TV Episode Scraping

[Badjuju]

I just switched from Media Portal, which is a great program but was having crashing issues with my remote software. All my movies scraped fine, but only the top folder of each TV show would scan correctly. The files are all visible in xbmc but they have no thumbnail/plot/air-date etc

I've been round and round the forums and through the forums of Media Companion as well over this issue.
My episodes are organized as follows:

C:\Media\TV Shows\30 Rock\Season 1\04 - Jack The Writer.avi

I created the advancedsettings.xml file in userdata, the contents of which are:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<advancedsettings>
<tvshowmatching>
<regexp>Season[\._ ]([0-9]+)[\\/]([0-9]+)[^\\/]*</regexp>
</tvshowmatching>
</advancedsettings>

I tried scraping with Media Companion and creating .nfo files but again, only the show name would show up, not the seasons or episodes.

Since what I'm trying is supposed to be the solution, I'm guessing my problem is something glaringly obvious that I'm too tired to locate.

[vdrfan]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

Scraping the named file using this advancedsettings.xml is working fine here using the TheTVDB scraper. What version/revision of XBMC are you currently running?

[Badjuju]

Thanks for the welcome, I'm using 8.10 compiled Nov 13.

The fact that Media Companion also does not recognize individual episodes makes me think that I'm missing some essential service or platform that allows for their parsing.

Edit: Windows XP service pack 2, .NET 3.5

Edit2: Even when I name my files in one of the standard supported formats, I get no episode information returned (30 Rock.s01.e01.avi)

[vdrfan]

Please enable debug logging in "System Settings" and pastebin the entire log of that scrape session. The resulting log file is most likely located in /var/tmp (<username>-xbmc.log)

[Badjuju]

Here is the debug log, thanks for having a look.

http://pastebin.com/m145191e9

[vdrfan]

Log is looking fine, except some tvshows that won't match the "season #\XX - title" schema. Make sure to add the missing season folders so the custom regexp will match on them. Otherwise you will have to add another regexp for every single case.

[Badjuju]

Well I've got it working but it's a somewhat unsatisfactory method - I have to manually go to each season folder and set their content, choose a scraper and select 'folder contains a single tv show'.

Edit: When I go into 'Show Information' and hit refresh after making those changes, it tries to find a show called 'Season X' and I have to manually type the name of the show.

[Badjuju]

No thoughts? This is getting very tedious doing each season by hand.

[Hitcher]

Try using 'TV Rename' - that'll do all the hard work for you and everything should be compatible with XBMC then.