Regular Expressions

blakholephysics:

Yes, I did mean a capital Z.. ie: [0-9a-zA-Z]

The regexp is just a tad more specific than it needs to be. You could probably cut it off earlier. I did test it like that and it seems to be working.

Crap, can't edit the post.

One thing I did want to mention about regexp when scanning into your Library (for TV Shows, Movies, anything using a scraper). Make sure it's being detected by that scraper otherwise your regexp could be fine, but if the show isn't being detected on TV.com or IMDB, it won't really work.

That was my issue with a directory "Stargate SG-1", for some reason, it wasn't detecting it on TV.com (I had to manually add it), once that was done, the shows were detected without issue using my original Regexp (boy do I feel stupid having posted that rant a few posts above this one).

Oh well, live and learn.

well, to make you feel slightly better.

there sure are bugs and limitation in our regexp parser. the most irritating being the lack of nongreedy support :/

The main shows that I'm trying are "Lost", "The Office", and "Heroes"
A plot summary does come up but it lacks any episodes...

Well, I guess I'll wait until the next tech build and try it over again.
Thanks for the help though.

And as it stands, I think that a website mentioned earlier - http://www.regextester.com/ - should be included in the wiki

Running XBMC-SVN_2007-03-23_rev8306-T3CH-PROPER with the following settings, I have noticed the following:

AdvancedSettings.xml contents:

<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching>
<regexp>[Ss](\d+)[Ee](\d+)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>


Directory Structur and Naming Convention

F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E01 Death Has a Shadow.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E02 I Never Met the Dead Man.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E03 Chitty Chitty Death Bang.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E04 Mind Over Murder.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E05 A Hero Sits Next Door.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E06 The Son Also Draws.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 1\S01E07 Brian Portrait of a Dog.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 2\S02E01 Peter Peter Caviar Eater.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 2\S02E02 Holy Crap.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season 2\S02E03 DaBoom.avi
etc....

OR

F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season\S01E01 Death Has a Shadow.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Season\S01E02 I Never Met the Dead Man.avi
etc...

Program 'Family Guy' is entered into library but does NOT find ANY episodes and import them into the Library

Change Directory Structuer to:
F:\Videos\Family Guy\01E07 Brian Portrait of a Dog.avi
OR
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Stuff 1\S01E07 Brian Portrait of a Dog.avi
F:\Videos\Family Guy\Stuff 2\S02E01 Peter Peter Caviar Eater.avi

Episodes in root of 'Family Guy' directory as well as 'Stuff 1' and 'Stuff 2' directories are entered into Library

Any time I have the word 'Season' In the directory name the files are skipped. Not sure if this is an issue with my RegEXP or a bug in XBMC Any Thoughts?


Interesting Side Note:

Directory Structure
F:\Videos\Family Guy\The Simpsons\S01E01 Death Has a Shadow.avi

VIA 'Set Content' run on the 'Videos' or 'Family Guy' directory all episodes in F:\Videos\Family Guy\The Simpsons\ are entered into the Library as Season 1 Episode 1 of 'The Simpsons'

Likewise for 'Scan for new content' Run on the 'Family Guy' folder the episodes are entered as Season 1 Episode 1 of 'The Simpsons'

However, VIA 'TV Show Information' run on the 'Family Guy' folder The file 'S01E01 Death Has a Shadow.avi' is entered into the library as Family Guy Season 1 Episode 1

fixed in svn.

as for set content, are ppl blind. it says tv showS S S S S S.

a tv show is a folder.

if you assign tv showS content to the family guy dir you say that all subfolders for this dir is a tvshow. it does exactly what you ask it to do.

Running XBMC-SVN_2007-03-23_rev8306-T3CH-PROPER with the following settings

AdvancedSettings.xml contents:

Quote:<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching>
<regexp>.*[Ss]([0-9]*).*[Ee]([0-9]*).*</regexp>
<regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]*)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]*)[^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)[^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]*)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]*)[^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]*)([0-9][0-9])[\._ \-][^\\/]*</regexp>
<twopart>
<regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]*)\]_\[[Ee][0-9][0-9]\-([0-9]*)\][^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]*)[^0-9]*[Ee]([0-9][0-9])[^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]*)[^0-9]*[Ee][0-9][0-9]\-([0-9]*)[^\\/]*</regexp>
<regexp>[\._ \-][0-9]*x[0-9]*[\._ \-]*([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</twopart>
</tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>

Directory Structur and Naming Convention :
(it's on a smb share)

Quote:Series\4400 S03\4400 S03 E01.avi
Series\Greys Anatomy S02\Greys Anatomy S02 E01.avi
Series\Joey\Joey S02 E12-13.avi

i have assigned tv shows content to the Series folder and i do a complete Scan. All series are found but episodes are all skipped, the only one episode found on all my series is the last one : Joey\Joey S02 E12-13.avi it appear like Saison 2/Joey Episode 13 in library mode.

The regexp in red is the one i added to match my naming, i tested it on some sites and tools and it work 100%.
any idea what i can do to have it work ?
thx in advance and believe me i tried a lot of things before post here ..

take care.

get a newer version, there are bugs in that one.

ok i'll wait the next T3CH version so. i'm not able to compil it myself (not the tools for..)

Spiff, thanks for your help.

Quote:as for set content, are ppl blind. it says tv showS S S S S S.

That makes perfect sense now. After 4 hours of testing other things that was extremely confusing