Media Companion

About the new place for cert!!

Jocke69 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:47:36 GMT

Hi Billy,

I don't like the new place for the Cert info.. it's way to short for the info in it.

Maybe you can place it under the fanart because the Director field is very long
or if you have any other ide

DVD Database, Offline Movie collections.

paybac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:41:29 GMT

This is probably a pretty complicated request but i thought i would throw it out there. How about adding a feature for our offline DVD/VHS/BlueRay etc collections. This is how i see i working, The user inputs The title of the DVD and the disc number/location of the DVD. MC then creates the Folder for the movie, then creates the .AVI video that says "PLEASE INSERT DISC NUMBER *", MC then creates the NFO, downloads the poster, Fanart at as normal. Obviously there would ...

Make MC Skinable

paybac — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:39:43 GMT

How about making MC skinable? so that some skins could be developed for MC, so in turn appealing to a wider audience.

Contect New Eps Search for Current Show

Wizerd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:23 GMT

Billy: Not sure if this one is in the cards or not, but a context menu from the main browser to search for new episodes only for the current show sure would save me a lot time. Generally I am only updating a couple episodes out of the 100+ different tv shows - cause most of them are complete (older shows that no longer are aired). Another feature might be to lock tv shows from rescrapes or new episodes searches if they are 'complete'?

3.148 - Change Movie Error Log

Wizerd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:42 GMT

Bill, Still having trouble with the same movie I reported in the last version. This time I noticed you added a changemovie.log file. Here is the contents: Starting Rescrape Deleting existing poster and backdrops Clearing current movie details Scraping Movie Body with settings: tt0399837 http://www.imdb.com/ Parsing scraper XML Selecting Title according to settings Adding title: The Star of Christmas Adding year: 2002 Adding rating: 7.0 Adding ...

Media Tags

hasselhof — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:09:39 GMT

Hi, Thanks for a great prog. I have just used the batch update wizard to update my nfo's to include the stream details so xbmc can import the tags. I have loaded on a fresh install of xbmc from nightly build onto my xbox, using Transparency skin, and created a fresh movie library from scratch, but the tags didn't show, only the studio tags which showed before I did the update. So I opened up one of the nfo's which had been updated and noticed from the xbmc wiki that it would appear that ...

Option to list Episodes without an episode thumb

cobalt6d — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:34:02 GMT

Or maybe an option the rescrape for missing episode thumbs.

(Like list movies without fanart or poster)

Sometimes thetvdb.com does not have an episode thumb up yet and I forget to go back and get them.

3.148 - Rename TV Episodes

Wizerd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:39 GMT

Billy: I have been renaming shows all niight (several hundred) without any issues and then finally had an exception as noted below: ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource) at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException() ...

Embeded Media Player for episode screen capture.

billyad2000 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:34:09 GMT

I am in the process of adding screenshot scraping and screen capture. It is the screen capture that I am looking at changing. At the moment MC uses ffmpeg via an automatic commandline function to return a screenshot xx no of seconds into an episode. I have been looking at the possibility of adding an embedded media player so that a person can browse to a suitable frame and capture it directly. Apparently the MS media Player component won't work because of the overlay, but there ...

3.139 - Change Movie Error

Wizerd — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:53:33 GMT

Steps taken prior to exception error: Install fresh copy of 3.139 Setup preferences and folders Rebuild Movie - ran properly Rebuild TV - ran properly Incorrect movie was scraped - used Rescrape Movie (to get same wrong info again) - ran properly Used Change Movie to edit bad scrape Browser opened and edit movie title to search for Ran search, selected proper title, hit Go Go the following error: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) ...

date added

hanson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:31:01 GMT

this may not be a bug maybe I am not understanding the logic behind it. I just upgaded to .3.148 and noticed when i list the movies with date added they seems to be some movies listed first that are not or were not there before on xbmc xbox it uses the date modified to sort by date. so on the xbox the movies added last to the system show up at top of list when selecting by date on the xbox. Now they still show up correctly on xbox by date, but now the date added button the ...

