TV Rename 3 - Potential features

lysp

04-08-2011 21:00:58

Just writing a few ideas here for potential features in v3.

TV FUNCTIONALITY:

* Extract out the torrent functionality to a plugin system to allow other systems.
- Specifically usenet/nzb support as well as torrent support (sabnzbd).

This should have functionality such as:
- does item exist in queue
- current status (downloading/queued/percentage/time til complete/etc)
- add to queue

MOVIE FUNCTIONALITY:

In terms of movies, i was going to make my own application that mimics tvrename functionality, and had played around with some basic ideas and code for it. But if this can be inbuilt into tv-rename, i'm happy to share some ideas/code for this.

One of the good things about tv rename is the suggestion of upcoming episodes. A way of implementing this into movies is to use "top 100" blockbuster lists for each year. That way people can see the list of movies available by year, show which ones they have and have not got and search for those. I have some code that gets a this from imdb really easily/quickly.

Another thing is to know when to get movies (as in when are they finally released). Can use many sources for this - scene release sites, dvd release sites, blu-ray release sites. Again plugin system.


GLOBAL FUNCTIONALITY:

Have the ability to store source type and "upgrade" the source when available.

For example tv shows have different versions:
SD tv, HD tv, DVDRip, BDRip (divx), BDRip (MKV).

So when the dvd version of a show comes out, automatically replace a show with a better version (if the user wants that), being able to skip certain versions too.

For movies they get released in different versions too:
Cam, TS, SCR, DVDRip, BRRIP (divx), BDRip (divx), MKV.

So have the ability to search/skip/upgrade certain versions.


Also have the ability to get repacks, propers for tv shows/movies.

scphantm

07-08-2011 13:47:08

interesting stuff.

as i said before, im not planning on doing the interfaces and such for plugins till 3.1. if you would like you can pull down the tvrename3 and start looking thru it. im working on remapping the data members right now to move from xml to the data engine. i kinda screwed up and did it out of order so its going to take me a bit to get it to compile again than i expected, but ill manage. once i have the initial compile im going to release the code for people to debug and test. that would actually be a good point for someone (you) to start reorganizing things into compartments that can easily be broken into plugins in 3.1

pzam

30-10-2011 04:33:32

sugestion.
1---- I tried out lots of competing renamers and it seems that having folders numbered 01 02 04 ...10 20 30 is more standard to all the programs.
xbmc i thin is only one that seems to still use 1 2 3 but it can go both ways.
I had a massive problem with tvrename after renaming all the folders to 01 02 03 and trying to change them back to 1, 2, 3
this might be looked at changing in future versions.


2---another problem is going from 1x02 to s01e02 especially if the 1x2 is like this.

3 a log to show errors it finds while scanning.. list files it can not find info for files it cannot rename

4 ask before renaming any folder.

5 if nfo is not xml rename it to .info then create xml if more than one nfo in folder list it on errors

6 the current version sometimes seems to put another thumb in the folder then try to rename it on the current one. without some viewer it is hard to know which is right. it may be best to just delete both or stop and ask but i doubt anyone would know which to keep. possibly have a quick compare on any files that dupe up and delete one if identical.

7. take quick look at the video spec of each show and list the quality. also look at the bps frame rate and frame size. have option to recreate them at more efficient spec if they are taking to much room. i like to convert everything to 640 width or below and 1300bps vid or 890 or so for 2 pass. this gives ok pic on up to 46in TV and takes half the space or less than a hd file.

8 append the original file name to the .info file before renaming them so they can be undone if something occurs.

9. allow for a drive to go offline and just have all that drives files be locked that session. then you can plug and play drives instead of having them all connected at once to scan.

10 alternate names handling. some shows are called by different names or had names changed after a season or 2.

unclewoja

03-11-2011 19:42:29

I'm not really sure that video transcoding should be a feature until a very, very long way down the road. If we ignore the HDD price spikes due to the Thailand floods, HDD space is so ridiculously cheap and I see absolutely nothing to gain by downloading an HD file, transcoding it to SD to save $0.04 of HDD space instead of just downloading the SD version in the first place. If video transcoding were to be feature I think it would be far more beneficial to have it be part of a management system for mobile devices.

Plug your tablet or phone in, choose the episodes/movies you want and transfer them to your device while transcoding on the fly. However, this should only be done by someone with good knowledge of programs like handbrake and send data TO handbrake to transcode the file rather than re-inventing the wheel. All that said, by the time that is integrated into TVRename 3, mobile devices will pack so much power than HD video files will be no problem. 720p is already playable on tablets.

Trakt and follow.it integration would be a big, BIG plus and should be fairly easy. This would offer many additional features both now and in the future as trakt and follow.it grow in popularity.

A handy feature could be allowing other programs to use TVRename's functionality. I would love to be able to have MP-TV Series use TVRename to find new files, move them, rename them and add them to its own database all with one click of the remote (or automatically as the plugin is configured by default)

FTP functions would be handy for me, but not necessarily for the majority of users. I use a seedbox for all my torrents. I'd love for TVRename to scan my seedbox ftp server for new files, FTP the file to a temp location and rename/move it, then delete it from the seedbox.

mediainfo integrated.....++++++++++ I can't stress enough how important I think that would be for TVR3

geek005

26-03-2012 21:03:56

A couple of thoughts, partly based on being a mod over at thetvdb.com:

1) Thetvdb.com have a policy of grouping sequels (not spin-offs or related shows) together into seasons of the same show, mostly this affects Anime at the moment but may also affect things like Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister & Wonders of the Solar System/Wonders of the Universe etc in the future. There is a small amount of talk about how the new site (No ETA) will handle these but might be worth looking at a feature in TV Rename 3 to split these into separate shows.

2) Would be nice to be able to detect files in directories that don't belong there, for example if a show was listed as having an episode in it initially then it got classed as a special, you already have it but in the wrong folder.

3) Not so much a feature as something to be aware of, at some point thetvdb.com will be moving to a new site (No ETA) and API. ( http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8708 )