2008-12-03, 23:30
fekker Wrote:Repacked 2211b with the key embedded - thanks for finding that so quick !
You're welcome. Thanks for all your hard work! Everything seems to be working fine so far.
I really appreciate the labels on the fanart and IMPawards. Could we have the same for the TMDB posters? I've noticed that sometimes the "hi res" posters are actually lower res than the ones at IMPawards. It doesn't happen often, just sometimes so labels would be helpful, and consistent. (I'll add it to the next feature request that I submit).
Please excuse my ignorance but could you explain to me what is actually contained in the Tbn file? I also noticed that the "Create movie.nfo" button is still disabled. Are Movie.nfo and tvshow.nfo things that would be used by media centres such as XBMC? Thanks for the tvshow.nfo files, I'm still a little confused at how they would be created. Would a series with 10 episodes have 10 episode "nfo" files plus a header file for the series itself plus a tvshow.nfo file? I'm sorry to bombard you with questions, I just want to understand how everything works so that I get my database design right.
fekker Wrote:New Ideas for more stuff to make:
TV Monitor - runs in system tray, monitors the folders that your TV Shows are in, and based on a customizable timer, automatically adds any new show information. This will be based on the tv data portion already in MovieInfoPlus (currently disabled).
That would be a fantastic add-on. It would be useful to be able to have start and end-dates for the period when new episode information would be searched for (e.g search for "Lost" episode details, daily from 1st Jan to 30th July) rather than search for lots of series every day as most series/seasons last less than 6 months. It seems that most episode guides are uploaded within 1 month of broadcast. I guess an automated timer could keep searching until X days or weeks after the last known transmission date and would be simpler to implement.
Similarly, I don't know how easy it would be to search alternative sources for episode guides as IMDb are not so hot at that as their movie details. Generally, the US series are well maintained but the UK series often have lots of omissions. (e.g the most popular British export, Top Gear has no episode "plot" for all of 2003 and 2004 or "Ideal" only has plots for series 4.) Maybe alternative sources would be overkill, I guess most series are well documented.
I've just thought of a cool feature you could have. How about when a new episode is discovered for a series that had been off-air for over 1 month it could send an email (perhaps the day after broadcast) telling the user that the series was back on air and they might want to look for a download of it? This would be particularly helpful to those who watch US series and don't live in the US so have no idea when they air. You'd probably only want an email for this first episode as more regular mails might get annoying.
I think that I'd use the episode data to build a schedule telling me which episodes were on each week so that I knew what I might want to watch or download.
Everything seems to be going really well. This tool has changed dramatically in the last 3 weeks . It is much faster, much more stable and has several new options. You must have put quite a few hours work into it.
Thanks again
JiveTalker