[mythtv-users] Shows being titled as "Season" in mythvideo

[Christopher Kerr]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 30 April 2012 21:30, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 30 April 2012 19:59, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What happens if you change those episode names to:
>>>
>>> 01 Pilot.mp4
>>> 02 The Big Bran Hypothesis.mp4
>>> 03 The Fuzzy Boots Corollary.mp4
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Mike,
>>
>> I had thought of that, seeing that was the supported naming convention on
>> the wiki, but figured as it worked for most things, the "." must be parsed
>> OK.
>>
>> I have just tried this though, removed the folder, ran a scan, renamed
>> the episodes to remove the ".", put them back and scanned again.
>>
>> Got the exact same output in the logs however, just without the "." in
>> the file names.
>>
>> As an experiment, I took out another folder, Band of Brothers, did a
>> scan, then put it back and scanned again.  It was all perfect previously,
>> but after this process, it is now named as the others are, with "Season" as
>> the title.
>>
>> So it appears the correlation is the time the metadata was pulled for
>> these shows, new ones I have put in are getting the bum info, ones that
>> already had the info are fine.
>>
>> The only major thing I did change was to move all of my media onto an
>> extra 2TB HDD I installed, then change the storage directory to
>> "/media/media/Videos", this is the folder where "Series" and "Films"
>> resides, possibly related, but not sure how.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone recently added any series to MythVideo and had the info
> populate like this?  Or has anyone had everything work correctly?  I assume
> it must be something with my system, as it hasn't been mentioned by anyone
> else on the list.
>
> I have been experimenting with moving the folder of video to different
> locations and re-scanning, root folder, the films folder, but every time it
> gets titled as "Season".
>
> I also tried creating a new folder (located on the system HDD), added that
> as a storage directory and then put the series in there, but the same thing
> happened.
>
> Finally, I tried a different naming method:
>
> The Big Bang Theory > The Big Bang Theory Season 1 > 01, 02, 03 etc etc etc
>
> But when running a new scan, myth titled the files as "The Big Bang Theory
> Season", so it seems that whatever the folder name about the video files is
> how they are titled.
>
> Lastly, I tried taking a directory level out, so it was just:
>
> The Big Bang Theory Season 1 > 01, 02, 03 etc etc etc
>
> But this made no difference!
>

Can't answer your question, but I've settled on:

The Big Bang Theory > Series 1 > S01E01 The Big Bran Hypothesis.mkv

I haven't tried recently, but it worked all the way through the 0.25
development cycle.

- Chris
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