Extra REGEX for TV Show Episode matching

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file

tells you how to get log files.

Getting a list of raw filenames from your OS is OS dependent. What OS can you access you files with to make this list?

windows 7, but i guess i could try to get a ubuntu disk and attempt to boot up linux if thats more helpfull

nvm found a way, link coming up.

http://pastebin.com/utjKMdin

Got both files. Leave it with me and let me see what I can do.

Edit: excellent log. Found a bug in anime regex its not being greedy enough. Will fix
Edit: a new version will come but if you want a quick fix change

(?i)()[\. _-](\d){1,2}[\. _-v].*\[[\da-z]{8}\]


to

(?i)()[\. _-](\d{1,3})[\. _-v].*\[[\da-z]{8}\]

i tried the quick fix and it worked... somewhat.

where i first had about 25-30 shows with episodes detected i now have only 6, however where perhaps 1 or 2 of those 25-30 shows had correct episode naming now all have correct naming.

if anything it should match more not less.

give me an example of an ep name that did match and doesn't now

Edit: I have a hangover but:

(?i)()(?:[\. _-]|ep)(\d{1,3})[\. _-v].*[[({][\da-z]{8}[])}]

this is about the limit I will be taking this single regex.

It matches almost all of the anime names i have been given the have CRCs. Remember I am only dealing with CRC name files this now.

OK here is my final anime regex to replace the existing one for today

<regexp>(?i)()(?:[\. _-]|ep)(\d{1,3})[\. _-v].*[[({][\da-z]{8}[])}]</regexp>


Caveats:

will not work if you dont have anime CRC at end of name e.g. [34C2DCA4].mkv
will not handle two part naming
will have the odd false positive but it is rare. based on current testing data false positive rate is about 0.05%

I likely wont be adding support for anime with no CRC. The reason being as soon as you move away from this scheme you quickly get into a huge variety of nonsense inconsistent naming. However you can always try putting the missed eps in a "Season 1" folder. This will likely grab a good few more.

I will add more anime regex if i see naming unique to anime, I cant have a case that anime regex creates normal tv false positives as thats will effect the majority.

Alternatively use an anime CRC tagger to tag you filenames with the CRC. This is probably the best route to try first

thanks a lot

with the latest one it's finding a whole lot of episodes, wasnt succesfull in finding a CRC tagger but i found filebot which can mass rename series to names found on anidb or TVDB.

it cant match that many series from my collection but it could find dragon ball for example which is already quite helpfull http://filebot.sourceforge.net/.

it's finding a whole whole lot it's still updating

edit : 69 of the 153 found anime shows have eps major improvement

Find a tool to do proper CRC additions to the filename and that % will go way up

i just found a way to find the CRC's for episodes via anidb, but if i would name the episodes with only the CRC code's would that also work?

like (1DE7AFB0).mkv or 1DE7AFB0.mkv for example.

Edit : and another question... not realy related to finding episodes...

i have 2 shows
Shikabane Hime - Aka
Shikabane Hime - Kuro

Shikabane Hime - Aka is getting recognized but Kuro dsnt even show up after i scrape the folders, both have the same folder name format and the episode's are also named in the same way.
do u perhaps know why 1 show is getting detected and the other is not?

ow nvm i noticed kuro isnt on the TVDB site.

No i dont think so.

I have no clue how XBMCs anidb scraper works but you dont want that anyway

The key for this regex is that I am requiring that a CRC be there so that the regex knows it is anime.

I uses the CRC for no other reason.

If i ignore the CRC and allow anime regex to work on any tv ep it will cause lots of false positives for most users and I cant allow that to happen.

In essence since anime naming is mostly crap we are trying to do our best with it no more no less.