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Hello XBMC-users,

I just started to use the TV-Shows feature. At the moment I have two shows in my TV-Shows folder. One with 3 series (special, 1, 2) and one with only one series containing one episode.
You can see the content of ~/TV Shows/ here: http://tny.cz/449b4f6b
The content type of ~/TV Shows/ is set correctly, no check of "single series", scraper is TheTVDB, Settings as default.

My log-file: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=101024
The steps I logged:

1. Reboot
   
2. Rescan library
   
3. Manually duplicate of the file s03e02.mpg with the new name s01e02.mpg
   
4. Rescan library
   

To be precise, what happens is, that only episodes in the seasons with number 1 and "special" are displayed. So the library for "Wallander" is empty in the first place and displays 1x02 after the manual name change. The library for "Game of Thrones" contains sx06 and 1x01 till 1x10.

Why is episode 2 and 3 never displayed/detected?

You have a tvshow.nfo in both folders - can you show me the contents ?

EDIT: never mind- it is finding the correct info. I think it might be hanging up on something else.

Oh, sorry.
Here it is:
xbmc:~/TV Shows$ cat Game\ of\ Thrones/tvshow.nfo
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=121361
xbmc:~/TV Shows$ cat Wallander/tvshow.nfo
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=82505&lid=14

And here is the video-db export after those steps: http://sprunge.us/fhfJ?xml

Could you possibly create a zipfile with the same directory structure and filenames (dummy files).

it should work with
under Ubuntu - then zip to a file.

Took me abit longer as my cp does not know --attributes-only.

Here it is: http://freakshare.com/files/ufnymqxf/tvshows.zip.html

I just added those files to a clean XBMC 12.2 install and everything was scraped correctly using the TvDB scraper.

I created a folder called TvShows and dumped the Wallander and Game of Thrones folders from the zip in it.
I set content on TvShows and selected TvDB as scraper, every other setting default.

I have Game of Thrones Season 1 episode 1-10, Season 2 episode 1-10 and special episode 6, which is shown in Season 2 as well as in Season Specials. (because of theTVDB having that set)
I have Wallander 1x2 and 2x3 shown properly.

Can you try the following :

1) rename the TvShows folder on disk.
2) Remove the TvShows source from XBMC, choose to remove all episode info from the database
3) Clean the database
4) Create a new source, enter the renamed folder and press ok. Make sure the renamed folder is part of the source path !
5) Select TVDB as scraper
6) have XBMC rescrape when it prompts

Thank you, that helped!
Removing the source and adding it again solves the problem with the dupplicated files from the ZIP and with the originals also. But I still do not know what caused the problem in the first place.

(2013-12-23, 15:21)KofferTV Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you, that helped!
Removing the source and adding it again solves the problem with the dupplicated files from the ZIP and with the originals also. But I still do not know what caused the problem in the first place.

Clearly it was gremlins.