New Plugin - MovieWiz v1.0.0.0

[Ted the Penguin]

I have no idea what's involved; if you could point me to a tutorial on the subject I'd be willing to look into what I might be able to help you with. I can tell you that once you do AniDB, you're pretty much done forever...their site is not going to change as too many other Anime collectors have written hooks to it for their own programs. And I imagine a lot of people with HTPCs also are big on Anime, so I thnk it will be a hit.

As far as epguides.com, I wonder if the author of VideoArchiver might have some code to share? His program uses a scraper to get info on the TV recordings. It's nice, but overly complex and never really worked for me. MWiz does exactly what I was looking for when I could no longer run MyVideos. If I have to wait, I'm grateful just to be on the list. If I can find a way to help; testing, research, graphics, hosting...I am more than glad to.

In any event, thanks for writing this program and thanks for being so receptive to user requests.

just FYI anidb has clients, I actually use AniDB-o-Matic, and it works pretty well. I would imagine that since they have a set API, it would be much easier, and more efficient, to go through that, rather than screen scraping.

http://wiki.anidb.net/w/AniDB_Clients

I would be interested in this as well

[JavaWiz]

just FYI anidb has clients, I actually use AniDB-o-Matic, and it works pretty well. I would imagine that since they have a set API, it would be much easier, and more efficient, to go through that, rather than screen scraping.

http://wiki.anidb.net/w/AniDB_Clients

Thanks for the info, I will take a look at this when I get back to updating the screen scrapers.

[7ore]

Found another issue.
If I play a divx movie and close that, I come back to Movie wiz. But if I play a .iso-movie I come back to the head menu.
Would be great if you could fix it so .iso returns to Movie wiz as well. I know that it maybe is out of your hands, but it's annoying.

[ACTCMS]

Possibly another trivial one... My 'Movies' are clips taken from live music concerts so I don't expect to be able to get any IMDB info, however I was playing about adding some info manually (like you do)

I put some text in the plot field - is didn't show up in the IMDB info window - so I stuck five stars in the Rating field and the info window now shows the rating and the plot text. Is this as designed? either way, it's not a problem

Alex

[JavaWiz]

Possibly another trivial one... My 'Movies' are clips taken from live music concerts so I don't expect to be able to get any IMDB info, however I was playing about adding some info manually (like you do)

I put some text in the plot field - is didn't show up in the IMDB info window - so I stuck five stars in the Rating field and the info window now shows the rating and the plot text. Is this as designed? either way, it's not a problem

Alex

I tried to recreate this by :

• Run config
  
• Mange moviewiz plugin
  
• select manage tab
  
• picked an entry and typed in each entry field the name of the field (ie title = title, plot = plot, rating = rating,...)
  
• saved entry
  
• exited config
  
• Ran PVRX2
  
• Selected moviewiz
  
• picked movie called 'Title'
  
• All fields seemed to display fine in the main screen and the info screen.

Not sure why yours is not mapping correctly unless maybe you have a mis-matched MovieWiz.DLL and WizUiHelper.DLL.

[JavaWiz]

Found another issue.
If I play a divx movie and close that, I come back to Movie wiz. But if I play a .iso-movie I come back to the head menu.
Would be great if you could fix it so .iso returns to Movie wiz as well. I know that it maybe is out of your hands, but it's annoying.

Not sure what I can do about this. I'll have to ask sub what is going on, apparently there is a difference between:

PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().PlayDVDFromISO(me.MovieLocation);
and
PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().PlayVideoFile(me.movieTitle, me.MovieLocation);

[ACTCMS]

I tried to recreate this by :

• Run config
  
• Mange moviewiz plugin
  
• select manage tab
  
• picked an entry and typed in each entry field the name of the field (ie title = title, plot = plot, rating = rating,...)
  
• saved entry
  
• exited config
  
• Ran PVRX2
  
• Selected moviewiz
  
• picked movie called 'Title'
  
• All fields seemed to display fine in the main screen and the info screen.

Not sure why yours is not mapping correctly unless maybe you have a mis-matched MovieWiz.DLL and WizUiHelper.DLL.

Sorry - my original explanation is not as clear as it might be...

I load a movie into the DB while IMDB and thumbnails are unchecked
I type some text into the 'plot' field... MovieWiz does not display it
If I then type something into the 'rating' field MovieWiz displays both 'rating' and 'plot' info correctly
If I then set the 'rating' field back to null MovieWiz stops displaying the 'plot' field.

Alex

[Ted the Penguin]

Thanks for the info, I will take a look at this when I get back to updating the screen scrapers.

there are more links on the anidb wiki homepage, I dont think that page I linked has links to other stuff documenting the API.

I am not really sure exactly what you could use of their api, since much of it is dedicated to figuring out exactly what file you have, calculating checksums, etc. I dont know how much actual description can be pulled from the api...

a full anidb client plugin would be much more fun but I don't have such motivation

[sabulkle]

I really like MovieWiz compared to the other video plugins. One thing that would make it better would to handle DVD folder structure and play them like an AVI or other stream. Any plans to do this? Thanks Scott

[JavaWiz]

I really like MovieWiz compared to the other video plugins. One thing that would make it better would to handle DVD folder structure and play them like an AVI or other stream. Any plans to do this? Thanks Scott

I suppose that may be possible, but at this point I don't really know how to do that. I'm pretty new to this though, so if I discover how to do it, I will consider adding this feature....