2009-04-26, 12:48
Hi all,
Just started using xbmc and its great.
Originally it let it sort out all of my tv shows and parse the information, which it mostly did correct except it missed some shows here and there and misidentified others. So to fix this I used mediainfo to generate tvshow.nfo files for all of my shows and also pull the fanart for them. I didnt let it generate episode nfos.
The nfo format is this
My tv shows are in the format
DriveROOT:\SeriesName\Season Number (not with preceding 0)\episode.
The episodes themselves are named with the format "ShowName.SxxExx.Title.Source.extension".
My problem is that now that I have generated these nfos xbmc will not pull the additional episode data, so when I go into library mode it says that there are no episodes but in file mode there are. Also previously when I didn't have the nfos these exact same shows and episodes appeared fine (well they showed up some were misidentified).
I did a quick test and removed the nfos from one folder and xbmc then went off and pulled the data fine and it showed up.
So it only seems to not pull the info when there is a series nfo there, otherwise it works fine.
I know I can have per episode nfos and such but I really don't want to clutter up my folders with all these extra nfos, I don't mind the series ones but the epsiode ones make things slightly harder to read for those who are viewing via smb or whatever else.
Is there something I'm missing that would allow me to have these nfo files to tell xbmc what series the folder actually contains while having xbmc pull the episode info itself and store it where it would normally store such stuff (ie. not with the episodes themselves)
I've attached a log here where I have first added a source (I that contains the series with nfos (which dont show up with episodes) then I have added one without episodes (New Folder). Both folders had the same essential structure except one just didnt have the nfos (new folder). It doesnt seem to contain much info, is there a way to get it to be more useful?
I have also tested this in the 8.10 build and babylon beta 1 and the same behaviour seems to occur.
Is there another working way to tell xbmc what series are contained in the folders without having it autoguess (and sometimes get it wrong).
Thanks for any help guys.
EDIT:
Had to split it up cause was to big to upload
Updated log part 1
Updated log part 2
Updated log part 3
Updated log part 4
Just started using xbmc and its great.
Originally it let it sort out all of my tv shows and parse the information, which it mostly did correct except it missed some shows here and there and misidentified others. So to fix this I used mediainfo to generate tvshow.nfo files for all of my shows and also pull the fanart for them. I didnt let it generate episode nfos.
The nfo format is this
My tv shows are in the format
DriveROOT:\SeriesName\Season Number (not with preceding 0)\episode.
The episodes themselves are named with the format "ShowName.SxxExx.Title.Source.extension".
My problem is that now that I have generated these nfos xbmc will not pull the additional episode data, so when I go into library mode it says that there are no episodes but in file mode there are. Also previously when I didn't have the nfos these exact same shows and episodes appeared fine (well they showed up some were misidentified).
I did a quick test and removed the nfos from one folder and xbmc then went off and pulled the data fine and it showed up.
So it only seems to not pull the info when there is a series nfo there, otherwise it works fine.
I know I can have per episode nfos and such but I really don't want to clutter up my folders with all these extra nfos, I don't mind the series ones but the epsiode ones make things slightly harder to read for those who are viewing via smb or whatever else.
Is there something I'm missing that would allow me to have these nfo files to tell xbmc what series the folder actually contains while having xbmc pull the episode info itself and store it where it would normally store such stuff (ie. not with the episodes themselves)
I've attached a log here where I have first added a source (I that contains the series with nfos (which dont show up with episodes) then I have added one without episodes (New Folder). Both folders had the same essential structure except one just didnt have the nfos (new folder). It doesnt seem to contain much info, is there a way to get it to be more useful?
I have also tested this in the 8.10 build and babylon beta 1 and the same behaviour seems to occur.
Is there another working way to tell xbmc what series are contained in the folders without having it autoguess (and sometimes get it wrong).
Thanks for any help guys.
EDIT:
Had to split it up cause was to big to upload
Updated log part 1
Updated log part 2
Updated log part 3
Updated log part 4