s01e05 episodename

The name of the series is determined by the containing folder.

JackLuminous:

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7. If a video is not recognized as archived tv, it will assume its a movie and attempt to download metadata from movie-xml.com

8. Metadata is stored in a hidden subfolder called ".metadata". This subfolder exists in each folder containing content (video, series, season folders, etc.)

I was able to get the 64 bit version installed.  Thanks for that.  However, I noticed that none of the information was pulled in from movie-xml.com.  Here's the contents of the xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <Metadata>

  <Title>12 Monkeys</Title>

  <NeedsMetadata>false</NeedsMetadata>

  <NeedsUserSelection>false</NeedsUserSelection>

  <Status />

  <Provider />

  <NetworkAffiliation />

  <StationCallSign>Edited with VideoReDo Plus</StationCallSign>

  <StationName />

  <OriginalBroadcastDateTime>0001-01-01T00:00:00</OriginalBroadcastDateTime>

  <OriginalChannel />

  <OriginalRunTime>77745999667</OriginalRunTime>

  <Duration>77744340000</Duration>

  <EncodeTime>633198723380000000</EncodeTime>

  <EndTime>633198801125999667</EndTime>

  <Language>EN</Language>

  <Watched>false</Watched>

  <Position>0</Position>

  <SubTitle>DVD Test</SubTitle>

  <SubTitleDescription>A Movie where Brad Pitt Is Crazy</SubTitleDescription>

  <Genre>Drama/Movies</Genre>

  <ParentalRating />

  <ParentalRatingReason />

  <IsDelay>false</IsDelay>

  <IsLive>false</IsLive>

  <IsMovie>true</IsMovie>

  <IsPremiere>false</IsPremiere>

  <IsRepeat>false</IsRepeat>

  <IsFinale>false</IsFinale>

  <IsSAP>false</IsSAP>

  <IsStereo>false</IsStereo>

  <IsSubtitled>false</IsSubtitled>

  <ClosedCaptioning>false</ClosedCaptioning>

  <ContentProtected>false</ContentProtected>

  <DTVContent>false</DTVContent>

  <ATSCContent>false</ATSCContent>

  <HDContent>false</HDContent>

  <IsArchivedTV>false</IsArchivedTV>

  <ID />

  <SeriesID />

  <SeasonNumber>0</SeasonNumber>

  <EpisodeNumber>0</EpisodeNumber>

  <TitleDescription />

  <BroadcastStatus />

  <BroadcastFirstAired>0001-01-01T00:00:00</BroadcastFirstAired>

  <AirsDayOfWeek />

  <AirsTime />

  <Director />

  <Producer />

  <Writer />

  <Actors>Brad Pitt</Actors>

  <GuestStars />

  <Rating />

  <YearMade />

  <DvdID />

  <IMDBID />

  <Zap2ItID />

  </Metadata>

My naming conventions are all over the place, but I would like to see built in support for:

seriesname.1x01.episodename
seriesname.s1e01.episodename

yaksplat....so you were able to install the x64 'attempt' version of the app, see it under "TV + Movies" then run it ? I wanna make sure I heard you right because you're the first person to try it and confirm for me. As it turns out, the code was compiled as "any CPU" so all I had to do was set a property in the VS2005 installer.

Is that a DVD that you ripped to dvr-ms? Did you set the StationCallSign manually or did the program do it?

Thanks for the quick tutorial JL.  I'm having a problem with the program not responding and I'm pretty sure it's because of my regex.  I have a slightly different naming scheme but I thought I had it taken care of by combing two from the first post.  Here's how my stuff is set up.

\Videos\Lost\Season 1\1x01 - Pilot.mkv. 

I have the config file pointed to the videos file.  This is what I have for my regex. 

"(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\\(Season)\s(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})\.(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})x(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})\.\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[avi|mp4|mkv])"

Is it balking because I have the season number twice?  Not sure what else could be the problem.  Any help would be great. Thanks.

JackLuminous:

yaksplat....so you were able to install the x64 'attempt' version of the app, see it under "TV + Movies" then run it ?

Is that a DVD that you ripped to dvr-ms? Did you set the StationCallSign manually or did the program do it?

It installed, showed up and ran fine in x64.  DVD was ripped to mpg and then converted to dvr-ms with videoredo.  Some other metadata was modified by a program that i wrote that will pull in information from Amazon and then write it to the dvr-ms metadata.  I'm using VS2008.  Any chance you want to make this 'open source' ? :)

yaksplat:

JackLuminous:

yaksplat....so you were able to install the x64 'attempt' version of the app, see it under "TV + Movies" then run it ?

Is that a DVD that you ripped to dvr-ms? Did you set the StationCallSign manually or did the program do it?

