I am slowly converting my database over from xbmc.
The weakest part of this plugin is its parsing, it is pretty horrid and you notice that when you have to do so much work to make it work coming from xbmc that handled almost everything thrown at it.
The biggest flaw is the complete reliance on the filename.
There should be options to use the foldername for the tvseries name in parsing and then to just look for the s05e06 information to get the season and episode number, that would solve loads of issues for many people. It is a lot easier to change one foldername to be correct rather than to change a ton of episode names. Changing filenames is nasty because a lot of the time the filenames have other information such as the scene group the type of rip eg tvrip or dvdrip etc so you cant just use one of the tvrenamers because they remove this info. The ability to search an nfo file for all the information would be great also and would speed up the scanning by a factor of infinity.
anyway back to my issue at hand
I have a multipart episode which is named
Waking with Dinosaurs S01E01-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12.avi
so that contains episodes 1 through to 12
It worked fine in xbmc but seem to be having problems scanning it in here, if this isn't supported then please consider adding support for more than just 2 part episodes.
It looks to be a great plugin but I would love to see the parsing engine worked on more
1) a tickbox that says "use folder name to get series name" so that means we can use
BAYWATCH\season 1\bw-s01e05
and it would use the foldername instead of trying to work out what bw is etc and then just scans for the s01e05 which could be anywhere in the filename.
This would also work for any filename eg
BAYWATCH\season 1\s01e06.avi
BAYWATCH\season 1\dvdrip_s01e07.avi
If you used the method above and used the foldername and then just scan the filename for the s01e07 or other supported formats eg 1x07 etc then it will make this plugin way less fussy on its strict naming and at the same time pickup the vast majority the filenames out there without people having to change them.
2) look for xbmc style nfo files and scan these, this would cut down on any hit and miss and no internet lookups are needed at all as it contains everything, also scan for local media, episode thumbs that match the media file name.
3) support for more than 2 part multi episodes
Thanks for the great plugin, please don't take that as a criticism, well if you do, please take it as a constructive one
It is a great plugin but in any software there is always room for improvement.
The weakest part of this plugin is its parsing, it is pretty horrid and you notice that when you have to do so much work to make it work coming from xbmc that handled almost everything thrown at it.
The biggest flaw is the complete reliance on the filename.
There should be options to use the foldername for the tvseries name in parsing and then to just look for the s05e06 information to get the season and episode number, that would solve loads of issues for many people. It is a lot easier to change one foldername to be correct rather than to change a ton of episode names. Changing filenames is nasty because a lot of the time the filenames have other information such as the scene group the type of rip eg tvrip or dvdrip etc so you cant just use one of the tvrenamers because they remove this info. The ability to search an nfo file for all the information would be great also and would speed up the scanning by a factor of infinity.
anyway back to my issue at hand
I have a multipart episode which is named
Waking with Dinosaurs S01E01-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12.avi
so that contains episodes 1 through to 12
It worked fine in xbmc but seem to be having problems scanning it in here, if this isn't supported then please consider adding support for more than just 2 part episodes.
It looks to be a great plugin but I would love to see the parsing engine worked on more
1) a tickbox that says "use folder name to get series name" so that means we can use
BAYWATCH\season 1\bw-s01e05
and it would use the foldername instead of trying to work out what bw is etc and then just scans for the s01e05 which could be anywhere in the filename.
This would also work for any filename eg
BAYWATCH\season 1\s01e06.avi
BAYWATCH\season 1\dvdrip_s01e07.avi
If you used the method above and used the foldername and then just scan the filename for the s01e07 or other supported formats eg 1x07 etc then it will make this plugin way less fussy on its strict naming and at the same time pickup the vast majority the filenames out there without people having to change them.
2) look for xbmc style nfo files and scan these, this would cut down on any hit and miss and no internet lookups are needed at all as it contains everything, also scan for local media, episode thumbs that match the media file name.
3) support for more than 2 part multi episodes
Thanks for the great plugin, please don't take that as a criticism, well if you do, please take it as a constructive one
It is a great plugin but in any software there is always room for improvement.
Netherlands
