[fixed] Sort by Size problem (1 Viewer)

[greybox]

When I try to sort the video files by size, it doesn't always work. For example, see the attached screenshot: an 8GB file should never be in the middle of the list because this is the largest file in the folder. Try to change the order - same problem.

You may also try to mix different extensions (avi, mkv, flv, vob) and different file size, expecially huge and tiny and you will see that the sort by size feature doesn't work properly. If I select "Sort by: Size", the feature should ignore anything else except for the file size.

MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal 1.2.0 Beta
MediaPortal Skin: Default Wide with MePo added and analog clock removed
Windows Version: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU Type: Intel Core I7 2.8GHz
HDD: WDC SATA-2 80GB; Samsung SATA2, 750GB; Blu Ray drive: LiteOn iHES108
Memory: 4GB DDR3
Motherboard: Asus P7P55D PRO
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Sound Card: IDT High Definition
Sound Card AC3: Optical out
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1. TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800, PCIe
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2. TV Card: Twinhan AD-SE200 (1028), PCIe
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[elliottmc]

Is this in shares view or database view?

Mark

 

[elliottmc]

As a follow-up, I tried to reproduce this on my system, and could not.

However, most of my files are the same type and all are under 1GB.

Looking at your screenshot, could it simply be that it is only using the number, and is ignoring MB or GB ?

I have a folder of mixed .avi, .mkv and probably .mpg files under 1GB and they are sorted correctly.

You'll have to provide more information I think.

Mark

 

[greybox]

My files are stored locally on same PC, so it is not a network share. I think in order to reproduce the problem you need to have a mixture of KB, MB and GB sized files. You might be right that the nature of the bug is that the program is simply ignoring KB/MB/GB. If you don't have a multiGB video file, maybe you can manually record a TV broadcast until it reaches the appropriate size. Then you can place the .ts files into My Videos folder and try.

 

[SilentException]

Yup, correct. I also think that only numbers seen in the list are used for sorting.

In your example:
500 > 8 > 3

which looks correct but add KB/MB/GB and it's clearly wrong


It might also be that items are sorted by comparing complete strings from list, which is also wrong:

"500 MB" > "8 GB" > "3 GB"



Sorting by size should be always done using original size (bytes) not a display size There might be more places in application to check for this bug.

 

[Seidelin]

/me thinks it is a 32 bit issue. Files over 4 GiB are probably sorted wrong.

Edit: It's not. It is as SE tells. Sorted by strings...

 

[Seidelin]

0003558: Sort by Size problem - MediaPortal Bugtracker

 

[SilentException]

Actually it's integer overflow

 

[SilentException]

On unrelated note: isn't the sort direction triangle wrong? I mean \/ is descending and /\ ascending, right? In MediaPortal is other way around

 

[Seidelin]

My suggestion to resolve this issue would be to add a method like this:

public static string GetTrueSize(long dwFileSize)
{
return string.Format("{D11}", dwFileSize);
}

This should return file size as a 0-padded 11 digit string. This string should then be sortable, me thinks...