myTV

Automatic sorting of recorded TV

woolooloo — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:00:18 GMT

I'm a new myTV user, purchased it this week, really pretty happy with it so far although I haven't had a chance to use it much yet, I'm still loading it up. As I've been tediously re-ripping my TV DVD's into episodes rather than the ISO's I've been using in MyMovies, I was not looking forward to having to rename all of the dvr-ms files in my recorded Tv directory.

So today I wrote a program to automatically go through, query the thetvdb.com database for the necessary information, rename the files, and put them into my "saved shows" directory where I store my files for myTV. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until just now that dgaust has written a service to do much the same, so it looks like there will be a new option for this :)

It is a command line program now, the usage is:

Usage: MCEZ Sort

(all command line options have been moved to the ConfigInfo.xml file)

It will search your recorded tv directory, try to determine the season and episode of each show based on its metadata, and rename/move the file to your saved tv directory. So for example, it found "d:\recorded tv\Two and a Half Men_WJZY_2008_11_10_19_30_02.dvr-ms" on my system, determined that it was season 5, episode 4, and moved it to "d:\saved tv\Two and a Half Men\Season 05\Two and a Half Men.S05E04.City of Great Racks.dvr-ms".

There are currently some limitations I will work to get rid of:

1. Will only work with one output (saved shows) directory. I imagine some people may have collections that span multiple directories and this won't necessarily work well in that environment (yet). Update, multiple directories can be configured manually in the SeriesInfo.xml file.

2. Matches on the first matching series in thetvdb.com's system. So for example, I had a Life On Mars episode, and I guess that is originally a UK show, so the proper name for the series in thetvdb.com is "Life On Mars (US)". Right now it will match on the UK version "Life On Mars". In my case it didn't match the other criteria so it didn't find a season/episode and just left the file for manual handling but in some cases it may wrongly match up and move the file. Update, the correct series id can be configured manually in the the SeriesInfo.xml file.

3. The renaming convention is fixed, it puts it into a subfolder "Name of Show" in your saved tv directory, and then puts it into a subfolder "Season XX" in there. The file will be named "Name of Show.SXXEXX.Name of Episode.dvr-ms". Update, naming is completely configurable as described in a later post and in ConfigInfo.xml.

The program also has a schedule culler. It will look through X days of your future scheduled recordings and if it finds there are reruns scheduled that you already have archived, it will cancel the recording. This will free up your tuners if you are trying to complete your collection of a series and it keeps recording the episodes you already have. For example, I am trying to collect all episodes of Family Guy. Reruns air like 10 times a day on different channels, but I only need a few episodes to complete my collection so I really only need like 1% of what is being recorded for the series. The culler will go through and cancel all the recordings for episodes I already have and free up my tuners.

Short term improvements will include the following, please provide feedback if you are interested in this tool.

1. Flexible renaming criteria. I am interested in knowing how people name their files so that I can make it flexible enough for everyone to use. Done

2. Allow it to span multiple output directories. Done via manual configuration

3. Provide a config file to store parameters. Done

4. Provide a user interface to resolve conflicts.

5. Provide a service that will run automatically.

6. Look for existing folders with the series information to further reduce the number of queries to thetvdb.com

7. Add support for WTV files for those with TV Pack. Done

8. Allow you to tell it to skip certain series, or to only move certain shows. Done

Anyways, that's all for tonight. If you are interested in testing with the current version and can live with the limitations, feel free. You can also set up test directories if you don't want to mess with your real files. You can also use the "-c" option to copy the files to the new directory instead of move them, but as you probably know, copying these files can take a lot of time.

If there are any features you'd like to see added, please let me know.

If you are interested in taking a look, you can find it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/348000606/mcez-sort.1.2.0.a.zip

Looking for good movie site...Have TVT invite to trade

lchuck — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:45:37 GMT

I've got a tvtorrents.com invite for someone who can get me an invite to a good movie torrents site. I would prefer a site that offers MKV files, as those seem to offer the best video quality along with the ability to handle chapter stops. Feel free to PM me with any invites you have to offer. I've got a good ratio and currently have over 600GCredits on the tvtorrents.com site. Thank you!

MyVPN

maccagill — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:18:20 GMT

Under purchases, I notice MyVPN product, but after doing a search I cannot find any info on it.

