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[jocke]

That's really just cosmetics, you can choose any it doesn't matter (it's because one record is returned for every language the series exists in and I explicitely search in all languages and not just the users-selected). I may expliclitely search for user-lang only (though there were some problems, can't remember in detail) or filter them out at some point, but it's a low priority.

If I delete all the banners and the db, and start with a fresh import I get this screen...


It makes it rather difficult to pick which is the correct series, ie: no overview is displayed...

@Psycho Reptile: Read the post of inker above yours (last paragraph) and you will see that it doesn't matter which series you choose...

Won't the language in "Show Overview" and "Overview" be affected by what result you choose?
Or will it pick the English one no matter what?

edit; just tested with a random show, with clean db, whatever result I pick, the "Show Overview" and "Overview" is in English.

 

[Psycho Reptile]

That's really just cosmetics, you can choose any it doesn't matter (it's because one record is returned for every language the series exists in and I explicitely search in all languages and not just the users-selected). I may expliclitely search for user-lang only (though there were some problems, can't remember in detail) or filter them out at some point, but it's a low priority.

If I delete all the banners and the db, and start with a fresh import I get this screen...


It makes it rather difficult to pick which is the correct series, ie: no overview is displayed...

@Psycho Reptile: Read the post of inker above yours (last paragraph) and you will see that it doesn't matter which series you choose...

Won't the language in "Show Overview" and "Overview" be affected by what result you choose?
Or will it pick the English one no matter what?

edit; just tested with a random show, with clean db, whatever result I pick, the "Show Overview" and "Overview" is in English.

I read the entire thread before posting, my problem is that I don't actually see any description, in any language, no matter which series I select. In the screenshot, the top 5 "24"s all say - "No futher description available".

 

[Erez]

Hi,

I'm having problems downloading banners with this SVN.
Banners aren't imported when language is set to 'Hebrew'.

Steps to recreate:
1. Select any show from database - for example 'Lost'.
2. Remove show from database.
3. Choose Hebrew as language.
4. Import data.

Banners aren't imported.

Repeat steps 1-4 just choose 'English' instead of 'Hebrew'.
Banners are downloaded as expected.

Logs attached (Debug level)

Erez

Fixed

Also I forgot to reenable mediainfo parsing in this build, this means that file info won't be picked up automatically.

Fixed

Inker. I've tested the new SVN and both problems are solved.

 

[Inker]

Hi Inker, thanks for the new version - I like the new features .
Now to my problem, which occurs on two different machines with slightly different setups: when I "upgrade" my existing db the new version works flawlessly (Rev 288).
If I delete all the banners and the db, and start with a fresh import I get this screen...



It makes it rather difficult to pick which is the correct series, ie: no overview is displayed...
I let the scan finish by selecting the top/guessed correct series, everything appears ok.

I'm not sure if it's me but any help would be appreciated.

Here's how searching works:
Imagine in the online DB a table seriesID, Translated Name, Language
The plugin transmits a search string (the seriesname) and retrieves whatever translated name fits, in whatever language. So, if 24 exists in 5 languages, and it's called 24 in all of them (like in german), it will retrieve all of those. But it doesn't matter which one you choose, because they all point to the same seriesID and at this stage that is all we are interested in (it is not until later we import meta data).

As I said, I can search in only the user specified language, but it requires a) the user to have all their shows named in whatever the show is called in their language, and b) the online DB to have a translation for that series, that's why I search in all languages. Compare these two resultsets:
http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=24&language=all
http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=24&language=tr (turkish)

So in this example if the user had chosen turkish (which 24 does not exist in in the onlineDB) he would not get a chance to fallback to english. That is why I will need to filter them from the plugin side.

As far as the overview is concerned, as you can see from the api specs it wasn't added until recently that this was added to the resultset and isn't properly documented yet, that is why it is not yet used/displayed.

Hope it helps you understand a bit better.
Inker

 

[Psycho Reptile]

As far as the overview is concerned, as you can see from the api specs it wasn't added until recently that this was added to the resultset and isn't properly documented yet, that is why it is not yet used/displayed.

Hope it helps you understand a bit better.

Thanks Inker, it does. My only real concern was why the overview wasn't being displayed, but you've cleared that up to

 

[Silk73]

I modified the file xml in English and Italian adding as indicated in the first post new entries, I hope to have made a proper job.


Not Tested

 

[steven83]

Hi,

I'm having problems downloading banners with this SVN.
Banners aren't imported when language is set to 'Hebrew'.

Steps to recreate:
1. Select any show from database - for example 'Lost'.
2. Remove show from database.
3. Choose Hebrew as language.
4. Import data.

Banners aren't imported.

Repeat steps 1-4 just choose 'English' instead of 'Hebrew'.
Banners are downloaded as expected.

Logs attached (Debug level)

Erez

Fixed

Also I forgot to reenable mediainfo parsing in this build, this means that file info won't be picked up automatically.

Fixed

An other problem, when searching for a serie in the result window serie get's listet more then once.

That's really just cosmetics, you can choose any it doesn't matter (it's because one record is returned for every language the series exists in and I explicitely search in all languages and not just the users-selected). I may expliclitely search for user-lang only (though there were some problems, can't remember in detail) or filter them out at some point, but it's a low priority.

newest svn and still now banners here for ex. for CSI Miami, Heroes or Lost

mh, thats really strange, after 3 times of download the newest svn the size of the file has change by 1kb and now its working

 

[Erez]

Hebrew Translation.

 

[Inker]

Change: SeriesSearching will only show one entry per seriesID anymore (if it exists in you're language, it will use you're language's entry/seriesname/overview)
Change: SeriesChoosing Dialog will show Overview/Summary
Fix: Some SQL errors that occured
Change: Drastically cut down both number of sql statements as well as lenght/complexity of sql statements on update commits
Fix: Most compiler warnings
+ CodeCleanup
Added: Translations for en(us), he, it (Thnx to Silk73 & Erez)

Pls test...

 

[Beavis]

hmm cant open configuration tab, get error that unhandled exception occur, i attach the error in this post.
With release 289 all working fine


edit: ok with 292 it works fine now