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| Alessio Viti |
Posted - 13 Sep 2008 : 08:39:12
Hi Guys,
I have released the 6.3.8.0 version, with an "alpha" version of Vista MCE support.
I use a Third party software, called Video Browser, a nice MCE interface.
When you will install the FULL or the UPDATE release, you must install also this plugin (I have integrated it in the setup).
When XMM will start, it will create the structure needed by this plugin, it will take some minutes and will be made once.
After that you should be ready. Now open the MCE in windows Vista and then go in the section "Images + Video" and then select Video Browser.
This is an ALPHA release, there is still bugs, please report your suggestions!
Known Bugs:
* Problems with some char of Umlaut alphabet (No information will be show in the MCE, but only the cover)
Thank you,
Alessio |
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| jarosik |
Posted - 13 Mar 2010 : 00:45:08
quote:
Originally posted by Erstam
No foreign characters
My movies have some german characters. In your export they get replaces by spaces. This is definitely not due to a bug in Media Browser, but to wrong export or character encoding. When exporting the characters, you will need to encode 'ä' ('ä') with '#228;', 'ß' ('ß') should be '#223;', etc.
Hello Alessio,
It's same problem with swedish and polish characters when XMM make mymovies.xml files for Media Browser. Can You fix it. I like XMM very much but this one disturb me.
Thank You
jarosik |
| Alessio Viti |
Posted - 26 May 2009 : 11:31:38
Hi,
I Agree, I have make much tests and seem that Media Browser do not refresh the cache correctly.
I have also force Media Browser to delete the cache and reload everything but nothing, it show only some details of some movies...
If someone know a way please write me.
Thank you,
Alessio |
| LiberatedBlade |
Posted - 25 May 2009 : 22:04:30
Hi all guys!
First of all I want to thanks Alessio for this fantastic software!!
then..I use XMM mainly for organise movie in my HTPC, so I'm interested in the function that media browser can perform, unfortunally after testing it (version 2 beta) I've sustained the same problem that was written in this discussion: i can see the images of the movies but when I open them, nothing is shown.
So I've tried the solution that Alessio has written in the previous post (create a fake avi file) and...ta-da!! the movie that i used for my test now shows all the info!
Then I've written a little program in vb.net that creates an "avi fake file" in all of the folders of my collection, I've open media center and.......nothing....when I click on an image, media center tries to open the fake avi file and returns an error (obviously!); but then i had tried to restart media center and now the movies that I've tried to open shows all the infos.
My conclusion was that the problem is not in the characters encoding but in the media browser itself that did't refresh the infos correctly , and another problem was the fact that the media browser didn't read from the path of the xml file for the movie path but always played the fake file in the folder.
(sorry for my bad english!!!)
Bye ;-)
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| Alessio Viti |
Posted - 20 Apr 2009 : 17:18:41
Hi!
I have just installed the 2.0.11 and I have make some tests.
Now I create a dummy avi file (0 byte, but seem to work). In the next release I will also export the "backcover" as "backdrop" image. I have only one problem, for many movies Media Browser do not show text, I haven't idea why, maybe is related with characters enconding. I will continue to make tests...
Thank you!
Ale |
| Erstam |
Posted - 19 Apr 2009 : 10:26:33
Hi Alessio,
I did some experimenting with XMM 6.8.3.0 and Media Browser 2.0.11.0 and experienced the same problems as other users.
No foreign characters
My movies have some german characters. In your export they get replaces by spaces. This is definitely not due to a bug in Media Browser, but to wrong export or character encoding. When exporting the characters, you will need to encode 'ä' ('ä') with 'ä', 'ß' ('ß') should be 'ß', etc.
No text information available
This is not due to special characters in the folder name, but to Media Browser not finding the video file. Media Browser expects the video file to be present in the same folder as the XML files. Links (by using LNK files) do not work. This clearly seems to be a limitation of Media Browser.
You could put a dummy avi file directly into the folder you create for Media Browser (the avi can be 0 bytes and any name as long as the extension is ok). Then the information is displayed. However, the "Play" feature in media browser naturally leads to an error.
Best regards
Marc |
| Ulli |
Posted - 05 Apr 2009 : 17:53:24
Hi,
same problem here. all is running well but if there is a "umlaut" (ä,ö,ü) in the title is doesn't show any information.
regards,
ulli |
| Ric |
Posted - 07 Mar 2009 : 01:07:11
quote:
Originally posted by Alessio Viti
Known Bugs:
* Problems with some char of Umlaut alphabet (No information will be show in the MCE, but only the cover)
Hi Alessio,
this mean that no information for any movie will be shown, or only where in the information there are char of umlaut?
I've the problem that in MCE I'm not able to see any kind of info for any movie (only the poster), so I would like to know if I've a "personal" problem or it's the same bug quoted above?
Thanks & ciao |
| boombastic |
Posted - 28 Feb 2009 : 14:08:13
Hi!I'm running under Vista and if i start the media center i can see the Media Browser section.
Within it, i can find the .mdb database i created with XMM.
