[amak79]

I have backed up my Seinfeld DVD collection and have named the files according the standard XBMC practice e.g. Seinfeld s05e18.mp4 and Seinfeld s05e19e20.mp4 for multipart episodes. All multipart episodes are two episodes in one file, which is how they are stored on the DVD.

Since this is a DVD backup I use DVD ordering when scraping from TVDB, which works expect for multipart episodes. I will use season 5 as an example. This season has 22 episodes, but the DVD has episodes 19 and 20 as a single file, so there are only 21 files.

Seinfeld s05e01.mp4 (The Mango)
...
Seinfeld s05e18.mp4 (The Fire)
Seinfeld s05e19e20.mp4 (The Raincoats) (multipart episode file)
Seinfeld s05e21.mp4 (The Hamptons)
Seinfeld s05e22.mp4 (The Opposite)

I have numbered the episodes this way because that's how they are listed on the DVD case.

If I import using this numbering scheme, I get the following.

1. The Mango (correct)
...
18. The Fire (correct)
19. The Raincoats(1) (correct)
20. The Hamptons (incorrect - points to episode 19)
21. The Opposite (incorrect - points to episode 20)
22. (missing - not imported)

Looking at the log, I understand this is happening because the regexp matches don't match up with the DVD ordering episode numbers. It works if I rename the episodes to be inline with the DVD ordering, but I then get an incorrect episode count.

Is there any other way to solve this issue without renaming the episodes to be inline with the DVD ordering episode numbers? It also works when using aired date ordering but in that case I still need to rename many files and it defeats the purpose of DVD ordering.

Thanks.

[marantz]

same problem for me, did you ever solve it?

[amak79]

Unfortunately, no. I just named the files according to DVD ordering, but that results in an incorrect episode count.

Thanks for the reply. It's nice to know I'm not the only one with this issue.

[DaVu]

I tried to reproduce this and created some dummy mkv files to scrape. I did the naming as follows:

tvshow (as the source)
--seinfeld (first subfolder)
----season5 (2nd subfolder)
-----S05E01.mkv
-----....
-----S05E19E20.mkv
-----....
-----S05E22.mkv

my scraper settings are like this:

http://imgur.com/xROf2Lo

I didn't use DVD ordering and all is scraped fine:

http://imgur.com/5YVpJt7

and as you can see, even Raincoats (2) points to S05E19E20.mkv in the path:

http://imgur.com/skLV4n8

So I guess you don't have to use the DVD order option. Then everything seems to work fine.

Greetings

[amak79]

So I guess you don't have to use the DVD order option. Then everything seems to work fine.

Thank you for testing. I will revisit this issue and report my findings.

[marantz]

You need to use dvd order on Seinfeld becouse some eps are in different order from aired. You see last ep on dvd is 22 from your screenshot its 21

[DaVu]

If you take a look at this:

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=...6116&lid=7

21 = the hamptons ..... aired: 1994-05-12
22 = The Opposite ..... aired: 1994-05-19

I can't see any difference to my screenshot above and from the date aired it seems correct. Maybe there is a mistake at thetvdb.org

Or I don't get what you want...could you please explain a bit more then ?

But if all will fail, you could export your TV-Shows library to NFO files and change the order manually to your wishes. Would take a few minutes only. So I'm really wondering why this wasn't solved from 2011 till now.

[marantz]

you're linking to aired on tv list instead of dvd, look here http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=season&...&order=dvd
thats the order we try to accomplish, but ok it seems to work on aired, so possible a bug that is triggered when using DVD order?