TV Show missing episode synopsis

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

The TV show "Black Sails" has missing episode synopsis but only for season 3. Seasons 1&2 episodes appear to be displaying synopsis text OK. 

 

Looking for season 3 on TheTVDB site there is no episode synopsis / overviews. Looking on TheMovieDB and IMDB they do have synopsis information. 

 

If I edit this show in the Emby metadata manager it does have an IMDB ID and a TheTVDB ID. I've tried refreshing a couple of episodes but still no synopsis text showing. 

 

Thanks

 

[Happy2Play 9782]

What providers do you have enable for episodes?  Since TMDB and OMDB were added but disabled by default, I believe.

 

Just refreshed E8 and E9 and they pulled in synopsis.

Edited March 22, 2016 by Happy2Play

[cw-kid 192]

Hi

 

For Episodes it looks like this:

 

 

Only TheTVDB is ticked and there appears to be no option for TheMovieDB or IMDB ? 

 

I could try turning on the "Open Movie Database" one I guess, not sure why the other providers are not listed in here ?

 

Thanks

Edited March 23, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

I enabled the OMDB option for episodes and saved the settings, however after refreshing two episodes they still have no synopsis. 

 

I am unsure how to manually search the OMDB website I cannot see their website ? Only this API page

 

http://www.omdbapi.com/

 

Thanks

[Happy2Play 9782]

TVDB has no synopsis for Season 3 episodes so until someone in the community gives them one, they will always be blank.  TMDB was added for your exact issue.  IMDB will never be an option do to the api usage costing around $15,000 a year.

 

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/32102-feature-request-tmdb-as-episode-provider

 

Sorry, since you don't have this option you must by on the Stable Release so you will have to wait until it is promoted or install the Beta if you want the option now.

Edited March 23, 2016 by Happy2Play

[cw-kid 192]

Yes its the stable version.

 

TMDB does have episode overviews

 

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/47665-black-sails/season/3

 

I assume you meant that OMDB does not have them? How did you check that?

 

Cheers

 

Edit

 

I see your edit to say TVDB yes that doesn't have any overviews

Edited March 23, 2016 by cw-kid

[Happy2Play 9782]

The new Metadata Viewer plugin found in Testing Area shows what each provide has.

 

[cw-kid 192]

I updated to the beta version and I now have an option for TMDB under episodes. After refreshing the episodes they now have synopsis.

 

Thanks for your help. 

 

I also installed the metadata viewer dll / plug-in you mentioned and restarted the Emby server. However I do not see the "View Raw Metadata" option on any of the menus. 

 

Edited March 23, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

If I look in to the folder 

 

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\plugins

 

where I placed the dll it does seem to have created itself a new sub-folder called MetadataViewer which contains some additional files.

 

metadataeditor.js

metadataviewer.js

metadataviewer.template.html

 

EDIT:

 

Can see it now on the menu, seems you have to do this in the metadata manager and not from the library front-end, which makes sense. 

Edited March 23, 2016 by cw-kid

[cw-kid 192]

OK this is interesting

 

 

For the OmdbEpisodeProvider there is a synopsis but its listed in the "ShortOverview" field rather than the "Overview" field. Which is presumably why Emby did not pull this synopsis down from OMDB when I tried previously. 

 

As you can see the MovieDBEpisodeProvider has the synopsis correctly in the "Overview" field and this is what Emby is now displaying after I updated to the beta etc. (Kodi has also now picked up OK the synopsis for these episodes). 

 

And we can see that TvdbEpisodeProvider has no overview as we had already established. 

Edited March 23, 2016 by cw-kid