I read "arbitrary collection of files" as "home movies" or " random crap downloaded". Neither of those types of files need metadata because neither is a "movie" or "tv show", right? However, if that actually did mean "folder with multi-file movie" then my earlier reply should be reworded.

Heh, we should have these discussions in pseudo-code instead of English. English allows too much interpretation.

So, amongst all that, each of us interpretted the meaning differently (and I was a grumpy *** yesterday).  I'll keep my arbitrary collection of movies :p and Ogre can keep his in folders and everyone will be happy, is that the Gist of it?

I don't have multi part files, as I find it just as easy to manage them by joining the two together.  So one big folder works :)

JackLuminous:

Judging from that sequence, your files are NOT being recognized as archived tv and, hence, it tries to identify it as a movie. If you do NOT have a custom regex for ArchivedTVExpression and are using the default, then the default regex is probably not including .wmv...

EscapedLion:

 <Status>There were more than one possible matches for 'Doctor Who-S19E19-EarthShock, Part One'. The user needs to select the correct one.</Status>

The only thing I can think of is that these four episodes are in ".wmv" format while the other files are in ".avi" format.  Could that be causing it?

- Escaped Lion

Hi JackLumious,

When I first installed the tv libary plugin, I wasn't feeling brave enough to tackle the regex, so I just used the default regex which was already in place. 

I wasn't sure how to update the default regex to include .wmv but I did try using a custom regex and added .wmv to it, but that didn't work for me.  So then I converted those .wmv files into .avi and ta-da! The missing episode information finally pulled over!

I also updated the season 19 xml file  with the appropriate ImageType, ImageSize and Sort, and then I also updated the series xml file with the correct Sort and now "Browse Episodes" is working again!  My plan was to go in and update all the folders, but it seemed a bit daunting to go through and update all those folders.  Hopefully version 1.09 will have make that update automatically.

So far, so good! Thanks!

EscapedLion

Hi Jck;

It would be nice if video library could provide the functionality to show icons as MediaPortal TVSeries do. Link

I don't know if it is possible because of the MCE interface, but it would be really nice see icons for Dolby, HDTV, even for channel logos...

Regards and thanks for your great job.

Mayankel
Valencia - Spain

I finally got around to installing this and I have to say what a great application it is.  Now I think I have most things working, except one.

When I go into a TV series, I get the cover and the three buttons, browse episodes, watch series and random play.  The last 2 work great but when I try to click the first one It is as if my machine goes crazy, its as if it is trying to scroll left then right then left then right I see the page number bottom right slicker from 1 to 2 to 1 to 2 very rapidly and I here a constant beep like you used to get when you held a key down for too long

 

Any ideas what I am doing wrong anyone...

Mogulbasher:

I finally got around to installing this and I have to say what a great application it is.  Now I think I have most things working, except one.

When I go into a TV series, I get the cover and the three buttons, browse episodes, watch series and random play.  The last 2 work great but when I try to click the first one It is as if my machine goes crazy, its as if it is trying to scroll left then right then left then right I see the page number bottom right slicker from 1 to 2 to 1 to 2 very rapidly and I here a constant beep like you used to get when you held a key down for too long

 

Any ideas what I am doing wrong anyone...

Mogulbasher,

I had the same thing happen. The fix for me was to go into the  season xml file (which is located in the season .metafolder and named something like "Season 19.season.xml" and make the following updates:

  <ImageType>Thumbnail</ImageType>
  <ImageSize>Large</ImageSize>
  <SortOrder>SeasonAndEpisode</SortOrder>

I also went into the series xml file (which is located in the series .metafolder) and made the following update:

 <SortOrder>SeasonAndEpisode</SortOrder>

That seemed to resolve the problem.

-Escaped Lion

Thank you very much I will give it a try when I get home tonight.  I will let you know how it went. 

Unfortunately these changes made no difference.  If I click on the top banner after going into browse episodes it stops and I can see the word season repeated across the top of the screen, if I try to click one of the seasons it starts up again.

Any more ideas.  I am using the following conventions

\\SERVER\Videos\Top Gear\Season 01\Top Gear - 01x01 - Episode 1.ext

with this

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

EscapedLion:

I had the same thing happen. The fix for me was to go into the  season xml file (which is located in the season .metafolder and named something like "Season 19.season.xml" and make the following updates:

  <ImageType>Thumbnail</ImageType>
  <ImageSize>Large</ImageSize>
  <SortOrder>SeasonAndEpisode</SortOrder>

I also went into the series xml file (which is located in the series .metafolder) and made the following update:

 <SortOrder>SeasonAndEpisode</SortOrder>

That seemed to resolve the problem.

-Escaped Lion

Yeah, this seems to be working. Basically I edited all the series and season XML files and replaced everything that had "NotSpecified" as its XML value to the stuff he posted above. The only one I didn't have to edit was the one at the very top level of the folder structure.

Seems like a simple bug fix, just set some defaults in the code that generates those XML files or check for invalid values when reading the XML back and assign them then.

Ok, the edits worked when I solved an original problem which was the program was creating season01.folder.xml instead of season01.season.xml.

Renaming the files and then making the changes got it all to work.  thanks

This once working is a fantastic application for managing TV series.  Thank You.

 

I just installed 1.08 and it completely broke TV Library... When I go to my episodes all I see is the name of the episode blinking. It seems to download the banners from thetvdb, but then it just stops and doesn't get the tv ep details.
Any ideas? This was a clean install, deleted the existing metadata files, added the folders (f:\TV Episodes) to the config, and started it up. Episodes are named SHOW - SXXEXX.ext

Yes, this is a known issue. There's should be a new version out soon to fix this, he confirmed the bug and it will be fixed in the next version.

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Travis Bell
themoviedb.org | The open movie database

Hi all just installed this plugin and it works brill, but have a little query to do with movie covers, first me movie folder is f:\movies\whatever the movie is call....i get the cover for the whateever the movies called but under the video library main screen i have tv show,recorded tv, and movies when i click on movies all i see in the name of the films but now cover, the cover only show up when i click on a movie, is there anyway of making the covers show up so i can see covers for movies before i click on them

 

many thanks to all reply

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I get that almost any time I change the default extensions to include other file types.  Dont know why or what I am doing wrong.  I would delete the |mkv add at the end and see if the app loads.,  if it does then you know that is the problem. 

As to how you resolve it I dont know.  I am trying to figure out how to add dvr-ms to mine without it crashing. 

For example the following will cause the application to crash any time it tries to show episodes

<add key="ArchivedTVExpression" value="(?:\w*)\\(?&lt;seriesname&gt;.+?)\s-\s(?&lt;seasonnumber&gt;[ 0-9][0-9])x(?&lt;episodenumber&gt;\d{1,3})\s-\s(?&lt;episodename&gt;.+?)\.(?&lt;extension&gt;[avi|mpg|dvr-ms|wmv])" />

replace dvr-ms with rmvb and the application will work just fine.

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