STV Import: TVExplorer for the Default STV

[OferL]

razrsharpe I was pointing to msg #111
He reports much the same problems as me.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by OferL

razrsharpe I was pointing to msg #111
He reports much the same problems as me.

I responded back then that I think the problem is that stuckless rearranged/changed/depreciated some phoenix.api methods... I need to update TVE to reflect these changes... hopefully I'll have some free time soonish to do so

[OferL]

[Skirge01]

Anyone have an idea why I'm seeing this?

2011-01-04 18:03:44,015 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Castle\Banners\83462-g6.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:45,944 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Castle\Banners\83462-g7.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:46,188 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Dexter\Banners\79349-g11.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:51,566 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Grey's Anatomy\Banners\73762-g9.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:55,745 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Law & Order Special Victims Unit\Banners\4e9bdc41fc824390d782cde20269479c-75692.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:56,322 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Leverage\Banners\82339-g.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:56,740 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Law & Order Criminal Intent\Banners\b945ebfacf11024f3748ab52a5287562-1381-g4.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners
2011-01-04 18:03:57,240 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\Mediaserver\Fanart\TV\Life After People\Banners\83897-g5.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners

I posted about this in the Phoenix Fanart thread, but they said it's not due to that. So, I thought maybe it was due to something caused by TVE. What I'm seeing is a 4 second pause between the page up/down scrolling and it seems to be caused by fanart not being cached or something. Going from top to bottom in my list of TV shows currently takes about a minute or more, which is very frustrating.

I know this isn't being actively developed anymore, but I was hoping someone might have an idea as to what the cause is. I'm at the point where SageTV isn't very usable anymore, so I'm considering deleting my wiz.bin and reinstalling SageTV from scratch on both the client and server. But, I want to exhaust all my options first.

[razrsharpe]

I havent been using fanart on my setup for sometime now so can't say its not a problem with tve... but to me that error means that the phoenix api is trying to load an image that it thinks is cached locally, can't find it, and is crashing out.

TVE will automatically scale and cache banners and posters on first use, if one doesnt exist already.

The fact that TVE and Diamond exhibit the same problem leads me to think on of three things

• We are both not using the phoenix api correctly
• We were using the api correctly and sean changed something regarding scaling and caching and therefore we are not using the api correctly anymore
• There is a bug in the phoenix api
• EDIT: it could also be that for some reason you dont have write access to the cache folder anymore (or out of disk space) and creating the image is failing

So what i would try... way before blowing away your wiz.bin (bc i dont think this has anything to do with that).

1. Shut down sage.
2. Delete the TVE directories in your cache folder (I think the cache folder is ... STVs\Phoenix\ImageTransforms but not sure)
3. Start sage and see what happens. TVE should recache all banners and posters on first display... so it may be slower then normal initially.

[Skirge01]

Thanks for the ideas, razr! Very much appreciated! I'll check these out when I get home tonight. I don't think it's a permissions issue, but I'll definitely check. Maybe Windows 7 did something weird, even though I have UAC turned off.

[stuckless]

There were some minor changes to the ImageAPI (thanks to Plucky) in November. It basically was a small change that returns a File object instead of a Sage MetaImage.

This particular issue looks to be a case where you are expecting the image to be cached, but it is not there. It could be a bug in phoenix, or it could be that the scaling/caching didn't work for some reason (ie, permissions, etc).

Does TVE use the newer phoenix_image_ apis or the older phoenix_api_ ? (not that it matters, it's just that the entire phoenix_api_ has been deprecated)

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

There were some minor changes to the ImageAPI (thanks to Plucky) in November. It basically was a small change that returns a File object instead of a Sage MetaImage.

This particular issue looks to be a case where you are expecting the image to be cached, but it is not there. It could be a bug in phoenix, or it could be that the scaling/caching didn't work for some reason (ie, permissions, etc).

Does TVE use the newer phoenix_image_ apis or the older phoenix_api_ ? (not that it matters, it's just that the entire phoenix_api_ has been deprecated)

Not to go off topic sean, but I am having a problem using the new relocated api's. My Malore tweaks mod uses the phoenix_api_HasFanartBanner and phoenix_api_GetFanartBanner calls for populating banners in the show list. I had thought, from looking at the javadocs, that replacing these with phoenix_impl_FanartAPI_Has(Get)FanartBanner would be enough to stay 'current'. No such luck.. sage throws a method reflection error. What is the proper call for the new api's?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by stuckless

There were some minor changes to the ImageAPI (thanks to Plucky) in November. It basically was a small change that returns a File object instead of a Sage MetaImage.

any chance that small change could be causing the problem? I haven't done any TVE development for about a year... and the scaling/caching hasn't been worked on for at least 18 months. Attached is the scaling/caching code for the poster:

Does TVE use the newer phoenix_image_ apis or the older phoenix_api_ ? (not that it matters, it's just that the entire phoenix_api_ has been deprecated)

Like I said there has been no real TVE development for about a year so it is still using all the old phoenix_api_ methods.

