My ShowTimes V1.1.0 Release April 28/07 (1 Viewer)

[falkyre]

Hey MojoFlow,

can you use the MediaPortal pastebin (http://pastebin.team-mediaportal.com/) to post your locations.xml and config.xml for the mtsa.exe?

I'll take a look from here and see what's up.

Sean

Looks like I replied just after you falkyre.

Cool that you lived in town, sounds like we went to the same High School

Ya, they tore down the 'mini' theatre, and the Capital Theatre has been renovated into a live performances theatre now.

Big changes

Anyway, my postal code is S6H 3N2, and the theatre is showing up in Yahoo.

Thank you for any suggestions.

 

[MojoFlow]

Cool,

I will try mzemina's postal code when I have a chance and if it doesn't work, I will post my .xml files.

I will remote into home at my break and give it a quick go.

 

[falkyre]

Hi MojoFlow,

the issue is with the MTSA.exe. The theater name is found fine but when it parses by the name it fails miserably. Most likely it's because the name contains special characters:

Galaxy Cinemas @ Town 'N' Country

I'm sure the @ is causing the problem. Don't worry about the paste bin. You can contact Jim, the author of MTSA.exe and let him know about your issue. If Mike get's me the info about the aggregator, maybe we can look at extending the mtsa.exe to do a search on theater ID rather than match via the name.

Sean

Cool,

I will try mzemina's postal code when I have a chance and if it doesn't work, I will post my .xml files.

I will remote into home at my break and give it a quick go.

 

[MojoFlow]

Good catch,

Thanks.

It actually might be the ' causing problems as Regina's Galaxy uses the same format: Galaxy Cinemas @ Normanview S.C.

I will email the developer. Thanks for your help.

 

[mzemina]

Hi Mike,

I'm interested in seeing what you have found. Can you explain a little more about the aggregator? Maybe we can integrate that into the plugin or modify mtsa.exe. I've started playing with the code in the mtsa.exe to fix the Netherlands issue but as usual, time is not on my side.

Sean

My ISP is SouthwesternBell (Now AT&T) and they have a Portal page with Yahoo which allows placing diferent content - just like Google does - but I can place my one theater in that list and it will (along with the other two theaters I frequent) list them on the front page.

But other than the ideas we have tossed around I would pursue those before anything else. I believe people like your plugin - you have done a good thing!

For me it is just being able to include a specific theaterID (since Yahoo doesn't present all the theaters on the first page and you have to dig around to find a specific theater) and get it included in the export list that your plugin pulls in.

The URL for my specific theater is: http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/theater?id=3362
So the ID is: 3362.

The problem with Yahoo's Movie page they only listed the following theaters for my zipcode:
Circle Cinema - Tulsa
AMC Southroads 20
Hollywood - Promenade Palace 12
Dickinson Owasso 10
RiverWalk Movies
Cinemark Cinema 8 - Sand Springs
Cinemark Cinema 8 - Broken Arrow
B& B Sapulpa Cinema 8
Admiral Twin Drive-In
Mall 31 Cinema
More Theaters...

The More Theaters... link would not give me the theater I wanted, I searched and actaully stumbled across the theaterID of my theater pick and then came across the way to include it in the Yahoo Portal page for my ISP. Now if I could only get busy and work out the way in VisualBasic (the code for MTSA.exe) to get a specific theater included in the export list, I will be a VERY happy camper!

 

[Jean-Marc]

Hi everybody,

I really love this plugin, and I thank you very much for it!!

I have also MP crashing when I try to navigate into the theater list: I have 3 selected theaters, use the arrow key of the keyboard and blue 2 skin.

I would like to ask why the grabber is always working? Is that when all trailers are not yet downloaded? I cliked the option to refresh each 5 days but it doen't stop working!! (not like me...)

How can I translate everything? where are the files for that? Big problem: a date for a movie like 03/07/07 (today) for me is july the 3rd and I can really think that I have time to show the movie...!!

All trailers are in English, how to edit the plugin to download them in another language?
How to edit the plugin to better enter the dates and hours of the theaters? (For the 3 theaters I am testing, I see a date and only one film, without any hour!)

Thank you again for this wonderful plugin!

 

[falkyre]

Hi Jean-Marc,

There's something funny with the blue 2 skin for some reason but it's good that you've been able to pinpoint when it happens. I have not been able to recreate it yet but this gives me more info to work from.

The grabber doesn't always work, it will take sometime to download the data you request. If you have a lot of theaters and a lot of movies to get information for AND you selected the highest quality trailers and posters, it can take a long time to run. That's why I highly suggest you do you first initial run out of the configuration program and not from within MP.

As for translations, the dates are handled via the mtsa.exe and it takes the dates from the site it scrapes (probably Yahoo). What else do you want to translate? All other wording is most likely within the actual code of the plugin.

All of the downloading is handled by the mtsa.exe application. If you understand Visual Basic for .NET you can get the source code of the mtsa.exe application from the site I listed in the readme (I think, can't recall right now).

The MP plugin reads the moviedata.xml file to get the data for the showtimes. The moviedata.xml is created by the mtsa.exe. If you want to change anything with dates and times, then you'll have to look into the mtsa.exe code.

Sean

Hi everybody,

I really love this plugin, and I thank you very much for it!!

I have also MP crashing when I try to navigate into the theater list: I have 3 selected theaters, use the arrow key of the keyboard and blue 2 skin.

I would like to ask why the grabber is always working? Is that when all trailers are not yet downloaded? I cliked the option to refresh each 5 days but it doen't stop working!! (not like me...)

How can I translate everything? where are the files for that? Big problem: a date for a movie like 03/07/07 (today) for me is july the 3rd and I can really think that I have time to show the movie...!!

All trailers are in English, how to edit the plugin to download them in another language?
How to edit the plugin to better enter the dates and hours of the theaters? (For the 3 theaters I am testing, I see a date and only one film, without any hour!)

Thank you again for this wonderful plugin!

 

[mzemina]

...As for translations, the dates are handled via the mtsa.exe and it takes the dates from the site it scrapes (probably Yahoo). What else do you want to translate? All other wording is most likely within the actual code of the plugin....

Yes the source code from MTSA is available and it is Visual Basic. It looks like all the sites it scrapes are Yahoo movie, it is broken up by country.

 

[falkyre]

Location for MTSA souce code:

http://movietimes.home.comcast.net/mtsa/download.html

Remember, Jim wishes that any changes to the code be sent to him so he can QA it.

Sean

...As for translations, the dates are handled via the mtsa.exe and it takes the dates from the site it scrapes (probably Yahoo). What else do you want to translate? All other wording is most likely within the actual code of the plugin....

Yes the source code from MTSA is available and it is Visual Basic. It looks like all the sites it scrapes are Yahoo movie, it is broken up by country.

 

[mzemina]

Jean-Marc - I see that Jim has the following MovieourceCountries in the source code as sepperate modules: BelboisNetherlands, CinebelBelgium, FilmwebNorway, MsnFrance, MsnGermany, YahooAustralia, YahooNorthAmerica, YahooSpain, YahooUK.

So maybe if you have a Moviesource (Yahoo, MSN, etc.) in your country that may follow one of the previous mentioned - it could be maybe either he (Jim the author of MTSA) or maybe I could (it would be slow for - would have to learn VB again, been many years) help and give it to Jim to include as part of his release. Would also have to check into the date format.

I would ask that you approach Jim first regarding this and let us know what he says.