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RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Karellen - 2022-09-02

There are 16 movies that do not scrape. I checked a couple...

kinuta-2021-02/Movies 02/Hideo Gosha Jidai Geki Style (2008) -- Robin Gatto - that does not exist at TMDB
Movies 02/The 47 Ronin (1941)/Genroku Chushingara cd1.avi - No such movie named Genroku Chushingara cd1 exists.

On your movie sources, enable the setting Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title as shown in image 9a... https://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources#Set_Content

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-03

Thanks for checking it. I tried installing Artwork Dump but had no luck. It seems I need to do some magic to connect to another repository but the steps aren't clear. So, I skipped that.

Next, I rebuilt the database and cleaned up the titles of some movies that weren't resolving. After that, all the queries for non-existent directories vanished. Much better!

However, there is still one movie that won't scrape, and there are no details about the error, just this:

2022-09-03 23:06:08.501 T:2531 ERROR <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting /media/Movies 03/Movie-Title (1960)

I see literally nothing else in the log about the error. The movie title and date do exist in TMDB. I've triple-checked. What does this error mean?

Log file is here: https://termbin.com/1syw

EDIT: BTW, I got a great pointer from another Kodi user on uploading logs. Nice simple solution: cat ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | nc termbin.com 9999

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

Following up... it looks like the error is happening while VideoInfoScanner is checking every directory. I.e.

Quote:2022-09-04 15:28:07.262 T:3947 ERROR <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting /media/Movies 03/Movie-Title (1960)
2022-09-04 15:28:07.263 T:3947 DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: Scanning dir '/media/Movies 03/Movie-Title (1960)' as not in the database
2022-09-04 15:28:07.263 T:3947 DEBUG <general>: VideoInfoScanner: No (new) information was found in dir /media/Movies 03/Movie-Title (1960)

I really don't understand what this means, but maybe(?) Kodi has some problem with the video file itself, not with scraping?

It's a VIDEO_TS folder containing files from a DVD. It plays in VLC. Handbrake can read it, and mediainfo reports details as expected.

Is there some way to validate the contents of a VIDEO_TS folder?

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Karellen - 2022-09-04

Does the movie exist at TMDB?

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

Yes, it exists there.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Karellen - 2022-09-04

Go to Videos>Files, find your movie and press i on your keyboard. Does it scrape?

If no, I need the full Debug Log of you doing that as well as the link to the move at TMDB.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Hitcher - 2022-09-04

No such movie as Movie-Title (1960) found on TMDB.

https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Movie-Title+%281960%29

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

Thanks. Kodi is running on a server, so I don't have a standard keyboard. I use the Kodi remote for iOS.

I enabled logging, selected the movie, and tried Videos > Files ... Scan to Library on the pop-up menu. An alert appears to say "No video files found on this path!".

I also tried just playing it, but the entire screen flashes and the position in the movie browser is thrown to another movie in the list, far away. Kinda weird.

Here's the log: https://termbin.com/x7xr and here's the movie on TMDB.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Karellen - 2022-09-04

Rename your movie
from Movies 03/The Dangerous Kiss (1960) -- Kawashima Yūzō/
to Movies 03/The Dangerous Kiss (1960)

Does that work? I recall other users having problems with special characters in filenames on Linux - (Yūzō)

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

Renaming has no effect. Just tried and updated the library. No change. FWIW, I've used characters with macrons and accents a lot with no problems.

Is there some way to verify that Kodi thinks the DVD video files are okay?

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Karellen - 2022-09-04

(2022-09-04, 12:04)mrob Wrote: Is there some way to verify that Kodi thinks the DVD video files are okay?

No. Just make sure it is a proper DVD folder with VIDEO_TS folder with the usual IFO, BUP and VOB FILES.
I've seen cases where users have deleted everything but the VOB files. Don't know why...

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

It looks okay. BUP, IFO, and VOB files, for VIDEO_TS, VTS_01, and VTS_02.

No complaints, errors, or warnings from VLC or mediainfo.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Hitcher - 2022-09-04

(2022-09-04, 12:04)mrob Wrote: Is there some way to verify that Kodi thinks the DVD video files are okay?

Try pressing play (context menu > play) on the folder in files mode.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - mrob - 2022-09-04

(2022-09-04, 12:56)Hitcher Wrote: Try pressing play (context menu > play) on the folder in files mode.

When I do that, nothing happens.

I wish there were some way to verify the VIDEO_TS is really okay. I tried DVDFab and DVD Decrypter, i.e., tried two different rips. Both finished with no errors, and the results can be played with VLC, but Kodi refuses to play or scrape both.

It seems(?) like Kodi is barfing on the video files, and somehow that is interfering with the scrape.

RE: Why is Kodi searching for directories that don't exist? - Hitcher - 2022-09-04

(2022-09-04, 14:19)mrob Wrote: When I do that, nothing happens.

I wish there were some way to verify the VIDEO_TS is really okay.

Then I don't think it is because it works fine on a DVD folder for me.