[garyi]

I had noticed this issue a few weeks ago but I swear to god its got worse.

The shows are correctly named and when double clicked open in quicktime player to the right episode.

After scraping they all show up in XBMC but when selected it plays a different file.

It only appears to effect southpark folder I think and so I deleted all NFOs TBNs etc and got each folder back to just the video files. I then deleted the source from XBMC and rescraped it.

Sure enough the same issue XBMC is picking the wrong file, I pick 'Jared has Aides', and I get 'Asspen'

for example.

Its not all the files seems to effect the first four or five of each season.

Sorry cvould not get pastbin to work this evening probably because for what ever reason this couple hour old xbmc log is like a trillion lines.

http://www.academydeli.co.uk/xbmc.log

[stoli]

I believe I had the same issue and it's related to thetvdb.com and the way they have th episodes numbered. I'd check the season(s) you are having an issue with against their site and see if the episodes match up.

-stoli-

[garyi]

OK thanks I'll take a look. I a, guessing this is an issue of the last year or so because it never used to be an issue for me.

[garyi]

HUm nope does not appear to be TVDB. The shows are showing correctly in XBMC i.e. show 1 of season five is showing correctly in the skin and is the correct one according to tv database. But play it and you get episode 3.

[stoli]

See here from your debug log:

Code:

18:52:40 T:2693551904 M:378499072   DEBUG: found episode based match smb://droboshare/drobo/tv shows/south park/season 1/south park [1x01] cartman gets an anal probe.mp4 (s1e01)
18:52:40 T:2693551904 M:378499072   DEBUG: found episode based match smb://droboshare/drobo/tv shows/south park/season 1/south park [1x02] weight gain 4000.mp4 (s1e02)
18:52:40 T:2693551904 M:378499072   DEBUG: found episode based match smb://droboshare/drobo/tv shows/south park/season 1/south park [1x03] volcano.mp4 (s1e03)


Then later when it does the lookup:

<url cache="75897.xml">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/75897/all/en.zip</url><epnum>1</epnum><season>1</season><id>179540</id><aired>1997-08-13</aired></episode><episode><title>Weight Gain 4000</title>
<url cache="75897.xml">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/75897/all/en.zip</url><epnum>2</epnum><season>1</season><id>179542</id><aired>1997-08-20</aired></episode><episode><title>Volcano</title>
<url cache="75897.xml">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/75897/all/en.zip</url><epnum>3</epnum><season>1</season><id>179541</id><aired>1997-08-27</aired></episode><episode><title>Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride</title>

You have "cartman gets an anal probe" listed as S1E01, but thetvdb has it as S0E01. The scraper is using the S1E01 and ignores the name of the episode in the filename; hence everything gets shifted by one or more depending on the season...

There are a few series with this issue where the episode order on DVD's have changes over time and thetvdb doesn't always reflect the latest incarnation. Mythbusters is another one where they don't match up.

Hope this helps.

-stoli-

[garyi]

Thanks for that, i'll check more carefully.

I take it, its 'production code' on TVDB is it? For instance my problem in season 6 is as its listed on TVDB, Aspeen is marked as episode 2 but called product 603?

This is a bit of a mess is it not. I can't get my head round a fix.

How have others sorted this out?

[stoli]

South Park is the only one I have seen that is this bad. The only way to really get around it is to rename your files so the season and episode numbers match those that are on thetvdb. If you have all the seasons it will be a bit cumbersome...

In the case of the Asspen episode, it would be named s01e02

-stoli-