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Revision as of 15:50, 8 July 2011
Contents
- 1 Public Announcement
- 2 Media Center Master reference guide
- 3 System Requirements
- 4 Installation Notes - read, before installing
- 5 Preliminary Installation Guides
- 6 Installing Media Center Master
- 7 Set-up and Configuring for First Run
- 8 Using Media Center Master
- 9 Technical Guides to Features
- 10 Complete Uninstall of MCM
- 11 Interfacing with Media Center Programs
- 12 Other Stuff
Public Announcement
The Following Sections and Subsections are completed works - ready for reading and editing:
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- How to set up a Folder Structure for MCM
- How to set up a Folder Structure for uTorrent
- How to Set-up and Install uTorrent
- How to Customize uTorrent for MCM
- How to Enable and set-up the Web User Interface of uTorrent
- How to check your system to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update is required
- Fetch Meta-Data
The Follow Section/s are under construction:
The Remaining Sections are Empty
Media Center Master reference guide
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
System Requirements
Area for Community users who have tested MCM - from installation through at least the first running, using the Preliminary Installation Guides.
Installation Notes - read, before installing
The key to Installing Media Center Master with no problems, the first time, is Preparation and some Basic Knowledge of How it Works.
MCM is a front-end interface that automates the organizing of a media collection with the use of a BitTorrent Client, “uTorrent” for downloading TV Series Episodes and/or Movies in the background. For MCM and uTorrent to work properly together there are a few important issues to prepare for and understand before installing MCM.
The Preliminary Installation Guides have been written with the intent that the user has an interest in creating a media collection from scratch (has no TV Series/Movies) and has some knowledge and experience with BitTorrents. The Main focus of these guides will be to prepare for a fresh, new, installation of, both, MCM, and uTorrent, for a new media collection to be used for keeping TV Series up to date with current episodes.
Please Note
For users who have a current instance of uTorrent installed with custom user settings for manual downloads and intends to use the Preliminary Installation Guides with an existing uTorrent Program, they will not find any trouble shooting information for problems in these guides, should they occur. The instance of uTorrent for MCM is for automation, it is therefore suggested that the user uninstall uTorrent remembering to check the tick box to also remove the user settings during the uninstall process, and then reinstall uTorrent using the Preliminary Installation Guides.
This is not to say uTorrent can not also be used for manual downloads of TV Series/Movies and other items. It is only a suggestion that automation processing should come as a priority over manual downloading. If a user still intends to use this instance of uTorrent for manual downloads of TV Series/Movies, other items, and wishes to make changes to the settings of uTorrent, that is not listed in the Preliminary Installation Guides, the user should do so after MCM is installed, set-up, configured, and running smoothly with the use of these guides.
For users who have installed MCM previously, and are having problems. It is suggested to do a Complete Uninstall of MCM, also removing the hidden user files, and then reinstall starting with the Preliminary Installation Guides.
The first set of issues of concern is MCM and uTorrent, both, require separate dedicated Folder Structure for file storage to operate correctly. Setting up and understanding the basic principles of the two (2) Folder Structures ahead of time will make the installations, and set-ups of MCM and uTorrent go a lot smoother, with the least amount of problems. This information will also assist a user in preparing an existing media collection to be added in later.
The second issue of concern is MCM uses uTorrent’s Web User Interface (WebUI) to integrate these two programs together. The WebUI is what allows MCM to hand off a .torrent file it has fetched from an online source to uTorrent for proper downloading of the desired TV Series Episodes/Movies. It is also used by MCM for monitoring the progress of downloads to inform MCM a download has completed and is ready for parsing.
In addition to uTorrent, MCM requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update. If this is already installed on your system, there is no additional set-up for this program. It works internally with the MCM program. If it is not installed, download links and some guidance with the installation will be provided.
The Preliminary Installation Guides that follow these notes are:
- How to set up a Folder Structure for MCM,
- How to set up a Folder Structure for uTorrent,
- How to Set-up and Install uTorrent,
- How to Customize uTorrent for MCM,
- How to Enable and set-up the Web User Interface of uTorrent, also
- How to check your system to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update is required.
In order to reduce the problems associated with this initial installation and set-up of MCM, the information found here will not include instructions on how to set-up MCM for downloading Movies nor will there be any information about preparing and/or adding an existing media collection to MCM. There will be no information given for interfacing a media collection with any Media Center Programs, such as: Windows Media Center, MediaPortal, MediaBrowser, Popcorn Hour, or XBMC. These items/issues can be added in and set-up later through other parts of this Wiki. Keep in mind the Preliminary Installation Guides are strictly for PREPARING to install MCM, so a user can then install, set-up, configure, and get it up and running smoothly to Automatically:
- fetch episodes of a TV Series from one of several on-line sources at user defined intervals,
- hand the episode torrents off to uTorrent for downloading,
- monitor the download process at user defined intervals,
- parse/rename completed downloads at user defined intervals,
- move renamed download from uTorrent to archive in
- correct season folder, also
- fetch, download, and archive
- associated meta-data, posters, and fanart for
- the episodes,
- the season, and
- the TV Series,
the first time with no problems.
Preliminary Installation Guides
How to set up a Folder Structure for MCM
How to set up a Folder Structure for uTorrent
How to Set-up and Install uTorrent
How to Customize uTorrent for MCM
How to Enable and set-up the Web User Interface of uTorrent
How to check your system to see if the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 with SP1 update is required
Installing Media Center Master
Set-up and Configuring for First Run
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
Using Media Center Master
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
Technical Guides to Features
The following are a work in progress, please be patient.
Complete Uninstall of MCM
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
Interfacing with Media Center Programs
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
Other Stuff
This is a work in progress, please be patient.
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.