Skip to content

TvShows

Jump to bottom Edit New page
Dave Andreoli edited this page Jul 29, 2014 · 3 revisions

Intro

The TvShows module is similar to the Movies one, it retrieve your media information from TheMovieDB online database. It will fetch from the net all the info about your series, seasons and episodes.

  • Ability to configure the source folders from the UI
  • Retrive series info from themoviedb.org database, with casts info, posters and backgrounds.
  • You can choose your preferred poster/background for a given serie from all the image available in the online db.
  • Info download can occur automatically on background or on-demand by the user.

Usage

The first time you need to tell EpyMC where to look for your Tv Shows, use the Manage sources item to add/remove folders, you can add as many sources as you like, every folder will be scanned for series and they will be shows together in the first page.

This module will not keep a database of your media, it just have a storage for the metadata. So you can organize your folders as you like, but keep in mind the rules of the next chapter.

Once you added some folders you can immediately browse and play you Tv Shows. To retrieve info for your series you have 2 choices:

  • Manually request information for a whole serie (using the `Serie info' item inside your serie)
  • Or you can perform a background scan of all your series (using the Rescan library item).

Naming your files

As per the Movies module, naming your file correctly is the key for a successful experience. The TvShows is quite flexible on matching the metadata with your files, but you must follow some simple rules:

  • every series must live in the root of the folder you added as a source.
  • the first folder name must be the name of the series, as found on TheMovieDB.
  • inside the main serie folder there can be an additional folder to keep seasons ordered (highly suggested)
  • all the files must have the the season+episode number in it.

Here are some examples of patterns that are supported by default:

  • /Prison Break/Season 1/PrisonBreak - 1x01 - Pilot.avi
  • /Prison Break/Season 1/1x01 - Pilot.avi
  • /Prison Break/PrisonBreak - 1x01 - Pilot.avi
  • /Prison Break/1x01 - Pilot.avi
  • /Prison Break/s1e01 - Pilot.avi
  • /Prison Break/s01e01 - Pilot.avi

Module options

Some options that you can change in the configuration, under Tv Shows Collection:

  • Preferred language for content: this will be used to retrieve information from the online db in your language.

Screenshots

Add a custom footer
Clone this wiki locally