[Approved] Better episode handeling/display + #0002325 (1 Viewer)

[hkjensen]

Hi all

One of the things i was missing in MediaPortal is better handling of episodes:

- An options to see witch episode of a show is running in the TV-Guide and Mini TV-Guide
- Display of episode info in Recordings
- Display of episode info in upcomming episodes
- Save episode info in xml-tag (import recordings into database)
- Group episodes of show when show was not recorded as series
Useful if normal series handling can't record shows
ex:
17:00 NCIS episode 2
18:00 NCIS episode 3
20:00 NCIS episode 4
21:00 NCIS episode 5
when recorded they should be placed in folder NCIS
NCIS

NCIS (2)
NCIS (3)
NCIS (4)
NCIS (5)
​

I have made a patch witch add the above features:
Episode info can be:
- No info (normal MP behavior)
- EpisodeName
- EpisodeNumber (seriesNum+episodeNum+episodePart)
- EpisodeNumber and EpisodeName
and is set in MediaPortal Configuration

-It is not bound to any skin (screendump could also be in any other skin)

The fields seriesNum,episodeNum and episodePart is added to the table recordings
EpisodeName, seriesNum, episodeNum and episodePart is written to the xml-file (preserve episode info, if recordings has to be imported again)

Check previously recorded programs by episodeNumber or episodeName (extension of mantis 0002311: TV-Server should not record [series] schedules that are already present - MediaPortal Bugtracker )
Option is set in TV-configuration


Se attached screendumps

If any needs a compiled version send me a memo

New version:
- Added episodeinfo to TVHome and TVOSD.
- Opdated TVGuideBase
- TV-Config - Recordings: Episode Key disabled if 'Check Episode' is not checked
- Added the following GUI property
-- #TV.View.subtitle = episodeName
-- #TV.View.episode = formated (seriesNum,episodeNum,episodePart) ex.: 1.1/2.1/2 or 1/13 if only episodeNum is defined
-- #TV.Next.subtitle = episodeName
-- #TV.Next.episode = formated (seriesNum,episodeNum,episodePart)
-- #TV.Guide.SubTitle= episodeName
-- #TV.Guide.Episode = formated (seriesNum,episodeNum,episodePart)
Included patch for 0002325: [TvServer] Matroska tags (for Recordings) do not contain all needed information - new.

2009.06.08:

Fixed wrong date in xml-file, used program start and end date and not recording start and end date, difference is pre recording and post recording time is include in recording start and end date.​

2009.06.10

Fixed reading dates from xml-file.​

2009.07.27

Added episode info to TvHome and TvOSD, cleanup GUI property only subtitle and episode​

2009.07.28

Separated MediaPortal dependency in TvServer​

 

[hkjensen]

Compiled version

Installation:
TV-Server:

1. Extract Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.0.3.23141.rar
2. run Setup-TvEngine-svn-1.0.3.23141.exe to install TV-Server and/or TV-Plugin
3. In TV-Server configuration update recordings - episode info

MediaPortal

1. Extract Configuration
2. Copy Configuration to installation dir for Mediaportal, overwriting existing Configuration dir
3. Run Configurtaion and under TV-Plugin set the wanted episode info

 

[Spragleknas]

I'll move this to the "Submit patches"-section.

Please let me know if this somehow was not your intention.

 

[hkjensen]

0002325: [TvServer] Matroska tags (for Recordings) do not contain all needed informat

Hi was not sure witch sub-forum to post til patch ;-)

Thanks

Updated first post with patch to

0002325: [TvServer] Matroska tags (for Recordings) do not contain all needed information - new.

If StartTime and StopTime can not be read from xml-file (old recording), information is retrieved by
GetRecordingStartTime and GetRecordingEndTime

 

[rtv]

Hi! Thanks for your patch - I'll look at it soon!

 

[hkjensen]

New patch uploaded

Tested and fixed recording dates in xml-file, stopTime changed to endTime

 

[hkjensen]

Episodeinfor added to TvHome and TvOSD
Clean up GUI Properties in TvHome, TvOSD and TvGuidebase :
Subtitle is equivalent to episodeName
Episode is a formated string of seriesNum, episodeNum and episodePart, if a episode property isn't defined it is not displayed
ex: seriesNum=1/3 episodeNum = 2/13, episodePart ="" -> Episode = 1/3.2/13
ex: seriesNum="" episodeNum = 13, episodePart =1 -> Episode = 13.1

 

[rtv]

Patch (with only little modifications due to recent updates) added to SVN. Thank you!

 

[hkjensen]

Hi rtv

Sorry but is missed putting one file in the patch file
Attached the one file missing from patch: TVLibrary/TvDatabase/Util.cs

 

[rtv]

Hi rtv

Sorry but is missed putting one file in the patch file
Attached the one file missing from patch: TVLibrary/TvDatabase/Util.cs

Sorry - I wouldn't like to introduce a dependency on MediaPortal for TvDatabase (the cAsE in your patch is wrong as well). Did you think about multiple tv clients when you decided to persist the setting into MediaPortal.xml?