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hey
hate to say it, but still no improvement when using a NAS and Movies folder witb b7.
Strangely the Series Folder works fine.
hope it helps
Cheers
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To you the same experiment DrPepper, would you download beta 5 from my previous post and follow those steps as well?
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That's pretty odd, could you try quitting the app, removing the preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/com.vidalvanbergen.vimediamanager.xml and try again?
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2011-09-16, 00:05
(This post was last modified: 2011-09-16, 00:11 by MariusTh86.)
I've been vaguely aware of this problem. ^^;
It's mainly caused by the screen painting the window only half way or something, before it stops because it pops up an error that a location can't be found, and it only happens if the error message comes at the start up of the program.
Usually this is resolved by removing the missing location, and restart the application.
Ideally one would only have to remove the missing location and not have to go through restarting the app...
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Another quick test: SMB vs AFP
I'll be interested to see if DrPepper's troubles go away when NFO files are not loaded.
(incidentally, MariusTh86, maybe adding a "debug" mode that doesn't load NFO files when you run by Shift+double-clicking, or similar, would be handy. I have other ideas for "debug" features as well, such as automatically saving a debug log to the desktop and maybe even showing the time it took to load a list so you know if something is normal or not)
I just loaded my active collection, with b7, over both AFP (my normal method) and SMB. It was pretty quick both ways, and both ways worked just fine. I have 247 movies in the folder currently on my NAS (homemade, runs Ubuntu server, everything configured by myself, nothing really tweaked yet). It took only a few seconds to load the list.
So far b7 is working pretty nicely for me. One feature request would be to show thumbnails of the downloaded artwork so we could see more at a time. then if you picked one you could see it larger before choosing it, or just pick it and save it. Regardless, it would still be handy to see the resolution specs when you pick an item in that scenario.
Another: The list should show the title, but be sorted by the sorttitle. That's how XBMC works and that's how I had expected this to work but it shows the sorttitle as well. Not a huge deal but instead of sets, I've taken to sorting certain things (such as the Harry Potter series) by simply adding a number after the title. In the HP case, I had something such as harry potter 01 harry potter 02, etc. but to know which is which when viewing in ViMM, I had to also re-add the titles so I didn't have to click on each one.
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Sorry, one more: I personally don't like the added display-case look for the poster images. I would prefer to not see it, so an option would be nice. At the same time, more and more options aren't always a great thing. So if I had to cast a vote, it would be to simply display the image as is, no modification.
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I see bugs are running away in fear :-) Great work.
Some suggestions:
- Icons (grid) view could be very useful.
- An option to define what will be scraped. I do not use all of those banner, landscape, so an option to turn those off and leave only what I need would speed up app, save the bandwidth (both mine and metadata provider's)
Thanks.
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