Serviio

Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:13 pm**

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.
0.02€

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:14 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:38 pm**

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?

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:22 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:13 pm**

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?

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:31 pm**

Definitely not at the moment I'm afraid.

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:24 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:26 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:18 pm**

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)

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:31 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:36 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:30 pm**

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?

Posted: **Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:55 pm**

fizze wrote: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)

Posted: **Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:07 pm**

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

Any idea why serviio dislikes Scrubs? :roll:

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?

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 5:34 pm**

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?

Posted: **Sun May 23, 2010 9:12 pm**

Give an example of one that is not recognised.

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