2015-04-08, 10:39
TVDB uses a curious numbering scheme for multi-part episodes that are combined into a single title on the DVD. Kodi's TVDB scraper doesn't handle this "out of the box", and there's nothing (that I found) on the wiki regarding this, in either of the following places:
http://kodi.wiki/view/TVDB#Debugging_Shows_Not_Found
http://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files...leshooting
My motivating example is the comedy series Friends (http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=...6106&lid=7), which contains a number of two-part episodes (in the season linked to here, episodes 23 and 24--The One With Ross's Wedding 1/2--are merged into a single title on the DVD).
Much to my frustration, Kodi did not add my file when I named it "S06E23 The One With Ross's Wedding.mkv". After trying lots of variations, I finally looked on thetvdb.com, and happened to notice that the "DVD episode" field for such episodes contained something like "23.1", whereas a normal, standalone episode contained a string like "22.0". This turned out to be the solution to my problem; by naming the file "S06E23.1 The One With Ross's Wedding.mkv", I was able to get Kodi to accept it.
It really seems like this shouldn't be necessary, though. After all, Kodi transparently handles the "22.0" case just fine, without me having to explicitly specify ".0" in my filename. Couldn't the scraper look for a ".1" episode if no ".0" episode exists?
If it is truly necessary for some reason, perhaps someone could update the wiki to call out this special case, so that the next guy doesn't stumble for so long trying to figure this quirk out.
http://kodi.wiki/view/TVDB#Debugging_Shows_Not_Found
http://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files...leshooting
My motivating example is the comedy series Friends (http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=...6106&lid=7), which contains a number of two-part episodes (in the season linked to here, episodes 23 and 24--The One With Ross's Wedding 1/2--are merged into a single title on the DVD).
Much to my frustration, Kodi did not add my file when I named it "S06E23 The One With Ross's Wedding.mkv". After trying lots of variations, I finally looked on thetvdb.com, and happened to notice that the "DVD episode" field for such episodes contained something like "23.1", whereas a normal, standalone episode contained a string like "22.0". This turned out to be the solution to my problem; by naming the file "S06E23.1 The One With Ross's Wedding.mkv", I was able to get Kodi to accept it.
It really seems like this shouldn't be necessary, though. After all, Kodi transparently handles the "22.0" case just fine, without me having to explicitly specify ".0" in my filename. Couldn't the scraper look for a ".1" episode if no ".0" episode exists?
If it is truly necessary for some reason, perhaps someone could update the wiki to call out this special case, so that the next guy doesn't stumble for so long trying to figure this quirk out.