If i open it i can see the posters of my movies but no info is displayed (like plot for example) nor i can watch them.
Can you help me? |
| kennygno |
Posted - 19 Feb 2009 : 18:44:33
same here.
quote:
Originally posted by racto
Hi Alessio, I'm using windows XP Pro and i have no plans to change to vista.
Can you make XMM detect the OS running and install the MCE add-on only if OS=vista? Maybe disable the media center menu.
If I delete all the folder structure created by MCE, it will regenerate the next time I update XMM, right? Can it be avoided?
Bye.
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| shaurya |
Posted - 04 Dec 2008 : 20:19:51
Hello,
I don't want to offend any MediaPortal fan. I am a meedio fan. Someone may be a fan of another HTPC software.
Alessio, Does this means that I can expect a meedio plugin....Look at MeediOS. THe new and the "Bestest" HTPC software.
Its endless. Where would you like to stop.
How about a generic solution like a very robust and feature rich export functionality on top of Microsoft's Media Center plugin. That way everyone would be happy.
Feature rich...I mean-
1. Command line execution so that XMM can be called from outside to export a given entry to a give location (mapped and UNC)
2. Saving of the export settings so that command line can simply accept the saved name
3. Scheduled export
4. Synchorization of XMM db over network. I mean Movies cover, xml file, actor name..
5. delta export support. I added/modified 1 movie. My xml export looks at delta and exports only delta.
6. I marked a movie "watched" or "favourite" or changed the genere from "Comedy" to "Animation" in my HTPC software and my HTPC exports XML. Let XMM import it automatically by monitoring a folder.
Once again I don't want to offend anyone. I am just saying that a very strong and robust exp/import feature along with Newbie guide for each HTPC software MIGHT suffice.
Regards, Shaurya |
| Alessio Viti |
Posted - 04 Dec 2008 : 11:24:37
Hi AlCapone,
I am trying to make a plugin to export XMM database to MP.
In the past there was an old software, but unfortunately the author has stop to develop it.
Thank you,
Alessio |
| AlCapone |
Posted - 04 Dec 2008 : 10:03:36
Congrats on MCE pligin, now only Media Portal plugin remains..
MCE is very limited, single-site stuff, I cannot say it well enough how crappy it really is, compared to Media Portal.
I've been using XMM for years, but there's no point for me anymore, as it's more simple to maintain only one DB, and be able to access it from "every" room.
I wish XMM would enhance MP's database. |
| Alessio Viti |
Posted - 14 Oct 2008 : 18:26:37
Hi,
I mean the bug with the Swedish letters.
Ale |
| LuddeNo1 |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 09:10:55
quote:
Originally posted by Alessio Viti
Hi,
Yes, it's a bug of Video Browser plugin, I hope it's author will fix it soon.
Thank you!
Alessio
Hi.
Which bug do you mean??
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| LuddeNo1 |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 09:08:57
You are right, it is the same for me, shared doesn't work, drive does.
But it worked for me the first release, so something must have changed?? |
| SteveCliff |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 08:57:36
quote:
Originally posted by LuddeNo1 So you mean if I add the movies pointing it to the actual folder on the harddrive instead of the shared, it will work?
It seems to on mine - via drive letter works, via share doesn't :( |
| LuddeNo1 |
Posted - 03 Oct 2008 : 17:17:25
I added all the movies in EMM via the shared folder, so it will work to have it in Popcorn hour movie portal.
So you mean if I add the movies pointing it to the actual folder on the harddrive instead of the shared, it will work? |
| SteveCliff |
Posted - 03 Oct 2008 : 07:52:12
Doh - finally my brain kicks in and starts working .... it was all to do with how the movies were added to EMM:
I have a media center PC, a 'normal' PC and a central server. The media center PC has a drive letter (Z:) mapped to a films directory (\films) on the server (GWSSERVER).
There are two ways of browsing to the films, one is via the drive letter Z: and one is by using the UNC \\gwsserver\films. If I use the drive letter it works fine - if I use the UNC, it can't see the film.
Are UNC's not supported in EMM? Or am I doing something wrong?
If all else fails I'll set up everything via the Z: but I would have liked the flexibility of not having to map a drive in the first place and use a UNC if possible ...
Damn good software though - only spent a few days playing with it so far but 10 euros definately on it's way to you - good work! |
| SteveCliff |
Posted - 03 Oct 2008 : 07:40:12
Hmmm ... on checking in more detail, it doesn't seem to be restricted to MP4 - I have tested against two AVI's, one plays and one doesn't. Both play via the normal VMC route and I've thrown both in to GSpot and both are Xvid codec and AC3 sound. Odd .... |
| SteveCliff |
Posted - 03 Oct 2008 : 07:25:26
quote:
Originally posted by LuddeNo1
Now I am getting this problem when pressing the "watch movie" button...
It doesn't "see" any movie file, just 0/0.
Yep, same here - but only on my MP4 files. All the film detail comes up but when I go to play the film it says 0/0 and nothing to play ...
More likely to be a VideoBrowser issue I guess than an EMM problem but any ideas ?
Thanks!
Steve. |
