One of my first C#/OSS projects was TVScout, which eventually was renamed to MediaScout. Once it had a sufficient level of functionality, I grew disinterested with the project and ended up abandoning it. Krishmav has taken over as the project lead – I’ve stepped down. There is no bad blood here, just somebody interested in picking up where I left off. I am a little sad that none of my icons or artwork are in use anymore, but c’est la vie.
The last version I was involved with was v0.9c, while the new version is now errr version 3 Preview 2. Since I was running it all on my Windows Home Server, I’m unable to use the newer versions (requires Windows 7), so I’ll be sticking with my old versions for now.
MediaScout is available from Codeplex, in both source and binary form.
Since I’ve now added movie support to TVScout, I’ve decided to rename it MediaScout. I’ve recently released a new beta version of it, MediaScout 0.9 Beta 2a. The new features include a "management" tab for TV and movies, as well as "auto-tron" which monitors a folder and auto-fetches TV metadata.
The full changelog and screenshots are below.
As usual, you can download it from CodePlex.
Changelog (from MediaScout 0.9 Beta 2)
- fixed language support for TVShows
Changelog (from MediaScout 0.9 Beta 1)
- Episode posters now showing properly
- Season posters now showing properly
- Movie backdrops now showing correctly
- Movie backdrops now selectable
- Fetching a movie now includes backdrops, and is threaded/will update the image fields after downloading needs indicator!
- When fetching a movie, it won’t overwrite a poster or backdrop if it already exists.
- Removes ‘:’ and ‘?’ from filenames in TV episodes so that they’re saved to disk correctly
- Now fetches/writes actors roles properly
- Fixed the positioning of the borders on movie images
- Added TV refinement dialog
- Can now edit limited movie details via movie tab. Hit save to commit changes
- Fetching movies writes more data
- Added back basic caching for TV. Still not configurable
- Added Cancel Button and its functionality for TV mode
- added ignore folder functionality back
- basic caching for movies (only on initial fetch, needs other sections to take advantage of it)
Outstanding issues or features
(stuff that’s not implemented yet)
- "Single season"
- Editing boxes for TV shows
- Version checker
- Undo
- Logging (logging & undo will likely come at the same time, since they’ll need to raise events at very similar spots)
- Separate subtitle processing
- Multiple folders for the TV and Movie management tabs
- Auto-tron for movies
- Better processing (and moving of files into season folders) for auto-tron
Changelog (From TVScout 0.8)
New Features
- Movie Metadata fetching
Using theMovieDB.org, MediaScout can help you fetch and manage metadata for movies as well
- TV Management
More fine-grained control over your TV metadata and images, allowing you to select from available posters, banners and backdrops.
- Auto-tron
Monitors a folder, fetching metadata and (optionally) renaming for you as soon as a file is dropped in!
Current limitation is it won’t move it into season folders.
ie, drop a file into C:\videos\Heroes\Season 3\
- Backdrop support
MediaBrowser now supports backdrops, so MediaScout does too!
- Episode Poster Extracting
No episode "posters"? Thats okay, providing you’ve got the codecs installed on your system, a screenshot will be captured and written to file (at 25% of the way through the episode)
