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rick.ca:
Just to be clear, I'm not the developer, nostra is. I can only tell what I've learned from using the program. Bear in mind this is the hobby effort of one individual, and the TVDb plugin is one of many. Also, as good as it is for some things, it's not a source everyone will need or want to use. It, or other software that uses it exclusively (like TV Rename) are not likely to be model for all aspects of handling series.

Don't ask me how (I haven't tried it myself), if TV Rename writes sidecar data files, you might be able to import those using the Text file import plugin. There's also a plugin or script for importing local images (perhaps just posters), but I'm less sure how practical that might be.

I use Sick Beard for handing series. Like TV Rename, it's open source and no longer actively supported, but it works. And while I'm not familiar with TV Rename, it may do more. It looks for torrents of new episodes, works with my torrent client to download them, renames and moves them, and gets all the TVDb data (including images)—all automatically. Even so, I don't find it too difficult to maintain the same information in PVD using the plugin. It won't get the episode images, but they're generally crappy anyway. I prefer to let PVD automatically create some screenshots. I then choose one to use as a poster, and delete the rest. I suppose the other reason I don't mind this approach is I need to run the IMDb plugin to get the people data anyway. I run both as a batch for updating episodes.

My point is, I could suggest PVD do what Sick Beard does, or to be integrated with it so they can be used seamlessly together. I don't, because I don't expect others to adapt to my personal preferences—including those who use TV Rename or something else. What's important is that it provide the tools necessary to adapt to any reasonable situation. It can create series records using several sources and add data from sidecar files. It's file scanner can easily match episode files named by any systematic naming routine.


--- Quote ---run TVDB plugin on the show (I did, but the title matching came up with nothing); then run IMDB per season to get the details (I do, but I run IMDB as step 1 also).
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I'm not sure, but maybe the better result I get is from running the TVDb plugin first. :-\


--- Quote ---The question there was how do I get a correct record in the database given that I use my filename (see format in the previous post) as the input.
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Don't use the filename as input! It only takes a moment to Add a series by entering it's name and running the plugin. Once the series records are created, the file scanner will properly match the files.

JoopvB:
Hi Rick,

Get your point. So it's up to the TVDb plugin to become more powerful. One remark... it would be nice to be able to enter the TVDB series number (as it does for IMDB) to help the plugin do it's job and, if PVD would have some unused field in the database, to store it for future references (like it does for IMDB).

Thanks for your help.

rick.ca:
I don't know why it doesn't save the URL in the URL field like other plugins. Perhaps because the plugin API doesn't use it—but it's still useful as a link (I add it manually). If the plugin would just do that and get the default poster instead of all of them, it would be a huge improvement.

JoopvB:
Yes, I agree. It would be great if multiple URL's were possible giving each "lookup" plugin it's own field to do it's job. And we could even have the possibilty to find out what information came from where (by storing a reference to that field). Maybe something for nostra's next release?

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---It would be great if multiple URL's were possible giving each "lookup" plugin it's own field to do it's job.
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As I indicated, URLs are normally saved in the URL field. Separate fields are unnecessary. I suspect the TVDb URL is not saved because the plugin doesn't use it.

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