Parses correctly but imports wrong (1 Viewer)

[andydixon]

Hi,

In general the MyTV-Series plugin is working very well for me, but I'm just having a problem with one show. "The Muppet Show" season 1 parses correctly and all the episodes show up in the parsing screen with the correct season and episode numbers and episode titles. But when I click on import all 24 episodes show up in the database as Episode 0 which was a pilot which I don't even have. Anyone know what might be going wrong? All other shows are working fine.

Andy

 

[piranha]

What is the full path of the files including the filenames? Give example of 2-4 of them.

 

[Clean]

This is because there is an episode 0 in season 1 on tvdb. The plugin chokes on any series that has an episode 0. There really should not be an episode 0 but some folks added this info prior to the specials system being perfected. In this case the problem is the "pilot" show that really wasn't a pilot. It was a one-off that turned into a series much like the Nero Wolfe "pilot". For Nero Wolfe I moved the pilot into the specials, deleted the info in the episode 0 (you can not delete the episode itself) and then re-numbered the episode 0 to 13 (the last episode). You can try this with The Muppet Show and it will fix everything. Also, if you do this, don't have the special display before the season, just leave the default display info alone. If you have it display before a season the plugin will choke again.

 

[andydixon]

Thanks for the info Clean. Do you know if there are any plans to change the plugin to handle situations like this?

Thanks
Andy

 

[Clean]

I don't believe it has been reported as a bug and I never gave it much thought as being a bug. When I find a series with an episode 0 I correct it on tvdb. Usually only takes a few minutes. As time goes on and the corrections are made the error will become much more infrequent, not that it has been that frequent to begin with.