[NEW] MyFilms v4.7.9a (4 Viewers)

[jozef]

xml uncorrectly parsed in MyFilms

Hi,

I am new to this forum but using MediaPortal already for quite some time.
For the last 12 months I've been using version 0.2.3 but yesterday I decided to upgrade to the new version 1.0.0.0
With this new install, MyFilms does not work 100% correctly. I supose the xml is uncorrectly parsed.
Here are the details.

As indicated on the 'How to upgrade pages', I did a clean install (uninstalled old program, removed all remaining old installation files, removed all remaining user files and databases, and did a clean install).
I did a very quick configuration of the new MP version, and then installed two plugins: TVgemist, and MyFilms.
For MyFilms I also used the latest version 4.7.9a. I quickly created an XML database with some films in it, and then did a config of the plugin.

Result:
- MyFilms is visible in the main screen of MP.
- It shows all films in the database correctly (although the design is not 100% esthetic as the moviepicture is to big and running over the text and rating-stars, but I can live with that )
- Movies also play correctly.

BUT ...
if I click on a movie and go to the detail screen, the details are not shown. E.g., film length is "#duree" (without quotes), film country is "#pays", and so on. Only the film title is correct, and the year is also correct. However, if you browse to the next film in this detail screen (on the left you have arrows to move from one film to the other), the title changes correctly to the next film, but the year remains the same (i.e., from the previously shown movie).

After looking in the source XML files, I found that "#duree", "#pays", ... are labelnames in the xml files. I tried changing these to "#Length", "#Country", ... as in the XML database, but this did not solve the problem.

I did not find an answer to this problem in this forum although I found similar questions. If any of you can help me solving this issue, I'll be very glad!

Some additional information: I tried to use as much of the "normal configuration". I did not use anything fancy such as skins, ... I started using Blue3Wide, and Blue3, and as these did not work I changed to other skins. All skins I tried have the same problem.

Any help is appreciated.

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Edit: less than 60 minutes later ... Why is it always that if you cannot solve a problem for a whole day, you find it immediately after posting it to a forum

After exploring further in the error logs, I found that some files could not be read by the mediaportal user account. This was due to the fact that the installation was executed as an administrator, and the mediaportal itself runs as an user with restricted privileges (which seems most logical and secure for me). The scripts written in the directory /documents and settings/all users/application data/ may then be unreadable as simple users may not have sufficient permissions. I think this should be altered such that this is automatically ok at the time of install.

Also, a second bug found: in the config of myfilms, do not set "secondary title" to <none>. It may also hinder your plugin from working properly.

Hope this helps out people with similar problems.

Best regards!

 

[Dadeo]

Did this solve your problem with the "#duree", "#pays" not displaying correctly? I have the same problem no matter what skin I try!

P.S. Should have mentioned this is only in skins that show country and runtime on the main screen, it works fine on the details screen!

 

[joz]

Also, a second bug found: in the config of myfilms, do not set "secondary title" to <none>. It may also hinder your plugin from working properly.

True had the same experience a while back.

well just to check out if you really are right about the credentials not being right you could just set them yourselfs in windows overrighting the defaults of course... Like for example giving read/write acces to "everyone". It's not secure and really shouldn't be done but can help to debug this.

 

[jozef]

Did this solve your problem with the "#duree", "#pays" not displaying correctly? I have the same problem no matter what skin I try!

P.S. Should have mentioned this is only in skins that show country and runtime on the main screen, it works fine on the details screen!

Indeed, this solved my problem.
I changed both these at the same time (read/write access of all scripts and files for the MP-useraccount, and setting this "secondary title"-field to something else then <none>). I don't know which one solved the problem, but in the error log, I found both types of errors so both should be changed.

Anyway, I hope this will also solve your problem. During my search through this forum, I found that several other things may also cause this error. Maybe check the error log and see if this can help you.

 

[igormaiden]

I have a small problem
when I have two movies and the initial part of the title is the same
for example:
-I Fantastici 4
-I Fantastici 4 e silver surfer

the film with the name in common does not start
-I Fantastici 4

so for other movies

Thanks for support
Igor

 

[arryo]

With B&W, year and genre labels are missing in the main screen of the plugin

I'm using the old version of B&W so all the fields are shown. The only annoying thing is the outdated skin warning but since it's working just fine so I don't think I want to update to the latest version of B&W

I just reinstalled my MP and its weird that year and genre labels are missing in the main screen like z3us said. I have no idea what's going on. Have you figured it out yet, z3us?

 

[zebons]

With B&W, year and genre labels are missing in the main screen of the plugin

I'm using the old version of B&W so all the fields are shown. The only annoying thing is the outdated skin warning but since it's working just fine so I don't think I want to update to the latest version of B&W

I just reinstalled my MP and its weird that year and genre labels are missing in the main screen like z3us said. I have no idea what's going on. Have you figured it out yet, z3us?

Please re-install the mpi MyFilms after a fresh install of MP. Skin files delivered by MP aren't compatible with the plugin.

I have a small problem
when I have two movies and the initial part of the title is the same
for example:
-I Fantastici 4
-I Fantastici 4 e silver surfer

the film with the name in common does not start
-I Fantastici 4

so for other movies

Thanks for support
Igor

Do you give the filename info for yours movies in your DB or is it a problem xhen the plugin search itself the filename withe the Title name ?
In tha case, can you give the EXCACT title name and filename of your movie ?

 

[Dadeo]

Display Runtime Country etc in Main List

Is there any way to display the country and runtime on the main list in MyFilms without going to the Details screen?

I have tried modifiying the mesfilms.xml (provided with 4.7.9a) to add these, but they only appear as #duree and #pays.

Has anyone tried this and got it to work?

 

[z3us]

for what skin? Attach your skinfiles

 

[joz]

I would like to now this too. I created a fadelabel for Blue3++ with all detail info but lots of users reporting this not working from the main Mesfilms screen.
It seems some variables are not properly updated when the selecteditem changes (at least that's what I'm thinking)

It works perfectly fine in the detail view

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As per request the skinning we did for Blue3++. Note that I removed the variables that are not updated properly (like duree, pays and some others I believe)