Fanart Handler Plugin v2.1.1 (and music fanart scraper) (1 Viewer)

[grooves12]

Is it possible to configure this plugin to work with the newly released Pandora MusicBox plugin to display now playing artists?

 

[ysmp]

Is it possible to configure this plugin to work with the newly released Pandora MusicBox plugin to display now playing artists?

hi,
sure can do ,but this option the skiner of the skin or the skiner of pandora plugin need to do ,this plugin can be use in evry plugin
to show artist fanart .... just need to look in skiner guide ....SkinnersGuide - fanart-handler - Use Fanart Handler Plugin In Your Skin. - Project Hosting on Google Code

 

[fforde]

hi fforde,

There is one small problem with this, as any plugin using this method has to referance a couple of MovingPictures dlls and if the user has not installed MovingPictures then the plugin will not be loaded by MediaPortal with all the issues that go with that...

I have looked at various methods of getting round this but hit a dead end everytime. The may be an obivious method to get round this that I just dont know.

Another thought is that a small DB access dll that can be shipped with other plugins or maybe a class we can add to our pluigins might be an option.

Any ideas welcome...

thx

Just stick the logic inside it's own method and then when you call that wrapper method, surround it with a try catch block. It will throw a MissingMethodException if Moving Pictures is not there. We did something similar in Moving Pictures in the past when referencing a new MediaPortal method. We would try to call the new method and if it didn't exist we would fall back to the old.

And no we will not be shipping a separate DLL or build a special class for external access. This is totally unnecessary, various parts of Moving Pictures are designed to be externally accessible for the purpose of interoperability so you really already have everything you need. This is how the StreamedMP skin / plugin displays recently added movies on the Basic Home screen and this is how SubCentral accesses the last selected movie for subtitle downloading.

 

[ltfearme]

Trevor, after speaking to fforde we have an idea why our plugin was failing when dll was not found. Will make a change and test.

EDIT: Fix worked as expected.

 

[trevor]

hi fforde,

There is one small problem with this, as any plugin using this method has to referance a couple of MovingPictures dlls and if the user has not installed MovingPictures then the plugin will not be loaded by MediaPortal with all the issues that go with that...

I have looked at various methods of getting round this but hit a dead end everytime. The may be an obivious method to get round this that I just dont know.

Another thought is that a small DB access dll that can be shipped with other plugins or maybe a class we can add to our pluigins might be an option.

Any ideas welcome...

thx

Just stick the logic inside it's own method and then when you call that wrapper method, surround it with a try catch block. It will throw a MissingMethodException if Moving Pictures is not there. We did something similar in Moving Pictures in the past when referencing a new MediaPortal method. We would try to call the new method and if it didn't exist we would fall back to the old.

And no we will not be shipping a separate DLL or build a special class for external access. This is totally unnecessary, various parts of Moving Pictures are designed to be externally accessible for the purpose of interoperability so you really already have everything you need. This is how the StreamedMP skin / plugin displays recently added movies on the Basic Home screen and this is how SubCentral accesses the last selected movie for subtitle downloading.

Thanks fforde, I was was hoping it was something obvious that I was just not seeing.

 

[CPergler]

Hi everyone,

can it be that htbackdrops.com has some sort of database malfunction since jesterday evening? I get an 403 Error in the fanarthandler.log whenever I try to start scraping... The same is the case when I try to do a manual search on the htbackdrops website...

 

[Unidentified]

Is anyone else encounting problems with the automatic fanart download?

I have some artists in the fanart handler database and the option for automatic download is checked. For some reason I have only 3 Amy MacDonalds fanarts from yesterday (installed the plugin for the first time), but no one for all the other artists.

Today I tried Home Theatre Backdrops */*Home and found the search function not working ("Forbidden") - is this why the plugin does not download anything?

 

[Jayhunter]

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that htbackdrops is going to be working again soon.

Today I tried Home Theatre Backdrops */*Home and found the search function not working ("Forbidden") - is this why the plugin does not download anything?

Sorry for that. The host turned off the search because of the havy load it produced. Currently we are moving to a new server location. Hang tight

 

[JoeSmith]

AW: Fanart Handler Plugin v2.1.1 (and music fanart scraper)

sorry if this has been asked before.
Now that we have the nice info service option for mp-tvseries and moving pictures to show the last added item - would something like this be possible for tv/music/... to show last added music albums and last recorded shows ?
I think this would be a great enhancement and unifying the look of the skins if we have that on most screens.

Thanks
Joe

 

[ltfearme]

Re: AW: Fanart Handler Plugin v2.1.1 (and music fanart scraper)

sorry if this has been asked before.
Now that we have the nice info service option for mp-tvseries and moving pictures to show the last added item - would something like this be possible for tv/music/... to show last added music albums and last recorded shows ?
I think this would be a great enhancement and unifying the look of the skins if we have that on most screens.

Thanks
Joe

Yes, this is possible and should be directed at either the InfoService plugin forum or your Skin forum.