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Sooo....a series, just one, mkv's is not being picked up in the library.
The Locations of all my series is as follows
D:\Series name\season #\episode1.mkv
It picks up all my other series and plays fine....but this one series...nothing. I tried renaming, i have redone all persmissions and tried removing and adding the locations in XBMC again.
It picks up the Series folder name and displays the fanart and sypnopsis of the series but when i drill into the folder, i cant even see the folders stting season 1 or any files.
I even tried to copy an episode directly into the series name folder and still no luck.
The mkv files plays fine in VLC and windows media player.
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Likely a naming convention. It has to be named exactly as the episodes in the TVDB. I had a similar problem with a TV show. It took a while but finally got it. Too bad you didn't say what TV show it is and your actual name for everything down to the exact episode name. Hard to guess what's wrong with the info provided.
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Thanks Pr0xZen, but even trying to rename the didnt work.....eish....
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2014-06-27, 08:49
(This post was last modified: 2014-06-27, 08:58 by Kib.)
Actually, what Pr0xZen says is technically not correct.
The series name is never scraped from the filename, but for series always comes out of the folder name.
The minimum naming convention that works is:
/TVShows/Seinfeld/s01e01.mkv
You could add season folders but they are ignored by the scraper - you do this for yourself.
/TvShows/Seinfeld/Season 1/s01e01.mkv
You can add more information to the filename but this is also ignored by the scraper - the quality flags come from mediainfo of the file, not (usually) from tags
/TvShows/Seinfeld/Season 1/Seinfeld s01e01 - The StakeOut.mkv
This would be scraped the exact same as
/TvShows/Seinfeld/I like to put stuff in weird folders/This is episode s01e01 of my favorite show.mkv
as long as /TvShows/ is the source and the content is set to TV-Shows.
* the colored parts refer to the elements the XBMC regex parses out of the file location - these are then used by the scraper to find the information on the internet.
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Ah, clearly my bad. I did RTFM but I've also seen XBMC pick up episodes "out of context" - which made me come to the (false?) conclusion I presented above.
So - folder names do matter. Yeah.
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Piers
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FileBot is freeware and can rename all your episodes to a conventional format that XBMC likes. I've now used it to rename over 18,000 items.
The naming convention I use is drive -> series name -> season x -> series name - SxEE - episode name.file-extension
S = season
EE = episode
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Actually it is gpl2 not freeware.
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wasn't aware we even had clashed lol. The difference may seem trivial but is important. If xbmc was freeware it would die when developers left, but open source keeps it alive because others can take up development.
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