Media Companion Gen2 - Manage your Movies, Shows, NFO, and more (Open Source VB.NET)

Gamester17 Wrote:Does Media Companion Gen2 now use Nicezia's ScraperXML library so that it can use XML scrapers from XBMC?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scraperxml/
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50055

Would be great if it could share scrapers with XBMC, this scraper editor also makes it easier to edit scrapers:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=52929

If not, is that planned for the future? ...and when, if ever are you going to open source Media Companion?

Media Companion does not use Nicezia's ScraperXML library YET!
I've been offline for a few weeks and I wasn't aware of it's existance. If it works as well as it appears to at first glance then i'll be certainly looking to implement this asap.

TBH Media Companion can be open sourced now, I keep thinking that I will tidy the code up and include some documentation, but it never seems to happen, I just have not got the time, it's even worse now, a great deal of code needs pruning. If anybody wants to wade through the code then they are welcome to it. Although I have not got the slightest idea about how multiple people keep their work in sync.

dtviewer Wrote:Just a couple of things I noticed:
1)If I choose preferences-scraper-'disable output log', the check mark doesnt get saved.

Sorry, forgot to comment on that one,

That option, along with a great many others is not at this time enabled. I could have spent another week or two making it 100%, but with the movie scraper being broken, i just concentrated on making sure the basics were ok.

Thanks for releasing this. I had to try MIP and i did not care for it. Yours is WAY better IMO. Everything that is enabled seems to be working great for me. It seems faster also.

J_K_M_A_N

Thanks for the reply Billy.
I was wrong about it being just 'iso' files. It is some 'iso' and some 'avi' files that dont show.

A little more info for you:
I was recently using MC 2.135. All my movies are stored on my NAS in one folder. (\\Dansserver\movies)
Some of the movies are avi files, some iso files. ALL have nfo, tbn and jpg files generated by MC 2.135, and all show perfectly in xbmc with thumbs and fanart.

Today I downloaded the new MC gen 2 and added the \\dansserver\movies folder and clicked the scan folders for new movies button. MC Gen 2 says 'Displaying 611 of 611 movies'.
If I close Gen 2 and open 2.135 it shows 724 movies.

Ex.
Zack And Miri Make A Porno[2008] does not show in Gen 2, but did in 2.135. This is an avi file. You've got mail [1998] shows in both. (also avi.)

Confused...........

Edit: After rereading your response to me it looks like exactly what you suggested: corrupt nfo files. I will delete and rescrape them. Thanks!!!

billyad2000 Wrote:Media Companion does not use Nicezia's ScraperXML library YET!
I've been offline for a few weeks and I wasn't aware of it's existance. If it works as well as it appears to at first glance then i'll be certainly looking to implement this asap.

TBH Media Companion can be open sourced now, I keep thinking that I will tidy the code up and include some documentation, but it never seems to happen, I just have not got the time, it's even worse now, a great deal of code needs pruning. If anybody wants to wade through the code then they are welcome to it. Although I have not got the slightest idea about how multiple people keep their work in sync.

I've been out of the loop awhile as well, checked out the scraper and it seems pretty straightforward, still have things to try out with it, but a great step towards UMC (formerlly UMM).. your new gui is slick, clean, and straightforward, I'd vote it be the base for UMC (if your still up for that one).

In about 2 weeks i'll be able to really start to hammer on UMC, to be honest I'm not sure of the current status, but will be checking it out.

I think what we need for that is a wrapper around the scraper xml so we can pass in an object and return it's propertys (i.e. pass in movie object and have it populated).. that should also work for the web gui and other os's as well. there's a bunch to figure out, and alot of the initial drive kinda was lost of the last month or so while I've been handling some personal matters.

I guess my point is that if you are still up for it, i'd like to get together in a few weeks to hammer out some details with the team.

- fekker

billyad2000 Wrote:What do you mean by extra thumbs?

Like this: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50535

billyad2000 Wrote:...Although I have not got the slightest idea about how multiple people keep their work in sync.

Yeah, that can be very hard if the code does not use a well-structured modular and agnostic design that has reusable libraries, classes, and objects which can be loaded dynamically.

There are loads of (free) articles and guides on the internet on 'how to write modular code' with tips on where to start to separating your code into independent modules.

Anyway, I guess the first step is to set up t a public repository for it, like on SourceForge or Google Code, and then take it from there. This way, other people will be able to checkout the code and submit patches or make suggestions for improvements.

New Version 3.008

Changes since yesterday:

• Rescrape Movie will add HD Tags if the option is enabled and the tags dont already exist
• MC would completely ignore invalid xml files, these are now added to the list by the filename, they can be viewed alone by selecting the problem filter. I've tweaked the rescrape routine so that rescraping the problem movies should fix them.The nfo's are validated by the presence of <movie>, </movie>, <title>, and </title> tags to avoid scene nfo files been added.
• Keep file/folder names as title has been enabled
• When movies are updated, the movie list is now updated accordingly, additionally, the filter data is also updated. When a movie is altered (via rescrape, quicksave etc) the list now updates to keep the list correct by the filters. eg you have the list showing unwatched movies, you change one movie to watched, this will now be removed from the list as it is no longer a match.
• Changing a movie via edit would not use the correct name for the browser search.
• View and crop poster on Movie edit has been re-enabled
• View filedetails button is now working
  

Download Version 3.008

Just overwrite the previous version, the config will remain compatable.

The new version has been working great. I love how you keep it simple and clean. Any chance the new version will have the ability to download the movie trailer like the previous version. Keep up the good work!

ekim232 Wrote:The new version has been working great. I love how you keep it simple and clean. Any chance the new version will have the ability to download the movie trailer like the previous version. Keep up the good work!

Trailer support is coming.