Swipe

[ctv99]

is there anyway to add swpie to goto next image in set?

[coryo]

could you be a bit more clear on that? I don't quite understand what you mean.

Swiping between images is something that is handled by whichever Plex client you are using. The channel just provides the sequence of images to display.

[ctv99]

well on the android app no matter what i do it wont swipe between images. Works fine on PC

i have latest app on Samsung note 5.

[coryo]

ok I see what you mean. I tried it on my phone and can't swipe. it works on my ipad.

I'll see if I can get it working. it may also be a bug with the android client.

[ctv99]

Thanks alot my kids will thank you

[coryo]

I think it's the android client. I posted a bug report on the plex android forum https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/216079/bug-channels-that-serve-images-cant-swipe-left-right-between-photos?new=1

my channels and official plex photo channels both have the issue. I'm pretty sure it used to work. hopefully we can get a response from plex.

[coryo]

Upon further inspection, you can get the swipe behaviour but you have to press the little Play button at the top of the photo album. It works but you always start the the first image.

I'm not sure why this is the default behaviour, but I think it's the best we can do at the moment.

[ctv99]

is there any way to extract 1st jpg 01.jpg,png or cover.png,jpg an make it the image for the cbz?

[coryo]

I pushed an update which should make covers show more consistently across different plex clients.

Let me know if any comics get assigned the wrong image as the cover. All I'm doing is sorting the files by name and picking the first one. I'm not an expert on comic archive standards, but this seems to work.

It might require a server restart after you update the channel.

[ctv99]

can i get you to switch unrar to 7za it has better support and my cbz dont
like rar

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I pushed an update which should make covers show more consistently across
different plex clients.

Let me know if any comics get assigned the wrong image as the cover. All
I'm doing is sorting the files by name and picking the first one. I'm not
an expert on comic archive standards, but this seems to work.

It might require a server restart after you update the channel.

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[ctv99]

here is a test file, it opens in installed winrar but not in plex client with new code

i have 700 name *.cbz

all encoded with 7za due to compression levels

Test.zip

[coryo]

the test zip file appears to be compressed with 7z. It should be named Test.7z or Test.cb7. (open it in 7zip and go file->properties and it says Type: 7z). winrar is being nice and figuring out how to open it regardless of the extension.

7zip looked like it was going to be the hardest to implement with plex/python, so I had just stuck to zip and rar when I wrote the channel.

If you have tons of 7z compressed comics I could maybe investigate implementing 7z but it was looking like it would be easier just to recompress comics with something more python friendly.

Ideally every comic would be cbz since zip is natively supported by python. (and in addition to being named .cbz or .zip, be actually compressed with zip).

[ctv99]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26603204/how-to-extract-7z-zip-file-in-python-2-7-3-version
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/69258/python-script-for-automatically-extracting-an-archive-file-in-a-subfolder

does this help and and i have thousands of file redone in 7za because i use comicrack for local pc viewing.

[coryo]

I got something sort of functional going.

Instead of including the 7zip binary like I did with rar, I just have a channel preference for the executable path. So you have to install 7zip on the PMS computer.

set the channel preference to:
windows C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe
linux /usr/bin/7z or run which 7z to find it
osx I didn't test.

[ctv99]

can i set it to the folder path like unrar is now?

[coryo]

you could throw 7z.exe into any folder and set the preference to its path.

if you put it in the channel folder it might get overwritten at some point though.

[ctv99]

ok, thx alot, in the mean time i wrote a script to convert all files, but this will save me days of recompression