2019-03-26, 13:53
I'm using a naming pattern for TV episodes that is not supported by the default regular expressions, e.g. 1.23 Title.ext for episode #23 in the 1st season. I have edited AdvancedSettings.xml accordingly. (It is a trivial change, because it just requires changing x to [x.] in the regular expression for the 1x23 pattern.) However, if I'm sharing my files with a friend, they either need to make the same edit or rename the files. One way to solve this would be changing the default regular expression and I have submitted a respective pull request on Github.
However, another solution would be available with Leia which introduces support for reading metadata stored in tags inside video files, MP4 in particular. My video files do have such tags, but on a system running Kodi 18.1 without a custom AdvancedSettings.xml they are still being ignored when their folder is added to the library or scanned again later on. I presume this is because they do not match the naming patterns.
I wish Kodi would read supported tags from any arbitrary video file in its media sources.
Is that a reasonable request? Would you consider this a bug or unexpected behavior?
I came here first instead of submitting an issue on Github, because the Howto told me to.
However, another solution would be available with Leia which introduces support for reading metadata stored in tags inside video files, MP4 in particular. My video files do have such tags, but on a system running Kodi 18.1 without a custom AdvancedSettings.xml they are still being ignored when their folder is added to the library or scanned again later on. I presume this is because they do not match the naming patterns.
I wish Kodi would read supported tags from any arbitrary video file in its media sources.
Is that a reasonable request? Would you consider this a bug or unexpected behavior?
I came here first instead of submitting an issue on Github, because the Howto told me to.