Movie Serials - Scrapers Don't Show Chapters (1 Viewer)

[Senior47]

Scrapers find and Index Movie Serials in Medial Portal2 & Kodi But still don't Show Chapter Numbers or Chapter title if applicable.

My Movies are in the format.

Movie Name (0000) Actor, Actor

The (0000) is the year released.
Actor is the name of the first two principal actors in the movie, not all movies have Actor.


My Movie Serials are in the format.

Movie Serial Name (0000) Chapter 00 Chapter Title

The (0000) is the year of release.
The 00 is the Movie Serial Chapter Number
Not all have a Chapter Title.

If I have 13 0r 26 or what ever chapters, scrapers just list them without the Chapter numbers.

 

[ge2301]

I guess Movie Serials = Series or TvSeries, otherwise I do not fully understand. Movie collections have never chapter information, this exists only for Series.

Movie Serial Name (0000) Chapter 00 Chapter Title

This will not work. Please read the wiki first.
If you do not want to change your naming scheme tag all media files prior import. This is generally recommended.

 

[Senior47]

Thank you for your reply, your Wiki info is great!

Will tag or treat as if Movie Serials are a TV Series, but would love to get rid of the hyphens sometime in the future.

Wiki
Series
Created by ge2301, last modified on Sep 11, 2022
File name conventions
File names
Series episodes are best named in the following formats, if you don't use series folder to separate episodes belonging to different series.
Series name - SssEee - Episode name
Series name - ssxee - Episode name

Maybe one day this will be possible?

Series name ssxee Episode name

 

[Senior47]

Adventures Of Captain Marvel (1941) Chapter 01 Curse Of The Scorpion

Adventures of Red Ryder (1940) Chapter 01 Murder on the Santa Fe Trail

Adventures Of The Flying Cadets (1900) Chapter 01

Batman (1943) Chapter 01

Battling With Buffalo Bill (1900) Chapter 01 Cornered By Redskins

Black Arrow (1944) Chapter 01 City of Gold

etc

Most Movies Serials are 12 or 36 chapters, total of 1548 chapters (episodes)

A real pain to have to individually tag, I may just hyphen the file names.

Adventures Of Captain Marvel (1941) - 01x01 - Curse Of The Scorpion

This might work.

 

[Senior47]

Nope ! hyphens don't work, its back to tagging.

Python database does not appear to hold info on the Chapters (episodes) of the thousands of old 1940s Movies Serials

 

[ge2301]

A real pain to have to individually tag, I may just hyphen the file names.

You don't need to rename them, tagging happens in a *.nfo file without renaming anything. External tools do that in a few minutes.
The wiki describes everything.

External Preparation Tools​

Following tools are recommended to prepare your media items in advance and ensure 100% recognition and full FanArt experience.

• TinyMediaManager
• Media-Buddy

 

[Senior47]

Oooh! Ok thanks.

I am old age 75, and don't know anything about Computers, I just like watching old movies and TV shows, Thats why Media Portal2 and kodi are great for old age pensioners.

I have given up driving its too complicated nowerdays and may give up on computers they are advancing so quickly.

Thanks for links my neighbour may be able to get MP2 and Kodi working, thanks very much.