My TV Shows not playing episodes (1 Viewer)

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Hi, I have installed the My TV Shows plug-in and manually added episodes of two TV Series which it succesfully recognised and uploaded the descriptions and banners for.

Unfortunately when I enter My TV Shows from the menu and click the banner to go into the episodes list, they appear grayed-out and clicking on an episode does nothing. If I use Blue 3 skin rather than Monochrome i get a black screen with "Missing or invalid file" on entering My TV Series.

It seems that it does not know where the local files are, but I have put them into the MY TV Shows config when adding the episode data. I can't see any option other than the "Import Paths" fields where these should go.

Thanks in advance for my possibly stupid question.



TV-Server Version: Whatever the latest one is
MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal 1.0 RC4
MediaPortal Skin: Monochrome 4x3
Windows Version: XP Pro Service Pack 3
CPU Type: AMD Dual Core 3.1Ghz
HDD: Hitachi 320GB as boot drive
Memory: 2GB DDR2 800
Motherboard: Asrock K10N78HSLI-GLAN
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 256MB
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: E-mu 0404
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Nebula PCI
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote:
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection:

 

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Anyone?

If I've posted this question in the wrong place, could someone let me know where I should have posted it please?

 

[etheesdad]

pls post log files from MP

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Also importantly, which version of TVSeries are you using, should be this one MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Video/Movies

What format are the files, and are the necessary codecs to play them installed.

 

[decorativeed]

Yes, it is that version and the files play just fine on other media players - indeed they play in MP if I select them though My Movies, just not in My TV Series. They are AVIs (divx).

I'm affraid I didn't know which logs were most relevant so I uplaoded a few variations with discriptive titles.

I don't know much abaout interpreting them, but it seems that the MP-TVSeries log is suggesting that the files weren't parsed. I don't really understand what that means and as I've said, the episodes were added manually as the automatic Parsing Test didn't pick them up.

Should I uninstall the plug-in (if so, how?) and start again?

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No suggestions then?

 

[NikeNeGerek]

as I've said, the episodes were added manually as the automatic Parsing Test didn't pick them up.

There seems to be an error in the manual selecting the episodes.

There should be an TVSeries.log file in the log folder. Please attach this log file, after you've done parsing and done with the importing process.

 

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The last of the attachments previously posted is the TVseries.log file.

As I mentioned, the "parsing test" didn't pick up the episodes, so I added them manually. The files show up in the TVSeries configuration, but are not able to be selected when running MP.

Is there any way to reset or clear the previous information entered into the Tv Series config?

Since adding these series, I have added to the parsing expressions so that it recongises the way I have named my series ( <series> <season>.<episode> - <title>.<ext> eg: "I'm Alan Partridge 1.1 - A Room With An Alan.avi") and I have added them as seperate directories for each series.

Trouble is, when I try the parsing test with new series that I import the paths for, it tries to parse all the previously added directories too, regardless of whether they are checked or unchecked in the Import Paths window.

I fear I am doing something wrong and it may just be my lack of nous with this particular plug-in, but it seems a bit too dificult to use than it need be. Why can't TV Show information be imported through IMDB like Movie information is? It's all on IMDB anyway, isn't it?

Everything about MP appears to have been made more difficult than necessary - even posting this message on the boards - my "Token" keeps expiring apparently, whatever that is! I use lots of forums and have never encountered problems with my tokens before (sorry to rant, though)!