Movies vs TV Series

I have been trying to get the movies and TV Series that I have on 2 hard drives to show up in the correct categories.

Each drive has 2 folders,
1) Video which contains my movie files.
My Movie Folder, My Movie File
2) Series which contains my TV Series files,
MY TV Show Folder, Season Folder, My TV Episode Files

The movie folder works fine from what I can determine,

The "Series" folder I just cant figure out... (Series folder That Is generated By Serviio)
It works some of the time, mostly randomly from what I can figure out...
Whole TV Series will show then vanish later, as will seasons..
Ive had seasons where one out of 22 would show up, or just 2 episodes out of 16 in a season.
Some episodes will show up under Video, but that seems to also be random from what I can figure out.
(Note: because of the number of movies and episodes on the Drives, The folders fill out to 101 pages.)
There are 44 TV series on one Hard-drive and 12 on the other,

They all show up if I go by the Drive Folders..... All playable without any problems..

I'm not sure how serviio determines what is considered a Move vs a TV Series...
I would just like to be able to select Series and find all my TV Shows listed.
Even better would be to select title and look through the alphabetic listing and seeing my movies and TV shows listed correctly.
Genres has problems, but that most likely is what metadata is returned.

The following is a feature request..
I also wish there was a tab on the console to search the data base and see what data it contains for any given record.
Their one could edit any incorrect information and update the record.
(A lock feature to keep auto updates from making changes after would be required)

thanks for any assistance...

I would also like to know the answer to this question. I wish there was a way under titles to not show tv series in there or doesn't show movies .

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I'm not sure how serviio determines what is considered a Move vs a TV Series...

File name matching. http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=12

So I just need to change the titles of the files to have the season and episode numbers in one of those formats?

[moltra]

yes, verify the name format on the http://www.thetvdb.com and put the episode information as below. I also put my series in a folder with the series name.

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Online metadata sources
 
 
 
This is currently only supported for video files. Serviio can retrieve metadata for movies (using www.themoviedb.org) and TV series (using www.thetvdb.com).
 
It will parse the name of your media file (and it's parent folder) and try to make out the movie/series name. If found the metadata is stored in the media library. These are the file name patterns that will identify an episode of a serie (season 1, episode 2):
 
 
 file name includes S01E01, S1E2 or S1E01 (e.g. MySerie S01E02.avi)
file name includes S01.E01, S1.E2 or S1.E01 (e.g. MySerie S01.E02.avi)
file name includes S01_E01, S1_E2 or S1_E01 (e.g. MySerie S01_E02.avi)
file name includes 01x02, 1x2 or 1x02 (e.g. MySerie 01x02.avi)
file name includes 0102 (where season < 19) (e.g. MySerie 0102.avi)
file name starts with 1 02 (e.g. 1 02 MySerie.avi)
file name starts with 01 02 (e.g. 01 02 MySerie.avi)
file name includes 'season 1 episode 02' (e.g. MySerie season 1 episode 02.avi)
file name includes 01-02 -, 01 - 02 -, 1 - 2- (e.g. 01-02 - MySerie - EpisodeTitle.avi, MySerie - 1 - 02 - Episode name.avi)
 
 
 
The other files will be treated as movies.
 
 
 
In a case a there are more movies with the same title, but different release years, you can include the year in the title of the video (or the parent folder), e.g. 'My movie (2005)'.


http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=metadata Serviio Wiki

Thanks! I find it funny that it found some of the South Park Episodes as random videos. ie. one of the episodes it labelled MTV Music Video Awards another it labelled Fifa World Cup

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can you post the affected file names?

Yeah
Files affected:
These are South Park special episodes... (contained in the folders TV Shows > South Park > South Park Specials)
- MTV Movie Awards 2000.asf (given the title: MTV Movie Awards 2000) <- This one is understandable
- mtvxvid.asf (given the title: MTV Video Music Awards)
- Official HD Release of Good Times With Weapons 720p h264.mkv (given the title: The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Film)

Guessing its just the way the files are labelled... I really need to get through the movies and onto the TV show organizing and renaming :/

[Cerberus]

Yeah
Files affected:
These are South Park special episodes... (contained in the folders TV Shows > South Park > South Park Specials)
- MTV Movie Awards 2000.asf (given the title: MTV Movie Awards 2000) <- This one is understandable
- mtvxvid.asf (given the title: MTV Video Music Awards)
- Official HD Release of Good Times With Weapons 720p h264.mkv (given the title: The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Film)

Guessing its just the way the files are labelled... I really need to get through the movies and onto the TV show organizing and renaming :/

There are a few tools on the wiki/third party forum to help you to sort your library but they all only run under windows:

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=therenamer <-- the one i use ALOT.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4008 <-- a relitively new program but dev is active here.