I have the other episodes scanned successfully from dvds as VOB files, but the pilot episode is not being recognized. I tried using names like “S00E01”but that didn’t work. I’m using the Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded skin if that matters.
I guess I could try creating a top level folder named “Star Trek (1965)” instead of “Star Trek (1966)” since the pilot came out a year earlier.
Seems this Vero V is really picky about naming conventions but this is the only item I’m still having trouble with.
It isn’t a Vero thing but rather Kodi and the skin makes no difference. The first thing you need to look at is the scraper you are using and its settings. Assuming you are using the default scraper TMDB or TheTVDB a file organization that should would very reliably for this file would be [TV shows source]\Star Trek\Specials\s00e01 - (this text is ignored).[ext]. Optionally instead of a “Star Trek” folder you should also be able to use “Star Trek The Original Series” and that should work as well.
If you don’t care and just want that one episode to show up correctly then just copy the following into a text file and save it at the same location as the video and name it the exact same name but with a “nfo” extension. Do note that with many text editors on windows if you are hiding extentions then you might need to go to explorer, show extensions, and then rename .nfo.txt to just .nfo.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<episodedetails>
<title>The Cage (Original Pilot)</title>
<showtitle>Star Trek: The Original Series</showtitle>
<plot>"The Cage" is the first pilot episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series science fiction series. It was completed in early 1965, but not broadcast on television in its complete form until late 1988. The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler. It was rejected by NBC in February 1965, and the network ordered another pilot episode, which became "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Much original footage from "The Cage" was later incorporated into the first season two-parter, "The Menagerie".</plot>
<director>Robert Butler</director>
<credits>Gene Roddenberry</credits>
<writer>Gene Roddenberry</writer>
<isuserfavorite>false</isuserfavorite>
<ratings>
<rating name="tmdb" max="10" default="true">
<value>6.9</value>
<votes>29</votes>
</rating>
</ratings>
<rating>6.9</rating>
<votes>29</votes>
<uniqueid type="tmdb" default="true">14037</uniqueid>
<tmdbid>14037</tmdbid>
<aired>1988-10-15</aired>
<dateadded>2022-01-06 17:14:52</dateadded>
<playcount>1</playcount>
<watched>true</watched>
<lastplayed>2022-01-19 15:11:07</lastplayed>
<season>0</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<displayseason>-1</displayseason>
<displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
<id />
<runtime>50</runtime>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/5dmBcYWEC3XVdvrlecegiupEop4.jpg</thumb>
<actor>
<name>Laurel Goodwin</name>
<role>Yeoman J. M. Colt (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xlmTVB20A5LlQA93h6UUU636MoW.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78692</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Janos Prohaska</name>
<role>The Mugato</role>
<thumb />
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214907</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Majel Barrett</name>
<role>Nurse Christine Chapel / Number One / Enterprise Computer (voice)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uTnxd737sEFgc6hVrFgUC5TwzfW.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1755</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Jeffrey Hunter</name>
<role>Capt. Christopher Pike (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/enQuu8yfrL0VX7BL3FqsM7DGcqF.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30551</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Georgia Schmidt</name>
<role>First Talosian (archive footage)</role>
<thumb />
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214891</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Peter Duryea</name>
<role>Lt. Tyler (archive footage)</role>
<thumb />
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/164771</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Susan Oliver</name>
<role />
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/piJPluZpgBCw3AsvcMHQAY7mtFw.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/90520</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Meg Wyllie</name>
<role>The Keeper (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/j7hmKF4gfNTsNiJs73eClTfPTJb.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/153336</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Bob Johnson</name>
<role>Provider #3</role>
<thumb />
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214921</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Adam Roarke</name>
<role>C.P.O. Garrison (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2FkXBHNz5kdO5LZ7nlwCZaudRcz.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39770</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Leonard Mudie</name>
<role>Second survivor (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gODC8yLtVXYypdqQcE01I2IFqfO.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101742</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Malachi Throne</name>
<role>Commodore Mendez</role>
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<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213153</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>John Hoyt</name>
<role>Dr. Phil Boyce (archive footage)</role>
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uWDrVxNpaWlGXC6su62vGgWli9w.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14508</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Michael Dugan</name>
<role />
<thumb />
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82510</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Clegg Hoyt</name>
<role />
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/mcEgIPUDgHxzfpRnly12PvBoyTg.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/168061</profile>
</actor>
<actor>
<name>Joseph Mell</name>
<role />
<thumb>http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/k6zREpfzeDA2sqdknuKX0FRDIry.jpg</thumb>
<profile>https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83913</profile>
</actor>
<trailer />
<epbookmark />
<code />
<fileinfo>
<streamdetails>
<video>
<codec>h264</codec>
<aspect>1.33</aspect>
<width>720</width>
<height>544</height>
<durationinseconds>4259</durationinseconds>
<stereomode />
</video>
<audio>
<codec>AAC</codec>
<language>eng</language>
<channels>2</channels>
</audio>
<subtitle>
<language>eng</language>
</subtitle>
</streamdetails>
</fileinfo>
<source>UNKNOWN</source>
<original_filename>s00e01 - The Cage (Original Pilot).mkv</original_filename>
<user_note />
</episodedetails>
I guess this is the problem, you see.
Here I’m using OSMC skin, scraper ‘TMDb TV shows’, language en-US in on the tmdb.org web page and in the scraper … and everything works out the box:
I think the correct year information is mandatory since there is an animated series ‘Star Trek (1973)’ as well.
That worked! Dropping the .nfo in my deployment folder with all the VOB files and naming it with the same prefix as the parent folder.
Thanks !
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My experience has been for most shows TMDB has issues automatically picking up series if the year is included in the file path with the show name. In their database they only include the actual show name for the title and AFAIK never the year included. When it does work it is because someone added that as an alternative title. On the TMDB top level page for series you will see a menu option titled “overview” and in that dropdown there is an option called “Alternative Titles”. This list is basically all the other show titles you can use in your file path where it will pick it up correctly. In this case for the US it shows…
Star Trek TOS
Star Trek The Original Series
Star Trek - The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series
and since there is no option with the year added I’d expect that to have issues auto scraping. The movie scraper parses the year from the file path and including that in your movie file naming is highly beneficial, but my experience is the TV shows scrapers work a bit different.
FYI the error you originally made is that the folder doesn’t have the year in parenthesis. This matters due to how kodi parses the path to extract the title to pass to the tmdb scraper. The TMDB scraper first sends title+(year), and if that fails to get a match it drops the year and resends just the title. Kodi identifies the year by looking for a four digit number within parenthesis. You’re lucky that TOS occurs before the animated version with the same title (but different year).
Instead of it being Star Trek 1966 it should have been Star Trek (1966).
The way you named the folder the scraper was looking for a show titled “Star Trek 1966”
To further illustrate
Space: 1999 (1975)
For several months a while ago tvdb had one of the aliases as Star Trek (1965) instead of Star Trek (1966).