New Release Media Companion gen2 3.122

Admin Posts : 1326 Join date : 2008-09-20

New version 3.122

The TV Show cache file has been changed since 3.102 and it will not work with the new build, use the "Rebuild TV Shows" to fix the issue

So whats changed:
TV Section

Most bugs have been fixed
TV Show Fanart browser now enabled
TV Shows can be rescraped and edited
TV episodes can be played using Media Player or other according to options
TV Shows can be Opened in Browser at IMDB or TVDB
Only seasons that have episodes are listed in the treeview
TV episodes are now added to the tree realtime as they are scraped
Adding or removing TV folders causes an auto rebuild

Other

Media tags should now be imported into XBMC due to the addition of a <streamdetails> tag in both movies and tv episodes.
The UI has changed slightly with the toolstrip now completely removed, and empty menu's have been removed.
Maximised state is now remebered
Multiple instances of MC are no longer permitted
For new users who start the program for the first time, instead of crashing when selecting various options the user will be prompted to go to the preferences and add folders
Also for new users I've added a very basic quickstart guide (If anyone feels they can improve on this then feel free)
Media tags stored in old nfo's (Without the streamdetails tag), are no longer recognised, the result of this was that I discovered that the scrape media tags in the batch wizard did not work, this has been fixed.

Whats next

Adding a browser for TV Show posters, season posters, and episode screenshot capability.

Download Version 3.122

Just overwrite the previous version, ( the config will remain compatible only if you are upgrading from version 3.xxx).

Junior Member Posts : 14 Join date : 2009-08-01

Is the regex suppose to work in this build? I can't add any to the list. Just checking.

J_K_M_A_N

Admin Posts : 1326 Join date : 2008-09-20

J_K_M_A_N wrote:: Is the regex suppose to work in this build? I can't add any to the list. Just checking.

J_K_M_A_N

Not yet, although probably for the next one.

I just concentrated on getting the 2 main regex working properly

Junior Member Posts : 10 Join date : 2008-10-31

Hi

Does this fix the following bugs:
1. seasons greater than 10 bug
2 scene files with x264 and 2hd parsed as multi episodes?

New User Posts : 7 Join date : 2009-01-18

Keep up the good work, I was using MIP for a while because MC was not working for TV shows, it sure feels great to be back with MC.

Definitely the BEST, now I'm just missing the right regex for my naming convention and all will be perfect Smile

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paperclip wrote:: Hi

Does this fix the following bugs:
1. seasons greater than 10 bug
2 scene files with x264 and 2hd parsed as multi episodes?

1) Seasons greater than 10 do work, I tested with the simpsons and they scraped fine all the way to season 23.

2)Think there will still be an issue with these, not sure how 2hd is being added since the regex looks for numbers preceded by "x" or "e", addressing this is a very high priority, there will be another build in just a day or two.

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TheDogg wrote:: Keep up the good work, I was using MIP for a while because MC was not working for TV shows, it sure feels great to be back with MC.

Definitely the BEST, now I'm just missing the right regex for my naming convention and all will be perfect

Regex customization will be functioning from the next build.

Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.122 Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:35 am

Great stuff Billy, I'll give it a thorough testing this weekend.

Billy

Junior Member Posts : 36 Join date : 2008-09-27

Hi,

Stiil a great program and thnx, but (there always is Smile

) since this version I get duplicate movies.

moviename_cd1.avi
moviename_cd2.avi

where previously written in moviename.nfo
now MC also makes an moviename_cd1.nfo and all stacked movies are displayed twice.

Smile

Junior Member Posts : 36 Join date : 2008-09-27

Noted another thing.

When clicking "Search for new movies" the fanart tab becomes visible. When clicking "Cancel.." the same thing happens.

Admin Posts : 1326 Join date : 2008-09-20

bloksel wrote:: Noted another thing.

When clicking "Search for new movies" the fanart tab becomes visible. When clicking "Cancel.." the same thing happens.

Fixed for next build, will upload later today.

Admin Posts : 1326 Join date : 2008-09-20

bloksel wrote:: Hi,

Stiil a great program and thnx, but (there always is ) since this version I get duplicate movies.

moviename_cd1.avi
moviename_cd2.avi

where previously written in moviename.nfo
now MC also makes an moviename_cd1.nfo and all stacked movies are displayed twice.