Restore Actor Search

dbareis — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:10:16 GMT

Hi ya,

Just a reminder, the actor search is still missing. The only thing wrong with the way it used to work is that you couldn't search for any actor, you could only choose an actor on a particular movie and search on that. This is fine but it would also be nice if it remembered all "known" actors (across all movies) and there was a tool for this.

Bye
Dennis

Option to always have <sortorder> populated with <title> on Save

MarkC — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:23:27 GMT

Hi,

Please could you add an option to always copy the field to the <sortorder> field if you edit/save or quick save. I have already found myself forgetting to copy it over manually and this field does not update if you edit the movie as well as it stays as the original IMDB title which is, if applicable, prefixed with "The" something which I doubt anybody would want to sort their movies on. <br /> <br /> Thanks. </article> <article> <h1>'Ok' or 'Save' button for preferences...</h1> <p>viperx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:43:33 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> it would be great with an 'Ok' or 'Save' button (and maybe 'Cancel' as well) in preferences popup. It's a bit confusing to set stuff up and just close the window to save the settings. <br /> <br /> Thanks!! </article> <article> <h1>Possible unnecessary removal of characters during renaming....</h1> <p>StormyKnight — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:46:31 GMT</p> I noticed at the moment that the "," is being removed from renamed files, however it is a valid filename character. <br /> <br /> Also perhaps a minor issue.... <br /> <br /> If an episode name is "S.O.S.", the resultant filename becomes "S.O.S..avi" - I know its technically correct, but perhaps removal of a period from the name before the extension is added might be in order? <br /> <br /> Cheers </article> <article> <h1>FLV extension not scrapping....</h1> <p>StormyKnight — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:24:26 GMT</p> Just noticed I have a few new episodes with .flv extension - they play fine in XBMC, but MC doesn't see then as an episode to add. Changing the extension to .avi allows the scraped however. <br /> <br /> Also .flv doesn't seem to be handled by the renaming function either... but that could be as a result of me changing the extention so MC would scraped, changing it back to .flv & trying to rename... <br /> <br /> <br /> Thanks </article> <article> <h1>Pimping the software</h1> <p>toekneebullard — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:15:54 GMT</p> Lifehacker was talking about XBMC's library function, so I left a comment about MC's help on the subject. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5393227/turbo-charge-your-new-xbmc-installation" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/5393227/turbo-charge-your-new-xbmc-installation</a> </article> <article> <h1>Change Font and GUI</h1> <p>guybrush123 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:54:48 GMT</p> More recommendations than feature requests: <br /> <br /> - I would recommend changing the font in the main view for Movies to Arial or Tahoma. <br /> - Remove the labels on all fields and have them popup on mouse view. <br /> - Remove borders on Poster and Fanart <br /> - Redesign Main Browser to minimize long horizontal text and make poster and Fanart bigger. <br /> - Introduce ability to enlarge text. </article> <article> <h1>Possibility to Rename all TV shows</h1> <p>viperx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:05:50 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> the new "Rename TV Shows" functionallity is great, but would be even greater if there was a way to rename all shows and episodes with just one click. Today you need to right click each season in order to rename episodes. Perhaps a new menu option under TV Shows? To be able to use this by right clicking the show itself would be a great improvement as well. <br /> <br /> Thanks! </article> <article> <h1>Connection Problems</h1> <p>wodi666 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:40:32 GMT</p> If i select "Edit Movie" and "Change Movie" to select manually the movie at IMDB, i get a "no connection" frame. And the nomal scraper have the same problem i think, cause i got no results. Any ideas? <br /> <br /> And yes, connection and firewall config is ok. <br /> <br /> wodi666 </article> <article> <h1>TV Shows crash when no fan art available v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:35:55 GMT</p> Hi Billy Running v3.135 - Windows 2003 (run from a new folder - settings/cache not copied across from old version) After running v3.128 for a couple of week I've just upgrade to v3.135 and I'm getting a unhandled exception with some folders. The only common denominator I can see so far is that the UE happens when the folder I select does not have any fan art already in it. I can replicate the UE by deleting all fanart/images/tbn files from a folder and then select the folder in ... </article> <article> <h1>Scraping Error In Movies and TV</h1> <p>Wizerd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:13:32 GMT</p> Getting exception errors in Movies and TV scraping. In movies it's when I 'change movie' and in TV it's when I try and rename eps. