2011-04-13, 21:06
Hi. Please forgive me if this doesn't make much sense, I will try to explain myself the best I can.
I am having a problem with getting my video files into the 'TV Show' section of the XBMC library. After finding out I had to rename my files & folders for the scraper to work correctly (something I wasn't too happy about doing, and didn't think should have been necessary,) things still aren't working the way I'd like them to. I don't like the fact that it seems the show title and episode numbers have to match the database exactly (I'm using TheTVDB scraper,) or am I wrong about this?
Let me use my 'Movie Library' as an example:
I have all my movies in a single folder (but I'm assured I can have as many folders as I like.)
Single movies are all together in the root of this folder and have obvious names (allthough using this system I can name them whatever I like) for example:
'Apollo 13 [1995].avi'
'Monsters, Inc. [2001].iso'.
Movie sets are put into their own folders, again with obvious folder names:
'Bill & Ted'
'Pirates of the Caribbean'
And the 'Bill & Ted' folder contains, for example:
'1 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [1989].avi'
'2 - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey [1991].avi'
Each and every file has a .nfo file with the same name, with minimal information to make XBMC identify the video.
Single movie .nfo files ('Apollo 13 [1995].nfo' for example) contain this text:
---------------------------------------------------------
<movie>
<title>Apollo 13</title>
</movie>
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/568
---------------------------------------------------------
And the .nfo files for movie sets contain a little more info ('1 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [1989].nfo' for example) like this:
---------------------------------------------------------
<movie>
<title>Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure</title>
<set>Bill & Ted...</set>
<sorttitle>Bill & Ted 1</sorttitle>
</movie>
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1648
---------------------------------------------------------
The end result of this is:
* I can name the files whatever I like, so long as the .nfo file has the exact same name.
* I can put the files where I like in the 'Movies' folder, movie sets don't even have to be in their own folders (I just like it that way.)
* And I can control exactly how it appears in the library ('Stargate' for example is listed as 'Stargate: The Directors Cut',) in what set, in what order and where the extra movie info is 'scraped' from the internet.
And this is all done, in my opinion, with very little effort on my part.
So what I'd like to know is this:
Can use the same system for my 'TV Show' files?
If not... why not?
....Thanks
I am having a problem with getting my video files into the 'TV Show' section of the XBMC library. After finding out I had to rename my files & folders for the scraper to work correctly (something I wasn't too happy about doing, and didn't think should have been necessary,) things still aren't working the way I'd like them to. I don't like the fact that it seems the show title and episode numbers have to match the database exactly (I'm using TheTVDB scraper,) or am I wrong about this?
Let me use my 'Movie Library' as an example:
I have all my movies in a single folder (but I'm assured I can have as many folders as I like.)
Single movies are all together in the root of this folder and have obvious names (allthough using this system I can name them whatever I like) for example:
'Apollo 13 [1995].avi'
'Monsters, Inc. [2001].iso'.
Movie sets are put into their own folders, again with obvious folder names:
'Bill & Ted'
'Pirates of the Caribbean'
And the 'Bill & Ted' folder contains, for example:
'1 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [1989].avi'
'2 - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey [1991].avi'
Each and every file has a .nfo file with the same name, with minimal information to make XBMC identify the video.
Single movie .nfo files ('Apollo 13 [1995].nfo' for example) contain this text:
---------------------------------------------------------
<movie>
<title>Apollo 13</title>
</movie>
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/568
---------------------------------------------------------
And the .nfo files for movie sets contain a little more info ('1 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [1989].nfo' for example) like this:
---------------------------------------------------------
<movie>
<title>Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure</title>
<set>Bill & Ted...</set>
<sorttitle>Bill & Ted 1</sorttitle>
</movie>
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1648
---------------------------------------------------------
The end result of this is:
* I can name the files whatever I like, so long as the .nfo file has the exact same name.
* I can put the files where I like in the 'Movies' folder, movie sets don't even have to be in their own folders (I just like it that way.)
* And I can control exactly how it appears in the library ('Stargate' for example is listed as 'Stargate: The Directors Cut',) in what set, in what order and where the extra movie info is 'scraped' from the internet.
And this is all done, in my opinion, with very little effort on my part.
So what I'd like to know is this:
Can use the same system for my 'TV Show' files?
If not... why not?
....Thanks