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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 25, 2012, 06:55:17 am »
Take your blinders off... ::)

I have and it appears that you have either deleted a message or modified it so that the original information is lost, as I cannot locate the message containing your quote:

If the file scanner is configured correctly (so the Series title, Season and Episode numbers are correctly obtained from the file name), I would expect the episode record and file to be correctly added to the series.

Your post was about your own self-inflicted problems which have little to do with Strat's, or this topic.

Obviously you haven't taken the blinders off yet. While I do have the same problem as outlined by Strat, as I stated, I also have the problem I described which precedes the problem that Strat was having when adding a series and/or the episodes pertaining to that series.

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It doesn't if there are two movies with the same title in the database. The case where there is only one movie with the same name is probably rare enough it can be ignored. There would probably be as many cases where the year in the filename is inadvertently not exactly the same as the year of the intended target in the database.

So without any filename checking PVD blindly tries to add the same movie all over again, simply by changing the files location. It should not do that. If a movie title already exists and PVD encounters a new file with same name, should it not perform other checks to determine whether or not you are trying to add the same file?

Other checks might include the filesize, the filename itself, which in my case is always different by the addition of the year the movie was released, or it may be the CRC of the file. But PVD strips all but the title contained within the filename and only uses that to determine a files difference to any other, which IMO is not the correct way to do it.

Granted, the additional checks would slow performance, but the relative rarity of the problem would not have a negative impact on the programs overall performance.

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So, yes, that would be possible. But why do something that will just invite a different (and possibly more common) error. Why can't you just add the movie manually in the rare case you're intentionally adding a title that's the same as one already in the database?

I can see how errors could occur given the current model which is PVD, but that largely depends on how the relevant facts are determined within PVD.

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You're not looking very hard. There are a number of topics here about regex and the configuration of the file scanner. The information available and the help offered is often ignored by those who are unwilling to consider the necessity of such a system. You claim to know nothing about regex, yet suggest you're at some disadvantage because you're not told what "flavour" of regex is used. Considering the rudimentary level at which regex is used, I'd be very surprised if there where any differences between what is used and any other flavour of regex. Any simple regex reference for beginners will explain all you need to know. In most cases, you don't even need that—to make minor modifications to the regex provided so they work with your file naming practices. The Regex Tester utility is handy for testing modifications, or for creating your own expressions. Or, if you prefer not to fiddle with regex at all, just change your file naming practices to comply with the regex provided.

Actually you are quite correct. I didn't think to scour the forum for answers ... Doh!!! I guess I was waylayed by Google which lead to my questions regarding version, flavour etc. and I overlooked the most obvious choice, although I did scour the help files section of the forum and the wiki.

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There's nothing wrong with the pattern matching aspect of the file scanner. The documentation leaves something to be desired. As with any such freeware application, your choices in dealing with that shortcoming are straightforward. Contribute the necessary documentation yourself, or ask the developer how much of donation would be necessary to compel him to create it.

Actually, I beg to differ on that point, but that has already been established. The documentation IS lacking and you raise a good point in regards to remuneration, duly noted.

I would be more than happy to contribute to the documentation once I have a handle on RegEx and it's usage within PVD. 

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 24, 2012, 05:21:42 pm »
As I said...

Where exactly did you say what exactly?

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I'm sorry, but I don't see the point in explaining all that goes wrong when you can't be bothered configuring the file scanner correctly.

Of course you wouldn't see the point. Take the blinders off, it may help a little.

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Also, if an episode title is similar to an existing movie title that is already in the PVD database, PVD will want to change the file location for the existing movie. The same can occur if two movies released in different years share the same name, irrespective of the year being included in the filename and/or location.

Why does it ignore the year in the filename?

Isn't that enough to distinguish one file from another?

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the scanner's inability to recognize the file represents a new movie is not unexpected. It's primary role is to match files with records. Finding only one record in the database with the same title, it matches it without checking the year—which is not an unreasonable thing to do.

So how else is PVD supposed to distinguish one file from another?

Sorry, but that logic seems flawed to me, particularly when you consider that 2 files cannot share the same name in the same folder as per any operating systems rules.

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If the second movie has been added to the database, distinguished from the first by its Year, then the scanner will match the file correctly.

