[bunter fisch]

Hi,

i asked this question in the german kodinerds forum before. i've scraped the data and arts of some of my content again and i had some film in better quality then before. also in the past it never worked when i replaced the files (nfo, images, mkv) and then updated the database. the deleted content was no removed from the database and the new not imported. in the past i had to remove the old stuff, then clean the database (all not existing content was deleted), then copy the new content and update the database. now this way don't work anymore. the only way that wored for my is to delete the old content, delete every film manually from the database, copy the new one and update.

Is this the only way to do this? is there no feature to search for 'new' files when i've replaced an image file or edit the nfo file?

bunter fisch

[Klojum]

now this way don't work anymore.

Actually, this was the way it used to work. Whenever you had a video file with better/different video quality with a similar filename, you would need only to play the video and all the streamdetails for that filename would be updated. For some reason, that does not work anymore, and it is a PITA to replace newer versions of a video. Currently the Clean Video Library action is also not particularly helping a lot in actually fully cleaning database tables in such cases.

You could use different filenames for different quality versions, f.e. video.4k.mkv instead of just video.mkv. Different file names do get triggered and streamdetails are being read into the database.

[bunter fisch]

I have all Film only in a quality, i delete the old one. I don't scrape data fromthe web using kodi, all data are stored locally and kodi reads from that nfo.

So lets say i delete a film (the vidoe file, nfo and all images). what is the best way to delete the film from the database? Settings / System / Media / clean library don't work. This worked once before. Now after cleaning the database entry of the film is still there. i have to delete it manually from the database. this is not a big problem when its only one or two films but awkward if there are many films.

[Klojum]

So lets say i delete a film (the vidoe file, nfo and all images). what is the best way to delete the film from the database?

You don't delete the video file from the drive manually yourself and then do a database clean, you have to delete the movie directly from the Kodi GUI and subsequently from video source network/drive/whatever (this latter option needs to be enabled in Kodi).

[Karellen]

i've scraped the data and arts of some of my content again and i had some film in better quality then before. also in the past it never worked when i replaced the files (nfo, images, mkv) and then updated the database. the deleted content was no removed from the database and the new not imported

How do you "updated the database"?

[bunter fisch]

What i mean when i say i delete a movie is that i delete the video file, the nfo and the fanarts. I don't do this using the kodi gui, mostly i connect with ssh or samba. i don't mean 'delete the database entry' i mean the 'real' film file. after that i have to delete the database entry manually.

How do you "updated the database"?

i go to the movie database, click left and here 'update library'. of course the are other ways to update, but thats how i do it.

[Karellen]

The correct way to remove movies or tv shows from Kodi is to first delete them from the library. Read here... https://kodi.wiki/view/Updating_or_remov...ual_Titles

Going back to your original question. I know English is not your native language, so I understood it as...
"You are replacing an existing movie with a better copy, so why does the new resolution not show"

There is a bug in v18, but it has been fixed with this PR and merged 20 days ago, so should be in the latest nightlies... https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/15589