naming conventions for episodes? (1 Viewer)

[jay_galway]

Hi, ive been playing around with this plugin and I have one or two questions about how the plugin retrieves the actual name of the espisode.

Is it based on the name in the file exactly, ie if I have something like 'Lost s01e01 - Home.avi', then it takes the home portion as the episode name.

Of is it cleverer in that if the filename is 'Lost s01e01.avi', it then searches online for the name of the first episode of Lost and retrieves it?

Also what is the best naming convention for movie files so that it picks up the correct details?

Cheers,

 

[piranha]

Hi!
I personally use f:\media\shows\lost\lost - 1x01 - Name of the ep.avi
But I found anything that has a folder name like a show and then the files inside contain the episode number in the format 1x01 - it will pick it up without a problem.

 

[level20peon]

Hello jay_galway,

you can use many different ways to name your episodes. You just need to build a filter for My TV-Series to enable correct recognition. The plugin will resolve the names of the online-database automatically afterwards.


Some examples (all in simple mode it is also possible to use regular expressions):

<series> - <season>x<episode> - <title>.<ext>

-> Will accept: Lost - 01x13 - Hearts and minds.avi

<series> - <season>x<episode><ext>

-> Will accept: Lost - 01x13.avi

\<series>\Season <season>\Episode <episode> - <title>.<ext>

-> Will accept: Lost\Lost - Season 1\Lost - 01x13 - Hearts and minds.avi

\<series>\<series> - <season>\<series> - <episode> - <title>.<ext>

-> Will accept: Lost\Lost - Season 1\Lost - 13 - Hearts and minds.avi

The following expression assumes that just one season of a series exists

<series> - <episode> - <title>.<ext>

-> Will accept: Samurai Champloo - 13 - Ways in the night.avi


-level20peon