So, if it can be done after the fact, why not before, when it is actually needed to be done?

...

I have been searching for any information in regards to RegEX in the help files/wiki etc...  as near as I can tell there is none, and there is no indication that changing of the RegEx search strings is even necessary. There is no indication of what flavour of RegEx is in use or what commands & operators are legal within PVD and even when someone points out an obvious problem related to RegEx search strings, no help is forthcoming. Probably explains why a NON RegEx user ignores it.




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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 23, 2012, 08:24:04 am »
GDay All,

Rick.ca, in most cases the episode will be added as a regular movie file, NOT as an episode, even if the filenames and location are consistent with other episodes or series and irrespective of whether or not the episode has corresponding data at IMDB or TVDB.

In some cases, the episode will be added like so:

Series Title - Season #
  Episode # - Episode Title

But it will be 'outside' of the existing series entries, or to put it another way, it is orphaned from the rest of the same series and same season.

Also, if the Series Title and Season # are already entered the listings will always start at Season One.

Series Title - Season 7
to add another episode under this season you must enter the episode as season one, episode #, otherwise you end up with something like this

Series Title - Season 7
Season 1
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
Season 7
  episode # - episode title

Instead of:

Series Title - Season 7
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title
  episode # - episode title

Also, if an episode title is similar to an existing movie title that is already in the PVD database, PVD will want to change the file location for the existing movie. The same can occur if two movies released in different years share the same name, irrespective of the year being included in the filename and/or location.

I should add, that I know most of these problems are caused by the RegEx search strings, but I am not proficient in RegEX and I challenge anyone who does not have RegEx experience to read and understand a RegEx search string ... lol

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Support / Re: IMDb plugin maintenance issues
« on: February 22, 2012, 09:26:05 pm »
GDay All,

Strat, I've had that problem since day one. The only solution I've found is to add the additional episodes manually.

In all fairness though, it is a very difficult task to sort a series episode from a regular movie particularly if all your files are .avi like mine (I convert any that are not .avi because that is the only format that my PVR will play consistently).

You also have to consider the filenames;

House MD - s01e01 - Day Of The Jackal.avi - would be an acceptable filename for an episode, but we often see things like;

hmd12-3-2000.thebestdarnfileever.fromthebestdarnyobboever.inthebestdarncountryever.avi - which is not quite so legible or easy to sort from the rest.

HTH

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Development / Re: IMDb.com script not working with Series Updates
« on: January 19, 2012, 11:03:53 am »
GDay All,

I have also been experiencing problems when adding series. Whenever I add a series I get the following in the PVD database;

Series Title
 + Season 1
  + Episode 1
  + etc....
 + Season 2
  +Episode 1
  + etc....

Plus I also get;

Series Title s01e
 +Episode 1
 +Episode 2
 +etc....
Series Title s02e
 +Episode 1
 +Episode 2
 +etc....
Series Title s03e
 +Episode 1
 +Episode 2
 +etc....

In the first style of entry, the URL for each episode is written but no other information is in the fields. In the second style of entry I get the video information but nothing else.

My folder structure is like so;

Series Title (folder)
+ Season 1 (folder)
+ Season 2 (folder)

Each season folder contains the episodes for that season.

My File naming includes s01e01, s01e02 etc. to signify which season and what episode it is.

But I haven't noticed the same problem as the OP, probably because I end up adding the info manually using the first style of entry in the database.

I would appreciate it if you could check this problem also.

Thanks

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Support / Re: IMDB not importing after system rebuild
« on: October 28, 2011, 08:15:27 am »
GDay All,

Rick I didn't have any results dialog but I did have silent on.

As stated though, if I copy the URL into the record manually, all information downloads and the various fields are displayed in the status bar, such as fullcredits, plot summary etc...

Today, however, things seem to be working as normal?

I'm guessing, but maybe I hit a server that was down for maintenance or had a bad connection or something?

 

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Support / Re: IMDB not importing after system rebuild
« on: October 27, 2011, 12:45:42 pm »
GDay All,

It would seem that I spoke too soon :(

Tonight, even though the plugins have been updated, IMDB refuses to download any information unless I manually input the URL.

