Serviio

Is there a method in place for naming movies that are a part of a collection?

eg:
15 James Bond
7 Star Trek
5 of the Rocky
etc....

It would be nice to have a Collection menu similar to the Series menu item but for movie collections that are displayed in chronological order.

Didn't want to post as a feature request in case there is something already in place that I just haven't figured out yet.

No, collections are not supported although I think there is an open ticket to support this as a part of the XBMC metadata

OK thanks zip.

I haven't messed around with any of the third party apps as yet.

Does XBMC come up on my TV's screen and replace the Serviio menus or is it for computer use only?

XBMC is a client that you can use on your computer etc...

It has a metadata standard that serviio can use so that if you previous organised your media/metadata in XBMC, you could use that data in serviio.

Thanks will

Guess it's time for me to venture into the third party apps then.

This was the original thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2970

Hi Petr.
I believe (and excuse me if I'm wrong) there is a confusion between the two items...

*) XBMC (and other software) support multi-episodes TV files. XBMC can tell if a file is multi-episode in two ways:
1) If the episode is named appropriately... As an example: "showname - S01E01E02 - blah.avi"
2) If the nfo file associated with that video file has multiple <episodedetails> sections as noted in ticket 382 which is refered to in the link you noted.

*) XBMC supports Collections for movies as well
1) I believe the new Eden (v11) release has heuristics which identify upon adding files in a library if the movie being imported a part of a movie series
2) If the nfo file associated with the movie has a "<SET>" element, then it will be considered a part of the "Movie Collection/Set" of all movies with that same value in the <SET> element.


Both these are important functions which I wish Serviio supported. As it stands:
----> Multi-part TV shows result in the 'visual appearance' to the user that episodes are missing.
----> Movie Sets allow for simpler tree navigation, and less clutter. They greatly reduce clutter (e.g. think 1 entery for "Rocky" instead of 13 [or whatever the series is up to).

(Sorry to dig up an old thread, but this matches exactly what I'm searching for.)

One thing that would at least help, I think, with multi-episode files, would be if Serviio displayed the name of all episode titles (perhaps separated by a semicolon or a slash). It would help when I'm looking, for instance, for a particular Animaniacs cartoon (theTVDB lists each cartoon as an "episode"), and it's not the first one of the three cartoons contained in a single file (which are actually the "episodes" as aired on TV), I can't find it. (I thought maybe it would be nice if Serviio listed the same file multiple times in its directory, one for each episode contained in the file; but my TV likes to auto-play the next file, so it would end up playing the same show four times in a row if the first file contained four cartoon "episodes".)