[SOLVED] including VIDEO_TS *.VOB files in database

Hi,

first I have to say that I really love this plugin!

But I am having problems with my DVDs copied to my NAS (I am lazy and I don't like to change discs in the evening when sitting in front of my TV ;-) ):
I am not able to let My TVseries recognize these files. The episodes are located in subfolders calles "VIDEO_TS" and there is one VOB file for each episode. (The main folder is of course name after the series and the season) I can either play them directly (by clicking on them from a file browser) or MediaPortal loads/starts the whole DVD.
But I want them to be included in this fantastic plugin.

What am I doing wrong?

 

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You will need to add a new rule to the parsing expression in the MP TV Series config. Something similar to
<series> - S<season>E<episode>\VIDEO_TS.IFO
for Cheers - S01E01
<series>\S<season>E<episode>\VIDEO_TS.IFO
for Cheers\S01E01
<series>-S<season>\E<episode>\VIDEO_TS.IFO
for Cheers-S01\E01

The plugin is quite flexible. You just need to tell it where to find 3 things
1 The Series name with <series>
2 The Season with <season>
3 The episode with <episode>

All 3 could be in the name of the DVD folder as in the first example above. The series name could be obtained from the parent folder while season and episode are obtained from the DVD folder as in the second example. In the third example the series name and season are from the parent folder while only episode is obtained from the DVD folder.

NB This assumes that there is no VIDEO_TS folder inside your DVD folders. If there is insert VIDEO_TS\ in the expression. Then the first example above would look like this
<series> - S<season>E<episode>\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO

Hope that helps
Sam

 

Thank you both for your detailed answer!

After your answers I was able to do the following: In the VIDEO_TS folder there is a single VTS_0*_0.IFO for every episode (or special feature). MP TVSeries recognizes these files and I can manually assign the episodes to them but when I then open MediaPortal and the TVSeries plugin and click on such an episode the full DVD menu is always loaded and I have to select the episode again from the DVD menu.

On the DVD there is one VOB file per episode, can't I tell MP TVSeries somehow to use these files? It would be something like
<series>/<series> - <season>/DVD <a number>/VIDEO_TS/*.vob

 

I found what I did wrong:
My problem was that only the IFO files were recognized by MP TVSeries and not the VOB files, so all I had to do was to add this file type to the files that recognizes MediaPortal as videos. After I did this I just had to manually assign the correct episodes to the files.

Again, thanks a lot for you answers!