MediaTitles.xml Help

[samgreco]

I know this has been asked before, but I am not quite getting this right. I have this in my MediaTitles.XML file:

<titles>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who.*</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who Confidential.*</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who Confidential</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">79298</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005).*</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

But all of these episodes end up being seen as the original 1963 series. I have the files named like:

Doctor Who - S01E01 - An Unearthly Child.mkv
Doctor Who (2005) - S01E01 - Rose.mkv
Doctor Who Confidential - S01E01 - Some Name.mkv

There are also Specials which I have named as above, but using S00Exx.

Anyone see what I'm missing here?

[graywolf]

Wonder if the order matters?

put the following AFTER the others? Or possibly remove it?
Wouldn't Doctor Who.* match Doctor Who (2005) and Doctor Who Confidential ?

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who.*</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>

Another possibility IF you have them in different folders, ie for folder Doctor Who (2005)

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>

[samgreco]

I hadn't thought of reordering them. But the folder idea may be the best way to do this, since I do have them separated in their own folders. I'll see what happens.

[samgreco]

Argh. So I changed it to:

<titles>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
    <year>2005</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who Confidential[\\/]</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who Confidential</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">79298</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who[\\/]</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

I also tried to ad th .* and then this l[\\/] to the Doctor Who (2005) section. The others are working correctly now, but all of the 2005 imports are being seen as movies now. They used to work.

I won't even start on Specials....

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by samgreco

Argh. So I changed it to:

<titles>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
    <year>2005</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who Confidential[\\/]</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who Confidential</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">79298</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who[\\/]</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

I also tried to ad th .* and then this l[\\/] to the Doctor Who (2005) section. The others are working correctly now, but all of the 2005 imports are being seen as movies now. They used to work.

The easiest way to set this up, is to do the following...
1. delete your current dr who entries in the mediafiles xml.
2. restart sagetv (to ensure that all entries are unloaded)
3. go into bmt, browse and find a dr who episode... click find metadata, select the "right" dr who entry for the show you have loaded.
4. click Add Matcher
5. Use a "Folder" based matcher, click OK (or done, not sure which).
6. Save.
7. Repeat for a different episode of DR Who for different dr who show.

Keep in mind you are doing this 3 times... once for each type of dr who espisode.

Next, rescan your dr who files -- with force update/overwrite.

I never manually modify the mediatitles xml (except to clean it out), I just use BMT's "Add Matcher".

I won't even start on Specials....

That's good.. .because there's no support for them.

[graywolf]

Can you try this

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
    <title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
  </match>

Leave off the YEAR tag. Maybe the YEAR tag might be throwing BMT off to think it is a Movie and not a show?
Maybe even leave off the <title> ?

I haven't bothered with the YEAR tag for my shows that have different years.

For Example, my Hawaii Five-O work well with this configuration

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Hawaii Five-0 (2010)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">164541</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Hawaii Five-0 (1968)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">71223</metadata>
  </match>

[nyplayer]

Hawaii five-o is a bit different one has an alpha O and the other has a numeric 0 in the TVDB. Sage groups them all together ...

Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-0

[samgreco]

Originally Posted by stuckless

That's good.. .because there's no support for them.

Thanks stuckless.

[samgreco]

Hmmm. Where do I find?:
Next, rescan your dr who files -- with force update/overwrite.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by samgreco

Hmmm. Where do I find?:
Next, rescan your dr who files -- with force update/overwrite.

I was paraphrasing the actions

Browser -> Sage Video Imports by Folder -> (the navigate to the dr who folder to scan)
Click "UPdate Metadata..."
Check first 3 options, uncheck last two...
Click Scan


Repeat for the other 2 dr who folders

[samgreco]

OK. That's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure.

Didn't work. What's so confusing is that it used to work for both DW and DW 2005. Even after I restored the original MediaTitles.XML file, it never worked again.

How can I completely remove any metadata info from those files and start over?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by samgreco

OK. That's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure.

Didn't work. What's so confusing is that it used to work for both DW and DW 2005. Even after I restored the original MediaTitles.XML file, it never worked again.

How can I completely remove any metadata info from those files and start over?

Could you email me your complete mediatitles.xml file? (metadatatools at gmail dot com)

[samgreco]

Actually, this is all there is.

<titles>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
    <year>2005</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who Confidential[\\/]</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who Confidential</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">79298</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who[\\/]</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by samgreco

Actually, this is all there is.

<titles>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who (2005)</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who (2005)</title>
    <year>2005</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>
    <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who Confidential[\\/]</regex>
	<title>Doctor Who Confidential</title>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">79298</metadata>
  </match>
  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who[\\/]</regex>
    <title>Doctor Who</title>
    <year>1963</year>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">76107</metadata>
  </match>
</titles>

So, is it failing for all 3 shows... ie, which of the 3 matchers is it using when you scan, now?

[samgreco]

Sorry for the confusion Sean. It's only failing currently on Doctor Who (2005).

[JerryB]

Just a thought but do you mean to have 2 spaces between "Who" and "(2005)" and does your actual title match this?

[samgreco]

JerryB - Funny I saw that thinking it was 2 spaces. It's not. I have triple checked it because it still looks like too much space.

[silkshadow]

Necro thread but you need to escape your "(" and ")". Here is my Dr Who:

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who \(2005\)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>

[samgreco]

Originally Posted by silkshadow

Necro thread but you need to escape your "(" and ")". Here is my Dr Who:

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who \(2005\)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>

Thanks for this! That seems to have fixed it for me.

I had gotten busy and not returned to this problem until I got the notification of a response to remind me.

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by silkshadow

Necro thread but you need to escape your "(" and ")". Here is my Dr Who:

  <match>
    <regex>[\\/]Doctor Who \(2005\)[\\/]</regex>
    <metadata type="TV" name="tvdb">78804</metadata>
  </match>

Interesting. I will need to try this out.

BTW, what other characters should be escaped?