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Multi-Episode Naming help - jedimasta - 2013-06-07

So, right to the point, I just encoded the two volumes of Star Wars: Clone Wars to my system. This is the 2003 microseries of animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, not the recent CG series. The "episodes" come in the form of 2 DVDs: Volume 1 and Volume 2 totaling 25 episodes (20 on the first volume, 5 on the second) with an average runtime of 3 minutes. Needless to say, because the DVDs contain the shorts as chapters, rather than titles, trying to break these out into individual episodes represents an amount of work I'd just as soon avoid.

Instead, I ripped two files, one for each disk. I'm at a loss for how to name them though. I can give them a standard s01e01 and s02e01 convention, but as expected, I get the summary for only the first episode of each season inside a sub-menu of the main show menu. It plays the entirety of each just fine, but it's not the most elegant of solutions.

I tried naming the first file s01e01e02e03(etc...)e20.mkv which sort of worked except that technically Volume 1 contains seasons 1 and 2, so it kinda screws up the scraper and I get unknown episodes and/or duplicates. I could probably suss all that out with properly written NFOs, but that still leaves the issue of if I choose episode 11, it starts the whole thing over from the beginning. If I'm not mistaken, there isn't a way to tell XBMC to start playback of an item on a specific chapter.

Anyone have any creative solutions?

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - HappyUser - 2015-07-15

Hi there

Did you ever find a solution to this as I have just come across precisely the same problem.

Cheers for any help you may be able to give in advance

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - un1versal - 2015-07-15

This is fastidiously documented on wiki see Naming_video_files/TV_shows (wiki)

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - mictino - 2015-07-23

I am actually trying to add the exact same files. uNiversal, could you be more specific about where on the wiki page it shows the solution? = )

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - HappyUser - 2015-07-23

The DVD release, as two films, is listed on MovieDB - which is default Kodi movies. Forget trying to add them into your TV section!!!

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-03

(2015-07-23, 22:04)HappyUser Wrote: The DVD release, as two films, is listed on MovieDB - which is default Kodi movies. Forget trying to add them into your TV section!!!

Old thread, same issue.
I am also having trouble with “Clone Wars”, not “the clone wars”. The two movies listed on tmdb are shorts, not volume 1 (ep 1-20) and volume 2 (ep 21-25):
https://www.themoviedb.org/search/movie?query=Star%20Wars:%20Clone%20Wars&language=en

Descriptions of the short films is listed here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872192/

On tmdb there is a tv show listing for clone wars: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3122-star-wars-clone-wars?language=en

Any suggestions besides making nfo files for each of these.

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - Karellen - 2019-06-03

@EricHoya

You will need to be very specific. Step it out for me. I am not a star wars fan, and there are a total of 10 links in your post (first link leads to another 7 links), so you have lost me already.

I understand you are trying to scrape Clone Wars, but a different clone wars to the TV Series. There are so many clone wars there, I don't have a clue which one or in what order.

Show me...
1. The 25 episodes/movies at TheMovieDB (not interested in IMDB or any other site)?
2. How are the episodes organised on your computer?
3. Where do you want them - Movies or TV Shows?

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-03

(2019-06-03, 05:59)Karellen Wrote: @EricHoya

You will need to be very specific. Step it out for me. I am not a star wars fan, and there are a total of 10 links in your post (first link leads to another 7 links), so you have lost me already.

I understand you are trying to scrape Clone Wars, but a different clone wars to the TV Series. There are so many clone wars there, I don't have a clue which one or in what order.

Show me...
1. The 25 episodes/movies at TheMovieDB (not interested in IMDB or any other site)?
2. How are the episodes organised on your computer?
3. Where do you want them - Movies or TV Shows?

