2018-03-26, 11:34
Hi,
despite what is written in the Kodi specs under https://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats, there is no support for the SVCDs and unfortunately I created many of them at the beginning of the 2000 (since the DVD burner was rather expensive at that time).
As a workaround, I "converted" the AVSEQ001.MPG video file into a "TV Series", following the below schema:
I followed the guide written in https://kodi.wiki/view/Bookmarks_and_chapters (which is time consuming) and it was kinda working the first time, but after a while all the bookmarks were set to "Season 0 Episode 0" and all the different chapters would start from the very beginning of the file.
By looking at some old thread posted in this forum, I found out there is a <epbookmark> tag, which was removed from the NFO description in https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/TV_shows, and which instead is doing a perfect job.
Therefore I created I created the NFO file for the multiepisode file:
I added bookmarks and placed posters and fanarts, but I have lots of issues.
First of all, I am always asked if I want to start from the beginning or from a specific bookmark, something that is not correct as I already put the bookmark for that specific chapter. Moreover, the proposed bookmark is wrong (I select episode #2 and the proposed bookmark is for episode #3); however, "starting from the beginning (Ricomincia)" option always takes me to the correct starting point (i.e. it's the beginning of that chapter in reality). You can see and example here, where chapter 2 should start from minute 8 while minute 15 is for chapter 3:
I have played with the DB to see what has been stored and I have noticed that each time I reload the NFO file, the bookmarks are created in the DB table (I should only have three, since idFile=21 refers to my video above)
The second issue is the duration of the show. As you see, it's always marked as 19 minutes, which is the full duration of the file, while instead I have put <runtime></runtime> tags for every chapter. You will see above that the first chapter has an 8-minute runtime but I can't seem to be able to show it in the window:
If I pay attention to the duration, I see in the DB both values: the total duration (19 minutes, field c19) and the manually input one (field c09), so the value is there, but apparently not used:
Last but not least, the single episodes should have a rectangular thumbnail but I can't absolutely show it: what is shown is the poster for every episode (taken from poster.jpg). I have played with the various tags, with <thumb></thumb> and <art><poster></poster></art>, <art><fanart></fanart></art> or even <art><thumb></thumb></art> but to no extent. Is there a way to make it work? I have tried to add it from the GUI as well, and in the DB I see the following, with a strange image://video@ something which I didn't add by myself and that is not anyway showing. The last line of the DB shows the image I added from the GUI (which i can't see anyhow - I manually renamed the "thumb" field in the last line because in the GUI I was asked for a name of the added image, and I put "test", but then I found the word "test" in the database....)
=11ptart_id,"media_id","media_type","type","url"=11pt21,"1","tvshow","fanart","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/fanart.jpg"=11pt22,"1","tvshow","poster","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/poster.jpg"=11pt24,"2","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt25,"3","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt26,"4","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt27,"2","episode","thumb","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01-thumb.jpg"
Any help would be appreciated as I really can't figure it out by myself - I believe I tried all options so far.
Thanks
Luca
despite what is written in the Kodi specs under https://kodi.wiki/view/Features_and_supported_formats, there is no support for the SVCDs and unfortunately I created many of them at the beginning of the 2000 (since the DVD burner was rather expensive at that time).
As a workaround, I "converted" the AVSEQ001.MPG video file into a "TV Series", following the below schema:
I followed the guide written in https://kodi.wiki/view/Bookmarks_and_chapters (which is time consuming) and it was kinda working the first time, but after a while all the bookmarks were set to "Season 0 Episode 0" and all the different chapters would start from the very beginning of the file.
By looking at some old thread posted in this forum, I found out there is a <epbookmark> tag, which was removed from the NFO description in https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/TV_shows, and which instead is doing a perfect job.
Therefore I created I created the NFO file for the multiepisode file:
code:<episodedetails>
<title>Vacanza in Portogallo</title>
<season>1</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<displayseason>-1</displayseason>
<displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
<plot>In giro per Lisbona con la mamma ed il papà.</plot>
<director>Lxxx Mxxx</director>
<year>1999</year>
<studio>Pianetaluca</studio>
<art>
<poster>Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01-thumb.jpg</poster>
<fanart>Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01-thumb.jpg</fanart>
</art>
<runtime>8</runtime>
</episodedetails>
<episodedetails>
<title>Il papà</title>
<season>1</season>
<episode>2</episode>
<epbookmark>488</epbookmark>
I added bookmarks and placed posters and fanarts, but I have lots of issues.
