regex TV series

Many of my TV series were picked up correctly by Serviio.
But many weren't. I saw that the rules for checking are rather strict.

I'm running Swisscenter too, which handles metadata in (imho) very good way.
It users user changeable regulex expressions to parse TV episode, series and season info.

The regexes are run in order, and the first one to offer all variables, gets chosen.

That's from swisscenter's config thingy (hope layout doesnt get messed up too bad):

The details for a TV series are determined from the filename and path using regular expressions. The file is compared with the following expressions until a match is found. These expressions contain placeholders for programme {p}, series {s}, episode {e}, and title {t}. You must have at least one of these placeholders in each expression to extract details. If you require assistance with this then you should post in the forums.

Priority Expression
1 {p}/season {s}/{t}\W+\(?s{s}e{e}\)?
2 {p}/season {s}/{t}\W+\(?{s}x{e}\)?
3 {p}/{t}\W+\(?s{s}e{e}\)?
4 {p}^/*/[^/]+s{s}e{e}\W+{t}
5 {p}\W+s{s}e{e}\W+{t}
6 {p}\W+{s}x{e}\W+{t}
7 {p}/series {s}/{e}\W+{t}
8 {p}/season {s}/{e}\W+{t}
9 {p}/{s}-{e} - {p} - {t}
10 {p}-season {s},ep.{e}-{t}
11 {p}/{s}/{e}\W*{t}
12 {p}/{e}\W+{t}
13 {p}/{t}\W+\(?s{s}e{e}\)?
14 {p}/{t}\W+\(?{s}x{e}\)?
15 {p}\W+s{s}e{e}
16 {p}\W+{s}x{e}
17 {p}/{t}
18 {t}

It would be great to have something similiar implemented, since I don't want to rename all the files
Plus this gives everyone the chance of adding support for their own archiving system.

Btw, Swisscenter also differenciates between movies and TV series as a category. It might make things easier for serviio to do this as well.
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It's an interesting solution but I won't be doing it at the moment - it's usable for maybe 1% of the users. I'd love to know what are the series names that you have that don't get recognized - I can add move patterns to the code.

Will do, will do.
There you go:

  Code:

(129)S06E01 - some title.avi
(131)S06E03 - another title.avi
(132)S06E04 - some other title.avi
(133)S06E05 - title title.avi


and so on.

Stuff like that, too:

  Code:

01-06 - Series Name - title words.avi
02-01 - Series Name - title blah.avi
03-01 - Series Name - title title.avi


etc, you get the idea.

Further:

  Code:

3x01_-_title.and.more.titles.avi
3x02_-_title.foo.avi
5x04_-_hyphen_-_title.story.avi


etc.

  Code:

114 - Intersting Title.avi
216 - Stuff.avi
318-Information.avi

...you get the idea.

Wait, there's more!

  Code:

Series.Name.-.S01E01.-.Words.Words.,.More.Words.avi
Series.Name.-.S01E04.-.Funny.Sentences.avi
Series.Name.-.S03E19.-.Crazy.Things.avi
Series.Name.-.S04E22.-.Whatever.avi


I've got more:

  Code:

Seriesname.2.s01e04.boring.title.avi
Seriesname.2.s01e07.snooze.avi
Seriesname.2.s01e15.some.wordy.long.name.that.is.weird.avi
The.Name.Of.The.Show.S01E01.avi
The.Name.Of.The.Show.S01E02.avi


And also:

  Code:

title.of.series.203.title.of.episode.avi
title.of.series.113.title.of.episode.avi
title.of.series.209.title.of.episode.avi


In addition:

  Code:

TV.Show.Name.2009.08.04.Guest.Of.The.Show.avi


etc.

Now this is a special case, because there are no seasons, and there definitely isn't any metadata to be found. Still I wouldn't want these episodes to clutter up my movies.

To sum it up:
I've got a lot of filenames that match:

  Code:

.[sS]\d{2}[eExX]\d{2}.

but aren't recognized, even though the name of the series is part of the filename.

edit:
Oh and while we're on the wonderful topic of metadata: Currently DVD rips show up as individual vob files, which surely isn't very nice.
Is it possible to fall back to parent folder name, if the file name doesn't get any metadata hits?

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Oh and while we're on the wonderful topic of metadata: Currently DVD rips show up as individual vob files, which surely isn't very nice.
Is it possible to fall back to parent folder name, if the file name doesn't get any metadata hits?

Working on this issue now. This I believe is already implemented, ie it will recognize this:

  Code:

c:/Videos/Movie/Video_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB

as a video with name "Movie". Obviously if there are more vob in the folder you'll get more of the same 'movie' when you browse.

Good News!

Of course there are multiple VOB files.... Could you just show them in a folder called "Movie" instead?
I don't think it's possible to show "Movie" as a single FILE and then chain all the files together (in playlist-like manner, figuratively speaking, right?

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Definitely not at the moment I'm afraid.

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Ok, I've added a vfew more regex definitions, but at least half of the examles you provided pass my tests and should work already:

  Code:

Series.Name.-.S01E01.-.Words.Words.,.More.Words.avi
Seriesname.2.s01e04.boring.title.avi
The.Name.Of.The.Show.S01E01.avi

I took a peek at this again, and these are still not recognized properly:

  Code:

Series Name - 1 - 01 - The Title Of The Episode.avi
name.of.series.101.the.title.of.the.episode.avi
101 - Pilot.avi
1x01_-_Title.Of.The.Episode.avi
The Name Of The Series 101.avi


Obviously all of these are Season 1, Episode 1.

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Ok,Will look into it.... some of them might be not doable, since they might represent a movie title (e.g. 300, 500 days, year in the title of the movie etc)

Well, that's why it might be best to separate movies and TV series altogether.

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Or you might just rip your legally owned series DVDs using the supported file names

Alright, so I went on a prename spree to sort this out once and for all.
Most things were picked up alright, but it still doesn't like Stargate SG-1.

I've got filenames like:

  Code:

Stargate.SG-1 S05E19 Reese.avi

"Stargate SG-1" is what the series is called on TheTVDB, so that should work fine. It's deffo being picked up by Swisscenter alright, so that can't be it.
Maybe the dash throws serviio off?

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I took a peek at this again, and these are still not recognized properly:

  Code:

Series Name - 1 - 01 - The Title Of The Episode.avi - FIXED in 0.4
1x01_-_Title.Of.The.Episode.avi  - WAS ALREADY SUPPORTED


The rest are not supported, could represent movies (e.g. 300.avi)

Don't know why this thread came up again, seeems this case is almost closed to me.

Any idea why serviio dislikes Scrubs?
I've got episodes named like "Scrubs.S01E01.avi" and they are not recognized. Not one of them. Which might lead me to believe that there might be a problem with thetvdb with this series in general?
Anyone else also getting this?

Hi, glad to see you are working on getting this excellent program to recognise various naming conventions.

I tend to use a specific syntax for my files:

  Code:

Series Name - [01x01] - Episode Title.avi

some of these series are correctly tagged, some arent. is there any particular reason why the same syntax of filename may not be recognised for some series over others?

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Give an example of one that is not recognised.