[Linux] .nfo-scan-problem with multiple files

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[Linux] .nfo-scan-problem with multiple files - dibri - 2015-09-16

hello community,

sorry for double-posting, but i could not find an answer using the search-engine.
am i right here in "supplementary tools"?

i tried to use nfo-files for scraping multipart-movies correctly.
sadly without complete success.

i added the directory (with "tmdb" as scraper) containing following files:

Code:
somemovie-xyz_dvd1.mkv

somemovie-xyz_dvd1.nfo

somemovie-xyz_dvd2.mkv

somemovie-xyz_dvd2.nfo

somemovie-xys_dvd1.nfo

Code:
<movie>

        <title clear="true">somemovie xyz dvd1</title>

        <set>somemovie xyz</set>

        <sorttitle>somemovie xyz dvd1</sorttitle>

</movie>

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/somemovie_xyz

somemovie-xys_dvd2.nfo

Code:
<movie>

        <title clear="true">somemovie xyz dvd2</title>

        <set>somemovie xyz</set>

        <sorttitle>somemovie xyz dvd2</sorttitle>

</movie>

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/somemovie_xyz

with this setup i end up having ONLY "somemovie xyz dvd1" in my movies-library. so the nfo-file seems to get recognized, but the
second movie gets ignored. scanning for new content didn't change anything.
when navigating to the files and scanning manually ("movie information") - the nfo-files directly get recognized again and two
entries are added to the library.
-> sadly now i have 3 entries. what went wrong here? is there another way to let kodi automatically scan the files?

thanks

(i use kodi 15.1 under arch linux)

RE: [Linux] .nfo-scan-problem with multiple files - myron - 2015-09-16

Your naming seems to be correct, but you might want to try a single NFO instead.

Code:
somemovie-xyz.nfo

Edit:
After rereading:
The feature is called stacking, where you get only one movie. (since they seem to be connected - why having 2 entries in library)
IMHO this can be disabled in settings?

Just curious: are you writing all your NFOs by hand?!

RE: [Linux] .nfo-scan-problem with multiple files - dibri - 2015-09-16

reply - faster than light. thanks.

yes, i am writing my nfo-files by hand. just for a few double-dvds i own, i didn't wan't to mess up tmdb with "dvd-like" titles (though for some movies they exist).
so i just read about nfo-files in the kodi-wiki and wanted to give it a chance. until now i scraped every title in this directory by hand (erased the dvd-part). this is what i hope to get rid of.

is there a more performant way to manage this case?

to you answer: if i use one nfo-file there's no chance to get two separate titles to distinguish both parts!?
to your edit: "Settings -> Videos -> File lists -> Combined split video items" is disabled in my settings. nontheless just dvd1 gets scraped (and no set gets added until i choose the file manually).

RE: [Linux] .nfo-scan-problem with multiple files - dibri - 2015-09-16

it seems this is the correct behaviour (in both naming conventions - with and without dvdX).
the runtime of several files is summed up. the parts are concatenated logically.

i just got confused because each file itself doesn't appear with metadata in "filemode".

unfortunately there is no possibility to distinguish between several parts.