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A lightweight anime tracker for Windows
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Crashes while using XBMC #34

Closed littleladyred closed 9 years ago

littleladyred commented 10 years ago

I use XBMC are my main media player and I have it selected in the program to monitor what I play.

I tried it today for the first time, I play the episode and when I go back to check Taiga it has stopped responding, then crashes. This means it's not automatically picking up and updating my hummingbird library. I tried it several times, and the problem still occurred. I tried using VLC media player instead and that didn't seem to cause Taiga to crash, but, it did not recognise the show but I think that is down to how I name my files. How would you suggest I name them?

My XBMC version is 13.2. Using Windows 7.

erengy commented 10 years ago

I've just tried using XBMC 13.2 along with Taiga and it worked as expected. The only issue that I know of is when XBMC scans a directory, it briefly opens all files, which Taiga can detect as if the file is being played.

I'm going to need more information in order to figure out how to deal with the crash.

  1. Does Taiga crash after you start watching an episode through XBCM, or before? (Hit Alt+Enter and run them side by side if necessary.)
  2. Can you give an example filename that crashes Taiga? (The full path, e.g. D:\Anime\Toradora\Toradora - 01.mkv)
  3. Does the same file crash Taiga when you play it through VLC? (Enable VLC from Settings → Recognition → Media players if necessary.)
rr- commented 10 years ago

@erengy btw: XBMC was rebranded to Kodi about a month ago. I think you already know it, though.

erengy commented 10 years ago

Actually I didn't know that, thanks. I'll check it out and update media.xml accordingly.

littleladyred commented 10 years ago

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this.

  1. It crashes after I start playing an episode through XBMC. Otherwise it works fine.
  2. I was trying to watch The Irregular at Magic School I think. All my files follow this same pattern: The Irregular at Magic High School - S01E01- Enrollment Part I. If you want the full path (G:\Anime [Shows &Specials]\Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei [1080p]\Season 1). I use Media Center Master to batch name all my files so they are easily recognised by XBMC.
  3. It doesn't crash VLC no, however, Taiga cannot recognise the show I am watching which I assumed was down to how I named my files. I assumed the S00E00 format would not cause any problems.
littleladyred commented 10 years ago

Any update on this issue?

erengy commented 10 years ago

Haven't been able to reproduce the crash with the same filename and path as yours. :( v1.1.9 is right around the corner and it has some relevant changes that might fix the issue, though. If not, I'll give this another try.

littleladyred commented 10 years ago

Did Taiga manage to recognise the file name? As that is still an issue for me; I still have to manually input the episodes I've watched.

Looking forward to the update! :)

erengy commented 10 years ago

It's unable to recognize the filename because of the position of the second dash.

:x: The Irregular at Magic High School - S01E01- Enrollment Part I :white_check_mark: The Irregular at Magic High School - S01E01 - Enrollment Part I

I've added the first one as a test case, will try to fix this in v1.2 as well. Until then, perhaps you could batch rename your files to put a space before the dash.

littleladyred commented 10 years ago

I actually never noticed that there was a space missing on that second dash. Whoops my bad.

Updated Taiga and VLC recognises my episodes no problem. Thanks! :)

Good luck on that XBMC fix though. Not sure why it causes Taiga to crash.

On 12 November 2014 23:33, Eren Okka notifications@github.com wrote:

It's unable to recognize the filename because of the position of the second dash.

[image: :x:] The Irregular at Magic High School - S01E01- Enrollment Part I [image: :white_check_mark:] The Irregular at Magic High School - S01E01 - Enrollment Part I

I've added the first one as a test case, will try to fix this in v1.2 as well. Until then, perhaps you could batch rename your files to put a space before the dash.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/erengy/taiga/issues/34#issuecomment-62815434.

erengy commented 9 years ago

Do you use Watchdog or a similar add-on? Quoting from someone else who had the same issue:

I think I found the culprit. It's the Watchdog addon, I forgot that it was the last thing I installed. Disabling that (or changing an option) taiga works as usual. (...) Watchdog has an option about the watching method (I suppose) for local folders, auto or polling. default is auto, and taiga freezes. with polling taiga works.

littleladyred commented 9 years ago

That person is a god send! It was the watchdog add-on!

Thanks for your patience and for sharing this with me. It now works and recognises episodes. Glad to finally get to the bottom of it.

You may mark this as solved.