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Media_Companion.Form1.Button21_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs ... </article> <article> <h1>Possibility to scan for episodes for a specific TV show</h1> <p>viperx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:54:16 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> I think it would be nice to have the possibility to scan a specific show for new episodes. Maybe a new entry in the popup menu when right clicking a show? I usually know which show I have new episodes for and today it takes quite a lot of time waiting for the new episode search when having a lot of series. <br /> <br /> Thanks! </article> <article> <h1>Season posters are always Poster even when Banner is selected v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:57:25 GMT</p> (Not sure if this is by design or not) <br /> <br /> I'm running with banners in XBMC rather than posters. When I do a "Scrape show with Selected Options" when "Art style" set to "banner" and "Check this if you want to overwrite existing image files" MC always shows a poster when I drill down in the TV Shows "Main Browser" area. <br /> <br /> Perhaps there is no Season posters in banner format and it defaults to Poster? </article> <article> <h1>"TV Show"->"Posters Title and poster display not reset between shows v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:15 GMT</p> When you are in "TV Shows" I've found if you Select a TV Show in "Main Browser" then go to "Posters" then go back to "Main Browser" and select another show and go back to "Posters" then it shows the title and posters from the first show not the second. <br /> <br /> (hope you guys prefer each bug report in a new post or else I'm in big trouble ) </article> <article> <h1>Eastbound and Down - Chapters instead of Episodes</h1> <p>Groty — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:59:25 GMT</p> Here's the link to it at TVDB - http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=82467&lid=7 Instead of Episodes, it has chapters. Epnamer is not recognizing it for renaming. Media Companion isn't recognizing the episodes or chapters either. Media Companion pulled in the series data fine, just not the episodes. Current Directory Setup: >Eastbound & Down >>>>>Season 1 >>>>>>>>>>Chapters (Episodes) What changes do I need ... </article> <article> <h1>"Open Folder"....</h1> <p>StormyKnight — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:28:53 GMT</p> Billy, just noticed that the "Open Folder" proceedure is different between Movies & TV shows. Movies is from the menu Bar & TV Shows is from the context menu. <br /> <br /> Thanks <br /> Richard </article> <article> <h1>Unhandled Exception in "TV Shows"->"Posters"->"IMDB (all)" v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:21:04 GMT</p> I'm getting the below UE when in "TV Shows" -> "Posters" and I click on "IMDB (All)" when the show in question is not in the IMDB. The error is logical, perhaps it could be caught and replaced with a more graceful user message? Code:See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned ... </article> <article> <h1>Some "TV Show selector" options not saved between sessions v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:19:22 GMT</p> (four posts in a row...spamtastic ) <br /> <br /> The new "season-all.tbn" and the older "Check this if you want to overwrite existing image files" options do not seem to be saved into the settings and revert to the defaults when you restart MC. <br /> <br /> just me or bug? </article> <article> <h1>Make "TV Show Selector" search box more obvious v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:59 GMT</p> Wee suggestion: how about changing the search text box in "TV Show Selector" to a white box so it's more obvious that it's user editable? Currently it's grey which makes it look like it's not editable. </article> <article> <h1>Want to rescan Root folder to find new shows v3.135</h1> <p>ChuckMcB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:06 GMT</p> Hi folks If I add a 'Root folder' I would expect there to be some way to rescan that root folder to find a new show's folder (not new seasons, not new episodes but an entirely new