[AncientPC]

All machines are importing the same samba folder over the network, so TV file naming issues shouldn't be a problem.

ArchLinux and OpenELEC running XBMC properly import all my TV shows. However Ubuntu XBMC only imports folders with a tvshow.nfo and title searches fail. Here's an example of one show:

Code:

01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: No NFO file found. Using title search for 'smb://PUNK/public/tv/How I Met Your Mother/'
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'How I Met Your Mother' using The TVDB scraper (path: '/home/hting/.xbmc/addons/metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.4.3')
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=how%20i%20met%20your%20mother&amp;language=en</url>
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0xab2fdae8) http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=how%20i%20met%20your%20mother&language=en
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results></results>
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'How I Met Your Mother' using The TVDB scraper (path: '/home/hting/.xbmc/addons/metadata.tvdb.com', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.4.3')
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=how%20i%20met%20your%20mother&amp;language=en</url>
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0xab2fdae8) http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=how%20i%20met%20your%20mother&language=en
01:11:07 T:2872044352   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><results></results>
01:11:07 T:2872044352  NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Finished scan. Scanning for video info took 02:39

Ubuntu XBMC is properly importing my movies. If it was simply an issue with the tvdb.com scraper than the tvshow.nfo folders would have failed as well. Can anyone help explain why title searches are failing on Ubuntu?

[Ned Scott]

TVDB was having some issues yesterday/today, but should now be fixed. Not sure why it isn't working on all the computers, but that appears to be the same issue from your log snippet.

[AncientPC]

Thanks Ned. Turned out TVDB.com scraper was only partially recovered, but fully working 8 hours later. Everything works now with no changes to XBMC.