TVTome Parser - Revived - now TV.com - Beta available (1 Viewer)

[SePPiE]

Ok, some updates:
It's starting to look very good.
It has a seperate Tab in the video's configurationscreen where you can make file to url mappings..
When you search a file, like lost for example, that always returns results back, you now only have to select the right one once and it'll save the entry in the "file to url" mapping table, that you can access in the configuration screen. Now next time it finds the exact series name, it'll start parsing right away from the episode guide.

Inker made a parsing routine for the actors information, so that'll go in there aswell.
And then one more thing.. Right now, we are using the info screen skin xml of IMDB, but we're seriously thinking about making a special TVShow one, since we have different info to show that's more relevant to tvshows then the IMDB one does. (Who cares about MPAA ratings for instance, we rather see the episode title and Season/Episode numbers.)

So just hold on a bit longer
(I'll start posting a test version soon though..)

 

[Inker]

Just to clarify:

We plan to release a patched dll when 1.2 is out (hopefully tomorrow) that will overright a file and should be all you need.

Also since there seems to be some confusion, it automatically works if the filename includes the following info:

Showtitle
and Season/episode info in one of these two formats:
1x01 s1e01

whereshowtitle must come before season/ep.

Examples that will work:

Stargate 1x01.avi
Friends - 9x20 - TOW something.avi
Simpsons S01E09 - Something.avi

Examples that wont work nativley (it will pop up a keyboard where you can enter the info in a format (like above) that it understands.

1x01-Stargate.avi (show title after season/ep)
Friends - 1001.avi (trouble reading out season/ep ... reason for this is that this format is quite error prone because the show title might also include numbers in such a format)

As said, if it doesnt get it, it will show you the keyboard where you can type it in in a format that it understands, and thus you can get info for any filename, its just nto as comfortable.

New info that we read out since seppie's screenshot: Runtime and also (although not always) the genre (for some shows we can get this info from tvtome, some dont)

Oh and yeah.......in the long term we have lots of ideas ;-)

Greetins Inker

 

[SePPiE]

Ok people.
I downloaded the tagged 0.1.2.0 CVS and added the TVTome stuff to it.
For now, I would like some people to test it on their tv show collection and see how it works for them.

So if you would like to help us (Inker and me) in testing this addition, please dowload the modified dll's here.
Just unpack the dll's to your mediaportal dir.
Allthough I have done a lot of testing myself and have not touched anything else except my own addition to the code, I do advice you to make a backup of your current mediaportal dir, in case these dll's break stuff in MP itself. (Just a disclaimer, yadayada etc). Also, bare in mind that is has been made with the 0.1.2.0 release, so if you try it with the latest CVS, it could cause more problems than solve anything!!!!!)


Ok, so now to the fun stuff:
Features:
- Parses filenames like:
lost.s01e05.episodename.avi
lost.1x05.episodename.avi
- Folder search. (yes, just press the contextmenu button on a folder and it'll get the episode info for all the files in that folder. NOT RECURSIVE THOUGH!)
- Caching of episode guides. TVTome is not the fastest site out there, so episode guides are being saves in a subdir called TVTome. Ofcourse, since it IS a cache, you can delete it whenever you want.
- File to Url mapping. (Configurable through configuration program). When you have your own name for a certain tvshow, you can add a file to TVTome url mapping so that it can map the filename "MyFavShow.s01e05.avi" to the url "/Lost" for instance..
- FileToUrl mapping questionbox after multiple results come back from a search. This is handy for shows like Lost for instance. The search will always give about 24 results back.. To not have this everytime, it'll ask you, after you selected the search result, if you would like to add it to the file to url mapping.... The next time you search episode info on the show Lost, it'll not go to the search page and instead go straight to downloading of the guide... If the guide is cached however, it'll skip that part too and go straight to episode parsing.... (So no internet traffic at all!!).
- Downloads image from TVTome, if available, but also from amazon. (so you can also select pictures like the DVD boxes).


Ok, so this is what's in there right now.
Stuff to come:
- Downloading of Actor information
- New info screen, that's more tailored to TVShows...
- Downloading of extra specific TVShow info like Network first aired (NBC,ABC,Sci-Fi channel etc), Country first aired, date aired (not year, but full date), Rating and what else we can parse...
- Get the namingconvetion 1004 to work (For distribution groups that use filenames like: Desperate.housewives.103.avi or Amazing.Race.712.avi). This is tricky, cause we have to differentiate for shows that use numbers in them (Like stargate sg-1 or 24, or ds9).. Gonna be fun

So please test for me if you can, and give feedback to me about how and what..
btw, I like successtories aswell, so please also post those

Another note: choose english as your language, since that's the only included language xml right now... If you can translate it too other languages for me (except for dutch and german, those are already covered) than I would appreciate that aswell. (It's ID 4000 to 4008 )

 

[Helza]

Hi,

I just installed (well overwritten) the tvtome parser..
I tryed it directly but no luck.. I see no tvtome option instead of or next to the imdb option.. only imdb..

I tryed a couple folders... no luck (24 S04, Andromeda S05, Alias S04)
And also the files itself (Alias - 4x18 - Mirage Hdtv Lol.avi, 24 - 4x21 - 3Am - 4Am Hdtv Repack Lol.avi etc) no luck there either.

Should there be an updated skin (i'm using skin twoblue) to add the button? or should i enable the plugin in the plugin screen? Couldn't find any ...

 

[Inker]

uhmm, no.......it should just work directly after overwriting your original 1.2 version. Are you positive you have the 1.2 release version installed and not some csv version? You are looking for it in the context menu (f9) right?

Inker

 

[SePPiE]

It sounds that the dll for windowplugins is not overwritten...
Did you unpack it correctly with preservation of directory structure?
The contextmenu part is in windowplugins.dll
Also it could also be that you didn't overwrite the correct languange.xml and/or not using ENGLISH.

 

[SePPiE]

Ok, just checked the rar on a virgin 0.1.2.0 installation and it should work perfectly.. Please doublecheck that you overwritten the files correctly (with directory structure preserved!).

 

[Helza]

I just retryed it.. but still no luck..
I only see the IMDB option available like normal..
Maybe i should try with one of the later CSV's? I use the the officiel 1.2.0 release..

Is there a plugin that should be enabled for the Tvtome paser? (some other plugin dependency maybe?).

Language english..
windowplugins.dll assembly version: 1.0.1957.30795
(i made a backup of all old files, and its different then the original)


Some details about my system:
AMD Athlon 2000+
OS Windows 2003 SP1
Skin BlueTwo
Resolution 1280x786
Mediaportal is installed on F:\MediaPortal (not the default location)

 

[Helza]

LOL!!!! i just found the problem.. its a funny one..

I made a backup of the original windowplugins.dll by copying it to the same directory (Making the name: Copy of WindowPlugins.dll)

Guess what i found in the MediaPortal.log

12-5-2005 20:31:17 LoadWindowPlugins()
12-5-2005 20:31:17 Load plugins from lugins\windows\Copy of WindowPlugins.dll



Odd that it loads the copy and not the original, i guess it does a directory scan for the dll files which starts the windowplugins class and stops as soon as it find one.. (in this case the copy because thats the first in the alpabetised list ...

Gotta love it


Anyway.. it works now.. EXCELENT I love this plugin ... hopefully it will become a default plugin in the next release...

 

[Inker]

wow.....

thank god for the log, that would have been hard to trace down otherwise.

Oh, and im glad it works of course, anyone else tried yet?

Inker