The Future of MyFilms? (33 Viewers)

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,
ahh, I understand - in the past, the "combined logofiles" always had been created in the logopath itself.
Will test new version and give feedback afterwards - thanks for taking care about it!
Guzzi

Hey, I have an issue with the latest version. When current #Otitle is missing, plugin shows the previous one.

Can you post an example ? screen copy

Sure.

1 - plugin starts with a movie that has missing #Otitle
2 - next movie has #Otitle
3 - next movie has no #Otitle, previous one is displayed

4.8.0c doesn't have this issue.

@vrm:
4-9-0 is NOT compatible with 4.8.0c and requires Changes to the skin, so skinners need to update their skinfiles.

I would recommend testing with attached Blue3 (NOT blue3wide, it's not yet included) to report functional problems with the plugin itself.

edit: ok, Zebons was a minute faster, but said the same ;-)

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edit2: Again an automerge - makes the post a bit confusing...

Hi,
so I did some more testing with following results:

GenreThumbs:
Plugin autocreates a directory "MyFilm_Others" unter Thumbs directory and autocreates gengrethumbs based on empty DVD cover - works for years, county, genre.
It also uses genrethumbs from the path configured in the plugin - but ONLY, if it exists from the beginning. I had to delete the folder after I filled the configured path with genrethumbs to get the plugin display them - it does not do that, if it already autocreated thumbs in the "MyFilms_Others"-directory - is this intended behaviour?

Logos:
I still don't get the logos up and running.
I deleted and recreated the MyFilmsLogos.xml File - but still didn't work.
Do I understand right:
Source for the Logos is defined in each line for the logorules - destination for the "combined thumbs" is defined in the top line.
In the past, I had the same path for rules and topline - and it worked, that it created the combined logos in the logo-directory. This doesn't work anymore.

MePolog shows:
2010-03-20 11:43:44.240537 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: Logo path for storing picture created E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\

Although I configured the "MyFilms_Others" directory in the Logodefinition target directory. Tried manually creating "MyFilmsLogos" and "MyFilms_Logos" - all without result.

In consequence, no combined logos created, nothing displayed !?

This is my Logodefinition:
<profile>
<section name="ID0000">
<entry name="LogosPath">E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MyFilms_Logos</entry>
</section>
<section name="ID2001">
<entry name="ID2001_0">Framerate;contains;23;;;;;E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Logos\BluRay.png</entry>
<entry name="ID2001_1">VideoFormat;contains;divx;or;VideoFormat;contains;div3;E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Logos\DIVX.png</entry>
</section>
<section name="ID2002">
<entry name="ID2002_0">Category;contains;drama;;;;;E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Logos\Drama.png</entry>
<entry name="ID2002_1">Category;contains;kom├Âdie;;;;;E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Logos\Comedy_2.png</entry>
</section>
</profile>

Genre Fanart:
Can confirm it works; can confirm, that the empty directories are created in the fanartdirectory and fanart displayed it dropped in that directory - very nice
btw: Makes it difficult to find - and what happens, of a movie name is equal to a genre name? That would probably mix up the fanyrts, right?


Two completely different things:
Would it make sense to separate the strings in a separate file - as many other Plugins do - with the advantage that it is much easier for the community to provide support for other languages?
Second: the runtime is hardcoded in the plugin to display "mn" - could this either be defined in the languagefile or changed to " min"?

 

[vrm]

Ok, guys, thanks for the info. I have changed the control ID to 2026 and now it works fine

Second: the runtime is hardcoded in the plugin to display "mn" - could this either be defined in the languagefile or changed to " min"?

+1

 

[zebons]

Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

GenreThumbs:
Plugin autocreates a directory "MyFilm_Others" unter Thumbs directory and autocreates gengrethumbs based on empty DVD cover - works for years, county, genre.

OK

It also uses genrethumbs from the path configured in the plugin - but ONLY, if it exists from the beginning. I had to delete the folder after I filled the configured path with genrethumbs to get the plugin display them - it does not do that, if it already autocreated thumbs in the "MyFilms_Others"-directory - is this intended behaviour?

The Genre path given in the setup is used as source path for finding genre thumb. If it doesn't find a genre thumb in the source folder , the plugin autogenerate a genre thumb in the Films_Other directory. But as the plugin has generated a thumb file in the Films_Other directory, it doesn't search in the Genre source path. I don't know if it's really clear and a good idea... What do you think about ?

Logos:
Do I understand right:
Source for the Logos is defined in each line for the logorules - destination for the "combined thumbs" is defined in the top line.

Yes you're right.