Could you send me in the right direction

Windows 7 Media Center Play Menu

kendrome — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:46:37 GMT

I see an option in settings for "Use standard Media Center playback screen", my first thought is that when you select a episode to play it would pop up the same menu as when you select a video under video library. If there is some way to actually enable something like this, it would enable an easy way to resume an episode.

What does this option actually do?

Thanks,

Joshua

After a Microsoft remote

fuminggorilla8 — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:35:59 GMT

I am willing to buy a Microsoft remote if anyone feels like parting with one.
I have checked ebay and searched the web to no avail.
There are some stores in the USA that have some but dont ship to Australia.
I need one with the tv button up the top left of the remote and has the ability to learn volume ir codes.
The harmony is out of the question as I hate the hard clickety sound.

How can I reset the database and start again?

furtive — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:38:55 GMT

Mine has got it's knickers in a twist so I want to purge it and start again. Currently every time I start MyTV it says there are new episodes to add and then tries to add the directories Season 1, Season 2, etc.

Or anyone know how to fix the problem I've got?

I need to account Torrent

Black Wolf — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:30:29 GMT

Hi Anyone got an account for HD-Bits.org (not .ro)

Thanks

Can't add new Shows

planejumper — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:52:20 GMT

I can't seem to add new shows to the database.

The System log shows this error about once per minute:

The myTV watcher service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1765 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

of course the number increases by 1 each time.

The Application log shows the following (also about once per minute):

Faulting application name: myTVservice.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4a0df260
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16559, time stamp: 0x4ba9b802
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000c6df2
Faulting process id: 0x1bd8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb13b4811864c3
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\senseIT\myTV\myTVservice.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: cc100df0-7fa7-11df-963d-001fc644b080

Any ideas?

TVTorrents.com down

danielreid — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:58:02 GMT

Anyone else here a member of TVTorrents.com and have any info on why the site is down? Been down since yesterday now and just gives some Apache error. No idea how to get any info on the site if you can't get on there!

Trackers all all down as well, it seems.

HD files over a network

danielreid — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:16:42 GMT

I'm planning on moving all my media files off my PC and onto a NAS storage box at some point in the future. To test the effectiveness of accessing files over the network, I tried placing a few episodes on a share on my server and accessing them using media player. The standard def TV shows start up just fine (those being of the 170-350MB size avi files) However when I try and play HD files (1-1.5GB mkv files) these take 30-odd seconds to start playing.

Is this normal behaviour for trying to run large movie files over a network (I'm running gigabit ethernet between a Win 7 Pro PC and a W2K8R2 server) or am I having some unusual technical difficulty?

I assume ther must be other people here who run files over a network between multiple media centres with myTV. Anyone else had any problems like this and how did you resolve it?

Advanced Multi-user support

danielreid — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:16:15 GMT

Now, I know deveopment is on a bit of a hold at the moment, so I'm not posting about something I expect to see any time soon, but I've been slowly planning out a basis for a centralised media storage/multi-media centre setup at home and an idea dawned on me.

I'd once mentioned the idea of parental controls as a feature before, but I thought of a better structure for this, based on the notion of having multiple users accessing the same media. So this is the idea;

Have a logon screen similar to the workgroup-based Windows logon. ie. a list of users. Some can be password-protected if you want. Otherwise, just click and go straight in.
The top-level administrator account would be able to choose which shows are visible to different users. That way my wife and I can see shows like "The Sopranos," whilst our kids accounts don't even show it up in the list.
Here's the real idea that brought me to this structure. Perhaps my wife and I are watching the same series, but at a different pace. I'm on epsidoe 16, whilst she's still on episode 3. Now that we have separate logon accounts to MyTV, the database could store different lists of what has been watched and what hasn't. This way we don't get confuised about which episodes I have watched and which she has watched.

This would make things far easier when all your meida is centralised and you have multiple media centres around the house, which different people potentially watching shows at different paces. It also gives a fine control over who can watch what. (just keep that admin password away from the kids!)

Like I said, I am not expecting to see this feature any time soon, but I think it would be a great capability that would help push myTV to a new level and put it ahead of what the competition can do. I don't know how easy it would be to implement to the system, of course.

Of course, I'll probably find out that somoen has suggested this before, but hey, that would just prove it'd be a popular feature! What does everyone else think of this idea?

New machine - files not updating in database

Glenn — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:27 GMT

I have had to get a new MPC and have been setting up the database from scratch.

Admittedly I have many thousands of episodes which have been added to the myTV database; albeit very slowly.