First of all, I am always asked if I want to start from the beginning or from a specific bookmark, something that is not correct as I already put the bookmark for that specific chapter. Moreover, the proposed bookmark is wrong (I select episode #2 and the proposed bookmark is for episode #3); however, "starting from the beginning (Ricomincia)" option always takes me to the correct starting point (i.e. it's the beginning of that chapter in reality). You can see and example here, where chapter 2 should start from minute 8 while minute 15 is for chapter 3:
I have played with the DB to see what has been stored and I have noticed that each time I reload the NFO file, the bookmarks are created in the DB table (I should only have three, since idFile=21 refers to my video above)
code:"idBookmark","idFile","timeInSeconds","totalTimeInSeconds","thumbNailImage","player","playerState","type"
"1","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"2","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
"4","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"5","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
"6","21","939.149048","1157.773071","","VideoPlayer","","1"
"7","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"8","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
"9","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"10","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
"11","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"12","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
"13","21","488.0","0.0","","","","2"
"14","21","935.0","0.0","","","","2"
The second issue is the duration of the show. As you see, it's always marked as 19 minutes, which is the full duration of the file, while instead I have put <runtime></runtime> tags for every chapter. You will see above that the first chapter has an 8-minute runtime but I can't seem to be able to show it in the window:
If I pay attention to the duration, I see in the DB both values: the total duration (19 minutes, field c19) and the manually input one (field c09), so the value is there, but apparently not used:
code:idEpisode;2;3;4
idFile;21;21;21
c00;Il papà;Videotributo al papà;Vacanza in Portogallo
c01;Una collezione di video in cui compare il papà quando cucina, quando gioca con la Martina, quando chiacchiera con me.;Un videotributo a mio padre, con musica di Amália Rodrigues.;In giro per Lisbona con la mamma ed il papà.
c02;;;
c03;-1;-1;-1
c04;;;
c05;25568;25568;25568
c06;;;
c07;;;
c08;;;
c09;420;240;480
c10;Lxxx Mxxx;Lxxx Mxxx;Lxxx Mxxx
c11;;;
c12;1;1;1
c13;2;3;1
c14;;;
c15;-1;-1;-1
c16;-1;-1;-1
c17;13;14;-1
c18;/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01e02e03.MPG;/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01e02e03.MPG;/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01e02e03.MPG
c19;19;19;19
c20;-1;-1;-1
c21;;;
c22;;;
c23;;;
idShow;1;1;1
userrating;;;
idSeason;3;3;3
Last but not least, the single episodes should have a rectangular thumbnail but I can't absolutely show it: what is shown is the poster for every episode (taken from poster.jpg). I have played with the various tags, with <thumb></thumb> and <art><poster></poster></art>, <art><fanart></fanart></art> or even <art><thumb></thumb></art> but to no extent. Is there a way to make it work? I have tried to add it from the GUI as well, and in the DB I see the following, with a strange image://video@ something which I didn't add by myself and that is not anyway showing. The last line of the DB shows the image I added from the GUI (which i can't see anyhow - I manually renamed the "thumb" field in the last line because in the GUI I was asked for a name of the added image, and I put "test", but then I found the word "test" in the database....)
=11ptart_id,"media_id","media_type","type","url"=11pt21,"1","tvshow","fanart","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/fanart.jpg"=11pt22,"1","tvshow","poster","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/poster.jpg"=11pt24,"2","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt25,"3","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt26,"4","episode","thumb","image://video@%2fUsers%2fluca%2fPublic%2fimages%2fPortogallo%20SVCD%2fPortogallo_SVCD%20-%20s01e01e02e03.MPG/"=11pt27,"2","episode","thumb","/Users/luca/Public/images/Portogallo SVCD/Portogallo_SVCD - s01e01-thumb.jpg"
Any help would be appreciated as I really can't figure it out by myself - I believe I tried all options so far.
Thanks
Luca