Anime Watchers -- Looking For a Tester

[Ommina]

First - this post is directed pretty much solely to anime collectors / viewers. What follows will be of no interest to others. Move along, nothing to see here. (Heck, it may not even be of interest to the former group either!)

While aware from the beginning that I may be writing a plugin for a target audience of one -- myself -- I went ahead and did it anyway.

Despite that, as I finish going through my list of things that I want to fix / change with the first version, I'm to the point where I would like to double the users all the way up to two.

Which is to say, I'm looking for a guinea pig, er, volunteer, to test a new PVRX2 plugin.

You'll need to have:

• Some anime files in your collection
  
• An account at anidb.net (or willing to sign up).
  
• PVRX2 1.1.5 (well, earlier version is OK if you don't mind dumping stuff into plugins/common that are not really common).
  
• Good computer skills to get the files to the right places (I'm not creating an installer at this point)
  
• Patience with software that has bugs.
  

The anidb.net account is a requirement, as the plugin integrates heavily with the anidb database to retrieve anime, episode, and file details.

At this point I'm really only looking for one or two people. While I believe my todo list has the outstanding issues covered, I also appreciate that I'm far too close to the code to be a good tester, and would like some more eyes on it. A more general Beta will follow, along with wikification after that.

Assuming, of course, anybody want to goof around with this thing in the first place! And if not, that's fine too.

I'll put up some screen shots on simple web page within a couple hours, I don't want to clutter up the forums. Edit: Screenshots here, HTML circa 1992.

Again, this is directed towards anime viewers only. The plugin is not suitable for general media.

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While here -- some thank-you notes.

First to sub for building and supporting gbpvr in the first place. Really wish he would post on the boards more though, I'm almost caught up to his post count.
Second, to JavaWiz, whose WizUI library tools not only made the plugin possible, but also provided a catalyst for starting writing the plugin in the first place.
Third, to the developers of anidb.net for making the fruits of their work available for creative uses such as this.

Thank you all!

[psicotron3]

I can test it! Will PM you with my email.

[Ommina]

Woo, you're hired!

I've got your email -- JavaWiz was kind enough to send me an install script that I hope to put to use without any fuss. I'll have some files for you within the day.

You may consider creating a second account at AniDB for testing purposes, if you already have a primary account established there. Ideally, everything will work perfektly, but. . .

[psicotron3]

Thanks, I installed it (running the .exe), entered pvrx2 config and configured a directory inside you plugin configuration, but looks like it haven´t saved it, because after I started pvrx2 and entered the plugin there was a "no folders to display" message inside it.

Returned to the config and saw the settings I did all disappeared. The config.exe.log and pvrx2.lod haven´t dumped many info, but they´re attached here.

I´m running the last version of PVRX2, and on my system it´s located in "C:\Arquivos de Programas\devnz\gbpvr"

EDIT: Rechecked the logs, maybe the erros is here:

Code:

2007-12-13 22:38:29.625    ERROR    [1]    Error initializing plugin:: C:\Arquivos de programas\devnz\gbpvr\plugins\AniLibrary\System.Data.SQLite.dll
2007-12-13 22:38:29.625    ERROR    [1]    System.IO.FileLoadException: Unverifiable code failed policy check. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131402)
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoadImage(Byte[] rawAssembly, Byte[] rawSymbolStore, Evidence evidence, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean fIntrospection)
   at System.AppDomain.Load(Byte[] rawAssembly)
   at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xd1ccdef346e6a297(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)

[Ommina]

"Unverifiable code failed policy check" - now that is a new one!

It seems to have something to do with accessing unmanaged code. Given that, in this case, it appears to happen when GBPVR checks out the SQLITE DLL (presumably to see if it implements the appropriate interface to qualify as a plugin), I'm not convinced that it has anything to do with the config data not being saved.

It does lend weight to my growing conviction that the external hashing application needs to have its own home outside the gbpvr folder structure.

A quick web search of the error suggests "reboot", so it may just be one of those things. We'll see.

I'll spend some time now seeing if I can recreate an instance of the config changes not saving.

Tell me, was a .db3 file created in the /Plugins/AniLibrary folder? If so, what size is it?

[psicotron3]

Reboot didn´t work. Same error in logs and setting aren´t saved.

The db3 has 20k. Attached it here

[Ommina]

The same error is in my log files as well, I think it's a distraction. Let's ignore it as a side effect of an unmanaged dll hanging out in the plugin directory.

The db3 file looks as it should, and does contain one record. So I guess the next step is to create some more logging where it saves the config data.

If you feel up to it, take a peek inside config.xml -- I'm wondering if there is a <AniLibrary /> all by itself -- and empty -- inside <PluginSettings>.

[Ommina]

OK - I'm able to recreate it here now. Definitely nothing to do with the policy check thing.

It will take me a bit to figure out how to fix it, but will send a quick note to your gmail account when I have a new build posted.

Thanks for the first bug catch!