I notice that when I reboot the PC I have to start the watcher service each time although there are no errors when doing this.

The adding of shows though seems to have ground to a halt.

Looking at the database; after initially adding lots of shows it has only added one show in the last several hours.

The event log does show this though:

Unhandled crash occured.

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader()

at myTVservice.myTVservice.CheckEpisodeImages()

at myTVservice.myTVservice.InitialRun()

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)

at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

Glenn

How does myTV compare to similar apps?

jrandeck — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:11:17 GMT

Maybe I'm missing something, but I've been looking around the site trying to figure out what the features of myTV actually are and how it differs from other add-ins like Media Browser.

If there's a page that has this, please point me there

If not, what does this do that makes it worth buying sight unseen without a free trial period?

Unable to add TV show V

jojovee — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:42:48 GMT

Hi, was wondering if someone could help me please? I'm trying to add the TV show V but myTV isn't picking it up? How can get myTV to see it please? I think it's to do with the fact that it's a one letter show that's why it's unable to be seen. Is there a workaround I can do?

Thanks in advance.

Unknown airdate for some series

Glenn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:06:49 GMT

I am getting an "unknown airdate" for a lot of series. It seems that for a specific series, all dates are coming out as "unknown" even though there are dates in the tvdb.

I will give you a list of examples:

Alias Smith and Jones - unknown dates

Alien Nation - unknown dates

Babylon 5 - dates ok

Banacek - unknown dates

The Beast - dates OK

Burn Notice - dates OK

Cold Case - dates OK

Columbo - unknown dates

Dad's Army - dates OK

Dr Who - dates OK

The Fugitive - unknown dates

Hardcastle and McCormick - unknown dates

Hawaii Five-O - unknown dates

The Invaders - unknown dats

Jericho - dates OK

MacGyver, Magnum, Man from UNCLE. Matlock, McCloud - unknown dates

McMillan and Wife - dates OK

New Tricks - dates OK

I certainly can't see a pattern.

Any thoughts?

Sort order and DVD specials

Glenn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:07:46 GMT

I decided to split my Doctor Who episodes into separate folders with one for each Doctor.

I therefore created lots of directories called Doctor Who A, Doctor Who B etc.

Within each, I put a series.id file which was the same in each folder.

When myTV picked these up, then using the path displayed when editing the series information, I worked out the order myTV was displaying them in an amended the art to show, for instance William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton or Jon Pertwee etc.

Although myTV displayed the series in series order it paid no attention to the folder name (which is to be expected I suppose).

The folder sequence should be WH in A, PT in B, JP in C etc.

What I was shown first time though was JP in A, PM in B, SM in C etc

I decided it didn't really matter so put the episodes into the folders as listed within the correct order as myTV was displaying which turned out to be g, h, a, d etc

This worked perfectly and although the directory names seemed to make no sense, myTV was displaying the Doctors in the correct sequence.

That was until I opened myTV again and the sequence changed and it is different every time I start myTV.

My question is therefore, how does myTV determine the order of items displayed in the list - is it just by series name and then indetermined?

If this is the case, as it seems to be, then I would have thought it a useful enhancement for the sort order to be Series name and folder name.

My next problem comes with copying the DVD extras (all just called by their filename) into sub-folders within the directories. These work fine but myTV insists on making all these as special number 1000. As a result as soon as you watch one of them, myTV flags them all as watched which is irritating to say the least. I know I raised this once before and was told that myTV was designed to do it this way as it was what people wanted. I can't see why this is the case as it makes no sense to me.

As far as I can see, the only way to get it to work without giving each file a ficticious episode number is to have a separate "special" folder in which case, the files all appear as separate entities.

Export from myTV

Glenn — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:22:29 GMT

I have had a failure of some of my hard discs on my NAS and cannot remember what was actually on the discs that have failed.

The information is still held within myTV and I was wondering if there is anyway to export the data from myTV so I can get a list of what was there.

I can then compare that to what I can find on my multitude of drives to work out what I am missing.

I could manually go through each series but this is tedious.

Is there any way I can copy the database and then access it using Microsoft Access or alternatively export all the data in a delimited file of some type?

Any help or suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

Glenn

HDBits or SceneHD invites - any spare?

crisp82 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:27:51 GMT

Hey,

Does anyone have any invites to HDBits, SceneHD or somewhere similar that I can grab and share a copy of HD BSG? The public trackers are crap for anything not released last week.

