Windows Hydraulic

Hydraulic is a simple windows tool that will create .strm files that can be used in conjunction with Pneumatic addon.

These .strm files can then be scanned into your xbmc library. For those not familiar Pneumatic allows streaming content from newsgroups/usenet.

There is a gui and command line versions, I've also included my shows.csv file to get you started. If you would like to start fresh with no shows pre-populated, just delete the shows.csv file and use the gui to build your own list.

I've created the command line version so it could be included as a startup script or scheduled task to update what shows are available.

Hydraulic will first search for a high definition source, if not found it will then match against any quality of source.

Shows that are off the air or unlikely to see a new release, or that you just don't want to scrub for each time can be removed from your show list after the initial scrub.

requires a newznab site such as nzb.su
will use atleast 2 api hits for each show added. Since newznab sites only respond with 100 results at a time, shows with a large number of releases avaiable will use additional api hits to gather those additional releases.

I've included the source code in the release (it's in c# 2008)

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Hydraulic_1.3.zip

Hey... I like where this is headed. keep it up guys

Nice app. Have you thought of having your program grab a list of releases for a show and then letting the user pick which episodes to make .strm file for, instead of all episodes?

Nice app with lots of potential but I am encountering a couple of problems. I am running Windows 7 64.

First problem when adding and scrubbing American Chopper Senior Vs Junior. Both Hydraulic and Hydro crash in version 1.1 and Hydraulic version 1.0. This happens on both the initial scrub and any subsequent scrubs. Also doesn't seem to matter if its the only show in the list or if there are others included.
This is the error I get from Hydraulic.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path)
at System.IO.Path.NormalizePathFast(String path, Boolean fullCheck)
at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path, DirectorySecurity directorySecurity)
at NewzNab_strm_creator_GUI.Form1.button3_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5448 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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NewzNab strm creator GUI
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Media/Hydraulic_1.1/Hydraulic.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5446 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5453 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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System.Web
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5456 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_64/System.Web/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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Second problem is when I remove a show using Hydraulic GUI it also removes all the configuration information from the csv file.

Also a question for you.

In another thread you stated.

"I updated Hydraulic, fixing a few bugs.
it also now uses a regex to match season and episode information. And attempts to only make 1 .strm file for each episdoe matched instead of 1 strm for each release matched."

In version 1.0 of Hydraulic it often returned results in several languages and version 1.1 gives no indication as to the language the strm file is for. How was this addressed?

Thanks for the hard work on this and look forward to seeing how this evolves.

(2012-03-16 05:06)dr99 Wrote:  Nice app. Have you thought of having your program grab a list of releases for a show and then letting the user pick which episodes to make .strm file for, instead of all episodes?

Maybe eventually I may do this, kinda low on my priority list at the moment. I probably will add a search age option soon though so you can only grab recent releases once your initial set has been grabbed.

(2012-03-17 16:19)wireman99 Wrote:  Nice app with lots of potential but I am encountering a couple of problems. I am running Windows 7 64.

First problem when adding and scrubbing American Chopper Senior Vs Junior. Both Hydraulic and Hydro crash in version 1.1 and Hydraulic version 1.0. This happens on both the initial scrub and any subsequent scrubs. Also doesn't seem to matter if its the only show in the list or if there are others included.
This is the error I get from Hydraulic.

This was due to a : being in the title, it then tried to use this to create a directory and file name, I'm testing a new version that gets around this now and expect a release soon.

(2012-03-17 16:19)wireman99 Wrote:  Second problem is when I remove a show using Hydraulic GUI it also removes all the configuration information from the csv file.

Thanks I'll get that fixed.

(2012-03-17 16:19)wireman99 Wrote:  Also a question for you.

In another thread you stated.

"I updated Hydraulic, fixing a few bugs.
it also now uses a regex to match season and episode information. And attempts to only make 1 .strm file for each episdoe matched instead of 1 strm for each release matched."

In version 1.0 of Hydraulic it often returned results in several languages and version 1.1 gives no indication as to the language the strm file is for. How was this addressed?

