[Spinalcrack]

Spinalcrack, is it maybe just imposable to have a simple way of ripping TV show dvd's with one button like your script does for movies because of the variability in the dvd naming and xbmc's need for directory and file naming structure for TV show seasons? I have your script for movies in the favs...one button works great. Then one button to scan and update the library in the favs....works great. Another install and bat for the TV show rips. This rips fine but naming structure of directory\filename isn't working to import into xbmc. I'm ripping Alias season 1 discs. The rip creates a folder named "Alias Season 1" under my TV SHOWS folder. Then it named the files something like "alias season 1_01.mkv" etc. The next disc tries to do the same thing and then none of them are added when I refresh the database. It ends up putting them in with the movies with the wrong info even though I have that folder set to be TV Shows and use the TV scraper. I can manually rip, rename and add them but it won't work for the very non-techno person I'm trying set this up for. Maybe I should have him just use this as a movie only server??

That's strange it would put it in with your movies. The AutoRipDVD.bat file you posted clearly shows you have it set to rip to a TV shows directory. Did you check after the rip that the files are actually going to that folder? I am wondering if your setup is correct but your second shortcut is pointing to the install setup for movies. I could see the scrapper maybe having trouble with the naming and getting the wrong info possibly, but that shouldn't cause it to show as a movie if the files are physically in a TV Show specified folder in XBMC

For that particular show, once ripped, you will have to go to Videos and Rename the folder to just Alias and then update and it should scrape, but not going to lie. TV shows are going to be difficult, because XBMC wants a structure like this

SHOW NAME
|_________ Season 1
| \_______ Show.filename.S01E01
| \_______Show.filename.S01E02
|
|_________ Season 2
\_______ Show.filename.S02E01
\_______Show.filename.S02E02

As the script can only get the naming from the volume label of the disc, the above is not easily accomplished without some tweaking after words.

What really needs to be done is have this re-written in python as an addon that would allow you to click some options prior to the rip. ie. Movie or TV Show? If TV Show, what Season? Name of Show? Then it could setup all the structure from information passed to the addon. Unfortunately that is a large project for me as I do not know python very well. Sorry