MyTorrents (1 Viewer)

[Efros]

C# is not a language I ever got to grips with. But thanks for the info.

 

[phigax]

Ongoing Development

Just wanted to let you know that there is some ongoing development. I helped out fcsobel with a tiny C#Wrapper for the XML over HTTP Azureus plugin and he started to implement azureuscontrol in the MyTorrents plugin.

With the new features it should be possible to

-display the status of current downloads/uploads
-start/stop downloads
-add torrents from the rss feed directly without going through the shell
-remove torrents

all in the mediaportal ui.

Azureus can run on the local machine or on a remote machine, but as far as i know the XML over HTTP plugin has no security mechanisms, so I would only use this in a secure lan, not over the internet.

We will post any updates here, as soon as they are available

 

[Bram]

This would be fantastic. It looks like MP is going to be the most advanced MC there is. If the development goes on like this and the point of overall stability will be reached.

 

[aasmund Nordal]

I have to say, this rocks!!!

I alredy use the plugin and I love it.

 

[Efros]

Absolutely bloody marvelous!

 

[ASiDiE]

Keep up the good work phigax. I saw a how to somewhere, where you could set up shows to look for when they are released. I think this would be a killer feature. You would probably need to set this up under the plugin under configuration.. but still. I would set it up to look for something like *the.Office.us* or something like that. And every 30 min or so (a set time) it would refresh the RSS list and download anything that matches that. Within 30 minutes of the torrent released it would automatically download the file and then move it to the location you select.

That in my eyes... would be sweet

Once again.... thanks for picking this plugin up... and adding too it!!!

 

[Zeuser]

Got a little problem with uTorrent. Once a torrent is slected, the plugin downloads the .torrent file and invokes uTorrent but uTorrent complains that it can't find the .torrent file.

I think it may be the full pathname passed in. It has spaces in it and probably needs to be passed in as a quoted string.

 

[Zeuser]

Problem with uTorrent solved. Here's how it works:

- Install the MyTorrent plugin as usual
- Install utorrent and allow it to associate the .torrent extension to itself
- run utorrent
- Open up preferences
- In "general" , turn off the "Show dialog when adding new torrents" checkbox
- In "Folders", turn off the "Always show dialog on manual add" checkbox
- In "folders", turn on the "store .torrent files in" checkbox
- In the text input field right below the previous checkbox, put the full path to the torrent folder used by the plugin. By default, this would be "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Torrents"

Now uTorrent will start up and download the files from the plugin. No other interaction required.

i only wish that the plugin would also indicate the status of the download. But this is better than nothing I guess.

 

[fcsobel]

A version of My Torrents is available that uses phigax's c#wrapper for Azureus to show download stats and allow you to start/stop/remove...etc. You must use the Azureus client with the XML over HTTP plugin installed.

You must turn azureus support on in My Torrents setup and azureus must be running for this to work

Azureus - Java BitTorrent Cleint
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

XML over HTTP Plugin
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=xml_http_if

My Torrents plugin with Azureus support
http://projects.c3o.com/MediaPortal/plugins.beta.zip

Some issues
- You may run into problems gettng the xml over http plugin installed. I got a zip error on one machine and had to download the plugin to disk and then install.

- If you set the refresh rate too low it will make selecting options on the torrents difficult because it rebuilds the list while you are in the middle of the selection. Best to keep it over 10 seconds for now.

I'm still working on a more full featured version. Please post your feedback here.

 

[Efros]

I'm having serious issues with azureus failing to install any updates at the moment, doesn't like the zip files, anyone having issues? this is via automatic updating and by manually downloading the file as well.