media info not getting info when mp is running (1 Viewer)

[Colin_]

Hi,

I have one little issue with the TVSeries-Plugin.

My htpc runs almost all the time, so does MP. Now if I copy an episode from my desktop-pc to the htpc, the tv-series-plugin recognizes the new file and parses it correctly. But it doesn't get any information from media-info. Therefore I don't get any logos for playtime and Aspect-ratio (I'm quite used to it )

If I delete the episode in the config and start an import everything is working fine. So I guess the problem is that tv-series doesn't initialise media-info when it's running. Is this a Bug??

I'm using the latest media-info (0.7.5.9)


Colin

 

[Inker]

Weird, it works fine for me, in fact it uses the same codepath in config and mp to add newly parsed files. Perhaps post a log.

 

[Colin_]

here's the log

 

[Inker]

The statement "problem parsing" indicates that mediainfo returns a value of 0 (or negativ) for the playtime, which the plugin interprets as the file not being parsable.

If the same episodes does parse when imported from the config, I can only imagin that there is some locking or something going on that prevents mediainfo from parsing it correctly.

Did it work before you upgraded mediainfo?

 

[Colin_]

no, that didn't work either.
Perhaps this occurs because tv-series detects the file when it still has not been completly transfered to my htpc. I could imagine this being the problem, resolving the time length of an still uncompleted file is kind of difficult

 

[Inker]

Yes, that makes perfect sense, but I have no good solution :-(

Except maybe transfer it to a folder that isn't being watched and then from there to the actual folder. That move operations only takes a fraction of a second and it should work fine.

 

[Rick164]

Have the same problem when a file is beeing extracted, MP recognizes it and tries to parse.
However it fails but is listed in the episode view but can't be played, only solution is to run a manual local parse via the mp menu.
Another solution might be to check incomplete marked files again(only parse those files not a complete local parse) when playing them, however this would require some code change.

 

[jocke]

The best solution would be that when MP recognizes a new file, it delays for a given amount of time before it parses the file (1-5 minutes, this could actually be an option inside MP and/or MP MyTVSeries, so you could adjust the time according to how long it takes to copy an episode).

 

[Rick164]

Sounds good, especially the manual config part because depending on the hardware config the copy/move/extraction time will differ.
Just beginning with C# but will look in the file watcher source code(watcher.cs) to see if i can make this.

 

[jocke]

manual config part because depending on the hardware config the copy/move/extraction time will differ.

Exactly!

Is this a MP-related 'issue' or is it a My TVSeries-'issue'?