XBMC HTTP-R, Remote Control app for PDA, PPC, or Smartphone (development help wanted)

[Halibutt]

Could it be that part of the problem is I don't use WideIcons for my media and instead use only Posters and Fanarts? Perhaps this script looks for WideIcons and when finds none simply crashes?

Also, is there a way to have both WideIcons and Posters in media folders? How should I name them?

(Four sentences, four questions...)

[tamago_quin]

Originally Posted by Halibutt

Could it be that part of the problem is I don't use WideIcons for my media and instead use only Posters and Fanarts? Perhaps this script looks for WideIcons and when finds none simply crashes?

Also, is there a way to have both WideIcons and Posters in media folders? How should I name them?

(Four sentences, four questions...)

the movie thumbs are not loading because the sql command is selecting from an empty column. possibly after this application was created the database structure has changed? this problem is out of my expertise....

as for the tv shows. try running indexing.php on the server. this app is trying to get the banners from a webpage, not your file structure. if that succeeds then this is a problem with your server config

these are my guesses. i dont have net access on my box so i can only theorize.

another idea might be to connect to your computers global ip address rather than its network ip address

[Halibutt]

Originally Posted by tamago_quin

the movie thumbs are not loading because the sql command is selecting from an empty column. possibly after this application was created the database structure has changed? this problem is out of my expertise....

Anyone?

as for the tv shows. try running indexing.php on the server. this app is trying to get the banners from a webpage, not your file structure. if that succeeds then this is a problem with your server config

Sadly, I have only one machine which serves both as a server and HTPC. Which means I'm already running it on my server. Or do you mean some fancy option to run it from within XAMPP in some way?

another idea might be to connect to your computers global ip address rather than its network ip address

Sadly, this doesn't seem to work (404). Perhaps my router doesn't put such connections through.

Thanks for the ideas anyway. Anyone else?
Cheers

[tamago_quin]

did you run indexing.php from your pc or your cell phone?


open http://localhost in chrome or firefox on your pc and see what happens

[Halibutt]

Originally Posted by tamago_quin

did you run indexing.php from your pc or your cell phone?

Both, actually. The effect is the same, whether it's Opera Mobile, Firefox and even Internet Exploiter.

Here's exactly what I do:

1. start XBMC
2. start XAMPP
3. start Apache
4. start mySQL
5. navigate to 192.168.1.101/xbmc/indexing.php

Indexing starts, that's when I get lots of such errors for Movies and TV shows

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18

I occasionally also get the following error here or there, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. Or is it?

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to 192.168.1.101:8080 (Próba połšczenia nie powiodła się, ponieważ połšczona strona nie odpowiedziała poprawnie po ustalonym okresie czasu lub utworzone połšczenie nie powiodło się, ponieważ połšczony host nie odpowiedział. ) in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\database\xbmc.php on line 95

open http://localhost in chrome or firefox on your pc and see what happens

It redirects me automagically to http://localhost/xampp/, with XAMPP Lite 1.7.2 info settings (that orange page with "Congratulations: You have successfully installed XAMPP on this system!").

EDIT/ Where does the indexer store the database? Perhaps there is an option to add such gfx manually? - or find a solution there...
Cheers

[tamago_quin]

i now think thetvdb has changed their site and the program cant find the images. have you been using media managers or xbmc to import movies or tv shows?

i think that might be screwing this up
maybe try to update your tv series...

copy the http address from the indexing errors and see if the image loads.

[Halibutt]

Originally Posted by tamago_quin

i now think thetvdb has changed their site and the program cant find the images. have you been using media managers or xbmc to import movies or tv shows?

I'm using MediaInfoPlus (MIP) to download pics - and they show up just fine in XBMC. Not sure if they're downloaded from tvdb or elsewhere.

i think that might be screwing this up maybe try to update your tv series...

You mean cleaning my library from within XBMC?

copy the http address from the indexing errors and see if the image loads.

Not sure what you mean. There's no address in the errors. They look exactly like the one below:

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18

, with the function.getimagesize linking to "http://192.168.1.101/xbmc/function.getimagesize" (in practice a 404 error).

So in practice the films and tv series parts look like this:

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
..
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.
Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Filename cannot be empty in C:\XAMPP\xampplite\htdocs\xbmc\includes\classes\modules\image.php on line 18
.

And so on.



Interestingly, the episode pics for my episodes seem to load up just fine.

[tamago_quin]

open tvshow.nfo in your series folder
after

<plot>...</plot> should be <thumb>http://..</thumb>

this is where xbmc is getting information for the database. try opening the links and see if it loads the images. my guess is that you will get 404 error

i can confirm the <thumb> tag is empty in the .nfo for movies. i honestly cant find the link between xbmc and the image. its stored in appdata folder but in the db its just not there.

we need someone who knows how the media managers and xbmc work.

ask the author of the media manager to pass through the thumb url?

i successfully got banners to work by changing this line to <thumb>e:\tv series\american dad\folder.jp</thumb>


first try the web links.im almost certain the banners have changed location on thetvdb.com

[Halibutt]

Originally Posted by tamago_quin

open tvshow.nfo in your series folder
after

<plot>...</plot> should be <thumb>http://..</thumb>

this is where xbmc is getting information for the database. try opening the links and see if it loads the images. my guess is that you will get 404 error

i can confirm the <thumb> tag is empty in the .nfo for movies. i honestly cant find the link between xbmc and the image. its stored in appdata folder but in the db its just not there.

we need someone who knows how the media managers and xbmc work.

ask the author of the media manager to pass through the thumb url?

i successfully got banners to work by changing this line to <thumb>e:\tv series\american dad\folder.jp</thumb>


first try the web links.im almost certain the banners have changed location on thetvdb.com

You're a genius my friend and you should know it. Indeed my .nfo files were apparently broken as there was nothing within the "thumb" field (namely <thumb />). Yet when I point the file to a manually-saved wide-icon or a recently-checked link and rescan the media, nothing really changes. I get more dots between the errors, but that's it, no graphics in the remote. I think we're nearing the solution though, thanks again for your help

Anyway, later this day (it's 4 AM here, FGS) I'll play a little more with the .nfo files and check where will it lead me to.

BTW, where does the scanning process save its' info to? Is there some file I could edit to sort it out? Because apparently it is scanning it in order not to use the same db as XBMC. Or am I getting something wrong here?
Cheers

[tamago_quin]

here is what mine is looking like now!
the tv show banners are coming from local files on my pc... as well as movie icon. i need to find a way to automate this though... it is very impractical as is.

-update-
i know how to solve this

select strpath, c00 left join + ".tbn"
tonight i will try to learn sqlite and see if i can solve this