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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 949782" data-attributes="member: 18896">First off, this is not my project at all <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /> I'm just a fellow user who enjoys MediaPortal so much that he helps others get the same enjoyable experience, but I do test the plugin and help on scraper-scripts. The latter is what led to IMDb+, which is a seperate plugin that ties into the IMDb+ scraper-script that was born out of personal need for movie-series support. Thankfully I got a lot of help along the way from other developers to make that a reality though. So back to your questions; you can compile and mess with MovPic at C# level with the Visual Studio C# Express edition just fine. Checkout @ <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/source/checkout" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/source/checkout</a>Wiki on how to set it up @ <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/wiki/DevelopersGuide" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries/wiki/DevelopersGuide</a> Keep in mind that wiki might be out of date on some stuff, but then use that as an inspiration to help edit the wiki to correct this with updated info, especially for Visual Studio 2012 for example. I actually at some point lost the ability to compile MovPic from source on VS2010 Express and never got back into it. Have VS2012 Pro now, so actually planned to rectify that situation, but still too busy with work at the moment. As for you having 900 movies in collection (I thought 79 was low), did it constantly stall on those 79 movies then? Usually the ones that work fine import, so they do not show anymore when you restart MovPic config. But this is normally what movingpictures.log file tells you about. If you enable MediaPortal debug verbosity on log file, it will even do this in great detail. When a problem is at scraper-script level then MovPic even has an additional higher level of logging to get to the bottom of all that, but in most cases usage problems surface with plain debug mode fine. The problem as explained before is the asynchrone thread behaviour, which can make it very hard to know what part exactly is causing the issue. So adjusting threads to just 1 then is an easy way to find out where exactly things go wrong. Also keep in mind that easy time MovPic starts, it will check your existing library and runs update tasks for it. Obtaining missing artwork, missing MediaInfo, sync with follw.it (if enabled), etc. All those tasks can interfere with easy to read log file if at the same time you are also importing new movies. Ideally you want to wait for that process to be done first before you diagnose import issues. Of course this is easier said then done when you can not undo adding the new files it stalls on. Knowing which files those are should not be impossible though, because you should be able to use your OS timestamp to search for the last files added.</blockquote>

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