[sircharlo]

Hey guys!

First of all, let me tel you guys that XBMC is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread. Really. It's amazing.

Now, I just set up a Ubuntu media server with MediaTomb on it.
It's running great.

Now, I try to configure XBMC (UPnP) on my other computers (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac) and I am finding that for some reason XBMC won't download TV shows descriptions for me?
Perhaps I am doing something wrong...

I use FlexGet to download the shows into a "TV" folder on my server; FlexGet creates a sub-folder for each series, and places the files in there with "Series Name - S01E01.avi" as a file name.

I add the video source in XBMC, tell it that it contains TV shows, ask it to run an automated scan, and refresh information for all items in the path...

Then, "Scanning for new content" comes up, but does not seem to do anything... Actually, it "identifies" a Castle episode as something called "The Kilborn File".. Not right.

In my videos source, I only have two TV episodes... I don't think it should take long to scan, analyze the filenames, and download the appropriate info, right?

This behavior is consistent across all platforms I tested.
What am I doing wrong?

Also, it identifies the files as all having a 2522-minute runtime... Not good.

I have setup samba sharing and this does work flawlessly, but I was wondering why UPnP posed a problem...

[zaphod42]

Hi!

You do nothing wrong. The simple answer is: XBMC does not support scraping of TV Shows or Movies when using a UPnP AV Server source.

It has to do with the way UPnP AV servers work. They deliver pathnames which represent the name of the file within their own database. This names might not be consistent, when the Server rebuilds its database. Furthermore those names don't represent the real names of the files in the filesystem of the server. And because the scrapers rely on the path-/filenames of the show or movie when scraping and building the thumbs and fanarts of an episode or a movie, it will not work.

If you want to use scraping, you have to connect either via samba or NFS.

Cheers,
Zap

[sircharlo]

OK thanks for the explanation!
I'll keep on using Samba.

[jean1980]

THAT IS FUCKING SHIT... LIES...

LOOK AT THIS APP : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1343221

AND IT REALLY WORKS AND SCRAPE ALL MY UPNP MOVIE COLLECTION !!
XBMC HAVE A LIMITATION AND THE DEVELOPPERS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT SO

[Martijn]

THAT IS FUCKING SHIT... LIES...

LOOK AT THIS APP : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1343221

AND IT REALLY WORKS AND SCRAPE ALL MY UPNP MOVIE COLLECTION !!
XBMC HAVE A LIMITATION AND THE DEVELOPPERS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT SO

STOP YELLING AND BEHAVE CIVIL!!!


if you know better, you go do the coding then.

[mayoman]

THAT IS FUCKING SHIT... LIES...

LOOK AT THIS APP : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1343221

AND IT REALLY WORKS AND SCRAPE ALL MY UPNP MOVIE COLLECTION !!
XBMC HAVE A LIMITATION AND THE DEVELOPPERS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT SO

Wow! winner of both the oldest thread bump and rant of the week in one go

[artrafael]

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1507234

That's 2 out of your 3 posts where you're being uncivil and insulting the work of the developers (in violation of forum rules (wiki)). If you can't behave like an adult, then please refrain from further participation in these forums. Thank you.

[nickr]

Not to mention the childish yelling.

[Ned Scott]

THAT IS FUCKING SHIT... LIES...

LOOK AT THIS APP : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1343221

AND IT REALLY WORKS AND SCRAPE ALL MY UPNP MOVIE COLLECTION !!
XBMC HAVE A LIMITATION AND THE DEVELOPPERS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT SO

erm, what? Is it possible to scan a UPnP source, yes, but the dynamic nature of UPnP can create lots of issues. Even XBMC's UPnP server can return the same file multiple times because the nodes you browse by (year, actor, director, playlists, etc) will show the file more than one. If the client assumes it is a normal file sharing protocol, which is what XBMC would do, then it would show the same file multiple times, or it wouldn't understand some situations. Other UPnP servers are even more dynamic and the file path will change each time.

Is it an XBMC limitation, I guess so, but I don't see where anyone lied about that. It doesn't work (yet) in XBMC, that's all.