TheTVDB.com Scraper absolute_number for Anime?

thats only due to you sitting on your ass doing nothing. this has been supported for uhm 8 months maybe? add expressions matching only episode numbers.

Iv been running the dev builds and I have this:

<tvshowmatching action="append">
<regexp>[\._ \-]([0-9]*)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>

in my advanced settings and it is not working, I was just asking for clarification. I also tried wiping my existing dev build and going back to just 9.04 and it still doesn't work.

because that expression matches season and episode number. exactly NOT what i said

also i assume you have stripped the <advancedsettings> tag there

Ahh thats the expression listed in the main body of the trac ticket, I thought that was updated, oops.

Also I did have the advanced settings tag. What is the correct regex, just match on an episode number ala:

<regexp>Ep([0-9]+)</regexp> ?

yeah

Awesome thanks!

So, do I have to build it myself (and edit the VideoInfoScanner.cpp) to get this to work properly?

With Absolute Ordering on, newer shows that have no Absolute Number do not find any episodes but without Absolute Ordering on then other longer shows with the Absolute Number (no season or just 1x(episode) in the filename) find no episodes. I'm not sure if there was a way to have it look for both at the same time, I may have missed something.

This is what I added to my Advanced settings:

<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching action="append">
<regexp>Ep([0-9]+)</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>

And I downloaded the #5860 tvdb.xml..

Another option would be to just add the absolute number to the newer shows.

Thanks

I found out it is possible to change the source of a individual folder, so for now I set the folders for the longer shows to Absolute Order and the left the rest to the default settings.

Seems to work just fine for now.

psorcerer Wrote:Sounds quite complicated to me.
Meanwhile I've done a quick hack to make it work using empty regexp for the season value (e.g. something like ([0-9]*) and append="yes" in advanced settings)

Code:

@@ -830,7 +829,12 @@
           if (season && episode)
           {
             CLog::Log(LOGDEBUG,"found match %s (s%se%s) [%s]",strLabel.c_str(),season,episode,expression[j].c_str());
-            myEpisode.iSeason = atoi(season);
+            if (season[0] != '\0')
+            {
+              myEpisode.iSeason = atoi(season);
+            }
+            else
+            { myEpisode.iSeason = 1; }
             myEpisode.iEpisode = atoi(episode);
             episodeList.push_back(myEpisode);
             bMatched = true;

Hi

I've been following the absolute numbering issue for a while now, and i have been trying some of the solutions on this forum, and at the same time learning a bit of how it all works.

The closest i got was by prepending the regexp [\._\ \-]()([0-9]{2,3})([\._\ \-][^\\/]*) - making the season blank. Also i had to change the tvdb scraper to default to season 0 with absolute numbering because the enumerator defaults to season 0 when the season is blank.

A workaround could be done for the specials (put them on a separate folder and disable absolute numbering) but that just mixes them up with all the other episodes.

With psorcerer's patch (blank seasons defaulting to season 1) things get quite good but i was thinking of an alternative.

My idea was that if the enumerator reads the scraper settings and finds that absolute numbering is enabled, it could not only set the season to 1, but also concatenate the season and episode number. The default regexp [\._ \-]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*) splits the episode number into season and episode number and then the enumerator joins them back again.

As an example, the regexp above marks the file Bleach_164.avi as S1E64 and the enumerator would change it to S1E164 if absolute numbering was on.

My problem is that i don't exactly know how to read the scraper settings within the enumerator to make the changes. I have knowlege of some programing languages but not C++, not counting the size of the XBMC code.

Suggestions anyone?

I am trying to get a multi episode Samurai jack episode scanned correctly.

The episode name is Samurai Jack - 01-02-03.avi

XBMC scans the first episode correct and then scan 02 and 03 as the specials.

Is there another naming convention i should be using?