With several of my anime information changing on TVDb I want to try TMDB. However, I can not figure out how to change Display Missing Episodes.
In TVDb "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria" has a special that is not part of the series. I have deleted SeriesXml, all nfo including missing, renamed root folder and changed to scrap from TMDB. Then scraped from scratch. Did a Display Missing Episode and the missing nfo was created listing the non existing special.
What am I missing, or is it even possible to change where missing episodes are scrapped from?
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I found I cannot use TMDB with Media Companion the episode nfo does not pull file info.
fileinfo
streamdetails
video
durationinseconds 1
I am not smart enough to figure out how to use Regex to pull the resolution from the nfo and add to the file name, I use other media software for that, making it easy to find low res episode that need to be replaced.
So, with TVDb ability to supply a single xml file for a series, would it be possible to implement a change comparison or log, that way when TVDb reorders specials and deletes others leaving the same number or less there is a notification?
I have a series that I was missing a specials and had it marked as such. However, the last Missing pull showed it was not missing any. After checking they had deleted all but 2 specials and I had 6 missing 1.
Last edit: NMace 2022-09-07
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I have just scraped a series from TMDB, new episodes, and all episode populate the stream details.
<episodedetails><fileinfo><streamdetails><video><width>1280</width><height>720</height><aspect>1.78</aspect><codec>h264</codec><format>V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC</format><durationinseconds>2621</durationinseconds><container>.mkv</container><scantype>Progressive</scantype><framerate>23.976</framerate><NumVideoBits>8</NumVideoBits></video><audio><DefaultTrack>Yes</DefaultTrack><codec>aac</codec><channels>2</channels></audio><subtitle><language>eng</language><default>False</default><forced>False</forced></subtitle></streamdetails></fileinfo><title>Hide and Seek</title><season>1</season><episode>3</episode><aired>2004-07-23</aired>
Stream details come from the video file, and is the same routine we use whether the episode info is scraped from TVDb or TMDb.
If you are not getting this when scraping from TMDb, then something is wrong with your Media Companion extraction. Possibly the location MC is extracted to. How to Install Media Companion
At present Media Companion can not rename the episode with any stream details in the filename.
So, with TVDb ability to supply a single xml file for a series, would it be possible to implement a change comparison or log, that way when TVDb reorders specials and deletes others leaving the same number or less there is a notification?
No, we don't log when the first xml was downloaded or created from TVDb or are at the whim to their moderators if episodes get pulled, or shuffled. Trying to implement a method of comparison or create a master xml is outside the scope of MC. Not something that will happen sorry.
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Using TVDb to scrap the file info pulls fine. Since I was 2 versions behind I installed a fresh install and copied some episodes to a new location. TMDb scraps work now. My MC must have a corrupt part in the Switching process, as the new install can switch back and forth no problem.
I kind of had a feeling that Regex would not get the file info, I did look into it, but never found anything I thought would help, not that I really understood any of it anyway. That is why I never asked about it and went with another media manager to perform this function.
I found that the other media manager does missing episodes from TMDb, so I can use it to identify them there.
Still, MC is by far my preferred media manager. Thankyou everyone for you hard work on this project!!
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With several of my anime information changing on TVDb I want to try TMDB. However, I can not figure out how to change Display Missing Episodes.
In TVDb "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria" has a special that is not part of the series. I have deleted SeriesXml, all nfo including missing, renamed root folder and changed to scrap from TMDB. Then scraped from scratch. Did a Display Missing Episode and the missing nfo was created listing the non existing special.
What am I missing, or is it even possible to change where missing episodes are scrapped from?
The Missing Episodes function is currently only available on TVDB.
To make this work with TVDb and TMDB, is going to be complex
At present this is only coded to get info from TVDb as TVDb can supply a single xml file with every episode for a series.
TMDb we have to pull pages of episodes. Not too bad if series has less than 100 episodes.
But this needs to be coded.
And then how to decide if missing episodes are sync'd to TVDB or TMDB for a series.
It is doe-able, but not at present.
Thank you for the info and consideration!
I found I cannot use TMDB with Media Companion the episode nfo does not pull file info.
fileinfo
streamdetails
video
durationinseconds 1
I am not smart enough to figure out how to use Regex to pull the resolution from the nfo and add to the file name, I use other media software for that, making it easy to find low res episode that need to be replaced.
So, with TVDb ability to supply a single xml file for a series, would it be possible to implement a change comparison or log, that way when TVDb reorders specials and deletes others leaving the same number or less there is a notification?
I have a series that I was missing a specials and had it marked as such. However, the last Missing pull showed it was not missing any. After checking they had deleted all but 2 specials and I had 6 missing 1.
Last edit: NMace 2022-09-07
I have just scraped a series from TMDB, new episodes, and all episode populate the stream details.
Stream details come from the video file, and is the same routine we use whether the episode info is scraped from TVDb or TMDb.
If you are not getting this when scraping from TMDb, then something is wrong with your Media Companion extraction. Possibly the location MC is extracted to. How to Install Media Companion
At present Media Companion can not rename the episode with any stream details in the filename.
No, we don't log when the first xml was downloaded or created from TVDb or are at the whim to their moderators if episodes get pulled, or shuffled. Trying to implement a method of comparison or create a master xml is outside the scope of MC. Not something that will happen sorry.
Using TVDb to scrap the file info pulls fine. Since I was 2 versions behind I installed a fresh install and copied some episodes to a new location. TMDb scraps work now. My MC must have a corrupt part in the Switching process, as the new install can switch back and forth no problem.
I kind of had a feeling that Regex would not get the file info, I did look into it, but never found anything I thought would help, not that I really understood any of it anyway. That is why I never asked about it and went with another media manager to perform this function.
I found that the other media manager does missing episodes from TMDb, so I can use it to identify them there.
Still, MC is by far my preferred media manager. Thankyou everyone for you hard work on this project!!
I will be working on Missing episodes from TMDb, when I can wrangle some free time.