The Future of MyFilms? (3 Viewers)

[catavolt]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Jean-Marc,

Hi,

I am still using this plugin and I would like to understand the following:

- Does MesFilms automatically download the fanarts (in this case how to configure that?) or we must put them manually into the fanart/movies folder?

MyFilms dows not itself automatically download fanart - and it has no "filesystemwatcher" as e.g. Moving Pix or TVseries have - but MyFilms has the ability to launch the fanartdownloads from inside the plugin of AMCupdater - so if you have configured AMCupdater properly, you can launch it from the GUI.
Alternatively you can download fanarts from windows with the AMCupdater app.

- Does MesFilms now has the option 'trailers"?

I am using BlackGlass 2.6 skin and I don't see this possibility.

In the latest version published here by zebons there is no trailerfunction - I have worked on a mod that has it included.
But it has not included automatic trailerdownloads, but instead just automatic trailer registering plus the ability to watch them from inside the GUI, filter the filmlist to only display movies that have trailers and some nice visual addons to display.
That means, if you drop the trailers inside the moviedirector or have a directory with trailers, that are properly named, it will autoregister them for the movieDB. I use HD-trailers.Net with a daily job to automatically download latest trailers regulary.

for your help.

Also: in the left menu tab "last" and "first" are always in English. How to translate?

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Yes, that is something I also realized - can't remember at the moment, if I changed this to support localization or just changed it in the skin "hardcoded"... but you could change it yourself in the skinfile by adding a labeltext to the buttoncontrol in your language ...

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

Why not? At least for main view that should be no problem. I was thinking about that in the past, when there was the flickering problem ;-)

 

[Jean-Marc]

you very very much Guzzi!

- I can now download (and delete too) the fanarts from the GUI, no problem, really cool option!
- Where is your mod for trailers?
- Translation resolved, too, directly into the black glass xml file!

Keep this plugin alive please, as Zebons seems to no be here anymore, I love this plugin (as well as Showtimes)!!

 

[Jean-Marc]

Re: AW: The Future of MyFilms?

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

But this is not yet working?

In MyFilms configuration I didn"t check any option in the "grabber" tab.
I have Fanart Handler with the option "video" enabled.
In BlackGlass skin I click on "download images for this film" and it downloads various fanarts for the film.

@Guzzi: I don't use AMC updater.

 

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

But this is not yet working?

In MyFilms configuration I didn"t check any option in the "grabber" tab.
I have Fanart Handler with the option "video" enabled.
In BlackGlass skin I click on "download images for this film" and it downloads various fanarts for the film.

@Guzzi: I don't use AMC updater.

As far as I remember there is routines to download fanart for single movies inside of myfilms itself (the dialogs you mentioned in detailsview).
If you want to update/download fanart for the whole moviedb (in mainscreen), this is done by launching AMCupdater in the background.
So yes, if you only want to handle singlemovies, that works "as is" and uses th buildin grabber for TMDB.

you very very much Guzzi!


- Where is your mod for trailers?


Keep this plugin alive please, as Zebons seems to no be here anymore, I love this plugin (as well as Showtimes)!!

As mentioned above, I did not publish my mod. There are several reasons for that:
- it's work in progress, there are several areas, where it's not yet working as expecteed and things included, that are not finished.
- until a few days ago, it was based on older code from sourceforge, because I wastn't able to compile the latest sources Zebons checked in - That is solved now and I merged it to latest "official code"
- Configuration of trailers is not integrated in Config GUI - as I don't know how to do that - so you need to do that manually in the MyFilms.XML. This is nothing for "normal users" and you can easily break your config, if you make changes to the MyFilms.XML manually
- skin changes are required for the extensions, so it won't work with the public available skins for MyFilms - and I have only the blackglass skin "uptodate" (because that's the one I currently use)
- I can't update AMCupdater, because it's using some mixed code of C# and Visualbasic, that is not supported by the free express editions of the microsoft compilers (or I don't know how to do it...)
- I am not able to support the mod - same reason as above, because I as a "NonDeveloper" hardly can fix problems arising - especially, if things are broken by changes I made .... :-(

The best thing would be, if a true developer could join - I could supply a .patch file of all changes I made - reviews the changes, correct the bad stuff I did and then could make it available "to the public" ... that was my inital approach when I worked with zebons together...

btw, I currently work on implementing a clean method to support wakeonlan from inside the plugin - so for users, that have their movies on a nas server can keep the nas in S3 sleep and it will be started, when needed by myfilms.

