How to properly name your media files for DMS

[tbrown25]

TRJ:
Yes, that is how it is supposed to work.

Hard to say what the problem is, but if you transferred the file using DVDFAB software, you may have an .nfo file that is not correct. .nfo files will override the file name convention.You could open the nfo file with a plain text editor, like notepad, and see if it only has one episode defined.

DVDFAB creates the nfo file using the metadata information it has for that disk. It could be data uploaded by another user, or the data that you manually put in using the "SEARCH" function in DVDFAB. Note, if you are manually using the search function, even after getting the right poster defined for the disk, you have to define the individual episodes as well.

Personally, I don't make use of the nfo files. I have found that the current scraper in the MS works quite well if you use the file naming convention. So I usually delete the nfo file, make sure the movie file is properly named, and then re-scan the drive.

You could try that, but if you do, be sure to go into the web browser interface first and delete the current incorrect entry. If you rename the ISO file before doing the delete, the iso will remain on the MS. You can then rename it back using the correct naming convention, delete the nfo, and re-scan the drive.

[TRJ]

To continue with my previous concerns, in attempt to shorten the concern, if you label the files following:

TV Shows/ShowName/Season XX/ShowName - sXXeYY-eZZ.ext

Isn't this suppose to show several episodes in the posters, but since its one file, the menu/movie play feature will only play either the whole file or main file?

My problem is I only show one episode showing when using the above format.

[TRJ]

I am new here - and really having trouble just getting my first few attempts for TV shows to display in a way I expect it to. I have tried to follow the information given explicitly here regarding TV shows. The description cites that multi-episode files will show up individually in DMS when viewing your library, but playing any of hte represented episodes will play the full file. However no matter what I have done, even with labeling for 4 episodes on the ISO, only the first Episode is showing. As an example, I have made an ISO of CSI Miami Season 1 Disc 1 and Disc 2 (4 episodes per disc). I followed the labeling examples shown here, but every time it appears to only show the first episode shown in the file name, instead of the various ones. So instead of showing 8 episodes, it only shows 2 (first one from each disc) in the posters. The description here suggests it should show the various episodes cited in your file name, but that when you play the file it will play the whole file (since it's an ISO it will play the whole disk if you select Menu Mode and only the first file if main movie is selected). Any reason I am only getting the first episode to show? I have other questions / issues as well but figure I'd start with this one. I'm expecting to either have a poster that would show each episode or a disc that has episode numbers X, Y, Z, etc. Note I'm interested in keeping ISO so all menus and extras are paired appropriately on the discs. Any help would be appreciated.

[jnardone]

I'm struggling to properly name a collection of TV shows that are from DVD set. Specifically, I'm looking to name and scrape a 4 DVD set released in 2011 named "Johny Carson - Late Night Legend."

[SaturnV]

A belated answer to PabloT's question "What about personal home videos? I don't want DMS to try to match them".

There is an easy answer - point the DMS to look in (or beneath) \DVDFAB and put your personal videos in a different folder, not below DVDFab.
The Movie Server will not look in \Family Videos in the example below if you've told it to only look under \DVDFab in Library setup.

For example

\DVDFab\Movies
\DVDFab\TV Shows
\Family Videos

[PabloT]

What about personal home videos? I don't want DMS to try to match them and I want to build the meta data myself. I used to be able to do that directly on the Movie server, but now that UI is not supported and I have to go through dms.dvdfab.cn and I don't see how this is possible.

Still looking for a solution to this here. I've looked into editing the NFO file, but I think that is just for scraping, so the changes didn't seem to make any difference. Being able to edit the images would be the best approach.

[DaveH50]

OK, can somebody give me a specific example on how to properly name a movie with VOB files? So far, it looks like the DMS scraper is only finding movies that have an ISO file in them (either the DVDFab.miniso file from a BD copy, or an actual ISO file copied in that format).