show) I've added since I set up MC. "Search for new Episodes" doesn't seem to do it nor does "Rebuild Shows". I could delete and re-add the root folder or manually add a single folder but (unless I'm missing something Am I missing a button or does this feature not exist? TIA. </article> <article> <h1>3.128 - typo in Movie scraper settings screen</h1> <p>AnthonyB — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:48 GMT</p> Hi, Just thought I'd mentioned that there's a typo on the Movie Scraper preferences screen in the bottom right corner: Quote:Limit ammount of Genre's to scrape from IMDB ammount = amount you may just want to more correctly phrase it as Quote:Limit number of genres to scrape from IMDB </article> <article> <h1>3.128 - opening offscreen?</h1> <p>AnthonyB — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:46:29 GMT</p> I've just upgraded from 3.125 to 3.128 and when I run MC I get the splash screen and then after it goes away... nothing? The app is running, process is in Task Manager, I can preview it in Win7 by hovering over task bar icon, but the MC app window is not visible. I had a quick look in the config.xml for some sort of window positioning setting and found these: Code: <locx>-32000</locx> <locy>-32000</locy> but after removing the values, they ... </article> <article> <h1>Batch rescraper wizard for TV Shows</h1> <p>rausch101 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:27:02 GMT</p> The same thing you have for movies, but for TV Shows. Not nearly as many options needed I don't think, but certainly an update for episode rating would be useful. Or maybe if someone wants to reduce the total number of Genre's or something like that. Also, I still have tons of shows that have "netNBC / TV-PG / / SDp / XVID / MPEG Audio / 2ch" in the Director tag or nothing at all in the rating tag. Your program does a great job of creating nfo files for these now, but it would ... </article> <article> <h1>Custom Genre Filter</h1> <p>Rastan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:19:30 GMT</p> Hi, I have been using Media Companion for a while now and would like to thank you for the great work you have done. I am currently using the latest release and was wondering if you could implement a sort of custom genre filter. I have made additional genres for certain films, for example I have a lot of martial arts flicks in my collection and have made a new Kung-fu Genre. It would be nice if I could sort all my movies within media companion by these custom genres in the same fashion I can ... </article> <article> <h1>3.128 - Fanart</h1> <p>Billy Bunter — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:08:00 GMT</p> Hi Billy, just fired up this version to test 'The Mentalist' TV show. Everything scraped perfectly - but when I attempted to change the fanart I got a crash and this report :- Code:See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Media_Companion.Form1.Button42_Click(Object ... </article> <article> <h1>I must be doing something wrong with my TV shows</h1> <p>J_K_M_A_N — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:32:43 GMT</p> I scan for new episodes and it says working on blah blah but it doesn't scrape anything. This is the last part of the log: Working on episode: E:\TV Shows\Modern Family\Season 1\Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 01.nfo Working on episode: E:\TV Shows\Modern Family\Season 1\Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 02.nfo Working on episode: E:\TV Shows\Modern Family\Season 1\Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 03.nfo Working on episode: E:\TV Shows\Modern Family\Season 1\Modern Family ... </article> <article> <h1>Watched/Unwatched button to the TV shows Season</h1> <p>paybac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:28 GMT</p> A watched/Unwatched button to the Tv Shows/series and the TV shows/Series/Season window would be nice. This would be helpful especially when intially setting up your MC database or when adding complete seasons that you have already viewed. </article> <article> <h1>TV Show Genre</h1> <p>rockinf — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:23:23 GMT</p> If TV Show have 2 or more genres, M.C. save it like <br /> </span><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tr><td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td></tr><tr><td class="code"><div style="width:600px; overflow:auto;" curpos="0" maxpos="0" pageincrement="480" increment="10" collapsed="true">|Action and Adventure|Drama|</div></td></tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> but XBMC don't understand it and display like 1 long genre. </article> <article> <h1>3.128 - settings not stored.