Here's a snippet from the debug log:

(27/10/2011 9:36:40 PM) Logging in...
(27/10/2011 9:36:40 PM) POST: http://www.imdb.com//register/login?login=xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxx  (Real Info Obscured)
(27/10/2011 9:36:41 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/cookie?c=id:e2e379c9&u=%2F%2Fregister%2Flogin%3F
(27/10/2011 9:36:42 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com//register/login?c=1
(27/10/2011 9:36:43 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/cookie?c=id:c23bcea0&u=%2F%2Fregister%2Flogin%3Fc%3D1%26
(27/10/2011 9:36:44 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com//register/login?c=1&c=1
(27/10/2011 9:36:44 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/cookie?c=id:b09c627e&u=%2F%2Fregister%2Flogin%3Fc%3D1%26c%3D1%26
(27/10/2011 9:36:44 PM) Searching movie information for: Blood & Chocolate
(27/10/2011 9:36:44 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Blood+Chocolate
(27/10/2011 9:36:45 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Blood+Chocolate
(27/10/2011 9:36:56 PM) UpdateToolbar: 5
(27/10/2011 9:42:03 PM) UpdateToolbar: 6
(27/10/2011 9:42:03 PM) UpdateToolbar: 7
(27/10/2011 9:42:08 PM) Logging in...
(27/10/2011 9:42:08 PM) POST: http://www.imdb.com//register/login?login=xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&password=xxxxxx
(27/10/2011 9:42:09 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/cookie?c=id:5cfadd1e&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ffind%3Fs%3Dtt%26q%3DBlood%2BChocolate%3F
(27/10/2011 9:42:10 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Blood+Chocolate?c=1
(27/10/2011 9:42:12 PM) Searching movie information for: Blade
(27/10/2011 9:42:12 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Blade
(27/10/2011 9:42:13 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Blade

It appears that everything is truncated after the redirect.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Edit] I'm now getting the new style page from IMDB

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Support / Re: IMDB not importing after system rebuild
« on: October 24, 2011, 03:04:33 am »
GDay All,

No problem, I just forgot to update the plugins ... doh!  :D

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Support / IMDB not importing after system rebuild
« on: October 24, 2011, 02:58:33 am »
GDay All,

I just finished installing Win7-64 Professional on a completely new system and setup PVD v0.9.9.21.

Now the IMDB plugin will not download any info other than the URL.

Anyone have any ideas what may be wrong?

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Support / Re: IMDb Causing Arithmetic Overflow
« on: August 21, 2011, 03:24:44 am »
GDay All,

It appears that I am getting the old style page. ???

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Support / IMDb Causing Arithmetic Overflow
« on: August 21, 2011, 02:31:13 am »
GDay All,

I am currently adding movies and I occasionally recieve the following in the Original Title field:

Code: [Select]
The Movie Title</H1>


<div Class="infobar">
<a    Onclick="(new Image()).src='/Rg/Title-overview/Genre/Images/B.gif?link=%2Fgenre%2FComedy';"     Href="/Genre/Comedy"    >Comedy</A>

</Div>






<div Class="star-box Giga-star" Itemprop="aggregateRating" Itemscope Itemtype="http://Schema.org/AggregateRating">
<div Class="star-box-rating-widget">

Note: The above is on one line within the Original Title field.

Also, I occasional get an Arithmetic Error message that tells me that an overflow, or division by zero error has occured and no data is returned. Hitting the fetch button again results in the data being retrieved as expected.

I am adding episodes of The Honeymooners and The Jackie Gleason Show using the IMDb plugin.

Anyone else getting this?

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Support / Re: Image download problem
« on: August 19, 2011, 11:43:15 pm »
GDay All,

Rick, I should have added that occassionally it works as expected and the images are downloaded correctly.

My original thoughts were that perhaps the movie titles I was adding contained unicode characters or something and that was why I was having the problem. Of course I checked and even renamed some of the movies but it varied as to whether or not the image downloaded.

At least your testing has shown that this is not a PVD problem but an obscure Amazon problem. That's good to know at least. It also gets my equipment off the hook ...  ;D

For the time being I have set Amazon.co.uk as the default, at least until this problem is solved.

