[StHapns247]

Just reinstalled XBMC, has it a while ago and am now going back. I have a very simple set-up:

E drive with 2 folders, Movies and TV Shows. When I add the TV Shows folder and tell XBMC its content is TV Shows it will seem to add it correctly, but not really fetch any data. At this point I cannot add the TV Shows menu option to the main menu, it stays grayed out in the settings. I can browse to my TV shows through XBMC and see them. They are mostly mvks and avis.

For whatever reason XBMC is not truly detecting these as TV shows. I have a folder for each show and inside that a folder for each season then the videos within that folder. I have the episodes named "E# - Episode Title."

I have tried this on 2 PCs, one using a network path the other being local. Should be noted that when I add the Movies folder that folder works fine.

Any thoughts?

Win7 Pro 64bit
Newest version of XBMC.

[JumperJeff]

You need to specify that the content includes TV shows. I can't remember exactly, but I think if you select Videos and hit Enter and then select TV Shows and press C on your keyboard you'll have the option to select the right dialog box.

I've only been using XBMC for a month or so, so I'm sure someone here will chime in with the right info if I'm wrong.

PS. It's surprising that you didn't need to do this to the movies folder.

[StHapns247]

I have done this. I specified it as containing TV shows, but it still will not work.

[primetime34]

The naming might be wrong. I believe that tv shows need to be named "S01x01" or "S01E01"...in other words they need to include both the season number and the episode number. Your first post seems to indicate that you only have the episode number.

[StHapns247]

I have tried so many naming conventions all in line with this Wiki entry: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TV_...Library%29

Nothing seems to work. When I add the source it will not scan and scrape the shows. I have even narrowed it down to one show in the folder and I know the folders are clean, they only contain .mkv files, nothing more.

So frustrating.

[rocketpants]

Turn on debugging (Settings | System | Debug) and get XBMC to scan your TV directory - try removing the source and re-adding it to force a new scan. The log will show you what it is doing when it tries to scan the TV shows. Log located at %appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log.

If you can't work it out from the log paste the log contents into pastebin.com or similar and paste the link here.

[StHapns247]

Here is the link from pastebin.com. I do not understand the log enough to determine what the issue is. Thank you for looking at it.

http://pastebin.com/KUcwf4QV

[jhsrennie]

Looking at your log, the first search is for Game of Thrones. The relevant log entries are:

Code:

DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=game%20of%20thrones%20(2011)&amp;language=en</url>
DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0B8EF134) http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=game%20of%20thrones%20(2011)&language=en
INFO: XCURL::DllLibCurlGlobal::easy_aquire - Created session to http://www.thetvdb.com
DEBUG: FileCurl::Close(0B8EF134) http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=game%20of%20thrones%20(2011)&language=en
DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results></results>

The last line showed that search didn't return anything because there should be data on the show between the <results> and </results> tags. You can check the search yourself by download curl from http://curl.haxx.se/ and using the command:

Code:

curl "http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=game%20of%20thrones%20(2011)&language=en"

where the argument, "http://etc" is copied and pasted from the log entries above. When I try this I get:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Data>
</Data>

so the search isn't finding anything. However if I edit the search to remove the date i.e.

Code:

curl "http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=game%20of%20thrones&language=en"

I get back lots of info on the show. So, try renaming the "game of thrones (2011)" to "game of thrones" and see if it then scrapes.

JR

[StHapns247]

Hahah. Thank you so much. Who knows how long it would have taken me to figure that out. Just tested it and it's working fine.

Thanks again for your help.