[spinmaster]

Hi,

I'm having problems with scraping the TV series "V" (the SciFi series from back in 1983). This show has aired in a "Mini TV series" format and then a year later as one full season. The two part Mini-Series is listed on TheTVDB.com under "Special":



If I click the details for one these episodes, I picked the episode hierarchy ...



... over to my file storage:



However, after scraping / updating my library, the regular season episodes are listed in Kodi, whereas the Mini-Series (from the "Specials" subfolder) are unfortunately not:



What could be the reason and am I doing something wrong here?

[Prof Yaffle]

Specials are considered as series 0. So, the first special is 0x01 or S00E01, for example. Try that.

[spinmaster]

Thanks for helping out.

I just changed the folder structure, renamed to "0" ...



... update library, rescrape, but still the same result.

Any other idea?

[Prof Yaffle]

No - not the folders - the filenames themselves. Kodi matches the series based on the top-level folder name (so "V" here, but "V (1983)" would also work as it's a valid tvdb alias) - however, it then matches the episode based on the information in that file name.

Rename them to "somethingsomethingsomething - 0x01 - somethingelse.avi" and ".... 0x02 ..." and scrape again.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/TV_shows

[spinmaster]

Sorry, I didn't read your previous post properly. I'm still so used to organize everything folder based (Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, ...) - never came across "Specials" episodes before when scraping.

I put all files in a single folder, renamed as you said and now the files are properly detected by the scraper.

Thanks for helping!

[Prof Yaffle]

Excellent.

You can still have them in separate folders, as that doesn't matter to Kodi - it's just for your benefit - so it's all down to the parent folder name (== series name) and the file names below that (== episode).