[Fuzzy]

Looks simpler than that... i think you're missing an opening bracket in your json transform. "{name:rounded,arcSize:20}"

This is likely causing the createimage call to fail, resulting in a null being sent to the PosterImage widget.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Looks simpler than that... i think you're missing an opening bracket in your json transform. "{name:rounded,arcSize:20}"

well I'll be.... Just checked the banner call as well and that is missing the leading { as well... it's funny that this has never been an issue before... I certainly did not see it during development

skirge... to see if this is indeed the problem... fire up Studio (cntrl+shift+f12) and search for TVExplorerBanners (you should get 2 references... change the phoenix_api_createImage line to include the leading { per fuzzy's find.

Then do the same thing by searching for TVExplorerPosters

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

well I'll be.... Just checked the banner call as well and that is missing the leading { as well... it's funny that this has never been an issue before... I certainly did not see it during development

skirge... to see if this is indeed the problem... fire up Studio (cntrl+shift+f12) and search for TVExplorerBanners (you should get 2 references... change the phoenix_api_createImage line to include the leading { per fuzzy's find.

Then do the same thing by searching for TVExplorerPosters

Will do! Thanks for the help, guys. I thought this had been like this from my initial upgrade to SageTV 7, but I didn't want to falsely make that statement. Is this the same code that was in the later versions of TVE for SageMC, which never got ported? I do know I never had this issue in SageMC.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Looks simpler than that... i think you're missing an opening bracket in your json transform. "{name:rounded,arcSize:20}"

This is likely causing the createimage call to fail, resulting in a null being sent to the PosterImage widget.

I'll PM you with some information.

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

any chance that small change could be causing the problem?

Well, I haven't hear Mike or Bialio screaming.... so, I don't think there were any side effects of that change.... if anything, the change should have made things perform slightly better.

But, from looking at the studio code, it looks to be correct, and the ERROR in the log is not really an error (I should change to warn), since you are calling GetImage, which will cause the ERROR to be logged, if there isn't an image, and then you are correctly creating the image because GetImage returned null. That all looks correct, and the ERROR in the log is really a red herring in this case.

[OneOfMany]

Hmm.. I loved TVE on Sage6 MC, but used to get these periodic pauses during scrolling as well.. sometimes would pause for 10-15 seconds.

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by stuckless

But, from looking at the studio code, it looks to be correct, and the ERROR in the log is not really an error (I should change to warn), since you are calling GetImage, which will cause the ERROR to be logged, if there isn't an image, and then you are correctly creating the image because GetImage returned null. That all looks correct, and the ERROR in the log is really a red herring in this case.

I really hope you're wrong and this bracket fixes the issue.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I'll PM you with some information.

not sure if you were directing your pm to fuzzy or me but I'd like the info too

But, from looking at the studio code, it looks to be correct

Is the missing leading { in the json a problem or not?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

not sure if you were directing your pm to fuzzy or me but I'd like the info too
Is the missing leading { in the json a problem or not?

Sorry... yes, the missing { in the json tranform will be an issue, although, I have no idea at this time if it would cause the the entire process to bomb, or if it simply would fail to apply the transform.

I'll create a post later explaining the api changes.

[Skirge01]

I added the missing brackets first and that didn't change anything. The log still showed the same errors and the speed is the same.

I then focused on the ImageTransforms folder, mentioned by razr. When right-clicking on that folder or SageTV's folder, I was getting a heap error and explorer.exe was crashing. So, I researched that and found that programs adding right-click options can cause this. I saw VLC and ZipGenius listed and decided to uninstall them. That fixed the right-click issue.

I noticed that the user I have for the service was not listed as having permissions, so I added it to the folder and all subs for SageTV... just in case. Finally, I looked into the ImageTransforms folder and noticed only a single file: resize.js. I ran SageTV for a while, scrolling back and forth and nothing has ever shown up there. The log still shows the same errors.

Assuming image files should be appearing on my client PC (as opposed to the same folder on the server, which also has no images in it), then it would appear we may have a permissions issue, but I'm lost as to how or where. I have UAC turned off and "EVERYONE", "SYSTEM" and the user account used by the service on my server all have full control.

[razrsharpe]

so i mispoke earlier about the image directory sorry about that... the correct directories are ..\cache\imagefactory\TVExplorerBanners and TVExplorerPosters.... (was looking at my server where bmt has not been installed on it (clean v7 install havent fired up bmt yet)... just checked on my desktop and found the cache directory i was looking for... )

[razrsharpe]

I just updated the phoenix api to the latest (was running an ancient 1.7.something version on my client... yes its been that long since i've done any sage tinkering).... now i am getting the error failed to find a cached image for: blah blah errors...

I deleted (renamed) my TVExplorerBanners directory so that images would be recreated.... Banners are getting created, saved to that folder, and displayed in the stv, but I am getting the same error in the phoenix log (fixed the bracket issue on my end...)

2011-01-05 19:56:23,320 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR phoenix.impl.ImageAPI - Failed to find a cached image for: \\svr1\Sage\Fanart\TV\Southland\Banners\84645-g.jpg; tag: TVExplorerBanners

I'll need to dig into this and see if i can figure anything out...