TVScout

New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

apollyon02 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:29:42 GMT

Any fix found for this yet? I'm having the same issue except it crashes when fetching movies - fetching for tv series works fine.

New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

sipp11 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:12:46 GMT

It crashes on mine too.

I'm on Win7 x64.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:09:35 GMT

Yeah it would make sense if mediascout would try fetching a new copy of the metadata if the episode is unknown and it's running from a cache copy. Maybe I can look into that once I finish up with some new features I am trying to get added for a new release.

New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

RLM — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:17:16 GMT

Hi,

I'm working with mediascout 0.9 beta 2, and it's works great for movies, but when i try to fetch for TV shows, the program crashes, and don't update any metadata.

it used to work fine on 2 computers, with Vista and 7, but now it doesn't work on any of them.

any idea what can be the problem?

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:49:28 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I knew mediascout was still collecting the data, and still "working", it just takes much longer without a working cache folder is all.

But there's also that kind of annoying thing of having to basically delete and reinstall mediascout every couple of weeks because of 'invalid episode' errors.

Again, thanks. Not a huge deal i know, and all the meta scrapers i've tried so far all have their little kinks, i've not found the perfect one yet. But Mediascout still does a great job.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:27:04 GMT

By the way, I never really liked how that message was shown as an error. It does not mean something is broken, it just means there is no cache to pull from. MediaScout will still work, it just has to fetch the metadata instead of using the cache (which it does automatically). Personally I never tried fixing it because I didn't want to use the cache anyway, and since there is really no option in MediaScout to disable the use of cache, the fact that it could not use it anyway was always a sort of mixed blessing/curse for me.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:21:26 GMT

I get that all the time too. It really just means that MediaScout cannot find the locally copies version of the metadata, so it has to fetch it every time you do a scan. If I remember right, the "fix" is to cerate the cache folder (in your case, 'F:\Portable Apps\MediaScout0.9Beta2a\Cache') and MediaScout should create the rest.

Note: thetvdb.com appears to be down right now so I cannot really test it out for you. You'll have to try another time when the web site is back up.

I am not real sure why it doesn't make the "cache" folder for you, but that was one of aeoth's pet projects and I never really looked into that part of the code.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:43:07 GMT

Anybody help!?!

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:22 GMT

the fix freqi describes used to work for me. But now i get this error for every show i scan.

Error caching metadata: Could not find a part of the path 'F:\Portable Apps\MediaScout0.9Beta2a\Cache\TVCache\73244.xml'.

That error will pop up for every show.

any thoughts?

Commented Issue: Crash when clicking on Fetch in Movies or Manage TV [3719]

rjrussel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:52:57 GMT

The only Fetch that works is the TV Shows, the recorded TV or movies will throw a error and it will crash.

Description:
Stopped working

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Temp\WERB7AA.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Temp\WERCCA2.tmp.hdmp

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C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
- <WERReportMetadata>
- <OSVersionInformation>
<WindowsNTVersion>6.1</WindowsNTVersion>
<Build>7201</Build>
<Product>(0x1): Windows 7 Ultimate</Product>
<Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
<BuildString>7201.0.amd64fre.winmain_win7ids.090601-1516</BuildString>
<Revision>Unknown</Revision>
<Flavor>Multiprocessor Free</Flavor>
<Architecture>X64</Architecture>
<LCID>1033</LCID>
</OSVersionInformation>
- <ParentProcessInformation>
<ParentProcessId>1636</ParentProcessId>
<ParentProcessPath>C:\Windows\explorer.exe</ParentProcessPath>
<ParentProcessCmdLine>C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE</ParentProcessCmdLine>
</ParentProcessInformation>
- <ProblemSignatures>
<EventType>CLR20r3</EventType>
<Parameter0>mediascoutgui.exe</Parameter0>
<Parameter1>1.0.0.0</Parameter1>
<Parameter2>49900aa3</Parameter2>
<Parameter3>MediaScoutGUI</Parameter3>
<Parameter4>1.0.0.0</Parameter4>
<Parameter5>49900aa3</Parameter5>
<Parameter6>c0</Parameter6>
<Parameter7>32</Parameter7>
<Parameter8>System.NullReferenceException</Parameter8>
</ProblemSignatures>
- <DynamicSignatures>
<Parameter1>6.1.7201.2.0.0.256.1</Parameter1>
<Parameter2>1033</Parameter2>
</DynamicSignatures>
- <SystemInformation>
<MID>20F1CB6D-F753-4C68-9D73-A647A5184F81</MID>
<SystemManufacturer>Unknow</SystemManufacturer>
<SystemProductName>Unknow</SystemProductName>
<BIOSVersion>F5</BIOSVersion>
</SystemInformation>
</WERReportMetadata>
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rjrussel **

I think you'll find this is a permissions issue when attempting to update a movie in which there is already data present. Check to see if there is a mymovies.xml file in the directory that contains the movie you are trying to update. If so try and remove the hidden attribute for the mymovies.xml file. If that doesn't work try changing the permissions for the file so that the "Users" group has full control.

