TV Theme Videos Plugin Questions and Support Thread

[psykix 97]

Well this is the thread that the help link under Movie Theme Videos plugin brings me to!

[psykix 97]

Oh wait.. I didn't realise there were two different plugins!!

[psykix 97]

Duh! I'll register the other one too :-p

 

Sorry for bothering you!

 

I registered one, but installed the other! /blush

Edited November 20, 2013 by psykix

[radeon 733]

Well this is the thread that the help link under Movie Theme Videos plugin brings me to!

 

 

Duh! I'll register the other one too :-p

 

Sorry for bothering you!

 

I registered one, but installed the other! /blush

 

haha, you really started to throw me then! No need to apologise, I was trying to ascertain the situation before I gave an answer, just to make sure the answer i gave was the right one!

 

Yeah, three plugins,

 

TV Theme Songs

TV Theme Videos

Movie Theme Videos

 

Glad we are now on the same page!

 

Let me know if you need any help! :-D

 

All the best,

[psykix 97]

Sorry one last question I promise!

 

If I had TV Theme Songs installed, and I now have TV Theme Videos, then do I need both? Since the video seems to have audio too?

[radeon 733]

Again, really no need to apologise, thats what this thread is here for. 

 

As for your question, I think that's more down to personal preference,

 

Whist i cant guarantee that either plugins will have all of your shows available, you will get a higher hit rate if you use both.

 

Most themes also seem to take the videos as a priority over the songs so if you have both in there, it will only use the video as its a better experience. Then, for those without video, it can fall back to songs. And yes, most theme vids have audio :-)

[gcw07 347]

Sorry one last question I promise!

 

If I had TV Theme Songs installed, and I now have TV Theme Videos, then do I need both? Since the video seems to have audio too?

Just in case you ever start using the Roku, since it is limited in what it can display it only uses the tv theme songs and not the videos. So the overlap is sometimes good for the different clients.

[psykix 97]

Excellent, I will keep both then!

[psykix 97]

Just in case you ever start using the Roku, since it is limited in what it can display it only uses the tv theme songs and not the videos. So the overlap is sometimes good for the different clients.

 

Just as well you said that, as I have 3 Roku boxes. (Soon to be 4 when I buy a Roku 3!)

[radeon 733]

Just in case you ever start using the Roku, since it is limited in what it can display it only uses the tv theme songs and not the videos. So the overlap is sometimes good for the different clients.

That's a very good point, I'm amazed i forgot it. I use the roku client everywhere and its epic! 6 Rokus now!!!!

[Niven 0]

I tried to install the plugin, but nothing happens... I check the plugin settings and there was only an option so send some messages about TVDBID etc.   

And also were does the plugin store the videos?

Edited November 21, 2013 by Niven

[radeon 733]

I tried to install the plugin, but nothing happens... I check the plugin settings and there was only an option so send some messages about TVDBID etc.   

You just need to run the scheduled task from the MediaBrowserServer Dashboard :-D

[Niven 0]

You just need to run the scheduled task from the MediaBrowserServer Dashboard :-D

Awesome, thanks! looking forward to test them out! 

[Erik 123]

Again, another great plug-in!

 

Only question is (that I saw mentioned by others, but couldn't find the answer) is there a way to limit the amount of times that the theme video (TV or Movie plug-in) plays? I love the video, but around the 4-5 time while i'm choosing an episode gets to repetitive.

 

Thanks,

Erik

[radeon 733]

Again, another great plug-in!

 

Only question is (that I saw mentioned by others, but couldn't find the answer) is there a way to limit the amount of times that the theme video (TV or Movie plug-in) plays? I love the video, but around the 4-5 time while i'm choosing an episode gets to repetitive.

 

Thanks,

Erik

The plugin is essentially a metadata provider, so enables the download of the videos in this case. How those files are used after that is down to the theme/client developer. I do know some of the themes repeat the once in the actual video itself but nothing more.

 

What particular theme/client are you using?

[Erik 123]

Thanks Radeon, I'm using MBT with just the default theme. So this is a setting that would be nice to have in MBT to change/select the number of repeats then?

 

Thanks.

[radeon 733]

Yeah that's right. @@Luke ^^^ you have a feature request ;-)

[psykix 97]

I'm getting the following error in the log :-

 

Any idea?

 

2013-11-22 02:05:10.6939, Info, App, HttpClientManager.Get url: http://www.ballingtons.com/s/tmdb/?t=9482

2013-11-22 02:05:11.3280, Error, App, Error downloading theme video for Haven

The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

System.Net.WebException

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(Uri address)

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(String address)

  at YoutubeExtractor.HttpHelper.DownloadString(String url)

  at YoutubeExtractor.DownloadUrlResolver.GetDownloadUrls(String videoUrl)

  at MediaBrowser.Plugins.ThemeVideos.Search.YouTubeSearch.2013-11-22 08:38:15.4725, Info, App, IntervalTrigger fired for task: Scan media library

[radeon 733]

 

I'm getting the following error in the log :-

 

Any idea?

 

 

 

Well that's strange, its basically telling you it can't find the api. Can you just re run and see if you get the same issue, it may just have been a short outage on my site.

 

Cheers,

[psykix 97]

Same error :-

 

Just seems to be on that Series (Haven)?

 

2013-11-22 10:03:54.0194, Info, App, HttpClientManager.Get url: http://www.ballingtons.com/s/yt/?t=158661

2013-11-22 10:03:54.7925, Error, App, Error downloading theme video for Haven

The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

System.Net.WebException

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(Uri address)

  at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(String address)

  at YoutubeExtractor.HttpHelper.DownloadString(String url)

  at YoutubeExtractor.DownloadUrlResolver.GetDownloadUrls(String videoUrl)

  at MediaBrowser.Plugins.ThemeVideos.Search.YouTubeSearch.2013-11-22 10:03:56.3330, Info, App, IntervalTrigger fired for task: Scan media library

Edited November 22, 2013 by psykix

[radeon 733]

 

Same error :-

 

Just seems to be on that Series (Haven)?

 

 

 

No others, just haven?

[psykix 97]

No others, just haven?

 

Yep, just errors on Haven and the plugin completed successfully.

[radeon 733]

Interesting! Give it another punt! I just changed a few things that may fix it.

[psykix 97]

Running now - one other thing, every time I run it, it appears to download stuff. Surely after a successful run, and with nothing new added, it shouldn't be downloading anything?

[radeon 733]

Running now - one other thing, every time I run it, it appears to download stuff. Surely after a successful run, and with nothing new added, it shouldn't be downloading anything?

What's your definition of download stuff? If you're referring to the connection with ballingtons.com domain, thats just when it's doing a lookup to see if anything is available. Its not actually downloading anything at that stage,

 

Also, whilst there are a lot of themes on there, it it's unlikely to get every single one in your collection, however, new themes are being added all the time, so if there are some missing in your collection, every time the schedule runs, it may well find newly added ones for your collection and download them for you.

 

Edit: to add to that, it wont keep downloading the same ones again and again, it will just attempt for those which are missing.

Edited November 22, 2013 by radeon