In consequence, no combined logos created, nothing displayed !?

can you post a mediaprtal.log in debug mode ? with your Logo config file

Genre Fanart:
Can confirm it works; can confirm, that the empty directories are created in the fanartdirectory and fanart displayed it dropped in that directory - very nice
btw: Makes it difficult to find - and what happens, of a movie name is equal to a genre name? That would probably mix up the fanyrts, right?

Yes and not so good... May be adding a suffix for those genre directories ? Your idea ?

Two completely different things:
Would it make sense to separate the strings in a separate file - as many other Plugins do - with the advantage that it is much easier for the community to provide support for other languages?

Can you give me plugins names doing that ?

Second: the runtime is hardcoded in the plugin to display "mn" - could this either be defined in the languagefile or changed to " min"?

I'll take a look on

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

The Genre path given in the setup is used as source path for finding genre thumb. If it doesn't find a genre thumb in the source folder , the plugin autogenerate a genre thumb in the Films_Other directory. But as the plugin has generated a thumb file in the Films_Other directory, it doesn't search in the Genre source path. I don't know if it's really clear and a good idea... What do you think about ?

After doing some testing, I understood that behaviour - but "expectation" was, that the configured path in the config would be the "preferred one" - so you could give the configured path a higher priority and update the thumbs directory if necessary - but I don't know if this would be a performance issue - in my environment, the configured path is on the network and thus slower than the local MyFilms_Other directrory, that is local.
Do I understand right: to add further genrethumbs, I would (currently) add them to the configured path - and would have to clear the local path to get new thumbs displayed!?
Best solution would probably be to run a little check when starting the plugin if updated genrethumbs in the configured path are available and update the local path - but it's some work ... or maybe just adding a button in the config the "reset"/clear local cache (MyFilms_Others) to make it recreate on next start (less work).

can you post a mediaprtal.log in debug mode ? with your Logo config file

Posted both here already before - MyFilmsLogos.xml in my last post and the respective lines from MePo in Debug some posts before - but can post files also later ...

I think the main problem shows in log:

2010-03-20 14:36:35.463620 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-03-20 14:36:35.463620 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned :

So "Logo thumb assigned : " is empty - there was always mentioned the name of the "combinedlogo" in old versions ....

Here is a log from older plugin, that works:

2010-02-18 04:12:57.408852 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-02-18 04:12:57.424479 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms: Logo picture to be added _XVID_HD_Comedy_2_Adventure_2_Anim_abc_Family
2010-02-18 04:12:57.424479 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned : E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Logos\MyFilms_Black Glass_M__XVID_HD_Comedy_2_Adventure_2_Anim_abc_Family.png

-> It seems, the action to create/add the combined logo is just missing. I could try copying older combined logos in that directory to check at least if they are displayed ...

Zitat:
Genre Fanart:
Can confirm it works; can confirm, that the empty directories are created in the fanartdirectory and fanart displayed it dropped in that directory - very nice
btw: Makes it difficult to find - and what happens, of a movie name is equal to a genre name? That would probably mix up the fanyrts, right?

Yes and not so good... May be adding a suffix for those genre directories ? Your idea ?

I personally would even prefer having a separate directory defined and not mixing it up with the movie fanarts. Why? Because for people having many movies, it's a lot of scrolling to find those directories - plus the moviefanart ist most probably "autamatically retrieved (AMC-updater) while the genre fanart is manually maintained.
So I would pfefer having a separate path for those backdrops - if this is too much work, a prefix would be fine - it should be something that is on the beginning of the directorylisting to easily find it.

Can you give me plugins names doing that ?

Sure - a listing of the "language" directory shows some of them:

Verzeichnis von E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\language

19.03.2010 00:05 <DIR> .
19.03.2010 00:05 <DIR> ..
26.01.2010 00:16 <DIR> BluRayPlayerLauncherPlugin
01.02.2010 04:25 <DIR> HTPCInfo
07.03.2010 19:40 <DIR> InfoService
26.01.2010 01:09 <DIR> MediaSlayer
22.02.2010 09:28 <DIR> MovingPictures
13.03.2010 02:40 <DIR> MP-TVSeries
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> MPlayer
29.08.2009 13:48 <DIR> MultiShortcut
17.02.2010 18:57 <DIR> MyAlarm
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> MyHexxagon
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> MyMinesweeper
02.02.2010 00:23 <DIR> MyWorldmap
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> OutlookMail
15.03.2010 22:55 <DIR> RadioTime
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> Showtimes
16.10.2009 22:19 <DIR> SleepControl
01.08.2009 06:05 <DIR> VideoLan
13.11.2009 11:46 <DIR> WorldClock


btw: Found 2 MesFilm-related errors in mediaportal.log:

2010-03-20 14:43:47.488758 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: String not found, using English: 107986 : Films
2010-03-20 14:43:47.488758 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: String not found, using English: 107987 : Films

Zitat:
Second: the runtime is hardcoded in the plugin to display "mn" - could this either be defined in the languagefile or changed to " min"?

