TV Shows Recognized in 0.9.3964, but not 0.9.5.4497?

[jediboytj]

Hey Guys. Just want to say I absolutely LOVE Boxee and it has pretty much changed the way I watch TV and Movies on my iMac!

But ive run into a small problem that doesnt seem to have an easy fix, but maybe it does? (ive searched many times before finally registering and posting.)

I have my TV Shows organized like this:
[homefolder]/TV Shows/Show/Season/Show.SxxExx.m4v
so...
[homefolder/TV Shows/Entourage/Season 01/Entourage.S01E01.m4v

In the old version of boxee, I had to fiddle around to get everything 100% working (accurate episodes, not doubled up...etc). And eventually I did, and I loved it.

Now with this new version, any time I go into "TV Shows" on the left menu, I just get "No Results Found...". However, when I go into "Browse" - and browse to each episode manually, I click on it and it will play fine, and even give me the description if I select "Read More". So its obviously "Recognized" by boxee, but doesnt want to go into "TV Shows".

What I have done so far:
- Deleting the source folders within boxee and re-adding them
- Deleting them again, move the source folder to a different section on the HD, then re-adding.
- Moving just one of the shows to a different folder and adding just that
- Going into Boxee's general settings and selecting "Erase Content" then proceed to readd everything and re-recognize every folder.

Hopefully im just doing something wrong.

I dont want to downgrade to the older version because I love the new hulu features of the new version!

Any help is much appreciated! :cool:

[jediboytj]

Hey again

I figured out the TV Show issue... but now im having more issues

When the TV Shows showed up, I could play them, but only Audio would play, it was like it was seen as a Music file and not a Video file.

And then it completely froze my computer when I had to force shut down my whole computer (a la, pull the plug).

And now it wont even load it just keeps crashing and crashing.

I think im gonna have to go back to the older version... I love this app, and I know its still in Alpha stages so bugs are a given... but this new one is even more bug ridden then the older one.

[MILE]

Had similar (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2584) problems, maybe this will help in your case as well...?!

Marcel's suggestion actually solved the 'no video, only audio' issue for me...

:: M ::

[wgoosey]

Me too ----- ATV version.

The old version found most of my TV shows automagically. I did a LOT if click typing to get them all to show up in the TV Show page.

The new version wiped all that work out :( I can do it all over again by selecting "Wrong Video" and forcing the name and episode but I'm not going to do all that again until we get out of alpha. Waaaayyyyy too much work.

I'll let it index overnight and see if it finds most of them again.

THE FUNNY PART IS THAT IT KEPT ALL THE DESCRIPTIONS, EPISODE NUMBERS ETC BUT IT FORGOT IT WAS A TV SHOW. IF you try and force the TV show then it forgets the show title and you have to type it in again (or at least most of them.)

Is there any way to tell the beast its a TV show and not a movie without fooling with the rest?

thanks
goose

[bradv]

Is there any way to tell the beast its a TV show and not a movie without fooling with the rest?


When I first started using Boxee I was a bit surprised that it didn't seem to look at the file metadata to extract this sort of information. I don't know how many of the various video formats have this capability but at least the various flavors of mpeg4 support it.

I'm not familiar with the actual specification of these tags, but the software program that I used to add them has a dropdown to specify what sort of video file it is -- TV or Movie. If it's interesting, the program is called MetaX.

When going through my DVD collection and converting it to mpeg4, I was good about adding these tags to all of my movies, but I haven't added them to the TV shows. This is mostly because it is a rather time consuming process. That said, it has the advantage of putting all of that information in the file itself, rather than just in an index somewhere. If the index needs to be rebuilt, then the data is still in the file metadata to be extracted. At least iTunes knows to look for this data, and when I import a file into the library all of the ratings, director, actors, etc. are added to its index based upon the metadata that was added to the video file.

Perhaps Boxee could be taught to look for this sort of metadata and only go and look for parts that were missing?

[RobertBasil]

I'm having the same problem with none of my TV shows showing in the TV shows area. I'll check it again tonight and see if it found them overnight.

[kansei]

I can confirm this too. Upgraded from a version a couple weeks back to the release from yesterday, no more TV shows listed. Browsing the media source works fine though, so I'm not dying for a fix :)

[RobertBasil]

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2543