VMC UI. Thanks for the time and energy you've put into this!

-t

Is this open source?

If so - where is the source available for download?

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