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Scan folders/file scanner confusion
nostra:
What system are you using that would not let you use periods in file names???
rick.ca:
The periods are irrelevant. They could also be underscores, spaces or pipes. The point is there just needs to be a consistent structure to the filenames so the regex can work.
patch:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on October 04, 2009, 06:24:55 pm ---The point is there just needs to be a consistent structure to the filenames so the regex can work.
--- End quote ---
We could probably do that by listing (default) supported formats in the wiki.
Currently this aspect is avoided
http://www.nimidia.com/pvd_wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Organize-files-by-episode
http://www.nimidia.com/pvd_wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Adding-a-New-Movie&structure=PVD-Manual
But I may have missed it as I'm having problems using the search function in the wiki.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---We could probably do that by listing (default) supported formats in the wiki.
Currently this aspect is avoided
--- End quote ---
That would just encourage the misconception the program is intended to handle any filenaming convention one cares to use. I'd rather just say a consistent filenaming convention like Title (Year).ext for movies and SeriesTitle S00 E00 [EpisodeTitle].ext for series will be foolproof. The regex provided will handle many forms in addition to these. The regex can even handle a somewhat inconsistent filenaming convention, but that gets complicated very quickly. Considerable care has to be taken to ensure the regex do not conflict with one another, and are applied in the correct order.
In fact, a list of "supported formats" would be misleading unless it also enumerated all the possible conflicts. This recent post is a good example of the difficulty. You can name movie files Year - Title [(Director]).ext if you like, but then you have to provide a regex that will recognize this pattern (including the Director part, whether or not it exists) and remove (or reorder) any regex that would misinterpret the year as an episode number.
patch:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on October 05, 2009, 04:17:26 am ---
--- Quote ---We could probably do that by listing (default) supported formats in the wiki.
Currently this aspect is avoided
--- End quote ---
That would just encourage the misconception the program is intended to handle any file naming convention one cares to use.
--- End quote ---
Not if it was listed as
PVD is designed to support...
I can in fact extract the required information if you use other naming conventions but you may need to manually edit the title during "scan folders for new movies / changed file paths" or modify the regex expressions in "Tools -> preferences -> File scanner". See ... for further details
My intention is we would document the default / preferred naming. Illustrating some of the flexibility in punctuation & capitalisation, but not covering every possibility as that is best done by reading the regex search terms.
Sorry I didn't make that clear.
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