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trumpy81:
GDay All,
Strat, I've had that problem since day one. The only solution I've found is to add the additional episodes manually.
In all fairness though, it is a very difficult task to sort a series episode from a regular movie particularly if all your files are .avi like mine (I convert any that are not .avi because that is the only format that my PVR will play consistently).
You also have to consider the filenames;
House MD - s01e01 - Day Of The Jackal.avi - would be an acceptable filename for an episode, but we often see things like;
hmd12-3-2000.thebestdarnfileever.fromthebestdarnyobboever.inthebestdarncountryever.avi - which is not quite so legible or easy to sort from the rest.
HTH
rick.ca:
--- Quote from: Strat on February 22, 2012, 01:00:57 pm ---Hi, I have an issue with getting new episodes into series from IMDB or, from TheTVDB. If I have already series data that lacks some new episodes, those new episodes are not added while importing data. I'm using IMDB plugin version 0.9.8.1.
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Welcome to the forum.
It's not clear how you're importing data, so I'll just share what I've learned. Either plugin should add any episodes that did not exist at the source the last time the series was updated (i.e., the series record selected and the plugin run with the option to add episodes). The IMDb plugin has been somewhat inconsistent lately (probably due to changes in the site) in it's ability to add future episodes for which the data is incomplete (it should still get whatever is available, even if that is just an episode title and URL). The TVDb plugin is more reliable in this regard, as it always downloads a data file with data for all available episodes. It seems to me it never fails to add episodes—if records for those episodes have been added to the TVDb. Once episodes have been added by TVDb, they can be selected and updated with the IMDb plugin to get any data for episodes it was unable to add.
I normally add episode records before the episodes are actually released, so I'm not sure what happens when Scan folders... finds an episode media file for which the corresponding record has not yet been added. If the file scanner is configured correctly (so the Series title, Season and Episode numbers are correctly obtained from the file name), I would expect the episode record and file to be correctly added to the series.
If you continue to have problems, please examine the sources in your browser to verify the data you're expecting actually exists. If it does, please provide examples of the episode URL's the plugins are failing to add.
trumpy81:
GDay All,
Rick.ca, in most cases the episode will be added as a regular movie file, NOT as an episode, even if the filenames and location are consistent with other episodes or series and irrespective of whether or not the episode has corresponding data at IMDB or TVDB.
In some cases, the episode will be added like so:
Series Title - Season #
Episode # - Episode Title
But it will be 'outside' of the existing series entries, or to put it another way, it is orphaned from the rest of the same series and same season.
Also, if the Series Title and Season # are already entered the listings will always start at Season One.
Series Title - Season 7
to add another episode under this season you must enter the episode as season one, episode #, otherwise you end up with something like this
Series Title - Season 7
Season 1
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
Season 7
episode # - episode title
Instead of:
Series Title - Season 7
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
episode # - episode title
Also, if an episode title is similar to an existing movie title that is already in the PVD database, PVD will want to change the file location for the existing movie. The same can occur if two movies released in different years share the same name, irrespective of the year being included in the filename and/or location.
I should add, that I know most of these problems are caused by the RegEx search strings, but I am not proficient in RegEX and I challenge anyone who does not have RegEx experience to read and understand a RegEx search string ... lol
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---I should add, that I know most of these problems are caused by the RegEx search strings, but I am not proficient in RegEX and I challenge anyone who does not have RegEx experience to read and understand a RegEx search string ... lol
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As I said...
--- Quote from: rick.ca on February 23, 2012, 04:19:26 am ---If the file scanner is configured correctly (so the Series title, Season and Episode numbers are correctly obtained from the file name), I would expect the episode record and file to be correctly added to the series.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see the point in explaining all that goes wrong when you can't be bothered configuring the file scanner correctly. I've now tested adding new episode files for which there are no records in the database. It correctly adds new episode records, even if the series does not exist. So it's not even necessary to add any records to the database before using the scanner.
--- Quote ---Also, if an episode title is similar to an existing movie title that is already in the PVD database, PVD will want to change the file location for the existing movie. The same can occur if two movies released in different years share the same name, irrespective of the year being included in the filename and/or location.
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Since a properly configured scanner is going to recognize any episode file as an episode, it's not possible to add it as a movie—existing or otherwise. As for a movie with the same name as one in the database, but a different year (e.g., a remake), the scanner's inability to recognize the file represents a new movie is not unexpected. It's primary role is to match files with records. Finding only one record in the database with the same title, it matches it without checking the year—which is not an unreasonable thing to do. If the second movie has been added to the database, distinguished from the first by its Year, then the scanner will match the file correctly.
Strat:
Thanks for your replies, I have for example in my database series Lost (imdb id tt0411008), all fine until season 5 that has only 6 episodes (likely when I first imported data that was the last one available). Now, there should be 16 episodes and also the final 6th season on IMDB as this is not aired anymore. Now, if I try to import data from IMDB (from movie master), it doesn't import any new seasons/episodes. It will update perhaps some data into movie master as well as set the Last modified field. Importing from TVDB does not help neither.
I actually deleted one movie master that I haven't yet seen (it was incomplete series too) and that had the same problem (it had 2 season out of 4 available on database & episode names were like episode 1#1). Anyways, after deleting the invalid movie master and importing data again from IMDB, I managed to get all 4 seasons correctly into PVD.
So, there seems to be something on PVD preventing data to be inserted into database correctly for series, rather than issue on IMDB plugin in this. I could delete movie master for incomplete series (I have a few of those), but then I would lose track of Seen Dates & what episodes I have actually seen.
Could you pls investigate this a bit more, I appreciate your efforts & providing this software for free.
Oh and maybe this is not a plugin issue after all so should be moved into some other thread...
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