Expressions/Rules requests (12 Viewers)

[joz]

Hi all,

Wonder if someone can help me out solving this, I totally suck @ regex!
I need a parsing expresion that covers the following scenario (as an example I picked one tvserie path);

\Fawlty Towers\Season 01\1-A touch of Class.avi

That's the general naming of my filenames. The dash between episode and title (as in respectively "1" and "A touch of class") can have spaces around it. Besides that I need to cover my double episode in one file situation which I have in "01&02-title" format. Again by this example spaces around the & sign are optional as well as around the dash.
The last situation I need to handle is the lack off the title name, then the files look like "01.ext" or "1.ext" (usualy the former and 01&02.ext ofcourse).

This is my sorry try @ getting there;
\\(?<series>)\\Season (?<season>[\d]+)\\((?<episode>[\d]+)) ([\s]*&[\s]*((?<episode2>[\d]+))? ([\s]*-[\s]*))((?<title>)\.(?<ext>)$

Based upon this example

 

[RoChess]

Use:

^.*?\\?(?<series>[^\\]+?)\\Season\s(?<season>\d+)\\(?<episode>\d+)(?:[ &+]*(?<episode2>\d+))?[ \-]*(?<title>(?![^\\]*?(?<!the)[ .(-]sample[ .)-]).*?)\.(?<ext>[^.]*)$​

It works for:

\Fawlty Towers\Season 01\1-A touch of Class.avi
\Fawlty Towers\Season 01\2.avi
\Fawlty Towers\Season 01\3&4.avi
\Fawlty Towers\Season 01\5 & 6 - Episode Title.avi​

If it fails for any other files, then you should have properly specified all the combinations, I was only able to distill the above ones from your chat. Instead of explaining the combinations, actually writing them out like the above speeds things up a lot more, because then I can just copy and paste them into Expresso instead of having to type them out, which I might not do next request.

 

[joz]

a bunch RoChess, works a charm! Sorry I had put you thru the hassle extrapolating the scenario's from my chat
Now I know.

 

[keith2045]

I'm having issues with my DVD folders. I've got my shows stored like this

X:\TVShows\Simpsons\Simpsons - 01x01 - Title\Video_TS\

By default it finds VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01_0.IFO but i only need it to find the first one. Any suggestions?

 

[RoChess]

I'm having issues with my DVD folders. I've got my shows stored like this

X:\TVShows\Simpsons\Simpsons - 01x01 - Title\Video_TS\

By default it finds VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01_0.IFO but i only need it to find the first one. Any suggestions?

Presuming X:\TVShows is your import path, try a simple expression such as:

<series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO​

And disable the others if they are generating false positives for you.

 

[keith2045]

That's one that i had in the past but it's not working anymore. I disabled the other ones and it didnt find any of the shows.

 

[keith2045]

So after testing i got a reg expression that works

^.*?\\?(?<series>[^\\$]+?)[ .-]+(?:?(?<season>\d+)[.-]?[ex](?<episode>\d+)|(?:\#|\-\s)(?<season>\d+)\.(?<episode>\d+))(?:[ex+-]*(?<episode2>\d+))?[.-]*(?<title>(?![^\\]*?sample[ .-])[^$]*?)\\VIDEO_TS\.IFO$

when testing only one shows up (video_ts.ifo) but after importing the shows, both files show up(video_ts.ifo and VTS_01_0.IFO) and this is the only expression enabled. Thoughts?

 

[psiebe]

Hi Guys,

Any idea how to tackle the issue keith2045 mentioned above? I want to add DVD files, but even if I only assign video_ts.ifo and choose to ignore all the other hits (VTS_01_0.IFO etc) they do show up in the GUI. With 5 ifo's per episode (midsomer murders) this is a mess.

Any clue or alternatively, a better way to work with dvd's in MP ?? (don't like the (slow) way iso's work with daemon tools and automount, if it worked like with VLC that option would be my preference)

thanks,
Patrick

 

[navaras]

my path:
H:\Desperate.Housewives.S01-S04.DVDRip.XviD-MiXED\Desperate.Housewives.S01-S03.DVDRip.XviD\Desperate.Housewives.S01.DVDRip.XviD-WAT

and there are compressed rar files. (see attached file)

so i need write special code, but unfortunately i dont understand it.

 

[nzdreamer55]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to media portal and MP-TV plugin. I am looking for some help with importing TV shows that are recorded by Windows media center 2005 to a HTPC on my home LAN running Media Portal. I installed the TP Plugin however when I setup the import path, the TV shows don't parse. I'm not sure if the way they are saved by MCE if there is enough info in the title to write an expression (not that I am smart enough to write one). Here is an example of the file name:
Futurama_COMEDYP_01_09_2010_01_00_04.dvr-ms

Is there a way to write a rule so that this get's imported? Is so will it changed the name of the file? Lastly if it does change the name of the file will windows media center still recognize it?

Thanks in advance
Steve