MP-TVSeries (MPI) Download

Description:

MP-TVSeries can scan your harddrive for video files, analyse them by their path structures and then, if determined to be a TV Episode, go online and retrieve information about them. You can then browse, manage and play your episodes from inside MP in a nice graphical layout.
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The information it retrieves is coming from http://www.thetvdb.com/ which allows any user to add and update information. Please go there and support zsori (author and admin) by inputing data, uploading banners and clicking his ads. Remember, without this database (and the mirrors ppl are kindly providing) none of this would be possible. All fields available there are/will be supported.

History
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v1.2.9.34660
We decided to release this as an intermediate release because 1.2 is very outdated by now and has problems with MP RC2 and RC3, but v1.3 is not ready yet and forums posts are getting more and more because people cannot use a stable release anymore and are reliant upon svn builds (which as you know, may work very well, or may not work at all).

This release build is based on SVN revision 231. This means support for removable media and manual adding of episodes/series is lacking from this release as these features are not stable enough yet. Also included is a new Mediainfo.dll that should speed up parsing when a large number of files is involved, and also fix several memory leaks.

This release build is based on SVN revision 231. This means support for removable media and manual adding of episodes/series is lacking from this release as these features are not stable enough yet. Also included is a new Mediainfo.dll that should speed up parsing when a large number of files is involved, and also fix several memory leaks.

1.2.0

- mainly bugfixes + skin files for B2 & B2W (thanks a ton mirk)

1.1.0

- Support for Fanart

- Changes to skinning (now Property/Tag based #TVSeries.Title, etc)

- 4:3 users need to stick with 1.0 for now until an updated 4:3 skin file is provided.

1.0.0

- lots of testing, bugfixing and general improvement. Basically, too much to mention. Please check the forum for details. [Reuploaded to include french strings and B2W patch)

0.9.5a
- inker: small fix in view logic (under certain conditions series/seasons where shown regardless of setting "local_files_only" which resulted in no episodes being displayed when selected
- inker: bit of perf work for view sql logic
- inker: selections are now remembered when coming back (eg. select genre "Drama" and go back to the genre list, "Drama" will be automatically selected again - only when not switching views in between obviously)
- inker: cleaned up logging a bit

0.9.5
- inker: logical views (view your series by Genres, etc) - note: NOT yet user configurable!
- inker: custom logos - define rules to display any logo based on the current item (network logo, hd logo, etc.)
- inker: MP GUI can now be translated (en, de, fr done) (thanks Shaftstick & ltb from the French community for translation!)
- inker: removed old HD-Detection (caused trouble), with custom logos now much more flexible
- inker: Add Series as Favourites
- inker: bulk-mark episodes as (un-)watched
- inker: if only one season exists display of it will be skipped
- inker: user can disable folder watching now (and automatic online update) for a complete manual mode if the user prefers

0.9
- added try/catch around the banner loading in the configuration window to prevent crashes when the file isn't found.
- inker: fixed issue with playing files in locations without write acess
- inker: Added option to display a random Banner
- inker: added an option to test in a file is HD or not
- Log added in forom subs retriever
- the MP choose dialog now displays the item being matched instead of the (static) title. It helps :)

0.8
- fix focus / default action in the choose from selection dialog
- upgraded the complex regular expressions to include the double episode handling - when a double is detected the local file is used for both online episodes. Watched flag is also acting on the 2 episodes.
- put some try/catches here and there to prevent weird stuff
- changed the way parsing are handled in MP - uses a queue
- removed the "auto localscan" and replaced it work a FileSystemWatcher mechanism (needs cleanup)
- by Inker: Play Random episode, accessible from the context menu. You can either play a random episode (in that case it's from the already watched episodes) or play a random unwatched episodes (and it will always be the first unwatched of a series).
- by Inker: updates to the project mayhem III tvseries skin file. Looks awesome!

0.7
lotsa new things.
- fixed parsing for remote drivers (thanks John_Galt!)
- fixed import on huge DBs, putting back batch episode updates (thanks Bobb25!)
- new feature: subtitles retrieval from www.forom.com (mostly for french users like me I guess, even though there are english or other subtitles there)
- new feature: torrent search & download. You need uTorrent to use that feature.