Unfortunately, I am new to this whole private tracker business. That means I have no invites to trade. Sorry.

Thanks,

crisp82

Updates please.

ec96joan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:24:42 GMT

Now it's been a year since "about to drop the build" in this thread:
http://mytv.senseitweb.com/forums/t/5374.aspx?PageIndex=1

And it's been 4 (!) months since he said "I will be back on the forums this week with some proper updates" in tihs thread:
http://mytv.senseitweb.com/forums/p/5374/61934.aspx#61934
And now they've locked the thread..how convenient..no more complaints. Just cover your ears and they don't exist.

I'm sorry for being harsh...but I have been patient.

Unable to get working, MyTVService Crash, Media Center Extensibility Host Stopped Working.

sdukes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:07:12 GMT

Just purchased this the other day. Installed on W7 x64 followed the install guide, did the netsh cmds.

When ever i click MyTV-Settings-Database it ends with the Media Center Extensibility Host Stopped Error.

Also it doesn't find any of my episodes even though i've set the location. On check MyTV in the event logs it appears the service crashes with:

Unhandled crash occured. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) at senseIT.General.MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfo.MediaInfo_New() at senseIT.General.MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfo..ctor() at myTVservice.myTVservice.VideoFileInformation(FileInfo f) at myTVservice.myTVservice.AddEpisodeToShow(Object obj) at myTVservice.myTVservice.AddEpisodes(Object showUIDobj) at myTVservice.myTVservice.CheckEpisodes() at myTVservice.myTVservice.InitialRun() at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times including the Windows media player and Center features, SQL Server 2008 R2 (Database is created, Series data from folders gets entered no episodes however), MyTV, MediaInfo, etc etc and i get the same errors everytime.

Please can anyone help?

Cheers,

will work with VIDEO_TS

carlos28355 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:44:07 GMT

Hello before I pay for this program I wanted to know if it works with VIDEO_TS structure of tv shows. i dont convert them into avi or mpeg or anything else. im sorry if this is answered somewhere. i could not find an answer to this. thanks!

RSS Feed Updater for Torrents

Mackio — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:01:55 GMT

Hi everyone,

I noticed that there have been a few requests around the forums for fully automating torrent downloads and I would also like this feature. So I decided to write a program for bridging the gap between myTV and a torrent client (such as uTorrent, Vuze, etc). I'm quite new to programming and this is really only a temporary solution. The way it works is you point it to the directory that myTV downloads torrent files and it will update an RSS feed that is stored on a local IIS server based on the torrent files in the directory. You then add the feed to uTorrent and use the inbuilt features to sort through different TV shows and put them in the appropriate directory.

Requirements:

Internet Information Services (download through Web Platform Installer here)

myTV

Torrent client that supports RSS Feeds (recommend uTorrent)

Configure IIS:

1. Install IIS

2. Create a folder in a place you will remember (C:\IIS\) and then make two subfolders (I'll use "torrents" and "rss")

3. Run Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

4. In the left pane under connections expand PCNAME -> Sites -> Default Web Site

5. Right click Default Web Site and click Add Virtual Directory

6. Fill in Alias with a name you will remember (this is important as it will be part of the URL later)

7. For Physical Path, browse to the folder you made in step 2 (I used C:\IIS\)

Configure myTV:

1. Start Media Center

2. Go to myTV Settings

3. Go to General -> Torrent Download directory and change it to the subfolder you made earlier (I used C:\IIS\torrents)

Configure RSS Feed Updater:

1. Open Notepad and click save (give it a name like rssfile), then change the file extension to .xml. Navigate to your folder called rss (C:\IIS\rss) and save it there.

2. Start RSS Feed Updater

3. Under RSS Feed Location browse to the RSS file in your RSS subfolder (C:\IIS\rss\rssfile.xml)

4. Under Torrents folder browse to your torrents subfolder (C:\IIS\torrents\) NOTE: Make sure you include the trailing slash or it will crash.

