MyTVSeries - Plugin that organizes TV Video Files (2 Viewers)

[Hesse]

for everyone's sake stop watching tv shows that have an apostrophe in the title!
Salty.

 

[Glith]

For now,

Rename your eps to conventional formats, add new series to EpisodeWorld and for everyone's sake stop watching tv shows that have an apostrophe in the title!


Salty.

What exactly is "conventional formats"? Is there a standard and in that case how does it look like? I want my filenames to be correct once and for all.. This will be the third time I change them in that case and it is a pain.....

It is great that you are back Salty!

 

[mcbelly]

Another, rather annoying, one :

By default "Simple expressions" is used. I have all my files named to match RegEx. So, everytime I add new files, I have to change back to RegEx. This is no problem when I do it via the setup (except that I forget it each time...), but from within MP there is no way to change it....
So, it would be nice if the importer would memorize this setting.


mcbelly

 

[nylonhof]

I second that. Shouldn't be a big deal to store this in the db as well.

Salty, good to have you back. Hope things get better quickly.

nylonhof

 

[Cinetix]

What exactly is "conventional formats"? Is there a standard and in that case how does it look like? I want my filenames to be correct once and for all.. This will be the third time I change them in that case and it is a pain.....

I've never had problems with this format:

{SeriesName}.{Season}x{Episode}.avi

 

[pannivas]

two series that are not working.

1) Shark
2) Jericho (2006)

there is an entry for both though in tv.com and episodeworld.com

thanks

 

[Bingle]

What exactly is "conventional formats"? Is there a standard and in that case how does it look like? I want my filenames to be correct once and for all.. This will be the third time I change them in that case and it is a pain.....

It is great that you are back Salty!

I think he was joking. Eventually it should be possible to get your shows in without any renaming!

Of course, I spent several hours renaming my shows already... ;-P

My current format is <Series>/Season <season>/<episode> - <title>. I use a simple expression, and aside from files with apostrophes and special episodes, it works fine.

(That reminds me... I'm sure this has been mentioned, but some episodes don't have numbers, instead being "special". That doesn't work currently...)

 

[takingover]

Hi,

First off this is the best plugin for mediaportal, and thanks for all your hard work Salty.dh. Right I have two small problems the first is I get an error when I try to import : Hotel Babylon and The IT Crowd. It comes up with the following error.

Failed to download episode listing into database. Skipping to next filename.
System.Exception: Response could not be retrieved.
at WindowPlugins.GUITVSeries.ImportVideo.MinePage(String URL, String[] ValidFields, String FormatFile)
at WindowPlugins.GUITVSeries.ImportVideo.DownloadEpisodeListing(Int32 seriesID)
Mining Pages: /season=all/english
System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
at WindowPlugins.GUITVSeries.ImportVideo.MinePage(String URL, String[] ValidFields, String FormatFile)
Mining Pages: /season=all/english
System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
at WindowPlugins.GUITVSeries.ImportVideo.MinePage(String URL, String[] ValidFields, String FormatFile)
Episode Listings: /season=all/english
Downloading episode listing for The IT Crowd
Failed to download series information into database.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at WindowPlugins.GUITVSeries.ImportVideo.DownloadSeriesInfo(MatchingSeries match)
Show information could not be found for: The IT Crowd
Downloading series information for The IT Crowd
Found an exact match to series name in search results. Automatically using this entry.
Found Show!
Searching TV Site for matches on parsed series name. The IT Crowd
Parsed Information: The IT Crowd - 1x6 -
Regular Expression: '(?<series>[^\\$]*) (s|season |)(?<season>[0-9]{1,2})( |)(x|e|ep)(?<episode>[0-9\W]+)(( |)(-( |)|))(?<title>[^$]*?)
Processing File: g:\tv files\the it crowd\the it crowd s1 e06.avi

Then I also have a problem with importing Dad's Army, every time I try it imports a completely diffierent series is there anyway to stop this?

Also I can't wait for the ability to add your own series and information and I have a couple of series that are really old and not in the db's and would like to add them myself.

Thanks again for all the hard work, hope your feeling better.

Jay

 

[zombiepig]

Then I also have a problem with importing Dad's Army, every time I try it imports a completely diffierent series is there anyway to stop this?

THat's probably because it's got a ' in the name - that's a known bug and i'm sure salty is working on it

 

[Glith]

Regarding formats

Some seasons start with episode 1 and some have a running number... How should I solve that?
TV.Com uses a running number episodeworld starts with 1. Which standard should we use? Currently all my shows uses a running number.

Example below
(tv.com version):
Series s01e01
Series s01e02
Series s01e03
Series s02e04
Series s02e05
Series s03e06

(episodeworld version):
Series s01e01
Series s01e02
Series s01e03
Series s02e01
Series s02e02
Series s03e01


episodeworld also has a column which is "#" in addition to episodenumber and that is the running number.

The plugin doesnt find my episodes since I have a running number. Do I have to rename the files, again? Or is there any other solution? It is hard since the different webpages uses different numbering. Which is more correct? TV.com or episodeworld? I have seen a few other pages use running numbers as well..

Even the people releasing the shows I'm watching is using running numbers. :-/

The best imho would to be using tv.com's running number which also can be found in episodeworld("#"). Then they use the same standard. Or at least have the option in this excellent plugin.