Windows HTML Generator: Show off your library with style to your friends or the world.

I tend to use Firefox on my desktop PC.

Edit1: I officially gave up on adding any support to actually Stream the videos into the browser, as I can't find any solution for that.. it feels like its impossible.. VLC does not even support AAC audio and MP3 transcoding is buggy as hell.. not to mention JW Player refuses to accept any other format than crappy FLV1 with Mp3 (which is, like i said buggy)
But! I added a way to open the videos in XBMC by just clicking a link

6.3 Beta Release (Not final) (Final version will be called 7.0, due to long time between 6.2 and now)

Please report every single bug you find, this is only a beta release.
Also, please answer the survey about what browser you use: http://micropoll.com/t/KFAVoZQoYh

Download: XBMC_HTML_Generator_installer_63Beta.exe

A few IMPORTANT notes:
MySQL Support is like I said in change log very buggy... so report every bug you encounter .. please..(How to set pass/user is said in change log)
New database format requires deleting of old database (automatically done), which means you have to rescan trailers.
New Media scanner will take way longer (Read Change log to see why)

Change log:
+ Added Episode List view (Episode details)
* Features thumbnails and quality info for each episode (Includes Specials)
* Currently only supports remote thumbnails,i don't even know if there is a way to use local thumbnails for each episode.
+ Added MySQL Support (Very Beta..)
* To set your MySQL Settings (pass, etc) go to Extras->Mysql Settings, will also popup if you click scrape mysql (only when first using)
+ Added option to choose Output folder. (Program must have access to folder in order to write there.. if unsure, then run it as Admin)
+ Added time-neeeded display when scraping library and getting media data.
+ Added more debug options (See Extras->Debug->...)
? Changed Icons, new ones look more identical and fit the theme better in my opinion.
? Changed "Show file Path" now shows actual file:// links named "Open Folder" in Movie/TVShow and Episode view.
? Changed Media Scanner, now scans every video.. (every episode)
* will now take even longer, reported time by scanning 15000videos was arround 20minutes, depends on HDD Speed, and only has to be done once.
* New scanner methode is needed for episode details. Theres currently no way to get the old behavior back. (Its a beta afterall)
! Fixed AC3 Quality Icon not beeing scanned properly.
! Fixed Image quality not beeing saved.
! Fixed a couple crashes and other bugs I forgot about already ..

I believe the episode thumbnails are stored on the local filesystem in the XBMC userdata folder - it makes use of Textures13.db to keep track of which files have been downloaded to the cache, but the URLs are stored in the video database. Assuming a default location of %appdata%\xbmc\ for these files, it could pull these in. It's just if someone is using path substitution for their thumbnails where you might need to look in the advancedsettings.xml file and make the mappings as necessary.

Update on future .. Updates:
Results of the browser poll: Chrome and Firefox won the race (big suprise.... )
Anyway, that means I will not support Opera/Safari and all the other stuff anymore, means.. if a specific javascript function or css or something does not work on there, then you have to life with it or fix it yourself.
To the NowPlaying/Stop/Play stuff, in the next update I will only make it work for people with PHP.
Beside that I noticed that no one really complained about the MySQL support.. so I guess it works fine?


Oh and this is the now playing/start/stop thing I mean:
(Has IP whitelist, to prevent outsiders to control your XBMC.. can also be limited to LAN this way.)

(2013-05-20 10:17)ConfusedTA Wrote:  I believe the episode thumbnails are stored on the local filesystem in the XBMC userdata folder - it makes use of Textures13.db to keep track of which files have been downloaded to the cache, but the URLs are stored in the video database. Assuming a default location of %appdata%\xbmc\ for these files, it could pull these in. It's just if someone is using path substitution for their thumbnails where you might need to look in the advancedsettings.xml file and make the mappings as necessary.

Thats not what I meant,I also decided to not use textures DB, for more combability.
What I meant was, that I don't know if its possible to manually define thumbnails, like you can do with posters (e.g fileName-poster.jpg, while I never tested: episodeFile-thumb.jpg)

Also, creating a PHP Addon at the moment, for people that have their html-library on a php powered webserver. This script will allow you to start/pause/stop and see now playing of shows/movies.
I am going to also create a alternative javascript only way to pause/stop/play videos without a PHP server BUT that wont support "now playing" info. (Due to security limitations of Browsers and cross domain ajax, as long as XBMC doesnt add JSONP (note the P) it will not be possible to get now playing without PHP from my html files)

I just registered to the forums to say thank you DeadSix27 for creating and sharing this program. I had been looking around for the past few months for something that would do exactly what your program does, and found this post by accident, and just as you added MYSQL support.

MYSQL scraping has worked fine for me, the only issue I've come across whilst scraping my library was the majority of movie covers didn't scrape in English, they mostly scraped in either French, German or Russian, whilst the TV covers scraped fine.

That said, I didn't use the latest build, I used one you posted a couple of pages back when you first implemented MYSQL. I will grab the new beta when I get home from work and test it out.

Thank you again for all the hard work you've put in.