5. Under Server Address to RSS Folder write http://(HOSTNAME if local just leave as "localhost")/(ALIAS NAME DEFINED IN STEP 6 OF CONFIGURING IIS)/NAME OF RSS FOLDER (rss)/NAME OF RSS FILE (IN STEP 1, rssfile.xml)

6. Under Server Address to Torrents Folder write http://(HOSTNAME if local just leave as "localhost")/(ALIAS NAME DEFINED IN STEP 6 OF CONFIGURING IIS)/NAME OF TORRENT FOLDER (torrents)/

7. Under Regeneration Interval (Seconds) type the amount of time in seconds to refresh the torrent file (make the number higher if performance is impacted too heavily, default is 1)

8. Hit Save Settings to save the settings to a config file

9. Press Start to begin updating and your done!

I won't go through how to add and filter feeds here as this can be found elsewhere on the internet (the feed URL is the same as Server Address to RSS folder in your config). Please let me know if you plan to repost this tutorial.

Mackio

Only small fraction of Episodes added to DB.

reschi85 — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:09:33 GMT

Hi,

I've purchased myTV yesterday, installed it as described in the documentation and added the folder that contains all my tv shows (located on a nas). After myTV finished downloading metadata I realised that only a small fraction of the episodes were added to the db. For example only 20 of my 150+ episodes of friends were added. Format an naming of all episodes is identical.

I tried reinstalling sqlexpress and myTV several times but nothing changed. Actually sometimes only 2 or 3 episodes were added.

The only unusual thing I found in the myTV log was the following exception which occurred repeatedly.

Since I didn't find a solution here, I would be really grateful for any help.

Unhandled crash occured.

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader()

at myTVservice.myTVservice.UpdateShows(Object obj)

at myTVservice.myTVservice.InitialRun()

at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)

at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Old pro feels like new again :(

hansolo77 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:51:11 GMT

Guys I need some help. I'm reinstalling everything from scratch since having to rebuild my server. Here's where I'm at..

New motherboard and smaller drives in the WHS. Still running the initial install of WHS ok (x86 version). I was using an older version of myTV on another machine and this server in the past. A few days ago I tried to run myTV from within MCE to see if the database connections and everything still worked. They didn't, much to my disappointment. When I closed MCE after discovering an error, my MCE machine suddenly BSOD'd. Since the MCE machine was configured to automatically reboot, I never got to see what the BSOD error was. When the computer rebooted, I couldn't login to Windows. It said the password was wrong. How can that be? I'm lazy and have always had Windows automatically log me in. I tried to type the password in manually, but it said it was invalid! I was able to reboot into Safe Mode and reset the password back to what it used to be. Now I can login to Windows fine, and everything seems back to normal working order. I can access my shares and whatnot on the WHS fine, and can stream TV shows from it with no problem. However, myTV continuously throws out errors to me, so I assumed the database got corrupted somehow in the fire. I uninstalled the database fine, and found dgaust's walkthough doc on installing fresh with SQLExpress 2008. I followed it to the letter. I then downloaded the lastest version of myTV and started to install it. It seems to go along fine with installing until it gets to the part where it's "Creating Databases." It then craps out with an error: "Error -2147467259: failed to create SQL database: myTV, error detail: unknown error." I thought perhaps I had mistyped something somewhere, but after numerous attempts, I'm no where closer to getting myTV installed and working than I was 2 days ago when I first started.

One thing I've noticed, which may be of no consequence, is that when I installed SQLExpress 2008 on the WHS, and I was assigning admins, the WHS didn't list my MCE username (mce is the username, mce-PC is the computer) as a valid choice. Wouldn't \\mce-PC\mce be a valid username to use or would I not need this? I did follow the doc instructions and create the current user as an admin though. Should I be using that user as the Service username when installing myTV on the MCE machine? If so, how does it associate that username on the mce-PC?

Any help you guys can provide me would be great. I'm very tempted to assume my MCE machine is to blame, with that BSOD corrupting my password. I'd hate to have to reinstall Windows just to get this all to work again.

Cant get the Episode Menu Fanart View to work

glenpel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:50:11 GMT

Hi All

I hope you can help me. I installed MyTV a few days ago and am very impressed at it's speed and the quality of the metadata. I have only one problem.

I can't for the life of me get the Episode Menu Fanart View to work. I have gone into settings in the interface and changed the view. However whenever I go to the Episode menu I always see only the Normal Detail View.

I have searched through the forums and can not find any other posts with a similar problem. I have seen that Fanart can take some time, however I have now had MyTV installed for four days! In all other respects it is working fine.

I have also confirmed that the view fanart setting in the settings.xml file is set to true.

Am I missing something? Is this a feature which is not yet implemented?

Thanks in advance.