migrating from xbmc (1 Viewer)

[Kilack]

I have quite a lot of tv series/episodes that I have stored up over a fair amount of time. I have been using xbmc and have moved to mediaportal recently mainly because of the tv functions. I am still using xbmc because I have things set up just as i want them but it would be nice to have everything running under one program.

I was directed to this plugin but am having real problems getting it to read in my episodes that xbmc was reading.
This plugin seems to be extremely fussy on the format of the filename and folders.

Basically I have my episodes stored like this

tv folder\[series name\anything_sxxexx-blah.avi

Now that is the important part, my files can have very gibberish names but the sxxexx is always correct.
Is there anyway I can get this plugin to just use the series name from the folder and use the sxxexx for a tvdb.com lookup?

Lots of filenames from different groups have different information and they use different formats, i don't want to lose the filenames etc because then it makes finding subtitles that match those files harder etc, so renaming isn't the best idea.
What would be good is using the sxxexx which is always going to be far more accurate than trying to pass the episode name out of the filename anyway.

The other thing that would rock is that I have .nfo files stored for every episode, they match the filename of each episode, inside that .nfo, they are xml format and have _all_ the information about that episode, the name, the plot, the actors etc etc. There are lots of 3rd party programs that write these files out, they are used by boxee, xbmc etc etc. Any chance this plugin could be made to read these xml files? it would make the plugin far more powerful. I can send an example if need be of that
format.

at least scanning the .nfo for the episode name and series name would be a huge bonus, like moving picture plugin does.
takes the guessing game out of it completely, or using sxxexx


thanks

 

[ryan20021982]

Basically I have my episodes stored like this

tv folder\[series name\anything_sxxexx-blah.avi

When you say (anything) is that the episode name or the shows name??

Here is a pic to show easier how mine are but looks like the same as yours is

EDIT: wanted to add I always use the original name also and never have a prob

 

[Kilack]

Basically I have my episodes stored like this

tv folder\[series name\anything_sxxexx-blah.avi

When you say (anything) is that the episode name or the shows name??

Here is a pic to show easier how mine are but looks like the same as yours is

EDIT: wanted to add I always use the original name also and never have a prob

unfortunately in my case anything could be the episode name or it could just be an abbreviation etc
it might just be
frg_s01e05.avi

which might be fringe, the folder will say fringe which is what i would like the lookups done on..
and obviously the s01e05 is correct.
I have also have a matching .nfo file for that filename which contains everything about that epsiode
an example .nfo is here
pastebin - collaborative debugging tool
inside the foldername for the series is an nfo file called tvshow.nfo, this contains all the info about the series in general including links to thetvdb.com
pastebin - collaborative debugging tool
There are quite a lot of third party programs that generate these files and then this plugin could just extract the info from them which includes info about the codecs, runtime, actors, resolution etc etc.

Apart from that though, an option to use the foldername for the series lookup and then to parse for the season and episode number from the filename eg s05e01 or 5x22 rather than trying to use the name out of the filename.

I hope that made sense