Automated download of poster and info for TVGuide

[piotre]

I understand that there a several things in the way but even if you would have to select between different hits or the accuracy would not be 100% (specially outside english speaking countries as the TVGuide gives translated movietitels there) it would still add a lot of comfort and going with my "Final Dream" one day offer you the automated recording according to actor names and so on.

Even with the functionallity of the actual GBPVR and the plugins and skin I use I am overwhelmed by the possibilities. I am only using it for 3 weeks now (I did not try any other software and am pretty sure I never will!.

\Piotre

[reven]

im sure something can be arranged, just trying to iron out all the logic flaws before we begin, get a better understanding of how you want it done (since you are probably the expert here, since its your request, you know exactly what you want).

[piotre]

...well thanks for flowers about me being the expert...

as I said, my programming skills can be described with ZERO but I know at least how to handle some DOS comands, work with batches and tweak mdb or xml without instantly messing them up.

If you need more specification detail I am more than willing to help with my limited skills.

\Piotre

[reven]

Quote[/b] ]as I said, my programming skills can be described with ZERO but I know at least how to handle some DOS comands, work with batches and tweak mdb or xml without instantly messing them up.

no programming required, just a clear understanding of what you want, and how you want it to react it certain situations.

[piotre]

So lets see, as I said before: my prefered scenario is:

Quote[/b] ]
- you browse the TVGuide
- you find an interesting movie
- you select it
- in addition to the existing buttons (Exit - Quick Record - Record) you have a new button called Info or Lookup
- you press it and the IMDB ist questioned - the info is diplayed - then you decide to record or not.

but that would IMHO require something to be implemented in the TVGuide or probabley the Guide2J (jrock?).

Interesting would be the question if in other countries (I am in Germany) the XMLTV gives you more details than here. I often only have the titel of the movie/show sometimes a subtitle or something but never actor names. Anybody?
But that would only help my idea of the "automatic fuzzy search" for movies with my favorite actors.

Back to the poster and IMDB data lookup: don´t know what esle you would need to know, reven?

Probably somebody else has good input on that.

\Piotre

[reven]

yeah this would be something jrockintuitive would have to do.  i can give him all the code for the imdb lookup and the multiple hits, and the code to add it to the my videos database.  but we have to get him on board first (this isnt really a sub thing); i know hes busy with the vertical guide (which is really cool, i cant wait), but hey theres no rush.  also im redoing more things to the database, so it will have to wait about a week before i can give him the code (i have big plans for my vids 2.2.x).

Quote[/b] ]Back to the poster and IMDB data lookup: don´t know what esle you would need to know, reven?

nothign really, i think i know where you are coming from.  i think a popup box saying "sorry no information found" should be added, but yeah thats about it.  i dont know how jrockintuitive would implement the gui for multiple hits (a popup box kinda look, or fullscreen and remove the guide from the screen) thats up to him.

oh and i would also like the option to display the poster when you highlighted a show you have downloading the info for (and perhaps have a different font for download show info, just so you know what youve downloaded etc).

one problem that might arise is that the database might become quite large. but thats about it.

[jrockintuitive]

I'm on board... sound very cool.

Reven, when you are ready, send me the source code.

[piotre]

Very nice guys - I am in no rush on that either. Like I said, I am pretty new to pvr and already wonder how I could use my old vcr up to now...

If or better say when we get THAT running I am pretty sure people (at least the ones with a cable/DSL flat rate ) will love it!

[Guest]

I already exposed a programmatic method to fetch this information in the CommonGBPVRUtilities.dll file used by the video archive plug-in. Call InternetInfoFetcher.UpdateTVShowDescription(filepath) and it will download and create a folder.jpg file if it can find one at TVTome or IMDB.

The Video Archive plug-in uses this to look up imgaes for recorded TV shows. If you have the video archive plug-in installed into GBPVR, even if the plug-in is not active, it will watch for new sub directories being created under the recording directory and automatically fetch the images in real-time in the background.

There is also a stand-alone utility file called GetTVInfo that will do this lookup for all sub directories under the recordings directory. You could run this utility manually, once a day, or after each recording, if you didn;t want to install the video archive plug-in for some reason.

Jeff

[piotre]

Hey Jeff,

I installed VA without activating it and after yesterdays recording the rectracer.exe.log was as followed:

05.03.2005 22:31:05.421 VERBOSE [2] installDirectory is C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\
05.03.2005 22:31:05.421 VERBOSE [2] configurationFile is config.xml
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DontAntiAlias
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DontAntiAlias : false
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
05.03.2005 22:31:05.453 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error
05.03.2005 22:31:06.312 ERROR [2] Error initializing panel plugin: C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\Video Archiver.dll
05.03.2005 22:31:06.312 ERROR [2] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
05.03.2005 22:31:06.312 ERROR [2] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at ax..ctor(Boolean serviceMode)
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] Error initializing event plugin: C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\Video Archiver.dll
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at ax..ctor(Boolean serviceMode)
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\Video Archiver.dll
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at ax..ctor(Boolean serviceMode)
05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] Inner exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name CommonGBPVRUtilities, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "CommonGBPVRUtilities"
at ArchiveVideosPlugin.ArchiveVideosTask..ctor()

=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: DisplayName = CommonGBPVRUtilities, Version=1.0.1863.40546, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
(Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = C:\Programme\devnz\gbpvr\
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
Calling assembly : (Unknown).
===

LOG: Policy not being applied to reference at this time (private, custom, partial, or location-based assembly bind).
LOG: Post-policy reference: CommonGBPVRUtilities, Version=1.0.1863.40546, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Programme/devnz/gbpvr/CommonGBPVRUtilities.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Programme/devnz/gbpvr/CommonGBPVRUtilities/CommonGBPVRUtilities.DLL.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Programme/devnz/gbpvr/CommonGBPVRUtilities.EXE.
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Programme/devnz/gbpvr/CommonGBPVRUtilities/CommonGBPVRUtilities.EXE.

05.03.2005 22:31:06.328 ERROR [2] at ArchiveVideosPlugin.ArchiveVideosTask..ctor()

Can you help on that?

And to reven: The movie I downloaded was not renamed automatically after recording as it was not a show witch subtitle. So the name remained "Murder at 1600_20050305_20152225.mpg". I tried to let MyVideos scan the IMDB but it would not find anything, until I manually renamed the file to "Murder at 1600.mpg". Am I doing something wrong? I still did not entirely get the functions of "Archive" and "Export" in XRecord and if they have to do something with that.

Please give me a hint anybody.

Thanks,
\Piotre