The Future of MyFilms? (4 Viewers)

[Psycho Reptile]

During skinning I found the following controls 1030->1034 do not respect facadeview.xxx visibility and are hardcoded labels.
Also #myfilms.label1->2 and #myfilms.item1->3 can not be used in any other controls.

 

[tbomber]

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hey zebons

just finished the skinning for streamedmp but 2 issues remain

1. pressing esc returns you to home not basichome (this worked in previous versions)

I have the same problem with this new version.

Can anybody help?
Would be great!

 

[mattroby]

I wonder what happened? A sudden flurry of activity a while back - now nothing. I wish there was something I could do . . .

 

[Guzzi]

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I wonder what happened? A sudden flurry of activity a while back - now nothing.

Hi mattroby,
yes, it's a pity ...
btw, I have made some of the things I mentioned earlier now based on the older code I found on sourcefourge - so i have added trailersupport (based on borrower field), global and per movie (local) trailersearch from GUI, added a global filtersetting for moviefilters for "show only movies with trailers present" and an additional filter for globalfiltering for miniumum ratings (value and filter can be set inside GUI); have also added #myfilms.aspectratio (not in the db, bit available as property for the GUI for display).
I started adding some sort of a "movie-scrobbler" to randomsearch the DB in categories (or globally) - where you also can search for trailers to browse your movieDB...
Made the menu in detailsview available as context ("i") - and "refixed" some of the bugs of that older version as far as I could and code was accessible...
Have extended the search related properties by a "subwordscanner" I mentioned earlier (useful for description and comment fields).

The only problem is the same as mentioned earlier here:
I am not a programmer, and the code I made for sure is VERY ugly and bad - I copied classes and did dirty hacks, just because I never did anything in C# and I am more a script guy... plus the code is based on the old version of myfilms in sourcefourge, where not all sources for used modules are available, thus some things from zebons not working properly, especially the improved grabberfunctions for onlineupdates and the latest additions/fixes/changes zebons made.
As stated earlier, I am fine to provide the .patch - but it has to be transformed in proper coding (or recoded from scratch?) and it doesn't help, if there is noone who can cleanly integrate it into the official latest plugincode :-( .
For now I use my "dirty code"-mod for everdays use, but unfortunaltely I am not capable to finish this myself, just because I stumble on easy tasks like "sorting an array of files by their size" or how to handle "overloaded methods to do things the way it should" 8-0= ...

So I hope, zebons will find some time some day ...

I wish there was something I could do . . .

Well, if you can supply the latest code and a programmer, who is capable of C# and knows about mePo plugindevelopment, I would contribute the stuff I made and support finishing this work so this could be published ... - or find zebons ;-)

During skinning I found the following controls 1030->1034 do not respect facadeview.xxx visibility and are hardcoded labels.
Also #myfilms.label1->2 and #myfilms.item1->3 can not be used in any other controls.

I had a question formerly about those controls regarding their function (no more working for date_added), but still without answer - I could imagine, that those controls are from early days of the plugin, where those controls where the only properties exposed to the GUI. I am thinking of dropping them completely for the skin, because now all DB properties are available via #myfilms.<db-property> anyway - so all infos are available without explicitely assigning them to the items1-3.
Advantage for skinner: optimum assignment for the property, because you know what is displayed. Disadvantage: You cannot change the property inside the config, if you want to change what is displayed in the GUI.
But just zebons can for sure answer that.

 

[Dadeo]

Hi Zebons, I really love the new fanart scraper - it's fantastic. Thank you so much. And thank you Guzzi for all your testing. The plugin is working pretty well for me. I love the way you used the multiimage control for displaying multiple fanart in a folder for each film - genius!

I have a few problems with the fanart, even using your Blue3 skin files and MP 1.1.0 RC4

• Although there are two fanart controls in mesfilms.xml, only one fanart displays, even if there are many in the fanart folder.
• Sometimes no fanart displays in the Details view, even though there are many fanarts available.
• Sometimes the wrong fanart displays in the Details view, even when there is new fanart for that film.
• Is it possible to display the multiimage control on the main view (mesfilms.xml)? I would love to have it there as well.

There is one minor bug that has always driven me crazy. In Config, when you define a view and set a sort for it, the sort is not retained. You have to reset it every time you go into Config and save any change. A minor point I know

Thanks for all your great work on one of the most awesome plugins for MediaPortal.

 

[Guzzi]

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Hi Zebons,

have just seen, you've checked in updated code in sourceforge - is this the code from latest compile or is there other changes included?

Can you give me a hint on how I can merge my modifications into this code?

Is AMCupdater code also matching latest binary? I would like to incorporate code there for trailersearch, so the registration can be done as batch similar to backdropsearch.
If you're interested, I could also provide a patch file, but I assume you would make quite some rework, because I assume, my code is not very good ;-) - and in addition I have not yet localized all new functions yet...

Thanks,

Guzzi

 

[zebons]

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Hi Zebons,

have just seen, you've checked in updated code in sourceforge - is this the code from latest compile or is there other changes included?

Can you give me a hint on how I can merge my modifications into this code?

