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Users / Media browser and title attribute problem

« on: August 14, 2009, 06:07:59 pm »

Ok i'm still struggling with episodes running rampant in the media browser. I don't want to use filename/folder structure Here's my current situation (small example)

I have two directories American Dad Season 1, Family Guy Season 1. They have cover art and attributes. The main one is title. I use the 'Apply these tags recursively' feature I check 'Enable TV Episode Tagging Mode' to make this easier i've named all my files 0101 - American Dad.avi for example so I can use the default settings.

Now all season 1 American Dad and Family Guy avi have the same (respescitvely) title, cover art, and corresponding episode number. Then in the directory that contains them I 'Edit attributes for all files in directory' and set the genre attribute to 'TV Show' (If I set genre attribute for the directory it shows up in the filter results of the media browser later, and when clicked it's empty)

Ok so here's the problem when I got to 'Video' on the orbiter everything is there, I thought if videos had the same title they would be collapsed into one entry (expanding to episodes once clicked). Is this something that's coming in the future? I've read mention of it in several posts, but not sure on status and this is how ideally I would want it to work. Is it already implemented (I run alpha 2.26) and I'm doing something wrong?

Ok, so they're all listed, let's use some filters. I set the filter to 'genre' then i pick 'TV Show' now my media shows up like this:
0101 American Dad.avi
0101 Family Guy.avi
0102 American Dad.avi
0102 Family Guy.avi

And of course all the American Dad cover art is on the left, all the Family Guy on the right. It may not be a big deal with just 2 series, but I have a lot more than that. I thought I was tagging my media correctly, and taking advantage of the recursive feature for TV episodes, but the results are all wrong. I could live with genre 'TV Show' if it were at least displayed correctly, not interwoven.

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Users / Re: Custom Orbiter Scenarios by Media Subtype

« on: August 06, 2009, 04:18:28 am »

I know it's been over a year since this topic was discussed, but I'm currently looking for the functionality described. Has this been implemented to any extent?

In searching around the net XBMC seems to be able to play RAR files. Is there any chance LinuxMCE could do this? This way I could have one RAR file say "Show XYZ" and it would be the only thing to show up by default in the media browser (with cover art and attributes) then choosing it would show the episode list and you can pick which episode to watch. When a new episode comes out you would just have to add it to the RAR file.

I thought about using a DVD image, as has been mentioned in the forums before, the only problem is encoding every new episode into the image. Not to mention it's much larger than the original AVI.

I'm tagging all my media, my only real issue is that *everything* shows up when i hit 'Video' until I set the filters, which gets annoying to do. Either something like the solution above, or the ability to set the default view of the video browser would be nice. I'm new at this so am i missing something?

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Users / Re: 0810 alpha 2.26 - mythtv MD "crashing" when going from LiveTV to MythTV-Main

« on: August 05, 2009, 05:07:41 am »

I'm having this same problem in alpha 2.26. I have an HDHomeRun and mythTV will crash when I go back to "Live TV" from the guide or scheduler. Sometimes in Live TV the channel seems to get stuck and will freeze my webDT366, I have to reset the orbiter to go back into Live TV (which seems to reset Live TV). I don't know where you changed "Real time priority threads", or where to look for the logs to see what error is being generated. Any help would be appreciated.

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Developers / Re: 810 alpha2 Clock not updated on LinuxMCE menu.

« on: August 03, 2009, 05:27:35 pm »

I just started using Linuxmce about 2 weeks ago, I've run into some roadblocks but I've managed to work through them using the forums and the wiki. However I'm at a loss on this one. I have alpha2.26 and the clock is still hanging, has this issue been fixed? I haven't been able to find a solution or another mention other than this post.
 
Also it seems 'Seconds before screen saver' in the on-screen orbiter settings is controlling when my system turns off instead of 'Seconds before power off' (I have 'Leave monitor on for OSD checked' and a webdt366 orbiter). I wouldn't mind leaving the on-screen orbiter up and setting it to the same value as 'power off' but I would like the time to be updated.