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2011-10-27, 23:46
Hi guys, I wanted to know if there is any progress being made on the ability to see shows MISSING from your media library?
I understand at the moment the reason it doesn't work like this is because xbmc processes the directory list and only tries to download information for recognised show/season/episodes
Would it not be possible to recognise show/season and then download all episode information for that season, THEN match against recognised episode filenames?
I'd like to contribute to the project in helping to make this happen if no one is currently working on it.
Thanks.
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Sounds like a good idea to me!
It would be nice to see missing episodes for multiple reasons, first of all because I don't always notice missing episodes just by a missing number in the list and if you add airdates to grey episodes it has two benefits:
- It's easy to see if episodes are already aired and available for download.
- The name and air date of the new episode can be added to the episode list so you don't have to check the tv guide or something.
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I love this idea. I would like to help as well, if I can.
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Should be possible. Should be a setting on the scraper. No problem in the database except a new status handling needed.
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Possible quck fix is to see the lack of path as "missing" but that would probably create other issues down the line.
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Glad to have some support behind this! Does anyone here have any technical background? It looks like modifying the library builder/scraper is the way to go about this. Although it makes me think if it's so simple how come it wasn't thought of before when we had people with holes in their libraries?
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Hi
Is there anyone that has a understanding with the video info scraper? I'm assuming that there is a flag that decides if an episode should be shown or not? Otherwise is it purely decided on if there is a file available or not?
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+1 - i think that connection wieh sick bear could help a lot...
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I like this idea too, but there's gotta be some considerations for the fact that scrapers aren't always right. I've definately had theTVDB mislead ember for my scraping, and also if you have a double episode merged into one file it would have to know that you're not missing that one, it's just tacked on the end of the other.