My Anime 2 (1 Viewer)

[Ifrit30]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you want the total amount of watched episodes in the top-right, next to the current view name? If that's the case, you could edit the skin file manually (Anime2_Main.xml) and add a label with #Anime2.SeriesGroup.EpisodeCountWatched as text. For more skin values you can check the wik

I want that the total number of groups are displayed.

How can I add the label #Anime2.GroupCount in the Anime2_Main.xml? Just adding won't do anything I guess.

 

[bert_r]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you want the total amount of watched episodes in the top-right, next to the current view name? If that's the case, you could edit the skin file manually (Anime2_Main.xml) and add a label with #Anime2.SeriesGroup.EpisodeCountWatched as text. For more skin values you can check the wik

I want that the total number of groups are displayed.

How can I add the label #Anime2.GroupCount in the Anime2_Main.xml? Just adding won't do anything I guess.

Yes, that should do the trick.
Add a label like this for group count:

<control>
	<type>label</type>
	<description>amount of groups in the current view</description>
	<id>77</id>
	<posX>360</posX>
	<posY>70</posY>
	<label>#Anime2.GroupCount</label>
	<visible>Control.IsVisible(1238)</visible>
</control>

Use #Anime2.SeriesCount and IsVisible(1237) for the series count

 

[Cinnabuns]

1. I can't seem to simulate this. I have been messing around in the menu for quite some time without a problem. Do you have a reliable simulation?
To allow searching with the keyboard we had to intercept all keyboard messages. To make sure other dialogs keep working we have to disable this keyboard hook when a dialog opens, and re-enable it when it closes. I can see several exceptions in the attached logs, and I can only assume that such an exception messes up the system, and leaves the hook enabled while you're not on the main window.
2. Again, I can't simulate this. I have tried assigning the TVDB association for several groups and series, and nothing happened ...

I guess I'll need to look up what those exceptions mean exactly. From the looks of it, that's actually MediaPortal and not the Anime plugin that's throwing those exceptions. Is that correct?

For what it's worth, I did manually add some thumbnails in the animethumbs folder because I had converted some GIFs to JPGs so that they would display quickly. The plugin, or maybe MediaPortal in general, seems to have problems displaying GIF posters. If I'm scrolling through the main series screen and there's a GIF, I have to scroll back to it a few times before the GIF is displayed properly. To fix this, I converted GIFs to JPGs and just left them in the same folder, and re-assigned the series to use the JPG in the plugin config screen. I don't know if dropping extra files in the animethumbs folder would mess things up.

I did notice that the T9 menu structure is a bit annoying. If you want to go back a level the menu closes completely, so you have to restart at the main menu. I'm not so sure what I should do though; Should I re-open the previous menu when you a lower-level menu? This would mean that to dismiss a lowe-level menu you'd have to close all higher lever menus too ... is that acceptable?

Hmm, I'm at work right now so I don't know what the buttons currently do, but I believe the MCE remote has a previous button and an exit button (at least the Harmony does). Would it be possible to map Previous to go back up one level and Exit to get out of the menus entirely? That would work unless Exit does something else entirely.

 

[yhoogi]

1. I can't seem to simulate this. I have been messing around in the menu for quite some time without a problem. Do you have a reliable simulation?
To allow searching with the keyboard we had to intercept all keyboard messages. To make sure other dialogs keep working we have to disable this keyboard hook when a dialog opens, and re-enable it when it closes. I can see several exceptions in the attached logs, and I can only assume that such an exception messes up the system, and leaves the hook enabled while you're not on the main window.
2. Again, I can't simulate this. I have tried assigning the TVDB association for several groups and series, and nothing happened ...

I guess I'll need to look up what those exceptions mean exactly. From the looks of it, that's actually MediaPortal and not the Anime plugin that's throwing those exceptions. Is that correct?

