A few questions.. (1 Viewer)

[Stokkes]

Just playing a bit more with the TV series plugin now that my holidays have started and I've got a few questions I'm hoping someone can answer. Some have been asked before, but no concrete answers have been given.

1. How do you change the sort order of the TV Series so that shows that start with "The" don't get all clumped together. I know there's a sort order item in the DB, but i can't figure out how to sort the default view using it.
2. I store all my TV series/episodes (currently at 33, 3500+ episodes) on my RAID array that's mapped to M:\. MediaPortal starts when I boot the system. M: is available upon boot, but for some reason, MP-TVSeries insists on forcing a local mediainfo refresh which takes a significant amount of time. Any idea how to stop this? Re-scanning 3500 episodes takes a while and makes it so that I can't watch any episode until it has been re-scanned.
3. I can force a local refresh to scan for new episodes of the series that I currently have in my Database and it will find them, however, let's say my TV series are located in M:\TV, and let's say I plop a new series in that directory (ie: M:\TV\Deadwood), MP-TVSeries will not find the new series unless I quit MediaPortal all together. So the question is, is there any way to force MP-TVSeries to rescan the base directory for new shows?

That's it for now, would love some answers

Thanks!

 

[zeflash]

1) Well, I guess adding an option for that could be done fairly easily. I'll try to look at it soon
2) the local scan when you start up MP is "mandatory" in the sense that even though it monitors added / deleted files when it's running, when it's not running it doesn't know which files are there and which files aren't. Therefore the logic here is to do a full scan to be sure we are up to date on the state of all the files. I understand that can take some time for big libraries. I could indeed optimize the scanning so that I only process the files that have been added or removed.
3) like I said for 2, MP monitors added/removed files using system callbacks. Trouble is, for netshares there are no callbacks, it's a system limitation (windows, not MP). Therefore in your case the only solution is to go for a periodic rescan. You could try to use subst instead of mapping a network drive; from what I remember it's not exactly behaving the same way - you have to subst the drive on startup as it's not persistent. You might get notifications that way, but nothing certain. You'll just have to try.

Here, you got your answers.

 

[Stokkes]

Thanks zeflash, I appreciate them.

I attempted to subst the drive, but with the same result unfortunately. It's too bad really and I understand this is a windows limitation, but it'd be nice to have this functionality.

 

[zeflash]

About the initial scanning, I did some tests (with the SVN version, as always) and it's not rescanning everything.
The logic is:
- take a list of the import paths, and from this get a list of local files
- use the local files list and remove all the ones that are already in the DB
- scan the remaining files (those that aren't in the list)

So in your case it should not rescan all the files. I tried on a network share, so it should behave the same on your system.

About the new file popping up in MP when added; I could add back the option we had in the earlier versions of the plugin, where you can set it to scan for new files periodically. I believe that's the only solution for remote shares.

 

[Stokkes]

It'd be nice to scan periodically (at least an option to turn this on/off).. However, it would be important not to rescan ALL the file, as 3500 episodes can take a while, especially if this is done every X minutes/hours etc.

I'll put in the SVN and test it out.. I don't usually use SVNs since sometimes things break.

 

[Stokkes]

zeflash,

Hope you read this, many for the addition of the sortname from TVDB.. It definitely fixes it when I'm viewing the the list of shows in the plugin configuration itself, however, when I'm in MediaPortal, the shows still get sorted the old fashion way.

Is this something I'm doing wrong?

EDIT:
This doesn't work in Text View or Graphical view, even changing the Series.Pretty_Name to Series.SortName.