</h1> <p>viperx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:39:07 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> in 3.128 when I'm setting the TV Scraper settings in preferences, the radiobuttons allways defaults to "Use Default" and "Poster". The settings I make isn't remembered. </article> <article> <h1>v3.125 - unable to scrape episodes</h1> <p>galaxy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:07:13 GMT</p> Hi Billy, I've got a problem scraping episodes of several tv shows. I'm using version 3.125. Here's an example of an episode taken from my log: "Season and Episode information found for : E:\TV shows\Band Of Brothers\Band.Of.Brothers.E01.Currahee.720p.nfo7x20" "Working on episode: E:\TV shows\Band Of Brothers\Band.Of.Brothers.E01.Currahee.720p.nfo Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo This episode could not be found on TVDB" This happens even though ... </article> <article> <h1>Multi-Episode Single file naming convention?</h1> <p>paybac — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:03:19 GMT</p> Is it possible and if so what is the correct naming convention for a multi-episode that airs as a single episode and is one file. <br /> <br /> For example Stargate Universe aired S01e01-e02 as one episode, making the download a single AVI. MC recognizes this only as e01 and not e01-e02. I know that is because thats how it is scraped from TheTVDB. But just wondering if and how i can make it show that i have episode 2? </article> <article> <h1>What about A & B parts of one Epidode</h1> <p>paulpoco — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:41:16 GMT</p> What about when you have two files that make up an episode? I.e. Arthur - S07E02 -Cast Away.mkv and Arthur - S07E02 -The Great Sock Mystery.mkv Yes I know they are my daughters shows, but it seems the kid show are multi part. Under plot it seems to use A & B. A).Arthur is thrilled when Dad invites him to go fly fishing for the weekend. Finally - an escape from D.W.! But when a change in plans forces them to include her, Arthur's had enough. Does D.W. always have to get ... </article> <article> <h1>Show & Episode Counter</h1> <p>cobalt6d — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:30:02 GMT</p> Can you add a counter for total amount of shows and total amount of episodes <br /> <br /> Please <br /> <br /> </article> <article> <h1>Command line options</h1> <p>herg — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:11:16 GMT</p> Specifically, what I'd like to be able to do is to run a scheduled task that will start XBMC MC, scan for new items, then close XBMC MC. </article> <article> <h1>Add some things to built-in reg ex</h1> <p>rausch101 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:35 GMT</p> Hey Billy, great work on the new version. Easily the best TV manager right now. <br /> <br /> I was wondering if you could add some common expressions to your built-in RegEx, as I'm not familiar with how to add them, plus they're pretty common <br /> <br /> X264 <br /> 2HD <br /> 0TV <br /> NoTV <br /> <br /> Thanks if you get a chance! </article> <article> <h1>3.1.2.8 tv-show scraping filename errors</h1> <p>wallbunny — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:02:25 GMT</p> Thanks for making this great program. I'm finally done getting info for 400 of my movies (only 30-40 were incorrectly scraped) Now i'm working on scraping tv-shows, which has worked for a lot of my files, but there are some problems. Here's a small list: TV\Sopranos\Season 3\The.Sopranos.The.Complete.Third.Season.Volume1.EP1.DVDrip.XviD-SMB.avi TV\Californication\Season 2\californication.S02E03.720p.hdtv.x264-sys.mkv TV\Death Note\Season 1\[Animanda] Death Note - 01 Rebirth.avi TV\Family ... </article> <article> <h1>Control Pacement buggy in v3.127, will rollback to prev version</h1> <p>dbareis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:01:56 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> <br /> On main browser no reset filter button etc and can't choose last movie fanart as last radio button is half cut off. Can clicking the picture be made to set the radio button? <br /> <br /> Bye, <br /> Dennis </article> <article> <h1>Rename TV shows - rename all files with same name</h1> <p>viperx — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:08:06 GMT</p> Hi, <br /> the new "Rename TV Shows" is great, but could be even greater. <br /> <br /> I think it would better to ignore filetype, when renameing the files. Subtitles and other files with the same name as the video file should be renamed as well I think. <br /> <br /> Thanks for a great program! </article> <article> <h1>editing episode titles</h1> <p>flipped cracker — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:13:06 GMT</p> if you edit the title of an episode and save it, the title gets S01E01 (or whatever it might be) added to the beginning of the title. </article> </main></body></html>