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SiegeX

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Post Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:11 pm

Handling of "Special" episodes from thetvdb.com

I don't know how many TV series' episodes have the "Special" tag next to their name but the last 3 episodes of "Prison Break: Season 4" certainly do and it causes these three episodes to be listed in the Movies folder instead of the Series folder where they belong.
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zip

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Post Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:32 pm

Re: Handling of "Special" episodes from thetvdb.com

Can you post the file names?
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SiegeX

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Post Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:05 am

Re: Handling of "Special" episodes from thetvdb.com

That's the thing, the file names don't seem to match the 'thetvdb.com' listing. What that database calls 'Special' after episode 22 my files continue with the Episode count at 23 and 24.

  Code:
Prison Break S4E23.avi*
Prison Break S4E24.avi*
Prison Break - The Final Break.avi


The serviio log looks like:

  Code:
10:20:42,525 INFO  [LibraryUpdaterThread] Updating 'Prison Break S4E23' in Library
10:20:51,577 WARN  [TheTVDBSourceAdaptor] Cannot retrieve episode details (series = 75340, season = 4, episode = 23), file not found
10:20:51,670 INFO  [LibraryUpdaterThread] Updating 'Prison Break S4E24' in Library
10:21:00,553 WARN  [TheTVDBSourceAdaptor] Cannot retrieve episode details (series = 75340, season = 4, episode = 24), file not found

Apparently it doesn't have a problem with 'Prison Break - The Final Break.avi' but it treats it like a movie and not apart of the series which is understandable because how is it supposed to know with that naming. I fully understand that this is a corner case, but I'm curious how to name them such that Serviio puts them in its rightful place.

*Note that these logs were captured with DEBUG off
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Post Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:17 am

Re: Handling of "Special" episodes from thetvdb.com

The specials are usually marked as season 0. According to this: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid ... 2801&lid=7

... you 3 episodes should be s0e08, s0e09 and s0e10 ... give it a try, I'm not on my dev laptop now so cannot try out the API call.
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SiegeX

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Post Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:10 pm

Re: Handling of "Special" episodes from thetvdb.com

That did the trick. thanks zip

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