XRecord & TV Show Pics

[JohnInSJ]

Coulda sworn it was the Stop button. Works for me, but for a lot of the tv shows I have to manually find some artwork (google images works well here) and then copy the file with the exact same name as the show title in XRecord into the Artwork directory. Monk is one of the funny ones it comes up with, isn't it?

[tieke]

jorm - if you were thinking of updating your general lookup, it might be worth talking to reven: he has managed to get My Videos working really well with tvtome's tv.com replacement as well as imdb.com - could be worth a code import rather than reinventing any wheels

[Jeff]

The commongbvrutilities library exposes methods for fetching informaiton from ibmdb and tv.com. If you are happy with the lookup vide archiver does you could easily add those.

Jeff

[fla]

Hi Jeff,

I'd like to try to use the commongbpvrutilities to get the imdb.com and tv.com posters. The code in XRecord for that stuff is old and still using the defunct tvtome. Do you have and tips or code examples to help me do this?

Thanks,

fla.

[Jeff]

To fetch information (the icon) for a TV show you can do this

Code:

CommonGBPVRUtilities.InternetInfoFetcher fetch = new InternetInfoFetcher();
fetch.UpdateTVShowDescription(pathname);

To get information for a DVD, you can do the following

Code:

CommonGBPVRUtilities.InternetInfoFetcher fetch = new InternetInfoFetcher();
fetch.UpdateDVDDescription(filename);

This will fetch the icon for the DVD and populate the video archive database with information about the DVD. If you want to get the name of the DVD, run time, year of release, etc you will need to do something like:

Code:

ArchiveDB archive = new ArchiveDB();
archive.Open();
ArchiveRecord  archiveRecord = new ArchiveRecord();
if (archive.GetRecordForFile(filename, archiveRecord))
{
   // Got a record, you can access information like
   // archiveRecord.Name;
   // archiveRecord.PosterImage;
   // archiveRecord.YearOfRelease;
   // archiveRecord.Runtime;
   // etc.
}
archive.Close();

Jeff

[hansoffate]

I thought you couldn't use Xrecord with the new version of GBPVR. Where can i download the most updated version of GBPVR with it still working with Xrecord

[fla]

The 0.97.x version of GB-PVR is for .NET 2.0 and the XRecord plugin suite is still at .NET 1.1 so you need GB-PVR 0.96.12 (GBPVR09612.msi). It's no longer on the web site cause poor sub can't maintain multiple GB-PVR versions at once.

GBPVR09612.msi is a 10Mb file so it's not easy to email but I can try if you PM me an address.

The XRecord suite is planning an upgrade to .NET 2.0 eventually.

[fla]

Hi Jeff,

I tried the method UpdateTVShowDescription() and it seems to get the same icon called folder.jpg for every show I try. Here are some of the filenames I logged and some info about my CommonGBPVRUtilities version printed by SharpDevelop.

filename = c:\pvr-data\futurama\
filename = c:\pvr-data\csi crime scene investigation\
filename = c:\pvr-data\mythbusters\

Name: CommonGBPVRUtilities
Full Name: CommonGBPVRUtilities, Version=1.2.2046.32553, Culture=neutral
Version: 1.2.2046.32553

Any ideas? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks,

fla.

[Jeff]

In the Jeff subdirectory there wil lbe a log file called InternetInfoFetcher-PC.log that will show you what quires were sent. If you post it we can try to figure out what is going wrong.

Jeff

[fla]

Ok I'm getting closer. I had to create the Jeff directory manually then the log file started appearing inside of it.

In the query, the as_q="" is always empty and that does return the "Lost" picture I was seeing.

Code:

21/05/2006 8:25:54 PM[2]      UpdateTVShowDescription looking at directory C:\PVR-Data\Futurama\
21/05/2006 8:25:54 PM[2]      TV.com web request http://www.google.com/search?as_q=""+"Show Summary"&&as_sitesearch=TV.com&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky
21/05/2006 8:25:55 PM[2]      Show name is

Assuming I have this folder:

C:\PVR-Data\60 Minutes

with this file inside:

60 Minutes_20060521_19002000.mpg

What should be the argument to fetch.UpdateTVShowDescription("?????"). I even tried manually setting the InternetInfoFetcher DirectoryName and FileName properties and the query always searches for an empty show name.

Thanks again for your help. I think we've almost got it.

fla.