TV show & Episodes Missing in Media Browser

[Gina66 2]

EDIT - When trying to get screenshots, I apparently deleted my original post, but seems to actually show up in the screens. Also, was unable to make these screens smaller, no way of adjusting size. Any way of doing that??

 

So I've noticed some issues with only two TV shows in my library, where either the show is showing correctly, but no episodes are listed or the show just isn't there anymore. The shows in question are Ren & Stimpy and Sealab 2021; R&S have NEVER shown correctly in MB3, despite working everywhere else (Media Player, VLC, WMC). Both shows were copied from their perspective discs and placed in their own folders, by seasons, and have all info needed.

 

The screen shot below shows what happens - all the elements are there, I have the show in it's own folder, with each season in a folder and you can see there are obviously episodes in said folder. However when I go to chose that show, WMC/MB3 tells me there are no episodes -

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next issue is Sealab 2021, which has worked perfectly before until about a week or two ago. It now no longer shows up at all in the listing of shows. I removed it and replaced it and after doing a scan in Media Master, it shows as being recently added, but again, does not show up in the listings like it used to (between Scooby Doo and Sherlock).

 

 

Ren & Stimpy shows up in the browser interface, but just like WMC, no episodes are there. Sealab USED to show up in both, and now nothing shows up in either. What do I do to get both shows working? I had the latest update and even updated to the beta release today to see if that would at least fix Sealab, to no avail.

 

Also, question on another show, that of Doctor Who. For the 50th Anniversary, I got the serials of Name of the Doctor, Day of the Doctor, and Time of the Doctor and treated the three as movies. Now that I'm getting Season 8, I decided to make them a TV Show instead. No issues with Season 8, but am having an issue with these three episodes, which are technically a part of season 702 (season 7, part 2); season 7 seems to be pulling up classic Who episodes, no matter if I change the names to correctly reflect the episode. I can only guess that I need to put them in special folders in order to work?

 

Help on all three issues is greatly appreciated, of course!!

[Luke 42079]

are those collection files collection.xml? where did that come from? i believe media center master sometimes creates those files. that could cause a problem if it is in a tv series folder.

 

for the second show, it is not following suggested guidelines for folder rip structures for tv series. click the library wiki link in the server dashboard for an explanation or see the knowledge base here.

[speechles 2055]

Sealab the issue is "season one" vs "season 1". Spelling out the numbers isn't supported me thinks. As for the other issues, someone with knowledge on dvdrip support would need to chime in.

 

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Edited September 8, 2014 by speechles

[Gina66 2]

are those collection files collection.xml? where did that come from? i believe media center master sometimes creates those files. that could cause a problem if it is in a tv series folder.

 

for the second show, it is not following suggested guidelines for folder rip structures for tv series. click the library wiki link in the server dashboard for an explanation or see the knowledge base here.

 

Not sure what you mean. They aren't a part of a collection, in the term that I'm believing such as with a movie (like Star Trek, Star Wars, etc). Second show, if you mean Sealab, that's the same structure I have been using since day 1 with no issues; in fact, I did everything the exact way the wiki and KB told me to do it. Haven't changed anything to any of the shows, unless I added a new one (which I only did for movies and now Dr. Who). It's only in the last weeks that Sealab doesn't show up any longer. Ren & Stimpy, done the exact same way, have never shown up at all in either this or XBMC, but again never had issues with Sl2021

[Gina66 2]

Sealab the issue is "season one" vs "season 1". Spelling out the numbers isn't supported me thinks. As for the other issues, someone with knowledge on dvdrip support would need to chime in.

 

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Oh, I got ya. Hmmm, swear I've always had it just like that, with no issues. But, I will give it a try. However, it doesn't explain R&S, which does have the S1-S3 designation and while it shows up, none of the episodes do.

 

EDIT - To add to this, I have several shows that have been copied from DVD and have the .VOB extension that have no issues playing - Scooby Doo, The Simpsons, Get Smart to name a view and I have no issues playing them, in fact, they play like I'd put in the DVD into my computer, complete with episode selection, play all, etc. Sealab 2021 also did this, when it was showing up; R&S DOES do this if playing in Media Player for example, but these are the only two shows that aren't doing this (in 2021's case, it's no longer doing this)

 

EDIT #2 - fixed Sealab! The numbering was what did it, weird that I had changed it. Have no idea why, but it's now working. Still no go on Ren & Stimpy   

 

EDIT #3 - so, weirdest thing. I removed some of the files in the actual folder for Ren & Stimpy and now it's playing in the browser interface, but not WMC. Same thing, shows that there should be a show, but no episodes, but I'm watching it on the browser interface (LOG!!! How I've missed you!). Will try a restart on WMC and will see if that works.

Edited September 8, 2014 by Gina66

[ebr 16184]

R&S is not following the proper structure.  You can't have an entire season as a DVD rip.  You need to create an episode folder and have that be the DVD rip.

 

You can either break out each individual episode or you can keep how ever many their are in a single rip and name the folder containing the rip folder per the multi-episode naming conventions.

[Gina66 2]

R&S is not following the proper structure.  You can't have an entire season as a DVD rip.  You need to create an episode folder and have that be the DVD rip.

 

You can either break out each individual episode or you can keep how ever many their are in a single rip and name the folder containing the rip folder per the multi-episode naming conventions.

 

See, this is where I'm confused because Sealab 2021, Scooby Doo, Get Smart, Animaniacs, etc are set up the same way (Season 1 - Disc 1 | Disc 2) and they play fine, but Ren & Stimpy and DangerMouse (forgotten that one does the same thing) don't play. For R&S, it seems to now only be happening in WMC; last night for the first time, it actually started playing in the browser. DM haven't tested yet as that one just came to me.

 

Oh wait...I think I see what you mean - IIRC, there was a disc per season, so Season 1 was disc 1, as was Season 2, etc. I'll try that and see if that works and will let you know. That may be the same issue I have with DM too

 

EDIT - Correction, DM works just fine and I did change the folder structure for R&S, still not showing WMC. It says there are episodes, but they don't show up. Again, not understanding why everything else is working, but that one doesn't.

Edited September 8, 2014 by Gina66