Is AMCupdater code also matching latest binary? I would like to incorporate code there for trailersearch, so the registration can be done as batch similar to backdropsearch.
If you're interested, I could also provide a patch file, but I assume you would make quite some rework, because I assume, my code is not very good ;-) - and in addition I have not yet localized all new functions yet...

Thanks,

Guzzi

Hi Guzzi,
At the first time, I'd prefer to finish all code mods before commiting the new version on SourceForge but I have some HDD problems on my PC (My Disks are in Raid 5 Configuration and I'm loosing it....) So before I loose all my datas, I commit all code as it for amcupdater, amcupdater-interface, grabber and MyFilms.
For Myfilms, it's the code version of the latest dll delivered on the site no mods done after. You can find the latest code in the trunk branche.
I have no time to work on it for the moment and I have to clean my PC before... So if you want to work on it, no problem. Tell me however what mods you do and commit your work frequently for sharing it.
For AMCUpdater, the Trailersearch should be done in the grabber sub-program and called in amcupdater and also why not in MyFilms as it is for movies infos search actually.
good work

 

[Guzzi]

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Hi Zebons,

have just seen, you've checked in updated code in sourceforge - is this the code from latest compile or is there other changes included?

Can you give me a hint on how I can merge my modifications into this code?

Is AMCupdater code also matching latest binary? I would like to incorporate code there for trailersearch, so the registration can be done as batch similar to backdropsearch.
If you're interested, I could also provide a patch file, but I assume you would make quite some rework, because I assume, my code is not very good ;-) - and in addition I have not yet localized all new functions yet...

Thanks,

Guzzi

Hi Guzzi,
At the first time, I'd prefer to finish all code mods before commiting the new version on SourceForge but I have some HDD problems on my PC (My Disks are in Raid 5 Configuration and I'm loosing it....) So before I loose all my datas, I commit all code as it for amcupdater, amcupdater-interface, grabber and MyFilms.

Good idea - we don't want to see myfilms dying (as you harddisk obviously does...) ;-)

For Myfilms, it's the code version of the latest dll delivered on the site no mods done after. You can find the latest code in the trunk branche.

Ok, my mods/changes have only been done to myfilms, so this would be a base to incorporate changes - but I have no idea how to do that, never done C# before and never did any merges ... I would need some help from somebody experienced or some reading about that ...

I have no time to work on it for the moment and I have to clean my PC before... So if you want to work on it, no problem. Tell me however what mods you do and commit your work frequently for sharing it.

Well, to be honest, I would not dare to commit by bad code, it would break your clean work I suppose :-(
I did quite some learning by doing and try/error - and there are lots of things, that I could not yet behave like I want, just bacause I am not able to do it (to code it...).
Further I have no access to sourcefourge repo anyway (ok, should be no problem to solve that one)
If I am able to merge the code to latest myfilms code you supplied, I could provide a patch and describe what I have done (not sure, if I always knew what I did, because I did not understand all parts of you code ;-))
I think it would definately be necessary that a true programmer would check the code before it is committed - at least because i am not able to hunt bugs properly etc. - unfortunately ...

For AMCUpdater, the Trailersearch should be done in the grabber sub-program and called in amcupdater and also why not in MyFilms as it is for movies infos search actually.
good work

I DID already include it in Myfilms - in Details search only in moviedirectory itself and in main screen as "global search" including also other directories - but all code is in myfilms plugin, (because of not being able to do anything in AMCupdater) - plus it takes very long if searching huge areas - thus I would prefer at least also adding this capability (for gloabl search) to AMCupdater, as there is currently all those things available for batch runs ...
btw., I did NOT include trailersearch and download (I am doing this with HD-Trailers.Net and Ember Mediamanager) - so the trailerfunction just searches local trailers in either moviedirectory or somewhere else for matching scheme and registers them to borrowers field (plus integrated functions for displaying traileravailability and playing trailers, random trailers etc.).

Anyway, wish you good luck with your disk/data and hope you will find time for myfilms soon again ...

 

[HappyTalk]

I'm getting lots of crashes with the 1.1.0 final release of mediaportal (myfilms 4.9.1 though says 5.0.0 beta on myfilms info), cannot use it anymore. I attach a subset of the xml file that triggers a crash.

On further investigation I can see the bug was added between versions MyFilms_v4.8.0.mpi (works fine) and MyFilms v0.4.9.1.mpe1 (crashes) and has broken the hierarchy separator (using a dot) from working properly on folders with a single subfolder within as in above xml file.

UPDATE: I'm pretty sure the older 4.8 version didn't work with the later 1.1.0 versions of mediaportal, however having downgraded it seems to be working fine (maybe the later version added something?) so I'll stick to using the older version (with latest mediaportal v1.1.0) as it works a lot better (for me) than the later versions.

BTW to double check I upgraded back to 4.9.1 and the crashes returned, back to 4.8 and it all works smoothly again.

 

[Zexan]

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I Don't know what has changed in MP 1.1.0 but all of my MyFilms issues (hangs or freeze when browsing more than 20 movies) have completly disapeared !!!! My films 4.8.0 works perfectly now !!!

Thank-you so much, I was dreading changing to moving pictures but now I'm sticking with this version.

I runs perfectly with X-Factor and PureVisionHD 4.1,

thanks again for fixing MP

Zexan