My Music Videos - V0.41 (1 Viewer)

[Imokles]

The issue you're referring to sounds very similar to one I fixed this afternoon. Are you using the latest download? If not using this should fix the issue, if not let me know.

Yes, I was doing the tests described above with the latest download.

 

[dangerzone]

Ok, Ive had a play and Ive found the issue you were having imokles.

Ive uploaded a new version to the google code site which should fix all your issues.

A new issue I am having now is that once the videos database has been populated, a re-scan (click on "scan watch-folders into DB") crashes MediaPortal config (with the "... has encountered a problem ..."-Box). I can avoid this by doing a complete re-scan ("Clear DB and Rescan"), so this is not a showstopper for me.

Same problem overhere, And i use the latest version.:sorry:

 

[metalla_nz]

Have just reproduced the crash on re-scan on my machine. Will look at fixing it tomorrow morning.

Looks as if I may have uploaded an earlier version, as I cant reproduce on my development machine, and I know I fixed it.... Will upload again, any issues let me know

Also added a couple of fixes to the way it handled .divx and .mpeg files (got rid of a trailing .)

Usual download site.

http://mp-musicvids.googlecode.com/files/Music Vids 0.0.2.25(2).zip

 

[Imokles]

Looks as if I may have uploaded an earlier version, as I cant reproduce on my development machine, and I know I fixed it.... Will upload again, any issues let me know

Just tried it... the crash is gone!



And one again a feature request : Could you make the artist biography editable?

 

[metalla_nz]

That was always going to happen eventually.

Working on the biggest requests today, so It may be there this afternoon.

Hi everyone. Updated first page, new version.

 

[Imokles]

Wow, that's really quick! Again, thanks a lot for all the work you put into the plugin.

While doing some more tests, I have come across another issue.
On some occasions, videos get assigned to the wrong artist.

I attached a full scan log and a screenshot of the database after the scan to this post. You'll notice that "Kid Rock" got assigned a video of "Lily Allen". "Lily Allen" is also listed as an artist, but the video she has assigned is by "Kelly Clarkson" who is not listed at all.
The interesting thing is that if I repeat that scan, results might be slightly different (e.g. I once had the video of Lily Allen assigned to Kelly Clarkson) but the common observation is that the mismatch always happens between artists that are neighbors in chronological order.

I noticed that you do the scanning with parallel threads (up to four, I think?), probably to speed up the process. My assumption would be that these threads somehow mix up as this would explain the non-deterministic behaviour. Maybe you could reduce this to one thread and send me a patched DLL to see if that fixes it?

Side note: Older versions of the plugin also have this error, I tried it. So it's not a new issue, I just did not notice it before.

 

[metalla_nz]

Hi Imokles.

You have got to stop using this plugin, yuo keep finding issues

Anyway. Essentially this happens because the four threads are running simultaneously, and as they add an artist it grabs the id for the artist it just added.

It sometimes happens that the two steps get interrupted by another. I came across this once while I was testing it. It seemed like such a rare ocurrence that I didnt bother fixing it. Clearly it was only rare for me.

Will look at fixing this tomorrow... somehow..

Cheers for all the help.

Me Again.

Have uploaded a new MusicVids.dll to the google code site that should fix that issue Imokle.

There was two ways of doing it. Im doing it one way that will definitely work, the other may or may not have, but would have been slightly faster.

Let me know if you have any more issues.

 

[whatisk]

Hi metalla_nz,

I've tried version .2.3 and I'm still getting the problem when using %album%\%artist% - %title%.%ext% as the parsing expression.
For example, the filename is listed as 'a\abba - dancing queen.mpg', the parsed artist column is blank, and the parsed title is listed as 'dancing queen'.
If I try to scan the files into the database, MP configuration crashes (I'm guessing as it has no artist to match).

Thanks.

 

[joz]

Just tried the latest version for the first time and I could not get it to add this path as watch folder;
"\\Server\D - Media\Mijn video's\Music Video's"

this one works
"\\Server\D - Media"

It's most likely not escaping the input properly

Hi metalla_nz,

I've tried version .2.3 and I'm still getting the problem when using %album%\%artist% - %title%.%ext% as the parsing expression.
For example, the filename is listed as 'a\abba - dancing queen.mpg', the parsed artist column is blank, and the parsed title is listed as 'dancing queen'.
If I try to scan the files into the database, MP configuration crashes (I'm guessing as it has no artist to match).

Thanks.

this expression " %album%\%artist% - %title%.%ext%" is not suited for your directory structure at all. Kinda obvious I'd say
you start of with a directory of a letter, for example "a". That is matched to album with the regex you provided.
%artist should be doing ok as wel as %title.
So why it crashes I do not know (don't know any code of it) but it should have an artist to map, album, title and extension should be mapped too with this regex although album should get mapped to "a" in the example.

 

[dangerzone]

has anyone tried to cancel a scan ?
sometimes it's crashing and sometimes the program hangs.

and, i have a video file (Aqua - Back To The 80's.mkv) when i play it, it's playing in the background and i cannot switch to the video.
Other mkv files are playing fine.
in the older music vids plugin its just playing fine.
something wrong with the video file or is it a bug ?.