I also tried to incorporate the changing fanart in mainscreen (was in contact with Damien, developer of TVseries) - but didn't get it yet ... setting up a timer was no problem, but the changing contexts give me crashes I couldn't resolve...

Ok, lot's of words for nothing ;-) - what I could do is opening an alpha thread for interested users (maybe bad idea, because it's confusing most users) - or I could provide you the mod personally, if you're interested and willing to play with it ...

 

[Dadeo]

Re: AW: The Future of MyFilms?

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

I agree! I did mention it to cul8er a while ago, but now I added a post in FH forum

I also added issues to the FH Issue Tracker: Add support for MyFilms plugin and Add Video/Movie Fanart Scraper

Please add your support to 'encourage' cul8er, and maybe we can get this to happen

@Guzzi

As far as I remember there is routines to download fanart for single movies inside of myfilms itself (the dialogs you mentioned in detailsview).
If you want to update/download fanart for the whole moviedb (in mainscreen), this is done by launching AMCupdater in the background.
So yes, if you only want to handle singlemovies, that works "as is" and uses th buildin grabber for TMDB.

That confuses me. I do not have AMCupdater installed, but in MyFilms:

To scrape fanart for ALL movies:

• On menu in Main View, select Options then 'Backdrop Fanart Grabber'

To scrape fanart for a SINGLE movie:

• In Details view, select Update button, then 'Download Fanart Backdrops Movie'

Works like a charm! But as you said, it is not automatic, you have to select it, which I like because I don't want it deciding when to use up my bandwidth!

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re: AW: The Future of MyFilms?

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

I agree! I did mention it to cul8er a while ago, but now I added a post in FH forum

Please add your support to 'encourage' cul8er, and maybe we can get this to happen

Sure - if there is anything I can do, I will. If you want cul8ter to support the multiple fanarts from myfilms, I think he has to add support for the directorystructure.
btw. - there is one thing, I really like with myfilms fanarthandling: When there is no fanart available, it can use the coverart as fanart (zoomed fullscreen keeping aspectratio) - this imho looks still good in blackglass, because it's dimmed and used as background and you don't need to fall back to something, that has nothing to do with the movie selected...

I also added issues to the FH Issue Tracker: Add support for MyFilms plugin and Add Video/Movie Fanart Scraper

It'a a good idea - I would very much appreciate it, that all artscraping would be centralized. The code - also the craping code from myfilms - is available and could me moved, if necessary. But I don't know, if cul8ter has enough time to keep up with it - we'll see ...

@Guzzi

As far as I remember there is routines to download fanart for single movies inside of myfilms itself (the dialogs you mentioned in detailsview).
If you want to update/download fanart for the whole moviedb (in mainscreen), this is done by launching AMCupdater in the background.
So yes, if you only want to handle singlemovies, that works "as is" and uses th buildin grabber for TMDB.

That confuses me. I do not have AMCupdater installed, but in MyFilms:

To scrape fanart for ALL movies:

• On menu in Main View, select Options then 'Backdrop Fanart Grabber'

To scrape fanart for a SINGLE movie:

• In Details view, select Update button, then 'Download Fanart Backdrops Movie'

Works like a charm! But as you said, it is not automatic, you have to select it, which I like because I don't want it deciding when to use up my bandwidth!

... you're right ... I looked in the code - the asynch background updater for upadten all movies with fanart is included in myfilms itself.

 

[Dadeo]

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I think he has to add support for the directorystructure.

Absolutely. I think I mentioned that in either the issue or the forum post. If not, please add it

there is one thing, I really like with myfilms fanarthandling: When there is no fanart available, it can use the coverart as fanart (zoomed fullscreen keeping aspectratio) - this imho looks still good in blackglass, because it's dimmed and used as background and you don't need to fall back to something, that has nothing to do with the movie selected...

Good point - add that to the Issue, or in FH forum. cul8er already does something similar for music - you can use the artist images if no fanart is available and even select the resolutions you wish to use. So why not for videos/movies?

