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MrOrsh · (This post was last modified: 2008-10-01, 21:22 by MrOrsh.)

I have encounterd a really weird problem.
I´ve been adding TV-shows to my Library, using the TVDB-scraper and everything has worked out perfect so far. But when I try to add The Simpsons nothing happens, it just says "downloading TV-show information" for a few seconds and then "compressing...". No progress bar, and nothing get´s downloaded.

I´ve named the episodes just like all the other series I´ve added are. That is for example: The Simpsons/Season 1/The Simpsons - S01E01.avi

What can be wrong? Is there any known Simpsons-bug that I´ve missed out on?

spindley · 2008-10-01, 22:31

MrOrsh Wrote:I have encounterd a really weird problem.
I´ve been adding TV-shows to my Library, using the TVDB-scraper and everything has worked out perfect so far. But when I try to add The Simpsons nothing happens, it just says "downloading TV-show information" for a few seconds and then "compressing...". No progress bar, and nothing get´s downloaded.

I´ve named the episodes just like all the other series I´ve added are. That is for example: The Simpsons/Season 1/The Simpsons - S01E01.avi

What can be wrong? Is there any known Simpsons-bug that I´ve missed out on?

The same sort of thing happened to me with The X-Files. It was structured more or less the same as yours with the show name as the main dir, the seperate seasons as subdirs, and then the files in each season's dir (although I have my files named like foo.101.*).
Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me get the TVDB scraper to find The X-Files properly. So, I had to choose to manually name it, and after trying different combinations (The X Files, X Files, X-Files, etc) the one that finally worked was "XFiles" with no spaces. Then it would bring up a list to choose from, and "The X-Files (en)" was there.
I guess you'll have to try different combinations until it finds one it likes (Simpsons, thesimpsons?). I'm not sure why it wouldn't find something that was named properly.

matt_cyr · 2008-10-01, 22:49

The x-files wouldn't work because of the - in the name. I don't believe 'The Simpsons' would fall into the same category as your problem.

**sho** · 2008-10-01, 22:51

try this as a workaround and report back:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Import_-_Exp...ing_an_URL
(The TV Show example)

spindley · 2008-10-01, 22:51

Maybe, but shouldn't it have found "The X Files" or "X Files"?
Seems strange that only "XFiles" would work.

Gamester17 · 2008-10-01, 23:13

spindley Wrote:The same sort of thing happened to me with The X-Files. It was structured more or less the same as yours with the show name as the main dir, the seperate seasons as subdirs, and then the files in each season's dir (although I have my files named like foo.101.*).
Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me get the TVDB scraper to find The X-Files properly. So, I had to choose to manually name it, and after trying different combinations (The X Files, X Files, X-Files, etc) the one that finally worked was "XFiles" with no spaces. Then it would bring up a list to choose from, and "The X-Files (en)" was there.
I guess you'll have to try different combinations until it finds one it likes (Simpsons, thesimpsons?). I'm not sure why it wouldn't find something that was named properly.

You problem is not related, see:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=32178
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29220

spindley · 2008-10-01, 23:17

Gamester17 Wrote:You problem is not related, see:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=32178
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29220

Thanks for the info.

Coeluh · 2008-10-01, 23:33

matt_cyr Wrote:The x-files wouldn't work because of the - in the name. I don't believe 'The Simpsons' would fall into the same category as your problem.

Why? Because of the space? South Park works fine for me.

spindley · (This post was last modified: 2008-10-01, 23:48 by spindley.)

Coeluh Wrote:Why? Because of the space? South Park works fine for me.

No, because of the - in "X-Files".
There are apparently issues with dashes and dots.
I'm not sure why the OP is having that problem. The Simpsons is listed on the tvdb site itself, and I had no problems with The Sopranos, or any other shows starting with "The". I originally suggested he try a manual search of "Simpsons" instead of "The Simpsons". I'm not sure if that will help or not.

**mkortstiege** · 2008-10-01, 23:56

Debug log is needed! "The Simpsons" is working fine here using default scraper settings. Please try again with a _really_ fresh build and report back.

MrOrsh · 2008-10-02, 00:22

sho Wrote:try this as a workaround and report back:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Import_-_Exp...ing_an_URL
(The TV Show example)

Worked great!
Just added a txt-file in the root-directory of the series, pasted the simpsons-url from tvdb, and changed the txt-file to an .nfo. Selected Scan for new content, and there it was Smile

Many thanks!
And while I´m at it. Thanks for a superb forum!

offline_thk · 2008-10-02, 00:39

Noob question how do I show information on a show or film, Remember the future in the Xbox version but don't know how to get it in the Windows version...

Regards

**sho** · 2008-10-02, 00:53

"i"on the keyboard?

offline_thk · 2008-10-02, 00:57

Thanx man, but It seams that I have another problem to, The movie info can't fint any info if the folder dosen't have any *.avi file inside :-( and all my movies are in *rar files. That's why I use XBMC. So is there any solution to this?

**sho** · 2008-10-02, 01:07

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appearance_S...ew_Options
Make archives with one file transparent?