MovieWiz v1.0.18.0 released.

[JavaWiz]

have a lot of directories with DVD structure that I play from MovieWiz. When I play a DVD and click Stop, it always goes back to the main menu instead of the category list where I started playing it. Because of the "remember last location" problem, I have to go in MovieWiz and go through all the categories to find what I was just playing. Can this be fixed or is there any setting for that?

It looks like MovieWiz is attempting to return and display the items list, but I think the Back to Main is getting called from sub's code, as can be seen in the log snippet below.

Is this new behavior?
Also, FYI, it looks like you're running v1.0.17.0, there is a newer version.

Code:

2008-08-17 18:22:07.959 VERBOSE [1] original location: {X=560,Y=451}    translated to: {X=68.96552, Y=88.95464}
[B]2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] ReturnToMainMenu()[/B]
[B]2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] Movie Wizard is currently active[/B]
[B]2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] Movie Wizard.Deactivate() called[/B]
2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] MovieWiz:      Deactivate()-  CALLED
2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] WizUiTextBox:  GetRenderList()- [VideoThumbnail] using CACHED normalUiElement.
2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] WizUiList:     GetRenderList()- LIST: [Categories]  currentIndex = 6  detailsViewVisibleTopIndex = 6 elapsed: 00m:00s:00ms
2008-08-17 18:22:08.150 VERBOSE [1] WizUiList:     GetRenderList()- LIST: Using cached image- CategoriesListSelectedInactive[6]
2008-08-17 18:22:08.151 VERBOSE [1] WizUiList:     GetRenderList()- LIST: [Categories]  Finished. elapsed: 00m:00s:00ms
2008-08-17 18:22:08.151 VERBOSE [1] WizUiList:     GetRenderList()- LIST: [VideoList]  currentIndex = 0  detailsViewVisibleTopIndex = 0 elapsed: 00m:00s:00ms
2008-08-17 18:22:08.151 VERBOSE [1] WizUiList:     GetRenderList()- LIST: Using cached image- VideoListListSelected[0]
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[fional]

I run the newest version and it does that for me too.

Is there anyway you can implement some sort of "search"? Like name of film and that sort of thing? Have the option for the OSD keyboard to remain off, would be preferable for me anyway. I use a very tiny keyboard as my remote with a built in mouse. At any rate, a search function would be nice as I have over 3000 films and even using categories, it gets a bit much. Even if it is just a title search.

Does searchwiz do that? I looked at it and thought maybe it was just if you were doing tv recording and epg stuff, which I don't use. Or can searchwiz be used for the moviewiz database too?

[JavaWiz]

Is there anyway you can implement some sort of "search"? Like name of film and that sort of thing? Have the option for the OSD keyboard to remain off, would be preferable for me anyway. I use a very tiny keyboard as my remote with a built in mouse. At any rate, a search function would be nice as I have over 3000 films and even using categories, it gets a bit much. Even if it is just a title search.

Not sure I want to 'clutter' the interface with more controls. The current interface does not lend itself to a search function. For example, what if a movie was in 3 different categories, what category list should display?

There already is a quick way to jump to entries in the list. With the keyboard, simply type in the 1st letter of the title, and the list will position to that letter.

If you are using the remote, you can use the numbers like a telephone to quickly navigate the list. For example: pressing the #2 key twice will jump you to the first title starting with B
2=a 22=b 222=c
3=d 33=e 333=f
...
9=w 99=x 999=y 9999=z

Does searchwiz do that? I looked at it and thought maybe it was just if you were doing tv recording and epg stuff, which I don't use. Or can searchwiz be used for the moviewiz database too?

SearchWiz only searches the GBPVR EPG,

[fional]

Thanks for answering. I really enjoy your plugin. I had used one on Mediaportal that was similar, but I like yours better - one of my favourite bits is where you can scan the film for a cover - that's great! I also really like how simple you've implemented the password protection. How nicely the plugin grabs data from imdb. I've tried meedios, mediaportal, and myth before finding out about gb-pvr and must say that your plugin for handling film databases is my absolute favourite; with the others, I've always had some sort of problem - usually it not grabbing imdb data correctly etc.

Re: searches
I was more concerned with just being able to search the title itself, than scan for categories, but I do see what you mean. Perhaps if it was searching, like you hit ctrl-t to type in the name...its results would be brought up under a "Recent Searches" category or whatnot, somewhat like the "What's New". Just an idea. I use the 3, 33, 333 bit, but it still takes some time when the list is quite large, especially when I'm trying to watch a huge series like Frasier, which spans many dvds. This is in part though that oft-times when the dvd itself is done, it goes back to the main menu of gb-pvr, so I have to select Movie Wiz again and scroll, etc. Sort of hinders the flow of marathon nights.

[JavaWiz]

The next release has a feature that will help those watching DVD's. I cannot control the fact that once the DVD is done, control is returned to the menu.

There is a setting that controls what the default category is when MovieWiz starts up (Plugin Settings tab). I am going to add another entry to the list "None, Remember Last Played". When set to that entry, when MovieWiz starts up, it will position to the Category and Item that was last played.

[gehing]

Is this new behavior?

This is not a new behaviour, but in the previous version it went back to the category where it came from, so this wasn't an issue. If this functionality is back in the next version, it will be fine again.

[Jaggy]

I will probably implement as shown in the attached image.

I was a bit worried about how I was going to be able to make it fit in my Blue-Retro-SHV skin, but with some work with a shoehorn.......

[Dan Soussi]

Dan, I've implemented this feature in the next version for ANY category by enabling the Blue remote button (or ctrl-B). If enabled in the config, this will toggle the list sort order between title and entry create date.

Thanks JW,

Sounds awesome - can't wait!

Cheers,
Dan

[JavaWiz]

I was a bit worried about how I was going to be able to make it fit in my Blue-Retro-SHV skin, but with some work with a shoehorn.......

Looks good!

[QHRoper]

How do you get Ctrl-R or the Red button to update? When I press the red button and update the update screen says updated 0 files. I am ripping the DVD with DVDFab, I have set the default directories, and I have read the documentation. Please help!

I can get the movies updated manually through config.

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