 

[Jean-Marc]

Re: AW: The Future of MyFilms?

@Doug and Guzzi: I´d like to see another approach: Why not asking Cul8er to extend his FanartHandler on MyFilms as well? Why invent the wheel again

But this is not yet working?

In MyFilms configuration I didn"t check any option in the "grabber" tab.
I have Fanart Handler with the option "video" enabled.
In BlackGlass skin I click on "download images for this film" and it downloads various fanarts for the film.

@Guzzi: I don't use AMC updater.

As far as I remember there is routines to download fanart for single movies inside of myfilms itself (the dialogs you mentioned in detailsview).
If you want to update/download fanart for the whole moviedb (in mainscreen), this is done by launching AMCupdater in the background.
So yes, if you only want to handle singlemovies, that works "as is" and uses th buildin grabber for TMDB.

you very very much Guzzi!


- Where is your mod for trailers?


Keep this plugin alive please, as Zebons seems to no be here anymore, I love this plugin (as well as Showtimes)!!

As mentioned above, I did not publish my mod. There are several reasons for that:
- it's work in progress, there are several areas, where it's not yet working as expecteed and things included, that are not finished.
- until a few days ago, it was based on older code from sourceforge, because I wastn't able to compile the latest sources Zebons checked in - That is solved now and I merged it to latest "official code"
- Configuration of trailers is not integrated in Config GUI - as I don't know how to do that - so you need to do that manually in the MyFilms.XML. This is nothing for "normal users" and you can easily break your config, if you make changes to the MyFilms.XML manually
- skin changes are required for the extensions, so it won't work with the public available skins for MyFilms - and I have only the blackglass skin "uptodate" (because that's the one I currently use)
- I can't update AMCupdater, because it's using some mixed code of C# and Visualbasic, that is not supported by the free express editions of the microsoft compilers (or I don't know how to do it...)
- I am not able to support the mod - same reason as above, because I as a "NonDeveloper" hardly can fix problems arising - especially, if things are broken by changes I made .... :-(

The best thing would be, if a true developer could join - I could supply a .patch file of all changes I made - reviews the changes, correct the bad stuff I did and then could make it available "to the public" ... that was my inital approach when I worked with zebons together...

btw, I currently work on implementing a clean method to support wakeonlan from inside the plugin - so for users, that have their movies on a nas server can keep the nas in S3 sleep and it will be started, when needed by myfilms.

I also tried to incorporate the changing fanart in mainscreen (was in contact with Damien, developer of TVseries) - but didn't get it yet ... setting up a timer was no problem, but the changing contexts give me crashes I couldn't resolve...

Ok, lot's of words for nothing ;-) - what I could do is opening an alpha thread for interested users (maybe bad idea, because it's confusing most users) - or I could provide you the mod personally, if you're interested and willing to play with it ...

Thank you very much for all these explanations, and for sure this is not a lot of words for nothing, as you say!
I understand better now!

I would like very much to try your mod, because I am also using Black Glass skin (2.6)

One thing that still confuses me after reading your posts concerning the fanarts: no problem to see them in general and detailed view. But they don't change. I tried your release, you say that it solves the problem and that the fanarts change in detailed view. (?) ...Or I didn't understand well.

Anyway, this is not a big issue, thank you very much for all you are doing for MyFilms!

 

[Guzzi]

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Thank you very much for all these explanations, and for sure this is not a lot of words for nothing, as you say!
I understand better now!

I would like very much to try your mod, because I am also using Black Glass skin (2.6)

One thing that still confuses me after reading your posts concerning the fanarts: no problem to see them in general and detailed view. But they don't change. I tried your release, you say that it solves the problem and that the fanarts change in detailed view. (?) ...Or I didn't understand well.

Anyway, this is not a big issue, thank you very much for all you are doing for MyFilms!

Hi JeanMarc,
hmmm, that's strange - they should change in DetailView (using the multiimagecontrol). Did you check, if you have more than one fanart in the respective moviefanartfolder?
Ok, I just checked the BG2.6.0 skinfile - it seems, the multiimagecontrol istn't included.
I have edited the file and added it - it's untested, so make a backup of your original file and let me know if it works.

Re mod: Ok, I am currently fighting with some details and would have to at least package the necessary files .... will post here, if i think, it's something to test ... ;-)