Media Companion - Manage Icons, Posters, FanArt, .NFO's & more for Movies & TV Shows

I'm looking into the reason for the crash - It would help me track this if someone would paste a copy of an .nfo file that causes the crash

The error is occuring within the "loadinfofile" routine.

I've went through it and tightened up error checking and exception handling.

Would people who have encountered this issue please test out the following version.
Download Link

I'm not making this an actual release until the error is verified as fixed.

I would still appreciate help tracking down the exact cause of the bug, as I said in the post below, the best way would be if a couple of people were to post the xml nfo from a couple of files that caused the crash.

Has anyone tried this with wine under linux?

Gamester17 Wrote:Both this and MeD's Movie Manager kind of also reminds me of TwonkyMedia without the UPnP MediaServer.

MediaTomb is also very cool piece of open source software that is similar to TwonkyMedia, it is just a too bad that MediaTomb is currently only available for Linux (though it could probably be ported to Microsoft Windows operating-system using MinGW/MSYS).

I am rambling, aren't I? I get that way when I can see so much potential.

Anyway, thanks billyad2000 for a great software!

billyad2000 Wrote:The error is occuring within the "loadinfofile" routine.

I've went through it and tightened up error checking and exception handling.

Would people who have encountered this issue please test out the following version.
Download Link

I'm not making this an actual release until the error is verified as fixed.

I would still appreciate help tracking down the exact cause of the bug, as I said in the post below, the best way would be if a couple of people were to post the xml nfo from a couple of files that caused the crash.

the nfo files i already have don't have xml in them. they're usually just plain text.

it would also be nice if you could have the option of scanning recursively. i keep all my movies in it's own separate folder inside my main "movies" folder, and would like to just add the movies folder and have it find all my movies. it doesn't find them if they're not in the exact folder you add to the program.

i also get this error sometimes when scraping for new movies. the info window doesn't go away and i can't do anything else in the program without closing it and opening it back up.

this is what it looks like when it happens:

Download version 1.02 here

Ok - for those of you encountering crashes I think i've got it fixed.

The program searches for nfo files with the movies, which I assumed would be xbmc formatted xml files. I didn't take into account nfo files which are not formatted correctly.
The Crash should now be fixed and such movies will just show as blank. To get the movie nfo just edit this movie and do a manual search from the edit form via the "change movie" button

flipped cracker Wrote:i also get this error sometimes when scraping for new movies. the info window doesn't go away and i can't do anything else in the program without closing it and opening it back up.

The reason for this error was IMDB returning zero results for the search, renaming the file from
"3 10 to Yuma[2007]DvDrip[Eng]"
to
"310 to Yuma"
would fix this.
For those who don't want to do this a blank nfo will be saved and a manual search will have to be done as above. The program should not freeze anymore.

flipped cracker Wrote:it would also be nice if you could have the option of scanning recursively. i keep all my movies in it's own separate folder inside my main "movies" folder, and would like to just add the movies folder and have it find all my movies. it doesn't find them if they're not in the exact folder you add to the program.

This was the planned behaviour and has now been fixed

Rand Al Thor Wrote:Perhaps a croping tool for thumbs with white space as well. These are just suggestions. This thing is great!

Simple cropping is now possible

Download version 1.02 here

Great! It's working nicely now.
Would it be possible to implement an option to handle the folder names in the selected directory as movie names and save the data in that folder?

That would result in many more initial matches in my case. I use one directory per movie and leave the movie names as they are so I can find subtitles easier based on the original name afterwards. That way also other files wouldn't be listed.

In addition to my previous post. Maybe the coverart can be saved in the movie directory to, optionally.

I just downloaded 1.02 and running it on a vista machine scanning my movies on a server. It crashes every time:

http://pastebin.com/m2612b068

It locks just like flipped cracker shows his post