Couple questions.

eduo · 2008-02-29 22:38

rickeo Wrote:@eduo

I don't think I can thank you enough! Did you actually type all of that out? Wow, you should have that stickied, very informative. Anyway, no matter what settings I use for the "set content" option, I still have to go in to each movie file and tv show folder and use the "set movie/tvshow information" manually for it to show up in the library with a thumb. Not sure why, but Im just happy I can use the library mode now.

I did type it all there, but I had just fought in the office and needed release anyway Smile

I personally don't use the "Library Mode". It's completely incompatible to the way I use XBMC (I appreciate why others might have a use for it, it's actually useful for music and it's exactly like iTunes, which I love. It just doesn't fit for videos for me).

It took me a lot of trial an error to finally realize "Seasons" don't actually serve a purpose in XBMC (something I hate but can't change on my own).

I'm glad it was useful. Do let me know if you need more help.

eduo · 2008-02-29 22:44

phunkysai Wrote:Just to quickly add to this, here are some examples of how I named my files to get tvdb.com to correctly scrape them (I have one folder for each show):

The Office
- The Office (US)_101.avi
- The Office (US)_102.avi
- The Office (US)_201.avi
- The Office (US)_202.avi

Boston Legal
- Boston Legal_101.avi
- Boston Legal_102.avi
- Boston Legal_201.avi

Movies
- The Crow (1994)

Phunkysai: I actually did changes to the file AdvancedSettings.xml (created it in the first place in UserData, actually) for it to support my format.

This are the contents (as documented in the wiki):

Code:

<tvshowmatching>

  <regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>                %  foo_[s01]_[e01]

  <regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>                      % foo.1x09*

  <regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>        % foo.s01.e01, foo.s01_e01

  <regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])[\._ \-][^\\/]*</regexp>           % foo.103*

  <regexp>([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>                              % foo 1x09 - bar

  <twopart>

      <regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee][0-9][0-9]\-([0-9]+)\][^\\/]*</regexp>           % foo_[s01]_[e01-02]

      <regexp>[\._ \-][Ss]([0-9]+)[^0-9]*[Ee][0-9][0-9]\-([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>     % foo.s01.e01-02

      <regexp>[\._ \-][0-9]+x[0-9]+[\._ \-]*([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>         % foo.1x09 1x10

      <regexp>([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>                              % foo 1x09-10 - bar

  </twopart>

</tvshowmatching>

The files are perfectly picked and recognized. It's just "Season" folders that are ignored (as it's supposed to do).

I don't really like having all episodes and seasons together. I also use a perl script from Rob Meerman that renames all the files from their orginally crappy names to the actual names.

Then I use a program I created that duplicates the functionality of SubDownloader from Opensubtitles.org to download the subtitles on those.

In the end I have a pretty streamlined process which expects the season folders to exist. I expected them to exist too so the process is based on that.

**jmarshall** · 2008-02-29 22:59

One extra thing to note about obtaining skins:

Many, but certainly not all of them, are obtainable from the official skinning svn:

https://xboxmediacenter.svn.sourceforge....ediacenter

Note that some of them in the official skinning svn have not been updated in a while so may not work correctly.

Aeon is available at http://www.aeonismine.com

And the others that are about are available from their authors. We try and encourage skinners to post their skins to the official SVN if and when they are ready to do so.

As with many opensource projects, and is hinted above, one thing that has always been lacking with XBMC is quality up to date documentation for those that are completely new to the project. Unfortunately, those that are oldhats aren't too good at writing docs suitable for newer folk, as they inevitably skip things that are obvious to them yet are not obvious to newcomers. Also, it's for some reason seen as an unglamorous task.

It is my personal hope that with the injection of OSX folks coming on board that a few may have the inclination to help out with the documentation side of things Smile

Cheers,
Jonathan