STV Import: TVExplorer for SageMC

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Hey razrsharpe,

Is there a way for it to put the double digit seasons after the single digits? Right now, when I sort by season-episode, it displays the order as, 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, .... I would like it to be 1, 2, 3, ...10, 11.

Thanks,
Peter

I don't know how SageTV handles, but for other programs I have to throw a "0" in front of the single digit to get it to sort correctly (i.e. 01, 02, etc...)

[PLUCKYHD]

this has been fixed in our api to sort properly by using integers I am 100%
positive razor will have it in next build not to speak for him.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Hey razrsharpe,

Is there a way for it to put the double digit seasons after the single digits? Right now, when I sort by season-episode, it displays the order as, 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, .... I would like it to be 1, 2, 3, ...10, 11.

Thanks,
Peter

by "displays the order" i assume you mean the episode selection filter? in 1.0 there is no way to change that. I will have to check but i believe this is fixed in my dev code.

The episodes themselves should still be in the correct order by original airing date.

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by dbone1026

I don't know how SageTV handles, but for other programs I have to throw a "0" in front of the single digit to get it to sort correctly (i.e. 01, 02, etc...)

There is a zero in front of them. The files appear like this,

Friends s01e01
Friends s02e01
Friends s10e01
...

The zero is being dropped for some reason when it is sorted.

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

this has been fixed in our api to sort properly by using integers I am 100%
positive razor will have it in next build not to speak for him.

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

by "displays the order" i assume you mean the episode selection filter? in 1.0 there is no way to change that. I will have to check but i believe this is fixed in my dev code.

The episodes themselves should still be in the correct order by original airing date.

Sounds great! Thanks guys.

[amdcursed]

got it! thanks guys

[MitchSchaft]

Some of my TV series do not show up as TV, but movies. Is there a way to classify each video to show up as TV?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by MitchSchaft

Some of my TV series do not show up as TV, but movies. Is there a way to classify each video to show up as TV?

Can you elaborate a little bit?
Sage recorded or imported content?
Are you using BMT to collect the metadata or not (if so which version)?
How do you know they show up as movies (ie, are the episodes not grouping correctly)?
How does the default SageMC TV library classify (and group) them?

TVE treats all content the same... it will group the content by AiringTitle. One classic example where this can break down is for season prequels or summary episodes. Recently this happened with "24"... the prequel before last season had an AiringTitle of "24: Redemption" so it did not group properly with the other episodes of 24. To get the show to group correctly you would have to manually edit the metadata to have a title of "24" and an episode title of "Redemption".

If you are using BMT 3 beta 9 or earlier to collect metadata on sage recorded content, and have not changed your TitleMask in BMT setup; shows will not group correctly because BMT does not set the correct airing title by default. This does not effect imported content because TVE figures out the AiringTitle differently. BMT 3.0 and later are supposed to fix this; however, i have not tried out the latest BMT releases yet so can not confirm.

[MitchSchaft]

They show up under My Videos, but not under TV Explorer is what I mean. These are for imported stuff, not directly recorded.
I'm using the latest version of BMT for all metadata/fanart.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by MitchSchaft

They show up under My Videos, but not under TV Explorer is what I mean. These are for imported stuff, not directly recorded.
I'm using the latest version of BMT for all metadata/fanart.

Is metadata gathered for these episodes? can you post one of the .properties files?

Also check the following options (TVE Options - Imported TV):

1. Display Imported TV -> Enabled
2. Limit Search Paths -> Do Not Limit
   or limit with a path filter expression (in you sagemc_menu.xml file) or a property item... NOTE: Capitalization matters... the string must match the path EXACTLY

When Limit Search Paths is set to Not Limit TVE will not show imported videos that do not have metadata and whos MediaType = TV. I believe this is the case... but its been awhile so I am not positive.

[MitchSchaft]

Ok, cool. The no metadata is probably it then. I'll let ya know once I get metadata for a few shows that won't pull properly. (true blood episides, penn & teller's bullshit, weeds, and a couple others.)

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by MitchSchaft

Ok, cool. The no metadata is probably it then. I'll let ya know once I get metadata for a few shows that won't pull properly. (true blood episides, penn & teller's bullshit, weeds, and a couple others.)

If you limit the search paths to a particular directory (or directories) TVE will display everything in that folder (and sub folders). If metadata does not exist, TVE will group the show in an "Unknown" group. The filename will be the episode title.

[tmiranda]

razrsharp,

Since I'm not a SageMC user I'm having difficulty finding the required version of SageMC for TVE. In the settings menu it says "SageMC STV Version 6.3.9a" Is this the right one? I thought it was supposed to have a _45 in there somewhere?

Tom

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

razrsharp,

Since I'm not a SageMC user I'm having difficulty finding the required version of SageMC for TVE. In the settings menu it says "SageMC STV Version 6.3.9a" Is this the right one? I thought it was supposed to have a _45 in there somewhere?

Tom

6.3.9a is the latest, the _45 was a previous release

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

razrsharp,

Since I'm not a SageMC user I'm having difficulty finding the required version of SageMC for TVE. In the settings menu it says "SageMC STV Version 6.3.9a" Is this the right one? I thought it was supposed to have a _45 in there somewhere?

Tom

Originally Posted by dbone1026

6.3.9a is the latest, the _45 was a previous release

thanks dbone

when 6.3.9a dropped beta status the _## (some number) was removed... so yes 6.3.9a is the latest.

PS ill update the install instructions to reflect this.

[tmiranda]

Thanks to both of you. razrsharp, please keep me posted. (PS. Very nice looking code!)

[ryttingm]

I've started using this mod and I'm a big fan. One of the things I miss from mikes tv screen is jumping around with numbers. For example hitting 1 will take you to the top of your list.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by ryttingm

I've started using this mod and I'm a big fan. One of the things I miss from mikes tv screen is jumping around with numbers. For example hitting 1 will take you to the top of your list.

never used that feature but can see its usefulness.... so does 5 take you 50% through the list, and 9 90%? I'll add it as a feature request

[ryttingm]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

never used that feature but can see its usefulness.... so does 5 take you 50% through the list, and 9 90%? I'll add it as a feature request

I honestly can't say, but I use 1 all the time. With 2 terabytes of TV storage space I have to page up a lot to get to the top of the list.

[xxLJLxx]

Good job on this Razr! I have gotten pretty addicted to the SMW and I thought I would grab this for my small collection of recorded TV. It was very simple to get going. I thought I would look through all the settings and I enabled my preview window. It won't display anything though. I didn't see that anyone had been having this problem. Is it just me? Anyone know of why it would be doing this? I attached a screen.

Either way, thanks again razr. This is great.