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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 938289" data-attributes="member: 18896">Extensions if the MePo GUI interface to MPEI, so you do not have to close MediaPortal to update plugins (of course once you actually do go through the update process it will shut down MePo to do the actual installing and then relaunch it). It just has a whole API system build in to allow other plugins to control their own settings, so instead of re-inventing the wheel it was much easier to use that (big thanks to ltfearme on that as he did most of the code). The extension plugin then also allows the IMDb+ plugin to alert you when an MPEI update exists for it. If you love the whole MPEI system, then Extension plugin is part of those minimum plugins you want to install and you can add it easy via MPEI shortcut on desktop. And to repeat, the 'latest' scraper version is always available for manual situations at: <a href="http://imdbplus.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scraper/IMDb+.Scraper.SVN.xml" target="_blank">http://imdbplus.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Scraper/IMDb+.Scraper.SVN.xml</a> (it just will not work with custom options or rename system without path manipulation inside the script to point to the location those XML files are stored, do a CTRL+F on "file=") This is where I commit it to with Tortoise SVN whenever I make an update. That is also the location the IMDb+ plugin constantly downloads it from to compare it with the existing one. It is currently almost an 80kB script and we are over 26,000 users of IMDb+, so that is already over 2GB of transfers per day when each user has their system on and checks once every 24hours. Peanuts for Google I'm sure, but if all the users would have it set to do it on startup and they stop/start MediaPortal multiple times a day then the transfers would tally up quick. That is why default setting is to not check on startup (unless it is 24 hour since last time you started system) and only poll the Google site once a day. But for the pro-user the IMDb+ settings have been made adjustable, so you can tell the plugin to force a check on startup and also to check every 3 hours even if you want, or if you are on a limited dataplan to check say once a week. And thank you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up    (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" />, like most projects it started out because I wanted things a certain way. My collection has a lot of foreign movies in it as well as movie series and I was impatient to wait for support inside MovPic. The C# code of Moving-Pictures was too complex for me to add the functionality I wanted, but I was pretty handy in adjusting the scraper-scripts by then. At first it was just to include the RottenTomatoes rating system and then things got out of hand <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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