I'll take a look on

Once I recompiled the Souceforge some time ago, I changed this (Can't remember if there is another part affected):

GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty("#length", MesFilms.r[ItemId]["Length"].ToString() + "mn");
replace with
GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty("#length", MesFilms.r[ItemId]["Length"].ToString() + " min");
etc.

Genres

Thanks, nice Genrethumbs - have also collected Genrebackdrops from Google, will be a nice combination

Guzzi

 

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

find attached logfile and logodefinition. Don't be irritated about "blackglass" - I do the testing with Blue skin and it's the same ...

Guzzi

 

[zebons]

Re : AW: Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

After doing some testing, I understood that behaviour - but "expectation" was, that the configured path in the config would be the "preferred one" - so you could give the configured path a higher priority and update the thumbs directory if necessary - but I don't know if this would be a performance issue - in my environment, the configured path is on the network and thus slower than the local MyFilms_Other directrory, that is local.
Do I understand right: to add further genrethumbs, I would (currently) add them to the configured path - and would have to clear the local path to get new thumbs displayed!?

Yes and effectivly that choice has ben made for performances issues.

Best solution would probably be to run a little check when starting the plugin if updated genrethumbs in the configured path are available and update the local path - but it's some work ... or maybe just adding a button in the config the "reset"/clear local cache (MyFilms_Others) to make it recreate on next start (less work).

Good idea and not to much work.

I personally would even prefer having a separate directory defined and not mixing it up with the movie fanarts. Why? Because for people having many movies, it's a lot of scrolling to find those directories - plus the moviefanart ist most probably "autamatically retrieved (AMC-updater) while the genre fanart is manually maintained.
So I would pfefer having a separate path for those backdrops - if this is too much work, a prefix would be fine - it should be something that is on the beginning of the directorylisting to easily find it.

Stored now in a subdirectory of the Fanart path named _Group as it'll be in the first place by alpha order. Now it's not necessary having same file name than the directory.

Once I recompiled the Souceforge some time ago, I changed this (Can't remember if there is another part affected):

GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty("#length", MesFilms.r[ItemId]["Length"].ToString() + "mn");
replace with
GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty("#length", MesFilms.r[ItemId]["Length"].ToString() + " min");
etc.

Changed with a local language Mediaportal stream.

Genres
Thanks, nice Genrethumbs - have also collected Genrebackdrops from Google, will be a nice combination
Guzzi

Can you attach your Genrebackdrops ?

 

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

did more testing with the logo issue:

returning to the old mesfilms.dll works with the same config (MyFilms and FyFilmsLogos) - it is even storing the combined logos in the right place (MyFilms_Logos).

Log from 4.8.0:

2010-03-20 15:14:52.441738 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Window: MesFilms.MesFilms init
2010-03-20 15:14:52.472989 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: Logo path for storing picture created E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MyFilms_Logos\
2010-03-20 15:15:01.801353 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TvNotify:LoadNotifies
2010-03-20 15:15:01.879480 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TvNotify: 0 notifies
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = True, wlabel = Terminator 4 - Die Erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: Logo picture to be added _XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi
2010-03-20 15:15:04.223290 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: Concatened Logo saved MyFilms_Black Glass_M__XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi.png
2010-03-20 15:15:04.238915 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned : E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MyFilms_Logos\MyFilms_Black Glass_M__XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi.png


Having combinedlogos created and returning to latest 4.9.x still even doestn't display them. Log:

2010-03-20 15:22:08.025523 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Window: MesFilms.MesFilms init
2010-03-20 15:22:08.634902 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: Logo path for storing picture created E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\
2010-03-20 15:22:18.291214 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms : 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:18.744342 [Debug][(7)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = False, wlabel = 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:18.744342 [Info.][(7)]: MyFilms : 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:20.994356 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_MOVE_DOWN
2010-03-20 15:22:21.009982 [Debug][(8)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = False, wlabel = 2009
2010-03-20 15:22:21.009982 [Info.][(8)]: MyFilms : 2009
2010-03-20 15:22:21.463109 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_SELECT_ITEM
2010-03-20 15:22:21.478735 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_KEY_PRESSED
2010-03-20 15:22:23.666249 [Debug][(8)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = True, wlabel = Terminator 4 - Die Erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:22:23.666249 [Info.][(8)]: MyFilms : terminator.4.-.die.erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:22:23.713124 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-03-20 15:22:23.728749 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned :


You can see, that the latest version does NOT properly initialize/read the path for the logos - I think that is the problem why combined thumbs cannot be created and displayed!?

