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<blockquote data-quote="RonD" data-source="post: 1147230" data-attributes="member: 117536">I like TV Series and it is my primary way to watch MP-TV Recordings that I make on my server. Almost all my shows 99+% are MP-TV-Recs and have very few &quot;other&quot; shows that I use with MP-TVS.Most MP-TV-Recs shows/episodes import cleanly with MP-TVS, but a number of my MP-TV-Recs seem to become &quot;lost orphans&quot; that get lost somewhere in the ozone. They don't show up anywhere in MP-TVS, and they don't show up in the MP-TVS-Config. If I use a sqlite debug tool, I happen to use Firefox, SQLite Manager Plugin, select local_episodes, sort by episodeindex, I usually find a number, 10, 50+ of shows with seasonindex/episodeindex = -1/-1. If I delete all these rows, then run MP-TVS-Config, I can typically find/fix the &quot;lost orphans&quot; and they show up in MP-TVS.&nbsp; Seems like I need to do this clean up every 1-2 weeks.Is there an option somewhere that tells MP-TVS to use the RecordingName.xml file that MP-TV-Recs creates for each recording. For exampleWayward Pines - 2015-07-23 - Cycle.tsWayward Pines - 2015-07-23 - Cycle.xmlinside the xml file they have the following, (I pulled just some key fields for forum message, see attached xml for gory details)&lt;name&gt;TITLE&lt;/name&gt;&lt;value&gt;Wayward Pines&lt;/value&gt;&lt;name&gt;EPISODENAME&lt;/name&gt;&lt;value&gt;Cycle&lt;/value&gt;&lt;name&gt;STARTTIME&lt;/name&gt;&lt;value&gt;2015-07-23 20:59&lt;/value&gt;This gets rid of interesting/complex Parsing Expression Regex-MagicSpells used to infer the TITLE, EPISODENAME, STARTTIME and other key metadata from path/filenames. From my &quot;user view&quot; if I make a recording with MP-TV Server, the recordings are &quot;native content&quot; and MP-TVS-plugin should work 1st time, plug-n-play, with MP created &quot;native content&quot; without needing to play games with recording names, parsing rules, etc. So far I have not found a MP-TV Recording name template that works 100% of the time.I understand that MP-TVS also works for &quot;other content&quot; that needs some way to pass metadata to MP-TVS and the Parsing Expression,&nbsp; path/filenames, etc are needed to handle Not-MP-Native content. But it seems like &quot;native content&quot; should just work.There is an additional messy detail, there can be a number of different Shows can have the same title, for example <a href="http://thetvdb.com" target="_blank">http://thetvdb.com</a> has 4 different Beauty and the Beast, 3 Last Man Standing, 2 Nashville, etc and the user needs to help MP-TVS figure out which versions they want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RonD, post: 1147230, member: 117536"] I like TV Series and it is my primary way to watch MP-TV Recordings that I make on my server. Almost all my shows 99+% are MP-TV-Recs and have very few "other" shows that I use with MP-TVS. Most MP-TV-Recs shows/episodes import cleanly with MP-TVS, but a number of my MP-TV-Recs seem to become "lost orphans" that get lost somewhere in the ozone. They don't show up anywhere in MP-TVS, and they don't show up in the MP-TVS-Config. If I use a sqlite debug tool, I happen to use Firefox, SQLite Manager Plugin, select local_episodes, sort by episodeindex, I usually find a number, 10, 50+ of shows with seasonindex/episodeindex = -1/-1. If I delete all these rows, then run MP-TVS-Config, I can typically find/fix the "lost orphans" and they show up in MP-TVS. Seems like I need to do this clean up every 1-2 weeks. Is there an option somewhere that tells MP-TVS to use the RecordingName.xml file that MP-TV-Recs creates for each recording. For example Wayward Pines - 2015-07-23 - Cycle.ts Wayward Pines - 2015-07-23 - Cycle.xml inside the xml file they have the following, (I pulled just some key fields for forum message, see attached xml for gory details) <name>TITLE</name><value>[B]Wayward Pines[/B]</value> <name>EPISODENAME</name><value>[B]Cycle[/B]</value> <name>STARTTIME</name><value>[B]2015-07-23[/B] 20:59</value> This gets rid of interesting/complex Parsing Expression Regex-MagicSpells used to infer the TITLE, EPISODENAME, STARTTIME and other key metadata from path/filenames. From my "user view" if I make a recording with MP-TV Server, the recordings are "native content" and MP-TVS-plugin should work 1st time, plug-n-play, with MP created "native content" without needing to play games with recording names, parsing rules, etc. So far I have not found a MP-TV Recording name template that works 100% of the time. I understand that MP-TVS also works for "other content" that needs some way to pass metadata to MP-TVS and the Parsing Expression, path/filenames, etc are needed to handle Not-MP-Native content. But it seems like "native content" should just work. There is an additional messy detail, there can be a number of different Shows can have the same title, for example [URL]http://thetvdb.com[/URL] has 4 different Beauty and the Beast, 3 Last Man Standing, 2 Nashville, etc and the user needs to help MP-TVS figure out which versions they want. [/QUOTE]

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