My Videos v 1.0.1798.13222

[reven]

i was kidding about the charging for it.
ill release once its all finshed, and nice, not messy like it is at the moment. i want to sort a few things out, it will be awhile before i release it.

[darrin75]

hey you all need to check out webdrive from download.com, its 40 bucks but they do offer 20 day trail version, this thing is awesome, hey reven i am able to map my network drive on my tivo and with your plugin able to start transfers with gbpvr, and mvp. Awesome tivo has ty files which are mpeg 2 files wrapped in some kind of xml files etc. Don't really understand structure, but how talk about being able to transfer from computer to computer what a plugin.

[darrin75]

it works good on my computer but do not get the list on mvp, Its still cool program..well thought this might be good, but just wanted to add my two cents

[reven]

Quote[/b] (reven @ Dec. 29 2004,11:48)]the timestamp is already cut off when it looks up the info on imdb.

ok i was wrong. i thought i had already done this, but i hadnt (it usually searches based on the folder name but if you move the file it searched the file name). ive now fixed this.

if anyone is interested about the code this is basically how it works (found out there was no "Like" in C#, there is in vb.net however, wierd). anyway
if filename.index(_) > 0 && filename.lastindexof(_) > filename.indexof(_){
string t1 = filename.substring(first(_) part)
string t2 = filename.substring(second(_) part)
if(t1.length == 8 && t2.length == 8)//incase its just a funny file name
try{ //couldnt find a "isnumeric" method like in java so did it this way
int intt1 = int.parse(t1)
int intt2 = .....
moviename = moviename.substring(0, moviename.indexof(t1)-1)
}
done.

if that just bored the crap out of you, oh well, im not 100% this will work every time, but 99%. the tests are a little extreme, but i wanted make sure that the file was a gbpvr recording file and followed that patterned, since many dvd rips use _ for a " " and well some movies have numbers in there names.

see a major flaw, or an easier way of doing it (of course it probably wouldnt change it that much, method hardly ever gets called (oh just had an idea batch lookup (lookup imdb info for dir)). or if you know how to use "like" or wildcards, i suppose i could have used format somehow (i think). or a isnumeric method or something let me know, im curious now.

okay thats enough programming for one day.

enjoy
happy new year.

[joche]

I don't really understand how this plugin can be used:

- Great interface - easy to understand and nice looking.
- Pressing the red button never does anything for me, in which position shall I be to get the IMDB data? On the actual .avi file or on the folder where the file(s) are located?
- It takes extremely long time for me to start it up, I have around 150 movies sorted in one folder per movie sorted under one root folder. On my system it takes almost 30 seconds to load the plugin - each time.
- Somewhere I read about a .description file, what is the correct structure of such a file?
- The .description file, is this the right way to go if I want to export my own moviedatabase information to this plugin?
Last: Is this the correct forum for questions like this?

Thanks in advance!

[reven]

correct forum: yes
loading time: instead of loading everything into memory when gbpvr starts, i load these things into memory when you activate the the plugin (on my machine takes about 1 second, of course im using a virtual root, with four folders, so that might be whats slowing you down. ive split it up to like "Movies" "TV Shows" "music Videos" etc), and then the memory is released when u exit the plugin, so memory isnt being wasted.
the red button is suppose to be pressed on the video file or a folder (for tv shows mostly, like "Enterprise" etc). press it, then go to the folder you pressed it in, and see if a filename.details file is there, if not, maybe a firewall is blocking your access to the internet.

you can manually edit a .details file with your movie information, but first grab the information for each file, so the correct file name is produced (calculation occur on a file to create the "moviename" and that is the name of the .details file)

ok ill put this to a vote:
1) do you want to load everything into memory when gbpvr starts and never dispose it
or
2) load everything on when entering the plugin and dispose it when exit
3) load everything on first load and dont dispose it.

we are really only talking about this plugin taking up an extra say 10 megs, if its never disposed, but i figured you wouldnt be using this plugin all the time, eg whilist watching livetv, so keep these things in memory wasnt needed.

[joche]

Thanks for your quick response.

Now when I know how the plugin i sdesigned I might consider sorting up my films in different folders.

I have no firewall on the specfic machine, I have one on my LAN but it's just blocking traffic initiated from outside.

I do get a .details file (sometimes), containing four empty row. So that's of no use actually.

[reven]

if the lines are empty, it usually means no matches were found. if you havent got the latest version of the plugin, try that, i changed a few things in it (well only really matters on recordings, it removes the date from the end of it when searching).

if that is not the case, can you post a few of the movienames it generates. the moviename is the name of the .details name (eg enterprise.details).

ill do some searches on them and see if i can find the bug.

[darrin75]

This would be cool to have in my videos

of course without the prees ok to play..Just pressing ok on the remote plays the file

[reven]

the problem with that, is the info from imdb wouldnt fill the space, the image is really small, so the quality would be crap.  but that said. i like that idea (not a lot of work for me to add that view, since ive already made it ).  i have to improve the imdb grabber (kinda not in the mood to do it yet, grab the cast or more info or something).  but the poster image will always be low quality, there images are rubbish, just a small thumbnail.

oh get rid of the push play to start text or whatever and just fill it with info about the selected movie. i could rearrange a few things, see if it would fit. its now on the todo list.