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Support / Amazon.com problem
« on: August 19, 2011, 09:36:51 pm »
GDay All,

I have PVD set to download images from Amazon.com but lately whenever I add a video PVD will search for photos then present a dialog to select a suitable image, then it will search again and present the dialog again. After selecting an image for the second time it appears to download the image but then it pops up a dialog saying 'No Movie Found'.

If I import the image via Amazon.co.uk everything works as expected.

This started happening just before the last update but has continued after updating.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Feature Requests
« on: December 08, 2010, 02:18:12 am »
I understand. Maybe I will add file associations within PVD some time, but I do not think it will be soon.

Nostra, thanks for the consideration and thanks for the heads up re: export templates.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Feature Requests
« on: December 07, 2010, 07:02:11 pm »
It's a file association issue, and should be resolved as such. If you can't find a way to restrict video clips to types associated with Media Player, you can add them to PVD using a particular playlist type and associate that playlist type with Media Player.

How can it be a file association issue when all the files have an .avi extension?

My .avi files are correctly associated with Media Player, however, if I choose to open an .avi file with Media Center, then that file is included within the Media Center database, which is fine as long as its a movie file and not a video clip.

The only distinction between a movie file and a video clip is the filename, not the extension.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Feature Requests
« on: December 07, 2010, 08:39:16 am »
Why don't you want add change file associations?

Nostra, Simply because I use Media Player for watching video clips and I don't want those clips populating Media Center. I use Media Center for watching movies and it is controlled by my TV Card/Media Center Remote Control.

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Feature Suggestions / Feature Requests
« on: December 06, 2010, 07:30:17 am »
GDay All,

I would like to suggest the following:

1. A play button that invokes Windows Media Center instead of Windows Media Player, without changing filetype associations. Useful if you have a Media Center remote  ;D
2. A function that allows one to save all poster images to a designated folder, particularly useful when the images are stored within the database.

Cheers and season greetings to all.

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Support / Re: Skinning questions
« on: November 18, 2010, 11:40:46 pm »
I do not get it: what is the big difference between <poster> and <Element Poster>???

Nostra, firstly my apologies for the double post. I thought the original post had not been received and I was unaware that it had been moved to this thread.  ???

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<column>    
    <medialabel/>
<spacer width="9"/>
   </column>
  </row>
  <row>
   <column width="120" halign="right">
    <fieldlabel field="location"/>
   </column>
   <column>
    <location/>
<spacer width="9"/>
   </column>
      </row>
</section>
</column>

Instead of the above code, I would like to see something like this:

Code: [Select]
<column medialabel>    
  <spacer width="9">
</column>
</row>
<row>
<column width="120" halign="right" fieldlabel="location">
</column>
<column location>
  <spacer width="9">
</column>
</row>
</section>
</column>

Is there any reason for the trailing / ?

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Support / Skinning questions
« on: November 18, 2010, 10:53:55 am »
The current skinning system for information pane will stay and will be improved.

Nostra, for a minute there I thought you'd gotten hold of some bad weed or something ...  I'm glad that that's not the case ;D

I'd like to see the skin .xml file layout improved. At present it is difficult to find each of the elements. Could you perhaps add a title to each element group?

EG:

<Element Poster>
<border></border>
<position></position>
<size></size>
etc...
</Element>

<Element Information>
<font></font>
<position></position>
<size></size>
etc...
</Element>

This would definitely aid the design of new skins etc...

Also, I have a question regarding the current skin .xml files. Are comments allowed? if so, what is the correct syntax?

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Support / Skinning questions
« on: November 17, 2010, 07:54:19 am »
I have a question though, in the current skin .xml files, are comments allowed? and if so what is the correct syntax?

I'm hoping that one of the improvements would be the layout of the skin .xml files. At present it is difficult to distinguish which element is which.

Perhaps each element could be named EG:

<Element Poster>
  <size></size>
  <position></position>
  etc...
</Element>

<Element Information>
  <size></size>
  <position></position>
  <font></font>
  etc...
</Element>

That would definitely aid in skin design.

One problem that I have noticed in PVD 1.0.0.0 is the photo toolbar. The one that appears when you mouseover a poster. It still shows random background images behind the buttons.

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