Commented Issue: TV programme without certain graphics will cause program to crash [3422]

FreQi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:40:11 GMT

Example, Jeeves and Wooster (http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=76934&lid=7). When the program tries to get some of the graphics, it's failing because of a 404 error because some of the graphics don't exist (like http://thetvdb.com/banners/posters/76934-1.jpg)
Comments: ** Comment from web user: FreQi **

Cleopatra 2525, which is missing a Poster image causes this as well.
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=71906&lid=7

If you're trying to run batch mode processing, you can work around this by creating a blank text file named "IGNORE" (no file extension) in the root of the folder causing the problem. Either that or submit an image for the series at TheTVDb I suppose...

I have this item on my to-do list to be fixed.

Source code checked in, #29908

FreQi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:01:43 GMT

Changes to FreQi Branch: - Made sure the Default Language is set if NULL in TheTVDBProvider

New Post: Frequent Crashing... any ideas

violetdav — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:32:21 GMT

I seem to be the only one with this issue, so before I uninstall MediaScout I wanted to check with smarter people than I about a solution.

I have a relativley simple setup using Windows 7RC (and about 4TB of assorted storage) However, ever since I first downloaded MediaScout it, it crashes the minute I start to use it. Example: I have all Feature movies in thier own folders and within each folder is Backdrops, assorted files and original posters. I start MS and it brings up the movies in that folder (around 340), when I hit the Choose Poster or Background button the program subsequently crashes before bringing up anything else.

I am using version .9 Beta 2, so I wanted to know about things like Win7 Compatibility (even though I have tried changing the compatibility all the way back to Vista, XP, and Win2000 all with the same outcome)

Any help would be appreciated.

New Post: Feature Request

freqi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:52:50 GMT

Being able to individually assign backdrops and banners for each season is coming up on my to-do list. I'll be posting a new binary release once I have some more of that in place.

I like the idea of spinners while images are loading so I'll see what I can do. If you have any suggestions of libraries I can model after, please link me to them.

I'm also using W7 Libraries so I'll put that item on the list of things to look into. Right now I just want to get MediaBrowser set up so you can really mange the individual collections of a series/season/etc. I keep all my stuff in one place on the network so I'm affraid it's a little low on the tree at the moment.

What would you be interested in seeing on a jumplist? Give me some examples. For those unfamilar with what a jumplist is, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16143

And because I didn't know that the officially named Taskbar is commonly referred to as the Superbar ... http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/15/windows-7-superbar-overview

New Post: Feature Request

deadonthefloor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:25:57 GMT

while we're at it, let's support jumplists somehow for MediaScout, as I use it so frequently that it is pinned to my 'superbar'.

feedback? comments?

New Post: Feature Request

deadonthefloor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:20:36 GMT

I would like to see some support for Windows 7 Libraries. I have libraries created for my TV and Movies, as they are stored on different physical drives (7.5TB and counting). As such I think being able to set my "TV" and "Movies" locations to a Windows 7 Library within the "options" tab, thus allowing me to view all of my TV and movies when browsing said tabs.

Source code checked in, #24419

FreQi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:01:35 GMT

Changes to FreQi Branch: - NOW REQUIRES DOTNET 3.5 (needed to be able to set the selected item in a TreeView) - Added TeeViewHelper code posted at Quantum Bit Designs' blog - The "NoTVResults" window can now be summoned with either a normal Cancel button or the fancier Split Button - Several Changes to the Manage TV tab ... Series Name is now in a text box so it can be edited ... Fetch button also automates grabbing images ... When Fetch returns 0 results you now get a change to refine your search like in Batch mode ... Added basic editing of Actors, Genre, FirstAired, Rating, Runtime, and Network metadata ... Added a "Save" button so textual changes can be written to xml (images are essentially auto-saved when they are changed) ... Added a "Strip" button to remove all metadata and images from the selected Series

Source code checked in, #24083

FreQi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:18:46 GMT

- Reorganized "Manage TV" tab a bit to accommodate new feature - Can now change the Banner Image for TV Series - Cleaned up "Change" windows so Banner/Poster/Backdrop look more like each other

New Post: Installer?

freqi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:42:14 GMT

No need for an installer, just extract it to wherever you want to run it from.

New Post: MKV Support?

zombiefly — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:57:31 GMT

ok i've found out what the problem is.

The movies will only show if you have them in folders. i.e. If you have a movie called "the muppets.avi", create a folder called "the muppets" and drop the movie inside.