Media Companion has never saved the nfo like that, the nfo has always kept the cd1, using this convention stops MC from playing back files, or gaining Media tags after they have been initially scraped (It uses moviename.nfo to find moviename.avi (or other extension)). MC can however read them and even edit them, as it can for movie.nfo files.

Only fanart, and posters can be saved using the stacked naming convention, and I only allowed that because of a bug in an old version of XBMC that wouldnt see fanarts stored any other way.

I'll add a check for this in the next build, later today to stop the multiple nfo's being created, but If you are going to be using MC regularly then I would recomend you delete these or rename them to MCs best supported convention (moviename cd1.nfo)

New User Posts : 4 Join date : 2009-06-25

Thanks for the new build - cool.

Is it possible to disable "multiple" episodes? - It scrapes every episode as multiple, so they show up twice in the TV list

Admin Posts : 1326 Join date : 2008-09-20

Spas wrote:: Thanks for the new build - cool.

Is it possible to disable "multiple" episodes? - It scrapes every episode as multiple, so they show up twice in the TV list

Can you give me an example of a filename where this happens.

New User Posts : 4 Join date : 2009-06-25

billyad2000 wrote:

Spas wrote:: Thanks for the new build - cool.

Is it possible to disable "multiple" episodes? - It scrapes every episode as multiple, so they show up twice in the TV list

Can you give me an example of a filename where this happens.

Yes I can

The scraper output looks like this (contains the foldernames & filename)

Code:: Working on episode: D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.nfo
Multipart episode found:
Season: 21 Episodes, 03, 03,
Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo
Scraping body of episode: 3
Scraping body of episode: 3
Saving episode
Saving Thumbnail To :- D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.tbn

Operation Completed

The generated nfo looks like this:

Code:: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<multiepisodenfo>
<episodedetails>
<streamdetails>
<fileinfo>
<video>
<width>624</width>
<height>352</height>
<codec>MPEG-4 Visual</codec>
<format>MPEG-4 Visual</format>
<duration>20mn 41s 909ms</duration>
<width>1 061 Kbps</width>
<bitratemode>
</bitratemode>
<bitratemax>
</bitratemax>
<container>.avi</container>
<codecid>XVID</codecid>
<codecidinfo>
</codecidinfo>
<scantype>PPF</scantype>
</video>
<audio>
<language>
</language>
<codec>MPEG Audio</codec>
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>120 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>
</fileinfo>
</streamdetails>
<title>The Great Wife Hope</title>
<season>21</season>
<episode>3</episode>
<playcount>0</playcount>
<credits>Carolyn Omine</credits>
<director>Matthew Faughnan</director>
<rating>6.9</rating>
<aired>2009-10-11</aired>
<plot>Mixed martial arts (MMA) gains popularity in Springfield, and Marge leads a protest against it. The promoter of a local MMA company decides to gain publicity from the controversy by challenging Marge to a match, with the promise that he will shut down if she wins.</plot>
<thumb>http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/71663/1129241.jpg</thumb>
<runtime>20 min</runtime>
<actor>
<name>Chuck Liddell</name>
<role>
</role>
<thumb>
</thumb>
</actor>
</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<streamdetails>
<fileinfo>
<video>
<width>624</width>
<height>352</height>
<codec>MPEG-4 Visual</codec>
<format>MPEG-4 Visual</format>
<duration>20mn 41s 909ms</duration>
<width>1 061 Kbps</width>
<bitratemode>
</bitratemode>
<bitratemax>
</bitratemax>
<container>.avi</container>
<codecid>XVID</codecid>
<codecidinfo>
</codecidinfo>
<scantype>PPF</scantype>
</video>
<audio>
<language>
</language>
<codec>MPEG Audio</codec>
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>120 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>
</fileinfo>
</streamdetails>
<title>The Great Wife Hope</title>
<season>21</season>
<episode>3</episode>
<playcount>0</playcount>
<credits>Carolyn Omine</credits>
<director>Matthew Faughnan</director>
<rating>6.9</rating>
<aired>2009-10-11</aired>
<plot>Mixed martial arts (MMA) gains popularity in Springfield, and Marge leads a protest against it. The promoter of a local MMA company decides to gain publicity from the controversy by challenging Marge to a match, with the promise that he will shut down if she wins.</plot>
<thumb>http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/71663/1129241.jpg</thumb>
<runtime>20 min</runtime>
<actor>
<name>Chuck Liddell</name>
<role>
</role>
<thumb>
</thumb>
</actor>
</episodedetails>
</multiepisodenfo>

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Spas wrote:

The scraper output looks like this (contains the foldernames & filename)

Code:: Working on episode: D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.nfo
Multipart episode found:
Season: 21 Episodes, 03, 03,
Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo
Scraping body of episode: 3
Scraping body of episode: 3
Saving episode
Saving Thumbnail To :- D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.tbn

Operation Completed

Fixed for the next build. Will upload in a couple of hours

Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.122 Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:49 pm

Hi, im an xbox xbmc user with Latest nightly build.

