[Gestalt]

I ran into an issue with having Video_TS folder videos showing up under TV shows in xbmc. If the show is designated as a TV series, xbmc will not show the folders within that would house the Video_TS folders for each episode.

The show I am specifically having problems with is Mystery Science Theater 3000, I have several volumes that I have purchased over the years in which each disc includes one episode of the series. I was hoping that after I renamed the folder so that the scraper would be able to find it on thetvdb, that it would show up in the library, but that is not the case.

I know that when it is configured as a movie I need to tell the folder to 'stack' the files within it so that it opens like a DVD, but that option is unclickable in TV shows.

[elupus]

Series on dvd's doesn't work at all really. patches to get that to work better would be welcome.

[Gestalt]

Agreed, I guess I'll just have to wait patiently for this.

[prae5]

Agreed, I guess I'll just have to wait patiently for this.

Or just convert/rip each episode into its own file - will be so much quicker and more flexible too.

[boykster]

I may not understand your specific problem, but I have TV series working with episodes ripped from DVD and it works quite well. Here's how I have things setup.

I have a parent folder for a TV show, and then subfolders named appropriately for each episode. In each episode folder is a DVD structure for that episode

Code:

\TV_Series  (parent folder for all TV shows)
     \FireFly
           \FireFly_101_TheTrainJob
                  VIDEO_TS.BUP
                  VIDEO_TS.IFO
                  VTS_01_0.BUP
                  VTS_01_0.IFO
                  VTS_01_1.IFO
                  VTS_01_2.IFO

etc - add each episode in its own folder named such that TVDB can parse it.

I added this to my advancedsettings.xml file

Code:

<tvshowmatching append="no">
    <regexp>\[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[\._ \[\-\\/]([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[Ss]([0-9]+)[\.\-]?[Ee]([0-9]+)([^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
    <regexp>[\._ \-\\/]([0-9]+)([0-9][0-9])([\._ \-][^\\/]*)(?:(?:[\\/]video_ts)[\\/]video_ts.ifo)?</regexp>
  </tvshowmatching>

When I add TV_Series as a source and set content as TV, things get scraped right in and works exactly as expected.

Hope that helps -

Rich