Thanks for the hard work on this and look forward to seeing how this evolves.

Ver 1.0 just searched catagory 5000 in newznab looking for releases, this is everything mixed together.
Ver 1.1 searched catagory 5040 for HD and 5000 for SD, this was better but could still potentialy return foriegn languages on the SD scan

current version I'm working on searched 5040 for HD and 5030 for SD, for those not familiar neznab does a pretty good job at applying regex's and moving forigen releases to a seperate catagory 5020, if you search catagory 5000 you will get all tv including foriegn, but searching 5040 and 5030 should turn up just english releases. This isn't perfect and occasionaly a relase makes it through but there filtering and regex's are far better then what I could come up with.

Not sure why I'm unable to attach a file to the forum posts today,
but the latest version can be downloaded here

I've applied fixes for shows containing problematic characters like : and *
applied the fix for bug reported by Wireman99 will now save your api key information when adding and deleting shows.

Major changes
1) at first run it will create a file called regexs.txt, it uses these regex's to match release information in the order they appear in the .txt file.
These match the majority of releases I've found but you can modify this file to match additional or specific releases. (if you do please share them)
2) files and folders are named by the showname from a tvrage lookup. I noticed in previous versions we would sometime have multiple folders for the same show with slight variations. This will correct that problem.
3) If a release is titled with a air date instead of season and episode information the 3rd regex grabs that air date, and does a lookup at tvdb to try and match the air date, if a match is found it grabs the coresponding season and episode information from tvdb and uses that in naming the file.
4) I've excluded the command line version, I've made significant changes to the code and it's rather complicated to move these changes back to the command line version.

Goals for next version
1) fix any bugs found from this version
2) add movies

How does you program decide which release to get when there are multiple versions of the same episode? Does it look for bluray first then web-dl then hdtv like sickbeard does?

(2012-03-18 01:49)dr99 Wrote:  How does you program decide which release to get when there are multiple versions of the same episode? Does it look for bluray first then web-dl then hdtv like sickbeard does?

Right now it's just doing most recent match, but that wouldn't be too hard to implement.

ckergald, thanks for the update so quick. I'm really starting to like this program.

Ran into another issue though. Some of the matches coming up are mpeg2 which in my case XBMC doesn't seem to like. They either fail to play or only play through the first rar file. Seems XBMC is seeing the first rar file as the complete show. As an example the most recent match for Wipeout S01E02 is (Wipeout S01E02 All Work and No Play 1080i HDTV-UPSCALE DD5 1 MPEG2-TrollHD). When played XBMC sees this as 49 seconds in duration.

Now the ever present request. Would it be possible to implement the creation of season folders within the show folders? I find using season folders makes it easier to manage the strm files and meta data.

Again thanks for the hard work and look forward to where this goes.

(2012-03-19 01:31)wireman99 Wrote:  ckergald, thanks for the update so quick. I'm really starting to like this program.

Ran into another issue though. Some of the matches coming up are mpeg2 which in my case XBMC doesn't seem to like. They either fail to play or only play through the first rar file. Seems XBMC is seeing the first rar file as the complete show. As an example the most recent match for Wipeout S01E02 is (Wipeout S01E02 All Work and No Play 1080i HDTV-UPSCALE DD5 1 MPEG2-TrollHD). When played XBMC sees this as 49 seconds in duration.

Now the ever present request. Would it be possible to implement the creation of season folders within the show folders? I find using season folders makes it easier to manage the strm files and meta data.

Again thanks for the hard work and look forward to where this goes.

I'll look into season folders, not sure how easy/difficult this will be to implement yet but I'll give it a try.
as for the mpeg2 releases I'm having similar issues with some titles, have not narrowed it down to mpeg2 or not but I suspect it may be an issue with pneumatic. Haven't done enough testing to know for sure yet.

Current development version is doing some basic quality checks now and trying to select the highest quality release instead of just writing the most recent version. It's doing this by 1st comparing resolution prefers in this order (1080p>720p>1080i>none) so a 1080p version will win of all others, if no resolution is listed any other resolution would win. If resolution matches then it looks at source and codec to decide.