MyTVSeries - Format Poll (1 Viewer)

[Salty.dh]

I need everyone's feedback on the best method for importing your TV shows.

Currently the MyTVSeries plugin utilises Regular Expressions based on the Filename only to build the Show's Title, Season and Episode Numbers.

I would like to modify the functionality of this data import to include Folders so that 'D:\Series\24\Season 5\Episode 1 - Title Here.avi' is possible.

To do this I am proposing a new structure to replace the Regular Expressions. I feel regular expressions are more aimed at taking arbitary data and finding common matches. This isn't really desirable for tv shows as whilst there may be many formats, each user typically chooses one to catalogue their entire collection.

So I propose the following format for importing TV shows.

'D:\Series\<SeriesTitle>\<SeasonName>\Episode <EpisodeNumber> - <EpisodeTitle>.<>'

another example:

'D:\Series\House\Season 03\House S03E01.avi'

'D:\Series\<>\<>\<SeriesTitle> S<SeasonNumber>E<EpisodeNumber>.<>'


This is just some examples of the new format. You could customize this to include any of the fields that MyTVSeries displays. A set of mandatory fields would be included.

Please vote!

 

[zombiepig]

salty - my reservation with the new system is that it takes quite a bit of work to rename episodes that you've obtained from...ummm... a multitude of sources i really like the way it works now, where i can scan my whole tv series folder and not really have to worry about file names at all! but i guess i'm just lucky in that i've not yet come across a file name format that the regex doesn't cover

if you decide to go solely for the new system, would it be possible to keep the regular expression part in config, but change it so instead of importing titles, it renames the files to the desired convention?

 

[chefkoch]

hi salty

nice to see that you are working on this plugin.

In my opinion MediaPortal should be as robust and flexible as possible and should catch most cases, so I think it is not good that users have to rename their files.

Just my cents, but you are the dev, i have not any knowledge in coding so if this great plugin works again and better than before and i have to rename my files it is okay, I would lovely rename my files :wink:

regards
chefkoch

 

[GSteele]

Hi Salty,

If you can help out with a regular expression syntax guide would help a lot of us with media that's not compliant with your prebuilt conventions. :?:

I can guess some of it ie (From memory) ?<Series>= will atempt to set the series name variable to what ever the rest dictates. Your usage of | etc is in an unfamiliar syntax so some pointers on writing our own Regular Expersions would be great.

Thanks for all your work.

Greg

 

[CHli]

Who said you must rename your files ?

What he proposes is that instead of defining the way you have your files organized on you HDD using regular expressions to do it using some predefined tags.

If you store your TV series using this scheme :

D:\Medias\tv series\stargate sg-1\season 10\ep1 - Flesh and Blood.avi you will be able to import them in the database using this "Model"

d:\Medias\Tv Series\<Serie>\season <Season>\ep<Episode> - <Episode>.avi

Please don't tell me that you're storing your series in different naming schemes, this is a non-sense and should not be supported. If you want to tag your mp3 or rename them from using their tag they all need to use the same model, else you have to do some manual corrections.

Edit : Please consider the possibility to have multiple episodes / filename.

 

[idioteque]

Please don't tell me that you're storing your series in different naming schemes, this is a non-sense and should not be supported. If you want to tag your mp3 or rename them from using their tag they all need to use the same model, else you have to do some manual corrections.

I dont agree with this. I have a lot of files and series which are on several network file servers, and those are not maintained by me nor do I have access to these servers.

I can however connect to these LAN servers and view the series. I can also not change the name of all those files.

MP plugins should be flexible enough to cope with these files and folders

 

[Inker]

Please don't tell me that you're storing your series in different naming schemes, this is a non-sense and should not be supported. If you want to tag your mp3 or rename them from using their tag they all need to use the same model, else you have to do some manual corrections.

Edit : Please consider the possibility to have multiple episodes / filename.

Well, I am storing my series in whatever format they come (...I mean whatever I rename my RECORDED files to...), which is usually 3 to 4 different conventions. Yes, I like to preserve the original filename and hardly ever rename anything. Two reasons for that, I like to have all the extra info that is given in the filename, such as source, codec, audio codec, group, etc. and secondly I'm just lazy and don't want to rename them when the way they come works just fine and gives me all the info I need.

That being said, regular Expressions work fine for me most of the time.

Oh, and I second your request for multiple episodes / filename.

Inker

 

[Salty.dh]

Who said you must rename your files ?

What he proposes is that instead of defining the way you have your files organized on you HDD using regular expressions to do it using some predefined tags.

If you store your TV series using this scheme :

D:\Medias\tv series\stargate sg-1\season 10\ep1 - Flesh and Blood.avi you will be able to import them in the database using this "Model"

d:\Medias\Tv Series\<Serie>\season <Season>\ep<Episode> - <Episode>.avi

Please don't tell me that you're storing your series in different naming schemes, this is a non-sense and should not be supported. If you want to tag your mp3 or rename them from using their tag they all need to use the same model, else you have to do some manual corrections.

Edit : Please consider the possibility to have multiple episodes / filename.

CHli's got it right - almost.

I'm happy to support multiple conventions so that it'll go through them until it finds a match or maybe even "the best match". What I'm really interested in is the Format. I'm trying to gauge if people actually require regular expressions or whether the new format proposed will suit everyone's needs. It's a far simpler approach and easily supports folders.

As for multiple eps per file: Already 50% through implementing that however I need to finalize this format before I can code the rest. It's part of the reason for this poll.

Cheers,

Salty.

 

[Machismo]

Salty,

Using folders as part of the naming scheme is exactly what I was looking for. I have all my tv shows stored like this:

d:\TV Shows\<Series>\Season <Season>\<Series> - S<Season>E<Episode>.avi

Your new format would work a treat with this.

Keep up the good work - I'm really looking forward to your release.

Mick.

 

[htpcMe]

The use of reg expressions in its default configuration has always worked well for me. I would suggest leaving this method in the cofiguration avaiable and just offer both forms. This can realized with two settings

Setting 1: Simple
The user can choose from preconfigured filename standards

Setting 2: Advanced
The use of reg expressions including using the directory paths.

Just my 2 cents. 8)