[Kommisar Hunter]

Hello,
I try since a few days to scrape the TV show "V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück". The problem is (I use The Movie Database), that episode 3 from DVD is sorted and shown in kodi as last episode 19.

In TMDB they have a "Indended Order" for this TV show, which I try out to select with tvshow.nfo and parsing nfo as described here: https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Parsing

The directory tree is (SMB share):

  serien 
  |-> V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück (1984)
  |            |-> Staffel 1
  |            |          |-> tvshow.nfo                                              
  |            |               V – Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück-1x01.mkv  
  |            |               V – Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück-1x02.mkv
  |            |               V – Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück-1x03.mkv  
  |            |                             ......
  |            |               V – Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück-1x19.mkv

The numbers are the DVD order (in TMDB the "indended order")
Episode "1x03 - Tauschgeschäfte" is shown in kodi as "1x19", 1x04 is shown as 1x03, 1x05 is shown as 1x04 and so on...

In the tvshow.nfo I have following line:

  https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/75893-v/ep...00184a2f47


The directory "serien" is setup in kodi "Settings -> Media -> Video" as "TV Show" (I have the german language settings: "Serien") and "TMDB TV Shows" / Language "de_DE" no other special settings.

The LOG  is here: https://paste.kodi.tv/jaqowowoke.kodi

To keep all small I have made a new KODI installation with only this TV Show in a SMB share

I have the same problem with "Firefly" and "Hubert und Staller / Season 2", I hope anybody can help it seems that I have a general problem...

greetings

[Karellen]

Episode "1x03 - Tauschgeschäfte" is shown in kodi as "1x19", 1x04 is shown as 1x03, 1x05 is shown as 1x04 and so on...

It looks like it is still scraping the default Aired Order.
Looking through your log, I cannot see the Parsing nfo file. There is a problem with the file.
Can you provide a screenshot of your tv show folder so I can clearly see the nfo file and other files in the folder.

[Kommisar Hunter]

Here a screenshot from linux view: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/2469/SaxewA.jpg

Here the screenshots from kodi view:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3248/KfqU28.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/3228/jEKSmV.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8880/eaiwFt.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/5111/zxswO8.jpg

The access right is set to 777.

[Karellen]

Here a screenshot

Thanks, that all looks correct.
Can you confirm the nfo file is UTF-8 encoded?

Can you send me the file so I can test it locally.

[Kommisar Hunter]

Here is the tvshow.nfo: http://www.ariga.de/kodi/

Please download from there and tell me if you have problems I made a quick-dirty php script... (I don't know how I can send it to you, imageshack.us accepts only picture)

Here I done some tests:

file -bi tvshow.nfo 
text/plain; charset=us-ascii

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT tvshow.nfo -o out.file

diff tvshow.nfo out.file 
=> nothing diff

file -bi out.file 
text/plain; charset=us-ascii


I expected this, because there are no special character in tvshow.nfo

[Karellen]

Here is the tvshow.nfo: http://www.ariga.de/kodi/

Thanks.
I tested the nfo file and it works ok.

Here is my log... https://paste.kodi.tv/cezowulaqa.kodi
Line 1525 is where the nfo file is found... VideoInfoScanner: Found matching URL NFO file: C:\Kodi\Test- TV Shows\V (1984)\tvshow.nfo
Line 1541 is where the episode group is found... Parsing NFO file: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/75893-v/ep...00184a2f47
Line 1728 is where the episode oreder is listed.

None of that is in your log which indicates there is something preventing Kodi from seeing/accessing your nfo file.
Do you have a Windows install you can test on?

[Kommisar Hunter]

Hi,
I test it as you directly in directory of the TV show - and not in the subdirectory "Staffel 1":

The result
If I have tvshow.nfo in: 'smb://nas1/serien_lokal/V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück (1984)/Staffel 1/tvshow.nfo

it does not find the tvshow.nfo

If I have tvshow.nfo in: 'smb://nas1/serien_lokal/V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück (1984)/tvshow.nfo

I get:
Found matching URL NFO file: smb://nas1/serien_lokal/V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück (1984)/tvshow.nfo

Also the order is now as in "indended Order" from TMDB.

That means the tvshow.nfo must be one directory above , that means also the tvshow.nfo is valid for all seasons (STaffel 1 = Season 1).
But maybe this will a problem with another TV show where I have some seasons direct from TV and other from DVD.

But here it works now, thank you very much for your investigation!

[Karellen]

If I have tvshow.nfo in: 'smb://nas1/serien_lokal/V - Die außerirdischen Besucher kommen zurück (1984)/Staffel 1/tvshow.nfo

Oh, yes. Sorry, I think the German language threw me off and I did not notice it.
You don't put the tvshow.nfo in the season folder. This is wrong.
You place the tvshow.nfo in the TV Show folder.

Yes, the tvshow.nfo file is valid for the entire show. You cannot control different listings for different seasons.