It installed, showed up and ran fine in x64.  DVD was ripped to mpg and then converted to dvr-ms with videoredo.  Some other metadata was modified by a program that i wrote that will pull in information from Amazon and then write it to the dvr-ms metadata.  I'm using VS2008.  Any chance you want to make this 'open source' ? :)

Ok, in that case, I will verify the conditions that make it automatically treat the dvr-ms as a movie...it might have something to do with StationCallSign being set...

So by default, when the app sees dvrms, it will try to pull out the metadata from the dvrms then create the xml file. At this stage, it says "man, I've got metadata so I am done" and sets "needsmetadata = false" (i'll verify this also). After that, it is supposed to check some properties to see if the file is really a ripped dvd masquerading as a movie. If the video should be treated as a movie (and not just a recorded tv programming) then it will download from movie-xml.

Hm..maybe I should just look at the IsMovie flag and not care whether it was really a recorded tv or not? I thought of this before and now I can't remember why I didn't just go this route...probably something to do with it then trying to download metadata for tv movies that may never end up on movie-xml.com...

ismovie is not necessarily set

Thanks for this program.  I've been using it since you started and have to say it is really well designed.

I have this automated idea in mind.  Right now I record a lot of tv and would like to auto archive it. 

after a program is recorded, I'd like it to be renamed to the format name.SxxExx.Episode.  Is there a way to have it use the episode title in the dvr-ms metadata and match it up with thetvdb.com to pull the episode info and then rewrite the file name?  It doesn't even have to be in the program, just a script I could run.

Also, if I remember it used to pull the thumbnails from the dvr-ms file, but it doesn't seem to do that now.  does the image type tag work?  and if so which one do I change to force the whole season to pull thumbnails?

 

Thanks

Mike

Mike,

It seems to be pulling thumbnails out fine for me. If you delete them, I don't think it autogenerates unless you nuke the video xml or set needsmetadata to true again..

At the moment, aside fro mthe dvd-to-dvrms thing, I don't really pull down additional info for dvrms files because, unless I'm mistaken (ie. out to lunch), there is no season number or episode number metadata tag in a dvrms recorded by Vista SP1. Also, for tvdb lookup, I only use series name, season number and episode number because there is a higher chance of things not matching up.;

Modern proper scene release format:

Battlestar.Galactica.S04E09.The.Hub.720p.HDTV.x264-2HD.mkv

Second most popular format:

Cosmos.1x01.The.Shores.of.The.Cosmic.Ocean.DVDRip.avi

Third most popular format, seems to appear mostly for shows that have only one season and are somewhat old:

Crusade.101.War.Zone.DVDRip.XviD-MEDiEVAL.avi

Really old but somewhat popular format:

Star_Trek_TNG_-_2x13_-_Time_Squared.AMC.divx.avi

There's something like 30 seasons total of Trek which is a heck of a lot of episodes and I'd, heh, rather not rename every episode! ;)

I've already posted the regex for the first format and it shouldn't take too much to change it to support the other formats. I'd really love to be able to change the regex on a per-show basis as one of the elements in one of the XML files.

The only other thing I'd like to see right now is the ability to have movies in their own folders and to use the folder name as the key to get the metadata off the DB site instead of the filename. This is how Sam's Browser works. It also plays all files in the folder which solves the multi-part movies issue.

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I'm not sure what the rules are for posting to another application but i use a really great television program renamer which would help a lot of you rename the files to something a bit easier to work with or even just the same format.

Would it be OK to post a link Jack?

radeonorama:

I'm not sure what the rules are for posting to another application but i use a really great television program renamer which would help a lot of you rename the files to something a bit easier to work with or even just the same format.

Would it be OK to post a link Jack?

Of course! if it's unsavoury the mod will delete it :-P.

 

JackLuminous:

What are the 4 (or 5) common naming schemes you guys are using? To increase the out-of-box experience, I want to have 4 or 5 built-in regexes that the engine will use when identifying 'archived tv' video. the ArchivedTVExpression will still be there for users who wan' be speshal. :-P.

The first two filename format's in Ogre's post are really common and I would vote to include them. I also personally use the following format:

filestructure: <Drive>\<Show Name>\Series #\             (where # is a single digit number or double digit for seasons over 10

filename: <Show Name> - s##e## - <Show Title> [<encoding info>]
         ex: American Dad - s01e02 - Threat Levels [h264.sdtv].mkv

I use the following regex for this without any issues:

"ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\s-\ss(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;\d{1,2})e(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})\s-\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[avi|mpg|rmvb|mkv])

notyouraccount:

On a side note -- Is there an option to display the banners for TV episodes on screen which users  <foldername>.folder.xml file? I thought I remember somewhere seeing it as an option, but I can't find it in the thread and/or I may be confusing it with another program. I changed the <ImageType> tag to "Banner", and while it displayed in the proper aspect ratio it didn't actually use the banners from theTVDB as the image.

I know you're hard at work working on your Find UI, but just wanted to ask this again and find out when you have a moment. Thanks!