Thanks for your reply. I have the same issue as the OP. I purchased Clone Wars volume one and two. The episodes are combined into a single movie on each disk. So I have ripped each as an mkv, one file for each disk. So I don’t have individual episodes. When I scraped these as movies they came up incorrectly as the two short films under movies:
Clone wars: Bridging the saga
Star Wars: Clone Wars: connecting the dots

There should be a listing on tmdb or tv database for each of these discs. It doesn’t matter to me if they are listed under tv shows or movies. Incidentally I have “the clone wars” movie from 2008and that scraped fine.
Thanks again,
Eric

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - Karellen - 2019-06-03

(2019-06-03, 06:14)EricHoya Wrote: There should be a listing on tmdb or tv database for each of these discs

Where are the links? Like I said, I don't follow Star Wars, and I don't want to waste 20 minutes trying to guess if I have found the right ones, only to have you come back and say no they are the wrong ones.

Links, links, links...

But if I understand correctly, you just need to name your files as follows. Note you will need to adjust naming and the episode numbering to whatever your file contains...

Clone Wars S01E01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-S02E01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10
and
Clone Wars S02E11-12-13-14-15

It would be better if you used MKVToolNix and spit the episodes, or split at the Season.

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-03

(2019-06-03, 06:25)Karellen Wrote:
(2019-06-03, 06:14)EricHoya Wrote: There should be a listing on tmdb or tv database for each of these discs
Where are the links? Like I said, I don't follow Star Wars, and I don't want to waste 20 minutes trying to guess if I have found the right ones, only to have you come back and say no they are the wrong ones.

Links, links, links...

But if I understand correctly, you just need to name your files as follows. Note you will need to adjust naming and the episode numbering to whatever your file contains...

Clone Wars S01E01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-S02E01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10
and
Clone Wars S02E11-12-13-14-15

It would be better if you used MKVToolNix and spit the episodes, or split at the Season.

I’m going to try to name the files as you suggested. I think this is the link you are asking for
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003)
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3122-star-wars-clone-wars?language=en

If you click episodes you get here, Specials, season 1, season, 2, season 3
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3122-star-wars-clone-wars/seasons?language=en

If you check specials there is a full season super cut, episode 1 which has a full description of volume 1 and volume 2, and episode 2 which has no info. Wikipedia has an explanation about the movie release in two volumes in 2005, under Home media.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Clone_Wars_(2003_TV_series)
Thank you for helping me with this.

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - Karellen - 2019-06-03

Thanks! So there are 3 seasons, not 2 as I thought. Those episodes are only 3 minutes long. Ignore my advice to split them into separate episodes. I suggest the opposite, combine them all into one movie length episode and scan them as a movie.

Let us know if that naming works.

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-03

Hi,
When I try to scrape just disk two it is not working. I tried
Clone Wars (2003)
Star Wars Clone Wars (2003)
Tried as movie and as a tv show.
I want to scrape this page: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3122-star-wars-clone-wars?language=en-US
WHen I try the movie it comes up as attack of the clones.
I substituted 2005 but it didn't work.
When I scrape as a TV show on tvdb it does not pull any information.
I also tried to rename the movie as a single episode to scrape info (Star Wars Clone Wars (2003)_s01e01). I can then export the nfo and edit, which I did a few years ago for a different collection. TMDB does not support collections. I tried eliminating the year and just used Clone Wars_s03e01
I have read most of the articles again about naming TV shows. I only have a few TV shows in my library but my naming seems accurate.
THank you very much for the help.

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - Karellen - 2019-06-04

A couple of ways to fix it. Easiest first...

1.
* Go to Videos>Files>Your Source>Clone Wars. On Clone Wars call up the Information Page (wiki) and select Refresh
* From the list, select the correct title

2. Rename the file to Star Wars Clone Wars (2003) S03E01-02-03-04-05.mkv

3. Use a Parsing NFO file (wiki)

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-04

(2019-06-04, 00:53)Karellen Wrote: A couple of ways to fix it. Easiest first...

1.
* Go to Videos>Files>Your Source>Clone Wars. On Clone Wars call up the Information Page (wiki) and select Refresh
* From the list, select the correct title

2. Rename the file to Star Wars Clone Wars (2003) S03E01-02-03-04-05.mkv

3. Use a Parsing NFO file (wiki)

Ok. 1 is not working since there is no info to refresh.
I tried 2 and scraped tvdb and that worked. It shows 5 episodes but all start at the beginning since it is one file.
Thank you thank you. Not sure why this did not work last night.

