heres an update for you guys running the new OSes the site is writen in classic asp, so if you made it past installing iis on your vista or your win7 machines heres a link to get you over the last hurdle.
http://blog.krisvandermast.com/SettingUpClassicASPOnWindowsVistaAndIIS7.aspx
Don't forget you need to add an exception within your windows firewall so you can access it from your ps3
just got done a vista install and it went, well lets just say it went. but xmydia is running.
ooopss I thought I had it happening, heres one more change... you need to enable parent paths, I used a lot of includes and mappaths...
Almost there. When I open xmydia.swf on the PS3 (or on my local pc), the icon that shows a connection to the PS3 Media Server has a red cross through it. I have followed the documentation for setting up the PS3 Media Server. Is there something else I need to do? I notice that when I open the browser, it does not prompt me to accept the plugin either.
ReplyDeleteGreat! New movies have been detected :) However, when I click 'Update Movies', the status bar is running, but it never updates anything?
ReplyDeleteHi, this looks really promising. How hard would it be to get it to work on a Mac that's running PS3MS?
ReplyDeletePlease ignore previous post, it's working like a charm :) Any chance to resize it in a future release? I've tried resizing on the PS3, but it's either to small, or to big to fit the screen. Don't know if it's because my tv is PAL.
ReplyDeletesure i'll try pull together a pal release this week, glad to here its working.
ReplyDeleteHi, this is excellent. Please help, I must have configured something incorrectly.
ReplyDelete- Movies are detected, but when I click the button to update the movies, the status bar just keeps going. I checked the thumbnails and jacket folders, and the images are already there?
- The cancel button isn't working when I decide not to update the movies
- The sound button does nothing.
I am running this on windows 7. Have I missed something?
windows 7 hey thats pretty good!!!
ReplyDeletethere may be a movie in your list that is causing an error.
open up the allmovies.xml, see if its updated the file with all of your current movies, you'll see in the title node of the xml, compare that list with the titles in the jacket/thumbnails folder.
there is one bug in that it will not update/overwrite a thumbnail or jacket that is already created. if you see a thumbnail/jacket that exsist that doesnt in the xml file, delete them.
Theres no sound added because i was trying to conserve memory, theres actually another version that would play a random mp3 file from your media library but the ps3 browser couldnt sustain it, so you have to cut corners whereever you can.
as for the cancel button im gonna have to look into that one, what it should to is just stop the update process and close the update button.
This still isn't working for me. I click update and it appears to be updating. The XML file updates, the thumbnails are downloaded...but the update status bar stays there. I went to /guts/missingxml.asp and I get "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator." ASP is installed and set to true etc. This is in Windows 7.
ReplyDeletesome troubleshooting help, try a few movies first then add more to the list. If you can get it to update and display one or two movies then it has to be a problem with one of the titles..
ReplyDeletethe way xmydia grabs movie info is it first grabs the imdb listing from google... ie
if you type imdb.com:ghostbusters in a google search you will see the very first hit is from imdb along with the associated code. it then grabs the code from google then starts pulling info from imdb.
If that first hit doesnt correspond to the standard response like ghostbusters, (ive seen this on newer movies) it will cause the update to fail.
hence the need to have your movies named with the actual name of the movie.
ok im going have to add some better error checking on this.
If you are able to get xmydia working with one or two titles, then heres some troubleshooting for finding the title thats causing the problems.
Theres two errors that I know of...
The remake error ie Halloween1979/2009, what will happen is xmydia will give it the same id number and update and malform the xml doc. this one is harder to spot but the xml structure should look like this....
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*photo id="0100161"*
*thumbnail*thumbnails/Mister Frost.jpg*/thumbnail*
*filename*jacket/Mister Frost.jpg*/filename*
*imdb*tt0100161*/imdb*
*title*Mister Frost*/title*
*genra*Horror*/genra*
*file*Mister Frost.avi*/file*
*rating*5*/rating*
*description***[CDATA[*p**p**a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100161" target="_blank"**img border="0" src="guts/imdb-logo.png" width="35" height="25"**/a**br**strong*Frost is arrested.....*/strong*]]*
*/description*
*/photo*
anything out of that norm will crash. what was happening to me was it was updating the same movie twice, so there were duplicate title/genre and so on that was malforming the xml doc.
Second error i know of is if a crash occurs durning update, ie a imdb listing doesnt exsist for one of the movies, or the list is out of the ordinary.
when you open your xml doc with internet xplorer at the very bottom you will see..
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following tags were not closed: photos. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/inetpub/wwwroot/allvideo - Copy.xml'
add the closing tag to the bottom of the xml list.
one thing you could do is delete your thumbnails/jackets, and copy over a clean allvideo.xml and genres.xml from the downloaded zip over wtite your exsisting ones, and try only puting 5 videos in your video folder at a time. if sucessfull add 5 more untill it hangs,When it hangs, restart xmydia and click on the update list. go back to your allvideo.xml and compare that list with whats needing to be updated if you see a title that is in your xml and in you xmydia movie update list remove the move from your video list and try updating again.
hope that helps..
dgibson