Missing, Unresolved or Incorrect TV Shows

[agentlame]

If you have unresolved or incorrectly resolved TV shows please fill in the form below:

http://support.boxee.tv/forums/97444/entries/90018

[Kyusaku]

Windows tip to get filenames more easily: Go into command prompt and navigate to your media's directory remember to change drives you gotta do
cd /D driveletter:

Then in the media directory

dir /S /W > textfilename.txt

To save you time if you have extremely detailed episode names and numbers.

[judgeschambers]

Windows tip to get filenames more easily: Go into command prompt and navigate to your media's directory remember to change drives you gotta do
cd /D driveletter:Then in the media directory

dir /S /W > textfilename.txtTo save you time if you have extremely detailed episode names and numbers.

I don't understand these. What does this do, where and why? :confused:

[DPK]

I don't understand these. What does this do, where and why? :confused:

Basically execute those commands via windows cmd/prompt and they'll generate a list of your file names that you can submit and not have to type out by hand.

[judgeschambers]

Aaaaah Ha! I learned yet another cool thing! :D

Just needed an explanation of what they did. Shows how I've never done that before.

[Kyusaku]

Yeah if you have like a 5 season series or something, it can seem dreadful to type out all the filenames to report the problem. This "pipes" the directory listing into a text file to make it much easier to copy and paste in the submission form. I did this earlier today to submit a 4 season series called Mr. Show from 1995, and a 2 season show called Extras from 2005.

[illegalop]

I found this handy little piece of software that takes a lot of the pain away from this process http://code.google.com/p/mediarenamer/

[Kyusaku]

I found this handy little piece of software that takes a lot of the pain away from this process http://code.google.com/p/mediarenamer/

Even if you have the correct naming scheme, there are still some shows that don't resolve or resolve incorrectly. Thanks for the software though.

[illegalop]

Oh yeah, I know. I still have some that are not showing as well.
But I had my shows named in a way that boxee originally didn't see hardly any of them. Same with my movies. This made the renaming easier.
BTW I have no idea who the dev is so you should use with a little caution.

[Kyusaku]

BTW I have no idea who the dev is so you should use with a little caution.

There's someone on XBMC's forum who claims to be the dev
http://xbmc.org/forum/member.php?u=37759
He claims to it in this post
http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=434099&postcount=20

[Bugs63]

This is nice that your asking for file name formats from user but what I'm not finding is any suggested naming conventions for TV Shows! More than half of my Local HD TV Shows were recognized by the last Alpha but the new beta doesn't seem to recognize any.

So If you could let me know exactly what format you currently do support I'll be able to test it better.

As for my Local Movies most all were recognized no problamo.. Only the shows didn't get added....

[darcilicious]

So If you could let me know exactly what format you currently do support I'll be able to test it better.

This works for me 95% of the time or better:

Show.Name.S##E##.ext

e.g.:

The.Dresden.Files.S01E10.avi

However, it can be tricky sometimes to get Boxee to see the new filenames -- I have found that stopping and restarting Boxee seems to work best.

[judgeschambers]

This is nice that your asking for file name formats from user but what I'm not finding is any suggested naming conventions for TV Shows! More than half of my Local HD TV Shows were recognized by the last Alpha but the new beta doesn't seem to recognize any.

So If you could let me know exactly what format you currently do support I'll be able to test it better.

As for my Local Movies most all were recognized no problamo.. Only the shows didn't get added....

darcilicious , gave the perfect naming of TV shows. It should work just fine. The only issue is if they are not listed in the IMDB database.

[wrx1]

What I have found is that in the beta, only SxxExx will work. Alpha recognized most of the other naming conventions, but beta is only SxxExx. Once I renamed all my shows to the way IMDB will see them and made sure everything was a SxxExx, everything worked. Kinda sucked since I had about 20 different series and multiple seasons on each that needed to be renamed, but it is done. Now on to my 500+ movies that I need to rename....


Russ

[ErTnEc]

Problem I am also having isn't that its not indexing the files, but its getting the wrong data for everything...

It's listing the "Air Date" as the date in which the file was created, and also ordering everything in reverse...

So when it comes up "Just Finished BlahBlah Season 8 Episode 2"
it then says

Whats Next?
Season 8 Episode 1

No matter what the tv series I watch, it is all in reverse order...

[gurmukh]

Yea I get that too!

[cogadh]

Change the sort order on the episodes (left hand menu, first option). The default is "newest first", which when going down the list of episodes, plays them in reverse order. If you change it to "oldest first", it should play them in the correct order.

[jameskirsop]

I just turned on my TV and found that Boxee had removed a whole bunch of TV shows from the list of shows, even though all the files are still there, and haven't been moved.
It's also not finding new episodes of a few shows - despite them being all correctly named according to the Name.SxxExx.fileextension

I can still view the shows if I go through the file browser, but it's not nearly as nice.

[Cacafuego]

This works for me 95% of the time or better:

Show.Name.S##E##.ext



Why separate the words with "." instead of " ", since Boxee treats both equally?

[darcilicious]

Why separate the words with "." instead of " ", since Boxee treats both equally?
No particular reason... so... why not? :)

[dny238]

Are you looking for these types of situations in the log?
DEBUG: CMetadataResolverVideo::ParseSeriesTag, unable to parse term = *078 - genesis of the daleks*, expr = \[[Ss]([0-9]+)\]_\[[Ee]([0-9]+)\]?([^\\/]*)$ (seriestag)

I turned on debugging via the advancedsettings.xml hack discussed elsewhere in this form.
Then I was able to run this command to find situations where the revolve by name failed but using a command like this


tail -f /tmp/xbmc-boxee.log | grep could\ not\ resolve\ video\ by\ name

Apparently my Doctor Who collection is giving it fits.