0.6b - fixed plugin not working when starting up with no DB (duh) - fixed edition of metadata in the configuration: clearing a string now works
- fixed display of empty fields in MP
- fixed ignore / never ask again: it now works (and the ignored series is automatically hidden)
- added timestamp in the window log

0.6
- lots of fixes everywhere (UI configuration, scan handling, no more crash when the skin misses one item, etc)
- added the option to hide specific items (series, seasons or episodes) from the MP UI.
- more work on subtitles (nowhere near something useable yet though)

0.5c: various fixes:
- fixed the crash when editing the import paths
- fixed a crash when editing a value after the tree has been refreshed
- season or episodes numbered 0 are now taken in account
- seasons there because a banner has been added but without episodes is not shown anymore when showing all episodes (example: my name is earl season 3, rome season 2)
- First time scan should properly handle local file status now; basically import should work as expected all the time. I made multiple changes there so it *should* work properly in any case now.

0.5b
- fix for the series not showing when the display setting is set to only show local files is on
- fixes for various cosmetic errors in the configuration window

0.5:
- deep change on how the data is structured; I'm now using the online series ID as the main link between all objects. Purpose: to be able to merge different local series name into one general node.
For that matter, all previous data is erased and a full scan is necessary again.
- the plugin name can be set in the configuration
- fixed text fields not showing in MP (MP's fault as I supposed)
- added an option to not clear entries if local files aren't scanned anymore (or are missing, or on a CD, or whatever)
- log output state remembered (can be collapsed)

0.4b: - fixed the bug that cleared the movie info when playing a MOVIE (doh!)

0.4:
- put options for series / seasons to show as graphical lists / text lists
- updated all 3 skin files
- added season field formatting like for series or episodes
- episode name & summary are showing when playing now; the info is NOT retained (otherwise it would show in the movies, which we don't want)
- decreased the number of episodes updated at one time; it's 100 by 100 now until the server fixes its bug

0.3d:
- fix for the wait cursor showing wherever it wants instead of just in the tvseries plugin when a scan is occuring.

0.3c:
- Fixed this problem of local shows not showing
- showing an "empty list" line when the list is empty, to enable the contextual menu to work
- added the possibility to force a local / update scan from the contextual menu

0.3b:
you know what they say... test it, test it, then test it again before checking something in.
Fixes everywhere!
- Hide some internal DB fields from ConfigurationForm
- fixed the local scan logic (it was trying to retrieve online data when not necessary - longer, more load on the server, bad)
- fixed the handling of the waiting cursor, now shows properly
- fixed some exceptions here and there I never encountered before

0.3:
- watched flag no longer cleared when an episode online update is available (bummer!)
- pretty much finished the data display customization. I hope everyone likes it :). The skin files have been modified though, so don't forget to replace with the new ones.
- skin id isn't 0 anymore; I used the plugin id (whatever)
- defaulted the focused control to the list (although it already does that for me)
- added a "working" cursor while an import is going on in MP
- plugin now has its hover picture back

0.2:- fixed/tweaked parsing test & local parsing
- fixed/tweaked some issues in the simple expressions, should work better now
- finalized the "automatch series" setting, changed the way it works when it's not checked (there should be any more false positives)
- hitting the back key in MCE (which does the same thing as the ESC key) now goes up one level instead of going back to home
- banner local filenames are now filtered and cannot include invalid chars anymore (will work for series with invalid chars in their names)
- modified the default expression for them to take in account the extension
- modified the default regular expression for files not in series folders so that it doesn't fail on episodes with numbers in their episode name.

0.1b:
Quick fixes of some issues
- lowered the parser thread, hopefully it won't disrupt other threads / processes anymore
- it's now possible to manually override the series name if no match is found
- one can delete node entries (series, seasons or episodes) from the library view in configuration

0.1:
Original release

Submitted On:

17 Nov 2007

Submitted By:

dukus (dukus)

File Date:

17 Nov 2007

File Author:

Zeflash/Inker/JonJon

File Version:

1.2.9.34660

File Size:

1,438.40 Kb

File Type:

mpi

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Downloads:

12338

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Comments:

from jorno - This is _THE_ REASON why I run Team Mediaportal! Sure, there are other good reasons also, but for me - THIS plug-in helps me organize my huge collection of TV episodes, and display it nicely. Impresses all of my friends with it. :-)