How does one keep the Video Library up-to-date and accurate? - Printable Version +- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv) +-- Forum: Discussions (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=222) +--- Forum: Feature Requests (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=9) +--- Thread: How does one keep the Video Library up-to-date and accurate? (/showthread.php?tid=39356) |
How does one keep the Video Library up-to-date and accurate? - StormyKnight - 2008-10-22 First off the assumptions.... XBMC Xbox or Windows Using XBMC Media Companion to create nfo's Only discussing TV Shows, haven't tested movies Using PM III Skin Anyway from what I can work out.... Scan for new content only looks for new scraped info, not new episodes, of the TV show selected. Update Library - will find new episodes then do a Scan for New Content to get the scraped info but not delete removed episodes, for the entire library (Movies, TV Shows etc etc) Clean Library will only remove deleted TV Shows & Episodes from the whole Library. To test, add new episode & run Media Companion to create nfo's Scan for new content does not add the new episode Update Library does. Remove an episode using windows explorer Scan for new content doesn't remove it, Update Library doesn't remove it Clean Library does remove it. Question: Is this the intended functions of each of these options? Thanks - HexusOdy - 2008-10-22 At least you can get Update library to add new Episodes. Scan for New Content or Update Library only seems to find new Movies, it won't add TV Episodes . - mkortstiege - 2008-10-22 To remove non-existing items from library you will have to add the following to your Advancedsettings.xml located in your userdata folder (maybe you will have to create the file first). Code: <advancedsettings> Scan for new content does add the new episode to the library here. Please upload the given .nfo file so we could run some tests on it. VDRfan - StormyKnight - 2008-10-23 Firstly thanks for your investigation into this issue.... also I'm using XBMC Atlantis Beta 2 (TECH build) & for the test below it is the windows version. OK, I added a new dummy avi file by creating a new text document & renaming it S01E03.avi in a folder called \TV Show\Arrested Development. I tried the scan for new content & still had the original 2 episodes only. I renamed the file Arrested Development.S01E01.avi but that made no difference either. Looking at the log it appears that the episode is actually found & matched, but its not added! Quote:09:19:32 T:4920 M: 77291520 DEBUG: VIDEO::CVideoInfoScanner:rocess - Starting scan I also have a few related questions... If the match determines a series & episode but then that series & episode doesn't exist on TVDB (or the TVDB scrape fails), will it still be added? ...also "Checking if file *.avi should be excluded from scan" - what is this part checking for? Thanks Richard - mkortstiege - 2008-10-23 Hmz .. maybe it's nfo related. Would be nice if you could create a little dummy filesytem (dummy.avi + nfo) which will definitely fail on your setup. Quote:If the match determines a series & episode but then that series & episode doesn't exist on TVDB (or the TVDB scrape fails), will it still be added?Nope, the regexp will only try to determine the season and episode of the given file which will be used to scrape the tvdb data. - StormyKnight - 2008-10-23 OK one thing I noticed with all this testing is that there doesn't seem to be any consistency in the results. Whilst testing again, I moved the S01E03 avi & nfo & tbn to a different folder outside the folder set for TV source in xbmc, I deleted the TV show from XBMC using remove from Library & then I chose Update Library & the two remaining episodes where found & display as expected. However, I then moved the files back & selecting Scan for new Content it actually added the 3rd episode. Now I understand there is an issue relating to what is stored in the Library & what is found in the nfo's & if they are different then the episode will not be added. Could this be the key to all our issues? anyway here is the nfo contents for S01E03 Arrested Development using 'Arrested Development.S01E01.avi', a dummy file of zero length. Code: <episodedetails> Perhaps what is happening is the Library is getting some info from our nfo's & some from TVDB itself. Media Companion also creates a TVShow.nfo & I'm assuming that XBMC is using that info. Basically it seems that if a new TV Show is found, then all the episodes are found, but if a new episode is added to an existing TV show then it is not found. TVShow.nfo Code: <tvshow> Is there a way to have a scraper that only looks for nfo's & won't go to the internet? Or is there a way to stop an internet lookup from working easily? Thanks Richard - mkortstiege - 2008-10-23 To disable internet lookups simply uncheck the given option located in network settings. - StormyKnight - 2008-10-24 VDRfan Wrote:To disable internet lookups simply uncheck the given option located in network settings. Tried this already, unfortunatelt my RSS Feeds also stop working BTW on my 2nd XBOX which I hardly use I have an older revision on XBMC on it. The issues we are having with Beta 2 don't seem to happen on it. When you choose scan for new content, new episodes are actually added.... I will post its revision soon for your information. Cheers |