TV Season DVD Sets

[ghostlobster]

OK, I'm sure I'm just missing something here. Here's what I've done:
Bought season one of Heros (US TV Show) on DVD.
Ripped all 7 DVDs to my video share using the following directory structure:
\Heros
\Heros\Heros Season 1
\Heros\Heros Season 1\Heros Season 1 Disk x (replace x with the disk numbers 1 through 7)

Now, my media library has refreshed and I have 7 new items in the "Unknown" catagory of my DVDs in my Video collection named Heros Season 1 Disk 1 (through 7). When I open up one of the items within SageMC and select Edit Info, then do an IMDB search, the results are horrible. There is nothing there Heros related, and they are all movies I never heard of. I would have expected it to find Heros, and the season and the disk number, no? In a perfect world, I'd like to see a new catagory created (yes, I KNOW I can create one myself) called TV Series, then Heros under that, then Season 1 under that, then Disks 1 - 7. Is there a tool out there that would handle this? I have the exact same issue with The Lord of the Rings trilogy extended edition DVDs. I'd really like for SageMC to be able to recognize a boxed set or TV series and present it accordingly. The Lord of the Rings should be catagorized accordingly (Fantasy/Adventure), under those, you've got other Fantasy movies listed, as well as The Lord of the Rings, then under The Lord of the Rings, you've got Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and then Return of the King. Regardless of the directory structure. The same should hold for the Star Wars series, James Bond movies, etc.
OK, all that being said, is there something I can do about my Heros issue?

[chrisc983]

Unfortunately if you are using genre view it will not work. That folder structure only works if you use file system view. The draw back with that view is that you have to put everything into its own seperate genre folders manually.

[ghostlobster]

Hmm, that's pretty disappointing. Genres don't really mean all that much to me, but it is nice to have that initial view. I know that the Brian B's My Movies application has been brought up around here several times, and as a former Vista MC user, that was one of the things I really missed when moving to Sage. Just for grins, I installed My Movies on one of my machines here and let it process one of my Video shares to see how it did in locating, tagging and sorting everything. Well, it did it all just perfectly. It recognized the Heros season 1 DVDs, the Lord of the rings series, and everything. To check it out, I went into Vista MC, launched My Movies and was presented with the cover art for the movies it found on this share, including a single icon for Heros Season 1. Under that was a selection for each disk, 1 through 7, which played the proper disk.
My Movies can export an XML export file. I've attached mine here as a sample. If anyone can figure out how to make use of this export within SageMC, I'm certain a lot of people would be very grateful, myself included.

Thanks!

[lazysean]

Also, the show is called "Heroes" with an e, so there's that.

[ghostlobster]

Oy Vey! Please tell me I did NOT do that...OMG, total idiot alert!

[PLUCKYHD]

ghostlobster

being a former media center user myself I am trying to figure out how to get my dvd rips of tv shows ( I rip each tv show as a sepeart mpeg) into the tv section with data.

[ghostlobster]

Well, even after naming it correctly (spelling Heroes right) Sage's IMDB search does not come back with the right info. Again, MyMovies does a phenominal job of seeing it and catagorizing it right. I just wish there was an import mechanism for the MyMovies data.

[loomdog32]

I second this for the very same reasons..

[KJake]

I have about 3TB of a Video Library, not counting the Sage recordings - so using Genre is about the only way to sanely find a movie to watch. Now that I'm starting to import TV Shows using the metadata scrapers, I would really love it if we could come up with a way to fix this for Genre view.

[ewelin]

Just curious what everyone ended up doing for sorting... I'm just starting to get to my DVDs that are TV series and not sure how to put them into sage. Any help and guidance would be greatly appricated.

[Peter_h]

I extract each show and convert it to an MKV and then use TV explorer. TV explorer will import all of the shows and allow you to sort by season and episode if you like. It's a little more work but it's an awesome setup.

[ewelin]

how are you extracting each episode?

[Peter_h]

There are many tools out that will do it. MakeMKV and handbrake just to name a couple.

I use EP's Mediashrink. It's basically handbrake but automated. You can find it in the customization forum.

[ewelin]

Thanks... I use DVDFab to rip the movie portion of movies, but wasn't sure on the best route of extracting single episodes for episodic dvds. I think I've figured out how to rip the indiviual episodes via DVDFab, but that results in audio_ts and video_ts folders and wasn't sure if there was a better way or not.

[MitchSchaft]

Check out TV Explorer.

[ewelin]

I have.... definitely considering it, but I'm still not sure what format each episode should be in...

[Peter_h]

It doesn't matter as long as it plays.

What is important is your naming scheme and the metadata associated with it. How are you creating the properties files for each movie? Are you using BMT?

[ewelin]

for the movies, i put everything into dvd profiler and allow sage to import that. In addition, I use BMT manually to update select titles. I'm not a huge fan of how BMT works with recorded tv so I haven't had it updating any metadata for recordings. Reason being is that it updates the showID which causes a lot of programs which have been recorded to be re-recorded.

[MitchSchaft]

You can update it manually with BMT's gui.