[coopers]

Hi folks,

I have on my hard drive the following two directories:

tvshows/battlestar galactica/ -- this is the original 1978 one
tvshows/battlestar galactica (2003)/ -- this is the current one

Now, currently mytvseries thinks that both of these dirs are the same show (the modern one), rather than two separate shows, so it thinks that I have two season1's for the modern show basically.

I also get this problem with "doctor who", for which the situation is similar.

What is the naming convention I need to follow to get this right? I have had a look on the database site and I think I'm doing it right...


In the past I have correctly named directories:
The office (uk)
The office (us)

and this correlates correctly to the database, things work fine.

cheers


coopers

[level20peon]

Have a look here. Maybe renaming the original series to "Battlestar Galactica 1978" or "Battlestar Galactica 1980" will do the trick.


-level20peon

[marvenius]

I know, (relatively) old post, but I have the same problem.
Having all series 1978, 1980 and 2003 I got 1980 successfully parsed (had to split several avi files and renaming them) I do not want any of the 1978 files to be split or renamed. I want the frakking regex to work.
ALl files are in seperate folders, and all avi's are in the correct Season <season> directory.
However, 1978 is just added to the 2003 version...
Also, the first avi contains E01, E02 and E03. This cannot be handled by the parsers and, as far as I can tell, database. Any suggestions?

When I leave the addition of Battlestar Galactica 1978, it parses 1978 as Season 19 Episode 78...

[Clean]

Originally Posted by marvenius

I know, (relatively) old post, but I have the same problem.
Having all series 1978, 1980 and 2003 I got 1980 successfully parsed (had to split several avi files and renaming them) I do not want any of the 1978 files to be split or renamed. I want the frakking regex to work.
ALl files are in seperate folders, and all avi's are in the correct Season <season> directory.
However, 1978 is just added to the 2003 version...
Also, the first avi contains E01, E02 and E03. This cannot be handled by the parsers and, as far as I can tell, database. Any suggestions?

When I leave the addition of Battlestar Galactica 1978, it parses 1978 as Season 19 Episode 78...

I understand your frustration. I have a fairly large collection and the regex never seemed to work on 100% of it. So finally I broke down one day and created a standard naming convention for all of my episodes. It was a bit of a pain to go through all 2k+ episodes and rename them to the new specs but it does pay off in the end. Now I have two regex expressions (one for regular series and one for IPTV shows). It works 100% of the time and no more frustration.

Also, I have never been able to get the dual episode to work in the plugin. Well, I did but then I upgraded and it stopped working again, so I use AVISynth scripts for the second episode. For example, Greys Anatomy had a dual first episode. The AVI was named "Greys Anatomy - 5x01 - Episode 1.avi" and the avs script was "Greys Anatomy - 5x02 - Episode 2.avs". The avs script had the following lines...

avisource("path to file\Greys Anatomy - 5x01 - Episode 1.avi")
trim(59784,121820)

The plugin parsed both just fine. This is easier than having to split the file.

[marvenius]

Wow, thanks for your reply.
Do I understand correctly that you have installed AviSynth on your Mediaportal install to "trim" the files on the fly. Do you have to add the avs file-extension to the movie extension config?

Also, as a drawback, you have to watch all episodes in advance to check where to trim kinda makes you wonder why you would need MP w/ MP-TVseries

anyway. Your solution sounds very usable and I will have a look if I can make it work on my system.

[Clean]

Originally Posted by marvenius

Wow, thanks for your reply.
Do I understand correctly that you have installed AviSynth on your Mediaportal install to "trim" the files on the fly. Do you have to add the avs file-extension to the movie extension config?

Also, as a drawback, you have to watch all episodes in advance to check where to trim kinda makes you wonder why you would need MP w/ MP-TVseries

anyway. Your solution sounds very usable and I will have a look if I can make it work on my system.

I do have AVISynth installed on my HTPC. As for trimming the episodes, I would only suggest it if you are going to keep the episode. Otherwise the avs file is good to DL the episode info and to then quickly rate the episode. If you are going to keep it then it is just a matter of loading the avs into vdub, jumping to the 42 minute mark and looking for a natural break and noting the frame number.