VideoDatabaseV5 design issue (4 Viewers)

[ajs]

I am very confused

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[Anthony Vaughan]

I get the feeling that we are talking at cross purposes here.

Since I'm only ever going to be doing this for my system I guess I'm better off working it out for myself.

Thanks for the help.

Tony

 

[ajs]

VideoDatabaseV5 is the MyVideo plugin database. We are talking about it, this database is used not only by this plugin, but also by other plugins, extensions and add-ons.

 

[Anthony Vaughan]

Okay. That's clear and reassuring because I was confused by the use of the term MyVideo.

I have worked on VideoDatabaseV5 for a long time developing an app to synchronize client databases so I'm pretty familiar with it.

Should be good to go from here.

Tony

 

[ajs]

The database is a small part of the iceberg, a large part in the source code, and not only Media portal

 

[Anthony Vaughan]

I have taken aboard what you said about movie being the center of the database and have adjusted my proposed design accordingly:

View attachment VideoDatabaseV5 - proposed.jpg

This design completely eliminates the possibility of the errors I get and I will start doing extensive testing on this with four clients over an extensive period of time. I have merged the files and movie tables (the diagram is only showing the primary key and foreign key fields for brevity). So, strFilename in now in the movie table.

There are four lines of code I need to change in the MediaPortal application to finish the job properly, but the latest GitHub download of 1.28 gives me four compile errors as follows:

Splashscreen.cs line 53 CS0246 The type or namespace name '_renderTarget' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Splashscreen.cs line 130 CS0246 The type or namespace name '_renderTarget' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

D3D.cs line 2132 CS0400 The type or namespace name '_renderTarget' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

D3D.cs line 2654 CS0400 The type or namespace name '_renderTarget' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

How do I fix these errors?

I recognize that it would be quite an effort for you to implement my changes but let me know if you want me to send you the code. The changes involve the following files:

Databases.dll
Databases\Video\IMDBFetcher.cs
Databases\Video\IMDBMovie.cs
Databases\Video\IVideoDatabase.cs
Databases\Video\VideoDatabase.cs
Databases\Video\SqlLite\VideoDatabaseSqlLite.cs
Common.GUIPlugins.dll
Common.GUIPlugins\Video\SelectBDHandler.cs
GUIVideos.dll
GUIVideos\GUIVideoBaseWindow.cs
GUIVideos\GUIVideoFiles.cs
GUIVideos\GUIVideoInfo.cs
GUIVideos\GUIVideoPlaylist.cs
GUIVideos\GUIVideoTitle.cs
GUIVideos\SelectDVDHandler.cs
Configuration.exe
MovieDatabase.cs

To get me around the MediaPortal problem I have created a dummy method in VideoDatabaseSqlLite.cs to handle that.

Tony

 

[ajs]

How do I fix these errors?

VS2019 with all the necessary libraries according to the Wiki?
Have the sub-modules been updated?

 

[Anthony Vaughan]

I am using VS2019.

I downloaded the ZIP file from 'MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1'.

Is there something else I need to do? The error seems to be indicating that the project file for MediaPortal is missing a reference.

Tony

 

[ajs]

For full build you need NSIS version 3.06.1
And run from command line:

cd c:\project\mediaportal\build\
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\NSIS\makensis.exe" "..\Tools\InstallationScripts\DeployToolUnPacker-x64.nsi"

Or run: Build\MSBUILD_Rebuild_All_MediaPortal_Release.bat - Compile and Build MP1

 

[Anthony Vaughan]

Okay.

When I ran the batch file I got the following error:

'EditBin.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Going to try NSIS next.

Tony