Video Library Has Multiples for Multi CD Movies

[webfart]

Hey guys, whenever I scan my movies to my library, and movie that has more then one cd is entered into the library multiple times. So if there is a CD1 and a CD2, there ends up being 3 entrys in the library, one for the first cd, one for the second, and one for the combined movie. I have "stacked" enabled. Any ideas?

[jmarshall]

State exactly how your files are named. With examples, preferably. Otherwise we're just guessing ;)

[webfart]

Across the Universe.cd1.avi
Acroos the Universe.cd2.avi

THats on example, with that I get 3 identicle entrys in my library.

[althekiller]

Did you enable stacking before scanning? Those cases will definitely stack, assuming "Acroos" is a typo ;)

[jmarshall]

Stacking is automatically enabled during scan, so it's probably due to an old library being updated. The old way we stored stacks in the library has been depreciated.

[webfart]

What is the easiest way to start from scratch on only my video library?

[matt_cyr]

I also have this problem. In my case it is 'SinCity-cd1.avi' and 'SinCity-cd2.avi'.

[jmarshall]

Delete the video library.

userdata/database/myvideo*.db

[BLKMGK]

How about a multi DVD series like Band Of Brothers? Right now I have multiple BOB-1, BOB-2, type folders in my movie root. Is there a better way to do this? The movies are VOB/IFO format of course :)

[matt_cyr]

I need to delete the entire database? That sucks, I recently just had to do that and rescan everything back in. Ah well, thems the breaks i suppose...

[sho]

Matt, what version is your XBMC? On what verison did you scan the last time?

[matt_cyr]

I'm using T3CH Rev. 13120 (second latest version)
I last rescanned my whole library on the previous t3ch revision before that.
I had changed the location of my network shares so I had to rescan and that's when the triples started showing up.
But come to think of it, i'm not sure if i deleted my database or just rescanned them.

[althekiller]

Erm...if you're using t3ch this should be in the xbox forums. Not that the solution isn't the same for all platforms. It's just that if there were a actually a bug you'd have devs digging in the wrong places.

[sh0stak]

I've been experiencing this problem as well. I just rebuilt my box ~ 2 weeks ago, running 8.04 and using the SVN PPA's. Some file paths:

/media/odin-700/movies/Across\ The\ Universe/Across the Universe - 1.avi
/media/odin-700/movies/Across\ The\ Universe/Across the Universe - 2.avi

/media/odin-700/movies/There\ Will\ Be\ Blood/There Will Be Blood - 1.avi
/media/odin-700/movies/There\ Will\ Be\ Blood/There Will Be Blood - 2.avi

I set it to use folder names for titles since I also have some DVDs that only have .VOB files in the folder.

For the setting - 'Folder only contains a single video' - this means for the entire folder that is being scanned correct? I leave this unchecked.

I have scan recursively also set because of the DVD folders I mentioned before. There paths looks like:

/media/odin-700/movies/SOME DVD/VIDEO_TS/*.VOB

So is the recursive option correct for scanning those types of folders?

thanks.

p.s. I do have stacking enabled. I do not remember having this problem back when I was running 7.10 and whatever older 7.10 PPA was out then (I believe the first alpha candidate)

[matt_cyr]

Erm...if you're using t3ch this should be in the xbox forums. Not that the solution isn't the same for all platforms. It's just that if there were a actually a bug you'd have devs digging in the wrong places.
Agreed, I should have pointed that out on my first post.
Main point being, it happens on different platforms. I will try totally erasing my video database again and if it still happens i will post in the correct forums.

[jmarshall]

I had changed the location of my network shares so I had to rescan and that's when the triples started showing up.
But come to think of it, i'm not sure if i deleted my database or just rescanned them.


That's the problem: Delete your db and start from scratch. Everything is referenced based on path, and ofcourse if this has changed then there'll be dupes (as 2 different paths, possibly still pointing to the same files exist).

[matt_cyr]

Deleted db, rescanned, and everything seems fine now.

[sho]

Shouldn't Update Library and/or Clean db have cleared them out though?

[jmarshall]

Nope - as the paths were all still valid.

Perhaps Edit Source could detect whether there's been a change (it's effectively a delete/add) and do the same thing Delete Source does now.