New Release Media Companion gen2 3.148

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

Just a small update on 3.143

New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags.

The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag.

You can view this order using the new "Sort Order" Radio Button.

Download Version 3.148

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paalfe · Junior Member Posts: 14 Join date: 2009-06-09

"Rebuild shows" works now.
Nice work! cheers

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

Glad you got it working.
if you check out the thread at XBMC forums I spent a couple of hours working with RockDawg who I thought had the same issue as yourself. One of the things I had changed was that the paths sent for parsing were lower case, this must have what was causing your problem.
Just a shame it did not fix it for him Sad

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TheDogg · New User Posts: 6 Join date: 2009-01-18

When we re-scrape an episode, should the thumbnail be automatically downloaded if it was missing the 1st time we scraped it?

currently I'm trying to re-scrape episodes with missing thumbnails but the *.tbn is not downloaded and it is present on thetvdb.com

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

TheDogg wrote:

When we re-scrape an episode, should the thumbnail be automatically downloaded if it was missing the 1st time we scraped it?

currently I'm trying to re-scrape episodes with missing thumbnails but the *.tbn is not downloaded and it is present on thetvdb.com

This feature will be added seperately, I'm not sure exactly it will work yet, I need to have a think about it. Part of the usefulness of MC is that people can customise their nfo files, it would not be a good idea to force people to overwrite their nfo's just to add a screenshot.

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guybrush123 · New User Posts: 8 Join date: 2009-10-30

Minor bug: This latest version introduced horizontal and vertical scrolling, which makes navigation a nightmare. My screen resolution is 1280 X 720. I think forcing the controls to re-size, or otherwise to choose which controls appear the main screen, and where they appear may be a solution to make sure that no horizontal and vertical scrolling is needed.

Also, when I click on "Change Movie" I first get an IE browser screen with "Action Canceled", then the current movie IMDB page shows up. Firefox is my default browser. Not sure if that is why...

StormyKnight · Senior Member Posts: 204 Join date: 2008-10-08

I'm running 1280x1024 which is fine, I'm guessing 1280x720 is a 16:9 ratio screen....

Also I have noticed the 'Navigation Cancelled' message, not sure if anything can be done to fix it though. I also have Firefox as my default if that makes any difference.

The other thing with the internal web page is that if you browse back to the movie list then back to the browser page, even though the same TV show is still selected it has to reload the page. This is more of an issue if on the first time on the web view you navigated perhaps down to a TV show episode & wanted to then compare some info with what MC has in the "Main Browser" tab. On return to the web view, the TVShow is reloaded back at the root.

The way I see it is if the same TVshow is still selected then it shouldn't refresh anything on the web view if thats possible....

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billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

guybrush123 wrote:

Minor bug: This latest version introduced horizontal and vertical scrolling, which makes navigation a nightmare. My screen resolution is 1280 X 720. I think forcing the controls to re-size, or otherwise to choose which controls appear the main screen, and where they appear may be a solution to make sure that no horizontal and vertical scrolling is needed.

Also, when I click on "Change Movie" I first get an IE browser screen with "Action Canceled", then the current movie IMDB page shows up. Firefox is my default browser. Not sure if that is why...

I'll spend today concentrating on the GUI, the scrollbars were added so that people using lo-res displays could still use the program. They will likely remain, but only in the tab control (So that the menu and tabs always remain visible) and I will try to make the minimum size of the form smaller so that they are only neccesary on really low resolutions. As things stand, it looks like the minimum resolution for the main form without scrollbars will be 1014x636

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billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

StormyKnight wrote:

I'm running 1280x1024 which is fine, I'm guessing 1280x720 is a 16:9 ratio screen....

Also I have noticed the 'Navigation Cancelled' message, not sure if anything can be done to fix it though. I also have Firefox as my default if that makes any difference.

The other thing with the internal web page is that if you browse back to the movie list then back to the browser page, even though the same TV show is still selected it has to reload the page. This is more of an issue if on the first time on the web view you navigated perhaps down to a TV show episode & wanted to then compare some info with what MC has in the "Main Browser" tab. On return to the web view, the TVShow is reloaded back at the root.

The way I see it is if the same TVshow is still selected then it shouldn't refresh anything on the web view if thats possible....

That is a bug, MC checks the show url against the url of the webbrowser and if it is the same then it does not reload, when the main tvdb page is browsed away from then this url is different and the main show page is reloaded. I've just fixed this so that it only checks for the series ID within the url, if this has not changed then the page is not reloaded.

This only works when using the built in browser. If you are using your external browser then it will reload in either another page or tab. Maybe in the future I will look to see if I can find a way to Identify pages that are open in IE and firefox, but it would require a fair bit of work and is low priority.

The cancelled message you get is the internal browser clearing its cache. I added it because the browser control is in effect a seperate thread and if there is a problem loading a page then it will just sit their until it either loads or times out. When another movie is selected then browsed this is added to the browser thread which may still be trying to open a previously requested page.

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TheDogg · New User Posts: 6 Join date: 2009-01-18

billyad2000 wrote:

This feature will be added seperately, I'm not sure exactly it will work yet, I need to have a think about it. Part of the usefulness of MC is that people can customise their nfo files, it would not be a good idea to force people to overwrite their nfo's just to add a screenshot.

I completely agree, I customize the NFOs myself (using a media tag to show if subtitles are present for that episode with a combination of a modified texture.xpr for XBMC to display a Subtitle logo instead of a media tag) and I would hate to have to re-modify the nfo everytime I search for new thumbs.

thanks for the reply, I will patiently wait for that feature to be done.

Keep up the good work, MC is the best by far!

The_Dogg

esra · Junior Member Posts: 33 Join date: 2009-05-08

billyad2000 wrote:

Just a small update on 3.143

New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags.

The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag.

You can view this order using the new "Sort Order" Radio Button.

Will this change to reflect changes made to the title?

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

esra wrote:

billyad2000 wrote:

Just a small update on 3.143

New feature for Movies, support for <sortorder> tags.

The field is below the Movie title, by default it is the same as the title, but xbmc will list movies alphabetically according to what is in this tag.

You can view this order using the new "Sort Order" Radio Button.

Will this change to reflect changes made to the title?

No, for the simple reason that the sortorder will be different from the title on occasions.

From the next build I am adding a button that allows the title to be copied into the sortorder field.

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esra · Junior Member Posts: 33 Join date: 2009-05-08

OK, better go through my most recent movies and check that the sort and title match

Thanks!

paybac · Media Companion Supporter Posts: 66 Join date: 2009-08-31

Small problem:

In the Movies/Main Browser Window the filter search does not work with the sort order radio button selected selected.
and dont no if its a problem or the way it is spose to work but you have to rebuild movies before the sort order will display any changes correctly.

billyad2000 · Admin Posts: 890 Join date: 2008-09-20

paybac wrote:

Small problem:

In the Movies/Main Browser Window the filter search does not work with the sort order radio button selected selected.
and dont no if its a problem or the way it is spose to work but you have to rebuild movies before the sort order will display any changes correctly.

The sort tag was not in the moviecache.xml of earlier versions. It is added during the first rebuild after using the current build.

You should not need to rebuild again in order to use the feature properly. If this is not the case, let me know.

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