TV Show posters problem

jhonny30 · 2010-09-26 12:31

Krazeh Wrote:Having spent an hour or so trying to find the issue it appears to be either a recent change in the xml file sent back by tvdb or an error in the scraper. In simple terms it would seem that the scraper isn't identifying the parts of the xml file that contain details of the season thumbs and thus isn't writing any of those details into the library. It can be fixed but you have to delve around inside the actual tvdb.xml file that makes up the scraper.

How can i do that? Where is this xml located?

danz0l · 2010-09-26 12:45

I tried refreshing those that didn't have season thumbs (just had the wide banner), that i knew had them, and they are just not coming down.

jhonny30 · 2010-09-26 13:31

What i meant was what happens when you refresh those that had season thumbs? Are they gone after refreshing?

danz0l · 2010-09-26 14:09

yes

jhonny30 · 2010-09-26 14:43

Me too....
I read that by deleting tvdb.xml you can fix this problem. But i don't know where to find it? By ssh? But where?

aptalca · 2010-09-26 15:06

As I wrote above there are two separate issues

1. Tvdb must have changed their structure of api results, therefore season thumbs are no longer scraped by tvdb scraper

2. If xbmc finds no season thumb, it defaults to a wide icon/banner rather than the series thumb

jhonny30 · 2010-09-26 15:17

So you think there is nothing to do about it?

Krazeh · 2010-09-26 17:04

jhonny30 Wrote:So you think there is nothing to do about it?

No, you can alter the tvdb.xml to allow it to pick up the season thumbs. Problem is the tvdb.xml file will be in different positions depending on whether you're using windows, mac or linux and where you've installed xbmc. On windows it should be in 'addons/metadata.tvdb.com' within the xbmc install folder or on Windows Xp: Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\XBMC\ or on Vista/Windows 7: Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\ or in all of those locations. As to where it'll be on a mac or linux I have no idea.

Once you've found the file you need to open it and locate the following lines (should be about halfway through the file):

Code:

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;season&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;$INFO[language]&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;season&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;[a-z][^$INFO[language]]*&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;seasonwide&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;$INFO[language]&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;seasonwide&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;[a-z][^$INFO[language]]*&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

And change them to:

Code:

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;season&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;$INFO[language]&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;season&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;[a-z][^$INFO[language]]*&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;seasonwide&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;$INFO[language]&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;thumb type=&quot;season&quot; season=&quot;\2&quot;&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;" dest="4+">

    <expression repeat="yes">&lt;BannerPath&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/BannerPath&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType&gt;season&lt;/BannerType&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;BannerType2&gt;seasonwide&lt;/BannerType2&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Language&gt;[a-z][^$INFO[language]]*&lt;/Language&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/Rating&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;/RatingCount&gt;[^&lt;]*&lt;Season&gt;([0-9]+)&lt;/Season&gt;</expression>

</RegExp>

jhonny30 · 2010-09-26 17:18

I am on appletv

moddster · 2010-09-26 18:17

Thanks Krazeh! The change fixed it for me!

I had to do the following under:
Windows 7 x64
XBMC 10.0-beta2 r33776 (Compiled : Sep 13 2010)

Replace tvdb.xml from C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\metadata.tvdb.com with the following file

http://www.mediafire.com/?8p240n9mdk5tsi9

Turn UAC off.

Restart XBMC. Try loading TV show again. Thumbs show up after load! Nod

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jhonny30 Senior Member Posts: 125 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 1	2010-09-26 14:43 Post: #15 Me too.... I read that by deleting tvdb.xml you can fix this problem. But i don't know where to find it? By ssh? But where?
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aptalca The Dude Posts: 827 Joined: Sep 2009 Reputation: 17	2010-09-26 15:06 Post: #16 As I wrote above there are two separate issues 1. Tvdb must have changed their structure of api results, therefore season thumbs are no longer scraped by tvdb scraper 2. If xbmc finds no season thumb, it defaults to a wide icon/banner rather than the series thumb ücretsiz seri ilan
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