Guzzi

Can you attach your Genrebackdrops ?

Found the link in xbmc forum - too big (~25MB) to attach it, but here is the link:

http://files.dropbox.com/u/1195738/GenreBackdrops.zip

Don't know if it's allowed to post links - if not, please delete the post.

 

[zebons]

Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

did more testing with the logo issue:

returning to the old mesfilms.dll works with the same config (MyFilms and FyFilmsLogos) - it is even storing the combined logos in the right place (MyFilms_Logos).

Log from 4.8.0:

2010-03-20 15:14:52.441738 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Window: MesFilms.MesFilms init
2010-03-20 15:14:52.472989 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: Logo path for storing picture created E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MyFilms_Logos\
2010-03-20 15:15:01.801353 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TvNotify:LoadNotifies
2010-03-20 15:15:01.879480 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TvNotify: 0 notifies
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = True, wlabel = Terminator 4 - Die Erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-03-20 15:15:04.192039 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: Logo picture to be added _XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi
2010-03-20 15:15:04.223290 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms: Concatened Logo saved MyFilms_Black Glass_M__XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi.png
2010-03-20 15:15:04.238915 [Debug][(7)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned : E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\MyFilms_Logos\MyFilms_Black Glass_M__XVID_AC3_Dolby51_Action_Scifi.png


Having combinedlogos created and returning to latest 4.9.x still even doestn't display them. Log:

2010-03-20 15:22:08.025523 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Window: MesFilms.MesFilms init
2010-03-20 15:22:08.634902 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: Logo path for storing picture created E:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\
2010-03-20 15:22:18.291214 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms : 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:18.744342 [Debug][(7)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = False, wlabel = 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:18.744342 [Info.][(7)]: MyFilms : 2010
2010-03-20 15:22:20.994356 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_MOVE_DOWN
2010-03-20 15:22:21.009982 [Debug][(8)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = False, wlabel = 2009
2010-03-20 15:22:21.009982 [Info.][(8)]: MyFilms : 2009
2010-03-20 15:22:21.463109 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_SELECT_ITEM
2010-03-20 15:22:21.478735 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MyFilms: OnAction ACTION_KEY_PRESSED
2010-03-20 15:22:23.666249 [Debug][(8)]: ItemId = 0, wrep = True, wlabel = Terminator 4 - Die Erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:22:23.666249 [Info.][(8)]: MyFilms : terminator.4.-.die.erl├Âsung
2010-03-20 15:22:23.713124 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms: using Logos True
2010-03-20 15:22:23.728749 [Debug][(8)]: MyFilms : Logo thumb assigned :


You can see, that the latest version does NOT properly initialize/read the path for the logos - I think that is the problem why combined thumbs cannot be created and displayed!?

Guzzi

Can you attach your Genrebackdrops ?

Found the link in xbmc forum - too big (~25MB) to attach it, but here is the link:

http://files.dropbox.com/u/1195738/GenreBackdrops.zip

Don't know if it's allowed to post links - if not, please delete the post.

Arhhh found. Fixed soon. :sorry:

EDIT : I uploaded the wrong file. Try this one.

 

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

two more things that I would like to ask - the first came up since long time - and maybe there is a fix possible:

The ANT-DB-Field "date" only has a date included, e.g. Date="03.03.2008"

If I add this field as a custom property (e.g. item1), in the skin it is displayed "03.03.2008 00:00:00"

Is there ny possibility to only display the date, not the time? Or can this be changed in the skin or other settings?

Second:
To improve scrollingspeeds (e.g. in listview) - is it possible to delay the loading of the artwork? My experience currently is: if scrolling fast through the list, it stucks sometimes to load complete screen - don't know if there is a possible improvement? Just a thought ;-) - Don't know if this must be done in the plugin or if it is also possible in the skinfiles!?

Thanks, Guzzi

 

[zebons]

Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

one more thing that came up since long time - and maybe there is a fix possible:

The ANT-DB-Field "date" only has a date included, e.g. Date="03.03.2008"

If I add this field as a custom property (e.g. item1), in the skin it is displayed "03.03.2008 00:00:00"

Is there ny possibility to only display the date, not the time? Or can this be changed in the skin or other settings?

Thanks, Guzzi

Try to use the DateAdded Item instead Date.