I have a question about MC generated nfo's

Is there any way that you can make the first entry of
"<codec>MPEG-4 Visual</codec>" &
"<format>MPEG-4 Visual</format>"
actually read say xvid or divx depending on the film, because Transparency skin picks up the "MPEG-4 Visual" and displays an "mpeg4 compression icon",for all my films, when I manually enter xvid in place of the MPEG-4 Visual entries it nicley displays the xvid icon. It doen't seem to pick up the <codecid>XVID</codecid> entry further down the nfo.

so from this MC generated nfo

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<multiepisodenfo>
<episodedetails>
<streamdetails>
<fileinfo>
<video>
<width>624</width>
<height>352</height>
<codec>MPEG-4 Visual</codec>
<format>MPEG-4 Visual</format>
<duration>20mn 41s 909ms</duration>
<width>1 061 Kbps</width>
<bitratemode>
</bitratemode>
<bitratemax>
</bitratemax>
<container>.avi</container>
<codecid>XVID</codecid>
<codecidinfo>
</codecidinfo>
<scantype>PPF</scantype>
</video>
<audio>
<language>
</language>
<codec>MPEG Audio</codec>
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>120 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>
</fileinfo>
</streamdetails>

to this manually modified nfo

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<multiepisodenfo>
<episodedetails>
<streamdetails>
<fileinfo>
<video>
<width>624</width>
<height>352</height>
<codec>xvid</codec>
<format>xvid</format>
<duration>20mn 41s 909ms</duration>
<width>1 061 Kbps</width>
<bitratemode>
</bitratemode>
<bitratemax>
</bitratemax>
<container>.avi</container>
<codecid>XVID</codecid>
<codecidinfo>
</codecidinfo>
<scantype>PPF</scantype>
</video>
<audio>
<language>
</language>
<codec>MPEG Audio</codec>
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>120 Kbps</bitrate>
</audio>
</fileinfo>
</streamdetails>

Dont know if this is possible
Thanks for all your effort

John.

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I dont think its picking up any tags from this build,

Apparently the streamdetails and fileinfo tags are the wrong way around.

Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.122 Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:28 pm

Hi,

It was me who notified you of the stream details round the wrong way.
So what I did was modified them round the right way , and my previous entry is how they are imported in.

John.

New User Posts : 4 Join date : 2009-06-25

billyad2000 wrote:

Spas wrote:

The scraper output looks like this (contains the foldernames & filename)

Code:: Working on episode: D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.nfo
Multipart episode found:
Season: 21 Episodes, 03, 03,
Looking up scraper options from tvshow.nfo
Scraping body of episode: 3
Scraping body of episode: 3
Saving episode
Saving Thumbnail To :- D:\[TV]\The Simpsons\Simpsons Season 21\The.Simpsons.S21E03.HDTV.XviD-XII\the.simpsons.s21e03.hdtv.xvid-xii.tbn

Operation Completed

Fixed for the next build. Will upload in a couple of hours

Damn nice - thanks a lot!

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hasselhof wrote:: Hi,

It was me who notified you of the stream details round the wrong way.
So what I did was modified them round the right way , and my previous entry is how they are imported in.

John.

OK, i'll add the contents of the
<codecid></codecid> tag
to the
<codec></codec> and <format></format>
tags

Subject: Re: New Release Media Companion gen2 3.122 Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:28 pm

Hi,

what a star Wink

the codec change in the nfo has worked a treat.....Fantastic
It now displays xvid and divx as the correct codec on screen

Is there any chance in a future build that you could modify the audio codec entry from the following
"<codec>MPEG Audio</codec>" this just displays "MPEG2" flag for all movies in Transparency skin.
So that the flags on screen would be mp3 or whatever the audio actually is.

Thanks a lot

John Cool

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