Now I might try to use method 3 to add this as a movie rather than a TV show. My son is very clever but would rather all of the star wars "movies" to be together. I can maybe export the library and use the nfo file for this season 3 disk.
THank you very much.
Eric

RE: Multi-Episode Naming help - EricHoya - 2019-06-06

Here is my solution to this issue, hopefully it helps someone else. I sure spent a lot of time on this. With the help of Karellen I was able to scrape these as a TV show. File names are Star Wars Clone Wars (2003)s01e01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10-s02e01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09-10 and Star Wars Clone Wars (2003)s03e01-02-03-04-05. But that is not what I really wanted. When I tried to scrape it as this movie:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3122-star-wars-clone-wars?language=en
it came up as Ep 2, Attack of the clones. I was going to try to export my library or just build build my own NFO for this but then remembered I had added these as movies to my old WDTV. I connected it back to my network and there was an xml file for each that was very close to a Kodi nfo file format. I had the change to movie, added a movie set, added ventress actress, art, and maybe adjusted some other items. The kodi nfo file wiki page is very helpful: https://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Movies
Here is a copy paste of each nfo file. Sorry if this is not supposed to be posted.
Edit: just realized that the tags do not show up. If you check my post here and quote it you should see the tags:
https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5cf31f0a0e0a261e1bcd4568
Paste into note pad (not the volume 1), save as all files with .nfo added to file name, encoding is utf-8. I may work on these some more but so far so good. Good luck.

Volume 1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
Star Wars: Clone Wars picks up where the theatrical feature Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones left off as an epic civil war pits the Republic against the separatist movement led by the Dark Side of the Force's mastermind Darth Sidious. 72244 72244 TV-Y7 2003-11-01 8.1 Cartoon Network
Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol 1Animation Science-Fiction 70 Genndy Tartakovsky - Mat Lucas Anakin Skywalker - James Arnold Taylor Obi-Wan Kenobi - Tom Kane Yoda - Corey Burton Count Dooku - Richard McGonagle General Grievous - Nick Jameson Supreme Chancellor Palpatine |André Sogliuzzo|Anthony Daniels|Corey Burton|Grey Delisle|James Arnold Taylor|Mat Lucas|Nick Jameson|Tom Kane| http://thetvdb.com/banners/posters/72244-1.jpg
Grey Delisle Asajj Ventress https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/b2Viqswr0mAULRfPqeA0J40icyy.jpg http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3cm01zF1SBEhYfmpsPiDqIe2Rcn.jpg
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/9Rk2ijDFNZ8TWa8cm04Hb9sKhIT.jpg
fanart http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3cm01zF1SBEhYfmpsPiDqIe2Rcn.jpg http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3cm01zF1SBEhYfmpsPiDqIe2Rcn.jpg http://thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/72244-2.jpg
Star Wars: Clone Wars

Volume 2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
Star Wars: Clone Wars picks up where the theatrical feature Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones left off as an epic civil war pits the Republic against the separatist movement led by the Dark Side of the Force's mastermind Darth Sidious. 72244 72244 TV-Y7 2003-11-01 8.1 Cartoon Network
Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol 2 Animation Science-Fiction 64 Genndy Tartakovsky - Mat Lucas Anakin Skywalker - James Arnold Taylor Obi-Wan Kenobi - Tom Kane Yoda - Corey Burton Count Dooku - Richard McGonagle General Grievous - Nick Jameson Supreme Chancellor Palpatine |André Sogliuzzo|Anthony Daniels|Corey Burton|Grey Delisle|James Arnold Taylor|Mat Lucas|Nick Jameson|Tom Kane|
Grey Delisle Asajj Ventress https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/b2Viqswr0mAULRfPqeA0J40icyy.jpg
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/foiBitq6lt6vGpxKjCPdGhVrV0D.jpg
fanart http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3cm01zF1SBEhYfmpsPiDqIe2Rcn.jpg http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3cm01zF1SBEhYfmpsPiDqIe2Rcn.jpg