20:17:52 T:2932632464 M:536678400 ERROR: CMetadataResolverVideo::ResolveVideo, could not resolve video by name, path = smb://192.168.254.6/data/video/TV/Doctor Who/Season 17/107 - Nightmare of Eden/Doctor Who - 107 - Nightmare of Eden [2 - 4].avi (videoresolver) (resolver)
20:17:55 T:2932632464 M:536580096 ERROR: CMetadataResolverVideo::ResolveVideo, could not resolve video by name, path = smb://192.168.254.6/data/video/TV/Doctor Who/Season 17/107 - Nightmare of Eden/Doctor Who - 107 - Nightmare of Eden [3 - 4].avi (videoresolver) (resolver)

Rob

[dny238]

Quick question. i assume all this recognition stuff is necessary so that you know which show i'm watching, so that when I recommend it, other's can be pointed to the same content.

Why not hash the file and send the hash to your system. If you know the show by the hash great! If the hash fails, then try the name recognition system you have now.

So far, I've been forced to switch back to XBMC, because the library mode doesn't have my 100% of my shows due to recognition errors. I don't want to submit them one by one to the google spreadsheet. Frankly, XBMC isn't much better, but it's easier to stay in File move, vs Library mode.
Most of my shows are in a nice foldering scheme /videos/tv/<show title>/<season>/show name. Typically the show names are whatever was in the torrent, so I can continue to seed them.
Maybe if a file wasn't recognized, you could add it to the library anyways. If I want to suggest others review it, you can say "sorry, this file wasn't properly recognized. Do you want to try to look it up manually?".

That way I could use Boxee, and it would encourage me to fix my files. Also, if I did identify the file properly you could capture the hash and the next guy wouldn't have the trouble. Exchanging hashs would be alot less bandwidth as well. Probably loads up the CPU a bit.
While you're at it, tie it all into Magnet links, so it makes it easier for me to to find and download shows my friends are watching without having to go to a search engine. That'd rock.
Thanks!
Rob

[TomyLo]

This works for me 95% of the time or better:

Show.Name.S##E##.ext

e.g.:

The.Dresden.Files.S01E10.avi

However, it can be tricky sometimes to get Boxee to see the new filenames -- I have found that stopping and restarting Boxee seems to work best.

Bro... let's take the following as an example.

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=116451&lid=7

Do I title it as;

BBC.Two.The.Love.Of.Money.S01E01 or The.Love.Of.Money.S01E01 ?

[darcilicious]

Well, I'd lean towards the latter but since the IMDB doesn't list either, more than likely you need to enter that show into the TV Shows spreadsheet.

[DPK]

Bro... let's take the following as an example.

Darci's a girl. :p

[darcilicious]

Hey, that's Sistah, to you! ;)

[TomyLo]

Darci's a girl. :p

Hey, that's Sistah, to you!

fail! hahahah sorry about that cutie pie ;) hahahah

So i guess I gotta submit it to the Spreadsheet... sucks :(

[gurmukh]

I've noticed that if theres a subtitle file, or a rar file then it names the film completely wrong!

Dance.Flick.avi --> 17 Again??

I've tried to mess with the db directly and it works fine, but then after a few minutes, it reverts back to the old settings! Boooooo

[SturmB]

I built a new PC and put the new beta build of Boxee on it. I'm afraid, however, it does not see any of the television episodes on my Home Server. I don't have many, either--just Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, and MST3K.

In the previous version I had, it was a (relatively) simple matter. When I clicked on an episode, I could hit "More Info" and, after entering the show's title, it would find it and ask if I wanted to add the entire folder. That would allow the entire season of that show to be added to the TV Shows section in Boxee.

No longer, apparently. I guess Boxee doesn't sue TheTVDB anymore and only relies on IMDB? Well, even if that's the case, all of the Star Trek series are on there, so why is Boxee not recognizing my files? Oh, and I'm very meticulous about naming the files properly, so there shouldn't be any problem with them. For example, I've tried both:

Star Trek - DS9 - 6x19 - In the Pale Moonlight.avi
and
Star.Trek.Deep.Space.Nine.S06E19.In.the.Pale.Moonl ight.avi

Then I tell Boxee to scan the folder and it still doesn't show up in the TV Shows area. Oh, and in case it helps, since all of my shows are on my Windows Home Server, the path to the show is:

\\MEGADETH\Videos\Star Trek\Deep Space 9\DS9 Season 6\Star Trek - DS9 - 6x19 - In the Pale Moonlight.avi

Should I post this to the "Unresolved TV Shows" spreadsheet listed at the beginning of this thread? I honestly would have thought shows as popular as (most of) the Star Trek series would already be in the database.

Please let me know what I should do. Thanks!

[maximusfacq]

Other Star Trek series index for me. If I was naming DS9 files, I would rock this format:

"Star Trek- Deep Space Nine-S01E01.mp4"

[CRSharff]

Could anyone get Fringe to index?
There are a lot of episodes you can watch through online sources but I can
not get my local Fringe files to be identified.

[maximusfacq]

Recognizes all files for me in this format:
"Fringe-S01E01.mp4"

[SturmB]

Other Star Trek series index for me. If I was naming DS9 files, I would rock this format:

"Star Trek- Deep Space Nine-S01E01.mp4"

Then perhaps I am missing a step (or a few steps). What do I need to do with Boxee to get it to recognize the shows, besides use a naming convention as you've outlined?

[jpga13]

It's kind of hit or miss. Sometimes after I do a restore some that were recognized previously aren't anymore and others that weren't recognized before are. Very strange and I'm not sure why this happens but you do need to get them named properly to have any chance.

[maximusfacq]

The bottom line is: Until the manual resolve feature gets re-integrated, you'll need to name files in the manner that Boxee Team requires you to for them to index.

Does that help? :D