[seeker83]

I've tried searching for this in the wiki and in the forums with limited success. Nothing really was right on the money.

I have used the normal video file view with thumbs since I installed XBMC, and it has worked nicely. Now though when I switched to Aeon I'm tempted (or almost forced if I want to use the skin as intended) to use the movie library mode. This gives me a problem...

Almost all my movies have their own folders which include the movie itself and a sample video. The problem is that the sample shows up in the movie library, thus making it look like I have duplicates of everything.

Can I exclude all files matching *sample* somehow? or can I force the movie library to only use one match per folder (but which match :confused2?

And I would not like to use some external application to fix these things, as the whole point with XBMC for me is that it's all integrated, plugins are fine though I guess...

In the mean time, thanks for a great application and keep up the good work!

[xexe]

Samples should be excluded. There is a chance you have a naming that it isnt matching.

This can be tweaked. Please post a sample file name.

[seeker83]

They are excluded in file mode, but not in library mode.

EDIT: oops, that example I gave you was incorrect, this is a better example (where bold files will show up as thumbs in the video library):

F:\test\Das.Boot\Das.Boot-sample.mkv
F:\test\Das.Boot\Das.Boot.mkv
F:\test\The.Punisher\SAMPLE-The.Punisher.mkv
F:\test\The.Punisher\The.Punisher.mkv
F:\test\Scream\Scream.sample.mkv
F:\test\Scream\Scream.mkv

As you can see most samples are actually excluded by default. The problem only occurs when the filename begins with "sample".

I took another look at the exclusion regex and realized that it requires at least one special char before the word "sample".

Luckily this is easily fixed by modifying the regex a bit and adding it to the advancedsettings.xml, like this:

Code:

<video>
  <excludefromscan>
    <regexp>(^|[-\._ ])(sample|trailer)[-\._ ]</regexp>
  </excludefromscan>
</video>

This will exclude all the default samples, but also files beginning with the word "sample".
Note: You can use <excludefromlisting> instead of <excludefromscan> if you want to hide the samples from file view as well.

So I guess you were right after all xexe!

and btw, I guess the reason why duplicates arn't shoing up in file view, even without the fix, is because it shows each folder, not the actual movie files.