season banners suddenly gone. (1 Viewer)

[gibman]

Hi!

using MP-TVSeries-2.2.3331 (SVN TEST).

The problem is that none of my series will display season banners.
Neither in season view, nor in episode view.

It has been working ? But I cant figure out what broke it.

any ideas ?
what to look for ?

I'm fairly new to this plugin.

/gibman

 

[ltfearme]

Do you see the artwork in the configuration tool?

I have seen a similar issue you describe when 'Animations/Transitions' are disabled in MediaPortal->General Settings.

 

[gibman]

As u can see dexter season 3 has an associated season banner.

The left dropdown is inactive though.
Although on some series it's active (but all series are inactive in my setup).

Also the right dropdown is always initially empty, although it does contain one item, in this case the season banner.

I guess it's not meant to persist the chosen banner from the dropdown ?

/gibman

 

[gibman]

I debugged the latest plugin code and found the culprit.

in dbbase.cs;

method: getRandomBanner ()

we call;
randImage = Helper.PathCombine(Settings.GetPath(Settings.Path.banners), randImage);

randImage is "\\\\server\\E\\install\\_Movie\\DVB\\software players\\mediaportal\\shared\\Thumbs\\MPTVSeriesBanners\\Heroes\\-langen-graphical/79501-g16.jpg"

after the call to ; Helper.PathCombine, randImage now looks a bit different. double backslashes stripped away.
"\\server\\E\\install\\_Movie\\DVB\\software players\\mediaportal\\shared\\Thumbs\\MPTVSeriesBanners\\Heroes\\-langen-graphical/79501-g16.jpg"

This makes the call to System.IO.File.Exists(randImage) return false. This is the reason as to why I dont see any season banners.

If I avoid calling Helper.PathCombine, then all is good.

I guess the fix should be done in the "Helper.PathCombine" method.
It should support UNC paths without stripping away too many back slashes

my mediaportaldirs.xml is;

<Dir id = "Database">
<Path>\\server\E\install\_Movie\DVB\software players\mediaportal\shared\Database\</Path>
....

/gibman

 

[ltfearme]

Thanks gibman for narrowing it down. I would not of noticed as I dont use UNC paths for banners.

You can track issue here: http://code.google.com/p/mptvseries...Status Priority Stars Milestone Owner Summary