MP-TVSeries v2.5.4 Stable Release [01-Jun-2010] (1 Viewer)

[ltfearme]

Re: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.2 Stable Release [10-Mar-2010]

New maintenance version has been released, see first post for details.

 

[RivaSA]

Re: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.2 Stable Release [10-Mar-2010]

Awsome, thanks

 

[ubela64]

Re : *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.2 Stable Release [10-Mar-2010]

the new latest version of fr.xml

 

[ltfearme]

Re: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

Sorry for the inconvenience but we noticed a few introduced bugs in v2.5.2. Please see updated first post for new release v2.5.3.

There has also been a few other enhancements thrown in, nothing major.

 

[ltfearme]

Re: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

For those that downloaded the Archive (zip), there was two plugin dlls (one old and one new). I have re-uploaded again to fix that mistake.

Thanks for Guzzi for spotting and letting me know

 

[Guzzi]

AW: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

Hi Damien,

I have a little request - would it be possible to add WakeOnLan-capability to the initsequence of the plugin?
I have all my seriesmediafiles on a separate NAS that is only required, when a plugin needs to access it - thus NAS can stay in standby/S3 when e.g. only watching TV.
Have made a request (#389) in google-code:
Issue 389 - mptvseries - Add WOL (Wake On Lan) for NAS Support - Project Hosting on Google Code

Thanks,

Guzzi

 

[ltfearme]

Re: AW: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

I have a little request - would it be possible to add WakeOnLan-capability to the initsequence of the plugin?
I have all my seriesmediafiles on a separate NAS that is only required, when a plugin needs to access it - thus NAS can stay in standby/S3 when e.g. only watching TV.
Have made a request (#389) in google-code:
Issue 389 - mptvseries - Add WOL (Wake On Lan) for NAS Support - Project Hosting on Google Code

It wouldnt be too much effort to add an advanced option (possibly a new DB option only at first) which allows you to set the MAC Address of the server and WOL is done on Init/Resume from Standby.

 

[RoChess]

Re: AW: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

add WakeOnLan-capability

It wouldnt be too much effort to add an advanced option (possibly a new DB option only at first) which allows you to set the MAC Address of the server and WOL is done on Init/Resume from Standby.

Maybe allow WOL to be a part of the import path settings? That way it is linked at the position it makes most sense, and would also support multiple NAS systems. And then have a global setting to the sort of "Wake-on-LAN Enabled" combined with a setting to determine at what point in time the package is sent. During plugin init would mean the moment MediaPortal is started, which would wake your TV-Series NAS box up even when you only plan to play movies, etc.

But if the box is off-line during init, then all the TV-Shows on that box will be 'unavailable' (orange color on B3W), so if a WOL is sent on entering the MP-TVSeries plugin, it will take X amount of seconds for the NAS to wake up and would have to be rescanned.

So perhaps an extra option would be nice that allows a WOL magic packet to be sent on the actual opening of MP-TVSeries GUI, but then also initiate a new import scan on those import paths with WOL defined (no sense rescanning local), delayed by a configurable amount of seconds (some NAS systems wake up much faster then others).

Might make things too complex, so a WOL option during init is probably enough at first.

PS: If anybody knows a WOL alike way to wake up systems that are in 'sleep' mode, please PM me.

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re: AW: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

add WakeOnLan-capability

It wouldnt be too much effort to add an advanced option (possibly a new DB option only at first) which allows you to set the MAC Address of the server and WOL is done on Init/Resume from Standby.

Maybe allow WOL to be a part of the import path settings? That way it is linked at the position it makes most sense, and would also support multiple NAS systems. And then have a global setting to the sort of "Wake-on-LAN Enabled" combined with a setting to determine at what point in time the package is sent. During plugin init would mean the moment MediaPortal is started, which would wake your TV-Series NAS box up even when you only plan to play movies, etc.

But if the box is off-line during init, then all the TV-Shows on that box will be 'unavailable' (orange color on B3W), so if a WOL is sent on entering the MP-TVSeries plugin, it will take X amount of seconds for the NAS to wake up and would have to be rescanned.

So perhaps an extra option would be nice that allows a WOL magic packet to be sent on the actual opening of MP-TVSeries GUI, but then also initiate a new import scan on those import paths with WOL defined (no sense rescanning local), delayed by a configurable amount of seconds (some NAS systems wake up much faster then others).

Might make things too complex, so a WOL option during init is probably enough at first.

PS: If anybody knows a WOL alike way to wake up systems that are in 'sleep' mode, please PM me.

Hi Rochess, Damien,

thanks for the feedback - to be honest, when talking about the "initsequence" I meant the time when entering the plugin in the GUI - not the initsequence on MePos startup sequence .... sorry for not being clear about that
I currently use standbyhandler to start the NAS boxes - and this all is done during either MePo start or resume of the HTPC from standby - but as Rochess pointed, this makes all the NASses run whenever one single HTPC is started, regardless of the files are used or not.
Thoughts from Rochess are valid - I just wanted to keep it simple, but configuring MAC-addresses per importpath makes sense for users, who span their files on several NAS boxes (I have only two currently, tvseries only on one of them...)
But it is true that the series scanning should not be done on importpathes being in S3 - so those pathes should only be checked after WOL was done.

@RoChess: Regarding possibilities of WOL: If you look into my Googlerequest, I have pointed to the SVN (#23658) and the .cs-file (...\TVplugin\WakeOnLanManager.cs) where WOL was introduced in the TVplugin - all relevant code should be available there (JBravo has supplied those patches afaik).

So the simplest variant would be to enable WOL when entering the plugin in the GUI - and automatic scanning should be suspended as long as the plugin is not active (that is: "entered in the GUI" = WOL not yet send = NAS still sleeping)... all other options would require more work.

btw: the WOL should be done synchronous with checking if the NAS is alive, otherwise there could be negative sideeffects - wakeuptime indeed can be between 1-2 seconds and 10+ seconds (static timer could waste a lot of time without being "safe") but again this code should already be available in the above mentioned sources...

Thanks for all your great work,
Guzzi

 

[Imzadi]

AW: *NEW* MP-TVSeries v2.5.3 Stable Release [13-Mar-2010]

I have a question regarding mutiple audiostreams. I have a lot of Avi Files, with two audio streams (german/english). Isn't it possible to display this information like it does with codecs and such? It's not necessary to know which language, but that there is more than one stream. I'm not sure, but I think it was possible in previous versions, but I can't find it anymore. Or is this skin related?