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I greatly appreciate the ability to play video straight from multi-part .rar files, as it lets me use the same disk space for playing and sharing files.
However, I'm having a hard time naming things so that the thetvdb.com scraper find them.
I have tried to name things in accordance with best practice, but the FAQs don't give any advice for the last leve, the .rar files themselves.
So currently I have a directory structure like
Game of Thrones/Season 2/Game of Thrones - S02E02/refill.throness02e02.720p.{rar,r00,r01,r02,...,r29}
The final file names are whatever they were when I got it.
The scraper fails to find any TV shows. Which makes me unhappy. Any advice on how to fix this?
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Thanks for the amazingly quick response!
The file inside the .rar is "refill.throness02e02.720p.avi". Not a great file name, but unfortunately, that's hard to change without breaking the whole purpose of things. (I can certainly play it if I go through the files menu.)
I'll look at the debug logs (when I get to the machine in an hour or so), but I'm afraid that I don't understand your comment "Assuming that you have a Game of Thrones entry in your video library (i.e. only episodes aren't showing up)". I do NOT have a Game of Thrones entry in my video library. I assumed that it would be created when the first episode was found, and the reason it doesn't exist is the lack of episodes.
Perhaps this indicates a deep misunderstanding of XBMC's internal model of TV shows and episiodes thereof. Is there a way to create the show entry without any episodes in it?
The big issue from my perspective is that the standard naming advice covers 3-part "show/season/episode.avi" names, but I have "show/season/episode/multiple.rar//filename.avi" (where the "//" indicates a virtual file system hack), and I don't understand what information XBMC extracts from which portions of the 5-part path name.
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I have it in the same directory as multiple other TV shows (with 3-part path names), which are being scraped correctly. I'm not at the machine to get debug logs right ATM (I'll get them ASAP!), but how much is required to get the TV show itself picked up? Will an empty top-level directory do?
That's what I mean about my failure to understand XBMC's model of shows & episodes. I had assumed that it scanned the disk for episodes and created the shows and seasons as needed to group them. If there's such a thing as a show (or a season) with no episode files, then my thinking about debugging is all wrong.