NEW: Series and Movie support for MP2 MediaLibrary [2012-07-01]

After we have discussed about new metadata aspects (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/discussion-of-metadata-tags.105951/) I finally started to implement some new cool features for MP2's media library:

MP2 is now able to browse series! Ok, it's not yet MP TVSeries, but I want to show all users how easy it is to extend the core features!

What was needed can be summarized as:

• Define new metadata aspect "SeriesAspect", content you find here (http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_...3_Concepts/Metadata_system/Planning_Extension)
• Extend the Metadata Extractors to fill the SeriesAspect
• Extended the Media Plugin with
  • Few lines of code
  • Few constants
  • Few screens
  • Few language tags.

In principle I did this in one afternoon, so be excited and join I did not need to change any database table, it is fully controlled by the MediaLibrary itself.

Here I must say a big thank you to Albert for designing the Media Plugin and MP2 so flexible!

Edit 2012-04-03:
I made some more progress and internally simplified the series information handling a lot. We now are able to retrieve Series informations from:

• TvServer recording .xml-files
• MatroskaTags
• new: filename matchings using regular expressions

I've made the "episode number" a list of numbers, so combined episodes can be handled correctly:
i.e. "Stargate Universe S01E01_02 - Die Destiny.avi" (pilot of 2 episodes) -> we store "1" and "2" as episode numbers for this entry (see screenshot 11)


Here are first screenshots of navigation features, taken from default skin:




As requested, here are new screenshots of Reflexion skin


Update 2012-04-13: Support for Banners and Posters

I have created a new ImageSource to be used from xaml screens in a very simple way:

Code (Text):

1. <Image Width="400" Height="100" Stretch="Uniform">
2.   <Image.Source>
3.     <fanart:FanArtImageSource fanart:FanArtMediaType="Series" fanart:FanArtType="Banner" fanart:FanArtName="Eureka"/>
4.   </Image.Source>
5. </Image>

Update 2012-04-15: Online matching of Series implemented, downloading banners, posters and fan art images while importing share
Updated images from Reflexion skin, adjusted sizes to match screen better:


Update 2012-05-29:

• Extended features for Series: FanArt can be displayed inside Series library.
• Improved Reflexion skin layouts
• Brand new: sneak preview of Movie section (WiP)

Movie Section (WiP)


Update 2012-06-11:

• Code for Series and Movie handling is progressing quite nice, so it's now time to work on Reflexion skin support for those features!
• New screenshots attached, showing new layout concept. This is WiP, i.e. menu is deactivated in this screen and I am looking for a working solution to implement a "slide-in-menu".

Update 2012-06-30:

• Made progress in showing a "slide-in-menu", it's nearly working besides a small focus issue
• The layout of the movie section has been further improved (thanks Furnibird!)

Update 2012-07-01:
Development has gone further, trying to use a different layout for movies. We are now able to use animated Brushes in MP2. Maybe this does not sound so spectacular, but indeed it looks really great

To get an idea how this could work, check out this movie: http://tinypic.com/r/2gy1us0/6

In reality it looks even smoother than on this capture

 

Very cool!

PS: If you want the news to look as cool as they are, use "Reflexion" when doing screenies

 

Updated 1st post with new feature info and screenshots!

 

Attaboy!

 

You need to chose only "videos" when configuring a share, it also scans for series then. Not sure if we should introduce a new sharetype "series", but it would be easily extendable...

 

Yes, the series are also added under videos. But you will find them also inside the "Series" section, available from home menu.

This means currently series will be found inside "Videos" and "Series", but in the later one you have more detailed information and filtering.