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I have encounterd a really weird problem.
Iīve been adding TV-shows to my Library, using the TVDB-scraper and everything has worked out perfect so far. But when I try to add The Simpsons nothing happens, it just says "downloading TV-show information" for a few seconds and then "compressing...". No progress bar, and nothing getīs downloaded.
Iīve named the episodes just like all the other series Iīve added are. That is for example: The Simpsons/Season 1/The Simpsons - S01E01.avi
What can be wrong? Is there any known Simpsons-bug that Iīve missed out on?
spindley
2008-10-01, 23:31
I have encounterd a really weird problem.
Iīve been adding TV-shows to my Library, using the TVDB-scraper and everything has worked out perfect so far. But when I try to add The Simpsons nothing happens, it just says "downloading TV-show information" for a few seconds and then "compressing...". No progress bar, and nothing getīs downloaded.
Iīve named the episodes just like all the other series Iīve added are. That is for example: The Simpsons/Season 1/The Simpsons - S01E01.avi
What can be wrong? Is there any known Simpsons-bug that Iīve missed out on?
The same sort of thing happened to me with The X-Files. It was structured more or less the same as yours with the show name as the main dir, the seperate seasons as subdirs, and then the files in each season's dir (although I have my files named like foo.101.*).
Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me get the TVDB scraper to find The X-Files properly. So, I had to choose to manually name it, and after trying different combinations (The X Files, X Files, X-Files, etc) the one that finally worked was "XFiles" with no spaces. Then it would bring up a list to choose from, and "The X-Files (en)" was there.
I guess you'll have to try different combinations until it finds one it likes (Simpsons, thesimpsons?). I'm not sure why it wouldn't find something that was named properly.
matt_cyr
2008-10-01, 23:49
The x-files wouldn't work because of the - in the name. I don't believe 'The Simpsons' would fall into the same category as your problem.
try this as a workaround and report back:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Import_-_Export_Library#Nfo_containing_an_URL
(The TV Show example)
spindley
2008-10-01, 23:51
Maybe, but shouldn't it have found "The X Files" or "X Files"?
Seems strange that only "XFiles" would work.
Gamester17
2008-10-02, 00:13
The same sort of thing happened to me with The X-Files. It was structured more or less the same as yours with the show name as the main dir, the seperate seasons as subdirs, and then the files in each season's dir (although I have my files named like foo.101.*).
Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me get the TVDB scraper to find The X-Files properly. So, I had to choose to manually name it, and after trying different combinations (The X Files, X Files, X-Files, etc) the one that finally worked was "XFiles" with no spaces. Then it would bring up a list to choose from, and "The X-Files (en)" was there.
I guess you'll have to try different combinations until it finds one it likes (Simpsons, thesimpsons?). I'm not sure why it wouldn't find something that was named properly.You problem is not related, see:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32178
and
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29220
spindley
2008-10-02, 00:17
You problem is not related, see:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32178
and
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29220
Thanks for the info.
The x-files wouldn't work because of the - in the name. I don't believe 'The Simpsons' would fall into the same category as your problem.
Why? Because of the space? South Park works fine for me.
spindley
2008-10-02, 00:45
Why? Because of the space? South Park works fine for me.
No, because of the - in "X-Files".
There are apparently issues with dashes and dots.
I'm not sure why the OP is having that problem. The Simpsons is listed on the tvdb site itself, and I had no problems with The Sopranos, or any other shows starting with "The". I originally suggested he try a manual search of "Simpsons" instead of "The Simpsons". I'm not sure if that will help or not.
Debug log is needed! "The Simpsons" is working fine here using default scraper settings. Please try again with a _really_ fresh build and report back.
try this as a workaround and report back:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Import_-_Export_Library#Nfo_containing_an_URL
(The TV Show example)
Worked great!
Just added a txt-file in the root-directory of the series, pasted the simpsons-url from tvdb, and changed the txt-file to an .nfo. Selected Scan for new content, and there it was :)
Many thanks!
And while Iīm at it. Thanks for a superb forum!
offline_thk
2008-10-02, 01:39
Noob question how do I show information on a show or film, Remember the future in the Xbox version but don't know how to get it in the Windows version...
Regards
offline_thk
2008-10-02, 01:57
Thanx man, but It seams that I have another problem to, The movie info can't fint any info if the folder dosen't have any *.avi file inside :-( and all my movies are in *rar files. That's why I use XBMC. So is there any solution to this?
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Appearance_Settings#View_Options
Make archives with one file transparent?
offline_thk
2008-10-02, 03:27
Greate that solved everything, to bad these things aren't so easy to find, I't would be nice if your asked to set media after you add a directory so that every directory can be used with IMDB directly. And the option to make rar files transperant should have some info in it that this function is needed to find movie info from folders with rar files. I think this would really make this function easyer to use.
Keep up the good work!
Yes, perhaps it should be on as default... someone else has to answer why it is as it is today.