[tbrown25]

MattT,
Your not missing anything. The MS does not handle movies released on multiple disk very well. Both parts wind up with identical names and posters.
I have heard (but not tried myself) that one solution is to combine the 2 disks into 1 file using the merge function in DVDFAB. I believe you will have to create your own menu for that to work.
I have another solution to this, but it requires editing of the local SQLite Database that 1010 uses. If you have never done this before, I don't recommend it as it is easy to screw up that DB.If you are, I can post it for you.

[Hunter1955]

So, I'm really getting there. I name all my files properly and almost all of them are picked up correctly. This makes me happy (still on 1010, probably never moving off it). Anyway .. the one problem I have is with multiple disks for a single movie. For example: I have very old Doctor Who episodes. Some of them are two disk releases, such as Doctor Who and the Remembrance of the Daleks. I've tried Doctor.Who.The.Remembrance.Of.The.Daleks_pt1 and _pt2. I've tried _disk1 and _disk2, but in no case does it get picked up. What am I missing here?

It doesn't seem to do well with a full disk copy. At least it hasn't for me. That's why I went to single episodes off the full copy and it's been working well for me.
I set them up just the way the instructions say early in this string. Under TVShows directory. such as /TV Shows/Preacher/Season 01/Preacher - s01e01.iso
Then I fix the meta data file so it has a tv show listing like the one below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<meta>
<discid>17235298547224885239</discid>
<tvshow>
<title>Preacher: Season 1</title>
<year>2016</year>
<season>1</season>
<episode>1</episode>
<disc></disc>
</tvshow>
</meta>

[MattT1961]

So, I'm really getting there. I name all my files properly and almost all of them are picked up correctly. This makes me happy (still on 1010, probably never moving off it). Anyway .. the one problem I have is with multiple disks for a single movie. For example: I have very old Doctor Who episodes. Some of them are two disk releases, such as Doctor Who and the Remembrance of the Daleks. I've tried Doctor.Who.The.Remembrance.Of.The.Daleks_pt1 and _pt2. I've tried _disk1 and _disk2, but in no case does it get picked up. What am I missing here?

[Hunter1955]

An update. I tried many ways to get the 10 episodes of "Band of Brothers" and the 4 episodes of "The Stand" to work without the season indicator, I could not.
I had to use the same TV show file naming listed above even tho there is no season affiliated with these shows.
One thing did happen that was strange. on the MS 3/4 of the episodes showed a description of "disc 1.1 or disc 2.2
I eliminated the disc # from the meta file and they are now listed as episode 1 or 2 or 3...etc

[Hunter1955]

Signals,
I am using the naming convention for the TV series Preacher and it seems to be recognizing it just fine.
2 questions.
1. how do we handle movies made for TV? Specifically Stephen Kings IT(1990). This is the way I named it but it created the entry like its a season.
2. How do we name a 10 episode set that aren't a season. Like Band of Brothers. 10 episodes. Do we just call it season 01?

[ting]

hi, clioschrotter

Please pm you account and email to me, so I can check this problem . thanks.

[clioschrotter]

Hello,
with Firmware 1.0.3.0, how can I name TV Shows where two different versions exist? In my example it is Doctor Who. I named one Folder "Doctor Who (1963)" and another folder "Doctor Who (2005)" for the new TV Show. Also my filenames are "DOCTOR WHO (1963) - s01e01" and "DOCTOR WHO (2005) - s01e01" e.g. but the DMS is sorting everything to the newer TV-Show.
When I correct each episode to the old TV Show it appears corrcetly in the overview, but after a refresh everything is sorted back to the newer TV Show.
Also the 1963-files are nor automatically recognized as the correct show and can be found under Videos first where I have to touch every single file.
Do I have to use another filename or what am I doing wrong?
Regards,
clioschrotter

[Logandros]

Well there needs to be a way to add special episodes. The way KODI as well as Themoviedb handle it is they are listed and named as Season 0. But no versions of the firmware allow for this so we need a way of handling them.

Here is an example:

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60554-star-wars-rebels/season/0

https://kodi.wiki/view/naming_video_files/TV_shows#Special_Episodes