2012-09-12, 00:21
I'm still learning my way around xbmc. I am working on bringing the recorded tv files that WMC generates into xbmc, in the hopes of weaning my family off of WMC (except I will use WMC as my dvr backend). For most of the recorded tv files I bring in, I can get xbmc's scraper to successfully find the episode data, based on the metadata tags WMC embeds in the file.
However for about 15% of the files this doesn't work. These are typically old cartoons (like loony tunes or Tom and Jerry). WMC has no metadata for these shows stored in the recording file, other than a recording date-time. In WMC these are displayed just as generic shows, with the name of the episode set the same as the file name.
This doesn't happen in xbmc. Without any metadata the scraper fails and when that happens, xbmc just ignores these files. There seems to be no workaround for this - if I can't specify the season/episode number or at least the original airdate (and for a looney tune, that's a challenge), the scraper fails. The only option for my kids to find these shows in xbmc is file mode, which is far from ideal.
So my question: Why can't there be an OPTIONAL setting in xbmc that if the scraper fails, just use the file name as the episode name? The description, genre and other fields can be left as unknown. I guess am just asking for a an option to treat these episodes as "generic" shows, the same way wmc does.
However for about 15% of the files this doesn't work. These are typically old cartoons (like loony tunes or Tom and Jerry). WMC has no metadata for these shows stored in the recording file, other than a recording date-time. In WMC these are displayed just as generic shows, with the name of the episode set the same as the file name.
This doesn't happen in xbmc. Without any metadata the scraper fails and when that happens, xbmc just ignores these files. There seems to be no workaround for this - if I can't specify the season/episode number or at least the original airdate (and for a looney tune, that's a challenge), the scraper fails. The only option for my kids to find these shows in xbmc is file mode, which is far from ideal.
So my question: Why can't there be an OPTIONAL setting in xbmc that if the scraper fails, just use the file name as the episode name? The description, genre and other fields can be left as unknown. I guess am just asking for a an option to treat these episodes as "generic" shows, the same way wmc does.