For what it's worth, I did manually add some thumbnails in the animethumbs folder because I had converted some GIFs to JPGs so that they would display quickly. The plugin, or maybe MediaPortal in general, seems to have problems displaying GIF posters. If I'm scrolling through the main series screen and there's a GIF, I have to scroll back to it a few times before the GIF is displayed properly. To fix this, I converted GIFs to JPGs and just left them in the same folder, and re-assigned the series to use the JPG in the plugin config screen. I don't know if dropping extra files in the animethumbs folder would mess things up.

Can confirm that there is some problems with Gifs.
Had it once that a poster was not displayed. Checking the Poster entry in the Group/Series Tab, path was refering to the file as jpg (means extension was set to .jpg not .gif)


Cheers,

 

[Raytestrak]

Wow ... quite a few questions and problems!

I also have all my Anime on a remote PC, but on a removable storage device. I don't have a lot of anime, about 350GB, but still ... it's slower to access then a local disk or a remote PC ofcourse but it's fast enough to stream 1080P content. Since the latest MyAnime plugin though, mediaportal has become really sluggish. All the hashing and looking up data is done, but still the performance is rather lousy actually ...

My question: does the plugin constantly look if the files are present when browsing through the series or is it a one time check at startup?

I'm currently working on the speed of the plugin. The slowest part is the database access (which I'm optimizing now) and the opening of the thumbnails. It's probably the last one which is your problem. If possible, you should put your thumbnails on a local drive.

The series are on a remote drive, but all the thumbs and the database are local. I'm guessing it's the database as well. Someone posted a tip concerning manually added episodes, that missing info on those could be the problem ... I do see a pause when accessing a manually added file, but I have a major slowdown in general. Not only when using Anime2.

 

[Jocker_Boy]

Is there a possibility to work with tvdb instead of anidb?
I prefer tvdb, so i was thinking, it will be cool if we can choose from tvdb ou anidb.

 

[Ifrit30]

Is there a possibility to work with tvdb instead of anidb?
I prefer tvdb, so i was thinking, it will be cool if we can choose from tvdb ou anidb.

Yeah, that would be cool!

Btw. the view setting > genre don't work properly, it shows only a few series.

 

[bert_r]

Is there a possibility to work with tvdb instead of anidb?
I prefer tvdb, so i was thinking, it will be cool if we can choose from tvdb ou anidb.

For the most part this plugin relies on AniDB for its data, but for fanart, episode screenshots and descriptions it already uses tvdb (because AniDB doesn't provide those). It also depends on MovieDB for movies. The fact is also that AniDB provides a lot more data than AniDB.

I don't understand what you're 'preferring' tvdb though. Series and episode titles are the same wherever they come from ... As long as the result is the same I don't think it matters where the data comes from.

The chance is very low that we'll ever replace AniDB by tvdb though. AniDB provides more data, and we'd have to rewrite half the plugin, with no real benefits. But if there is any additional useful data on the tvdb which isn't on AniDB, we will use it.

Btw. the view setting > genre don't work properly, it shows only a few series.

As far as I can see it works fine for me: It only shows the series from the selected genre as expected.
Does it show too few series in your case? Or does it show the wrong ones?

 

[Ifrit30]

As far as I can see it works fine for me: It only shows the series from the selected genre as expected.
Does it show too few series in your case? Or does it show the wrong ones?

Well I choosed comedy and it showed me only one (full metal panic), but I've more than one series which has comedy (for example, trigun, samurai champloo, slayers, full metal alchemist...)

 

[bert_r]

As far as I can see it works fine for me: It only shows the series from the selected genre as expected.
Does it show too few series in your case? Or does it show the wrong ones?

Well I choosed comedy and it showed me only one (full metal panic), but I've more than one series which has comedy (for example, trigun, samurai champloo, slayers, full metal alchemist...)

That's very strange. In my case the 'comedy' genre shows multiple series, including FMP, Trigun and FMA.
I've also reviewed the particular code responsible for the genre filtering, and I couldn't find anything wrong with it.

The only think I can think of for now is that the genres weren't retrieved correctly. Can you try updating the AniDB info manually for one of the missing series? (series menu -> databases -> AniDB -> update series info from AniDB).