(original thread) MP-TVSeries (1 Viewer)

[Jetboy]

hobbes, I'm having the same problem as you do. All my daily show files are named according to air date, not season and episode. Maybe we could get an <airdate> tag or something similar?

 

[ccMatrix]

hobbes, I'm having the same problem as you do. All my daily show files are named according to air date, not season and episode. Maybe we could get an <airdate> tag or something similar?

how does the filename of an episode look then ?

 

[Jetboy]

Usually it looks something like this:
the.daily.show.11.30.06.dsr.xvid-crimson.avi
the.daily.show.11.28.06.dsr.xvid-crimson.[VTV].avi

but sometimes it's like this:
The Daily Show 19th October 2006.avi

I don't know if it's possible to try to parse the air date in different date formats, it sounds kind of complicated.

I don't know if this plugin can solve the problem, but I hope so. I've seen the air date naming thing in a few of my girlfriend's Top Model episodes as well. For now I'll just keep renaming the files.


Oh and I don't think I've mentioned this before: This plugin is truly excellent!

 

[nylonhof]

Has anyone heard from zeflash lately ?

Not that he does not deserve some free time, it´s just so...unusual.....

I think, he is on vacation (three, long weeks) ....

Regards
nylonhof

Funny how people "know" about my whereabouts

Apologies to everyone. I mixed up this thread with my other favorite thread - skin development. The good news, though, is that zeflash is working to make this great plugin even better. Looking forward to the next release.

Regards
nylonhof

 

[patrick]

Does anyone know how to properly name The Daily Show to have it import properly?

i think my question got glossed over. No one here uses MP-TVSeries to watch The Daily Show?

Just checking over @ tvdb it looks like it is treated like any other show with season and episode numbers.
So for example season 11 has 150 episodes so far.

HTH,
patrick

 

[zeflash]

Usually it looks something like this:
the.daily.show.11.30.06.dsr.xvid-crimson.avi
the.daily.show.11.28.06.dsr.xvid-crimson.[VTV].avi

but sometimes it's like this:
The Daily Show 19th October 2006.avi

I don't know if it's possible to try to parse the air date in different date formats, it sounds kind of complicated.

I don't know if this plugin can solve the problem, but I hope so. I've seen the air date naming thing in a few of my girlfriend's Top Model episodes as well. For now I'll just keep renaming the files.


Oh and I don't think I've mentioned this before: This plugin is truly excellent!

Even if you managed to parse every possible combinations representing a date with regexp (good luck), it doesn't change the fact that the entry point to retrieve data about an episode on the server DB is series ID / season index / episode index.
No way to ask for things by date or something else.
Of course it *could* be possible to implement some kind of interface that would remotely enable a client to ask for a specific value in a specific data field, but it would still pretty difficult to have valid matches this way.

 

[mst3kroqs]

Hi zeflash -

Welcome back!

FYI - just to thrash import well and good, I *deleted* my tv series db, and re-imported the entire 2TB+ tree with 0.5c. I should mention - I am running 0.2.1.0, and standard BlueTwo 4:3 skin.

It went great, but for some reason - *none* of the episode summary/descriptions were imported this time. There were a couple of other users that mentioned that they had experienced the same problem.

Can you confirm that this is happening, or is it something wrong here?

I can't think of anything that I would be doing that is 'non-standard', it's a pretty straightforward install, but I will do the same thing again tonight, and will post the detailed logs to pastebin.

Thanks.

-m

 

[zeflash]

New release, 0.6.
I've tried to fix most of the bugs I was aware of. I hope it works better for everyone.

0.6
- lots of fixes everywhere (UI configuration, scan handling, no more crash when the skin misses one item, etc)
- added the option to hide specific items (series, seasons or episodes) from the MP UI.
- more work on subtitles (nowhere near something useable yet though)

 

[enginf1992]

I tried to down it but gives the version 0.5c instead !!!

Tks

enginf1992

 

[Bobb25]

New release, 0.6.
I've tried to fix most of the bugs I was aware of. I hope it works better for everyone.

0.6
- lots of fixes everywhere (UI configuration, scan handling, no more crash when the skin misses one item, etc)
- added the option to hide specific items (series, seasons or episodes) from the MP UI.
- more work on subtitles (nowhere near something useable yet though)

Great stuff!

Ps. Seems like the primary download link hasnt been updated yet