gbdesai Wrote:Good stuff Fekker, just wanted to say thanks again, you're doing all of us a great service!
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Quote:Hi Guys
Ive just noticed that all TV info and Movies are gone every time i close and restart the program, that is i get 000 movies and 000 shows even though had about 350 in each. I couldn't find a save button, so is this the "normal" behaviour to start with 000 and load all info each time? movies is fine but TV shows take like 25 minutes so its kinda annoying..
thx
Zeltak
This is normal and to be expected. MIP does not store the information about movies or shows that you have, it does a realtime scan for those when you load the items. Since images are cached locally, it doesn't have to download them again. Since data is cached locally, as well as stored in the .nfo files, it will load that up as well.
tv shows should not take that long to load.
make sure there it's not in debug mode (check in config.xml, search for debug (there's only one debug item in there) make sure it's value is false.
unless you have tens of thousands of shows, it should load in a minute or maybe 2 at most. It could be attempting to get the episode thumbs from tvdb, while most work correctly, there api has some issues and returns invalid images, which mip always try's to correct... to test, disable downloading of episode thumbnails and see if that speeds things up.
Quote:Nothings running behind the window it just tops out at 99-100% cpu on one core and stays that way.
However the cli version seems to work however it isn't taking into account my mip setting and overwriting the tv nfo files from what I can tell.
I'll post a log when it's done.
** Hrmm guess it doesn't actually output a log file, I'm gonna have to pipe this into a text file myself and look for anything out of sorts. **
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command line has an option to overwrite .nfo files as a parameter (for episodes), not sure if the shows one works or not, sounds like i'll need to check that one again.
in debug mode (set it in config.xml, only one item says debug, change that one to true) it will output a file to tvshowdebug.log in the root of mip's install directory. The gui toggle works for me as well... turn on debug (under settings drop down in tv shows) and it will output to the gui and to the log file.
pegging of the core is prob something to do with reading the media info in the file.. is there one it gets stuck on and doesn't output the .nfo file for (episodes i mean).
there are a few updated versions of mediainfo.dll on sourceforge, i didn't set mip to lock to a specific version, so you could rename the one in the folder (.old or whatever) and then put in a new version from the author of the tool. Most of the newer ones seem to have more issues, but i haven't tried the .14 update.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles...e_id=90614 .. grab MediaInfo_DLL_0.7.14_Windows_i386_WithoutInstaller.7z and extract to mip install directory
if that doesn't work, i'll put a build together that doesn't pull media info (or bypasses the check for shows) for testing.
Quote:Looks awesome! Can't wait to get home from work tonight so I can play with it more.
Like I said in the text...maybe keep it as-is, but add a slider or something that can also let you pick a specific time to grab a ss from? Not necessary, but I can already forsee someone requesting this.
Definitely gonna be reduxing the TV collection tonight to utilize all these...
I thought about the slider and realtime options, might be outside of my skills to make that work as it would need a full render of the video inside the app.. not impossible though
.. right now it starts 5 seconds in and grabs that from the first 3 minutes of the video.
Quote:I just noticed a strange behaviour in 2870, not sure if it's a WAD, a bug or a feature request.
I recently decided to finally tag all my movies with film studios so that the studio icons start being displayed. MIP seems to be choosing the studio names based on IMDB or some other database and apparently chooses only one studio (and that's fine, otherwise both logos are displayed in Aeon, one on top of the other).
So I decided to pick the studios I don't have icons for and replace them with the ones I do have icons for. Say, if a film was made by both Scott Free and De Line Productions, MIP chooses the latter, while I have an icon for the former. I tried typing the studio name in the "Skin tag" and "Studio" fields and saving, but upon reload (Display mode) the studio went back to De Line - and no change was saved in the .nfo files.
So I tried changing the studios in the .nfo files by hand, in Notepad. All went fine, but upon restart MIP... reverted those changes back. Any idea how to improve this?
By the way, our database of studio icons now uses two names: one shortened and one used by IMDB. This way it'd be easier to use the database in some future release of MIP - hopefully
EDIT:/ Just noticed the same is true to 2790: no chance to save the studio if it's not on the internal list (and barely any is there).
the list is generated from the .xml file, need to sync that with your list of studio options, i'll add it to the next patch.. you can always add them manually to the mystudios.xml file in mip's install dir.. will revist this one and do some testing.. it's prob because studio is stored in studioreal in the .nfo file.. tag data is stored in studio, which is a compiled field.
save should write what is displayed in the gui, the save button that is.
Quote:Media file found, parsing: ashes.to.ashes.s02e02.ws.pdtv.xvid-river.avi
Found Single Episode: Season 2 - Epsiode2
that might be what's causing the hang.. it could be it doesn't like something in that avi file (mediainfo that is).. does media info gui return the data for that one? i'll test a blank file to see if it's a scraper issue as well.
Quote:In the FAQ there is a question about why XBMC won't pick up changes in revised NFO files during a library update. It indicates that you should "click here" to get info on how to do a full update (I assume without just deleting the whole source, cleaning library, and re-adding all content). Unfortunately, there is no actual link anywhere to be found.
So is there a way to do a "forced" update or something like that?
for data from the .nfo file, a manual refresh on each item in xbmc works, but the easiest is removing the source, saying yet to removed cached data, and re-adding and scanning in xbmc. for images, removal of just xbmc's image cache works great and doesn't touch anything else.. that is just deleting the xbmc image cache folder.
Quote:Let me get this straight. Now your app will generate thumb nails its self? Man I leave for a few weeks and come back and what the heck happened.
I really like the idea of it creating thumb nails because now I don't have to wait for them to be created else where and completely rely on elsewhere.
I just hope my little PC can do it. hahaha
yup.. it's slower then i'd like, but that's ffmpeg reading the data and putting out the files for the episode.. and it's manual right now until i can come up with a way to weight the image using image magick to allow auto-selection (and not end up with a blank screen shot).. the nice thing is that the quality of them is way better then the ones on tvdb.. if you have dvd, or hd source, the quality rocks for them and the background, either way with the skin it looks awesome in serenity
Quote:I grabbed 2890 but I don't see where to set episode images. Also, do I have to generate these myself? I have 7000+ episodes in MIP, so that would be a major PITA!
Thanks for the great work!
under the tools menu when an episode is being displayed, click on create thumbnail for episode.
currently it's manual, see above for more info on what i need to find out before doing an automated thing.
the automation of that part will be dog slow as well, but it's just a loop through an array of data so it's not impossible.