Imported Video in the recording screen

[jbowdach]

I also have a similar problem and have had no luck figuring it out.

All of my TV Shows (not recorded by SageTV, most are avi and MKV ) have been imported, but for some reason, they are now showing up under my recordings, instead of under Video - Folders.

In this case, I have archived ALL of Law & Order, so Sage says there are 451 episodes of Law & order recorded.

I scraped my media w/ Media Companion, and use TV rename to manage the filenames, but I have already deleted all the .properties and .nfo files in an attempt to fix this issue. I've also attempted to delete my wiz.bin file (after a backup of course), and remove the imported directories, but the files still remain, and play back fine

This started occurring around the same time I upgraded to 7.0.12 beta , but Im not positive.

I had the BMT metadata plugin installed, but have since removed it.

Any one w/ any ideas?

[Fuzzy]

Did you follow what I had posted a few posts ago?

EDIT: Whoops, wrong thread.. anyways... you'll need to move the files out of the sage import folder, then delete them from the recordings database. Once that is done, you can install BMT, but before bringing the files back in, disable the 'Import TV Media Types as Recordings' option in the BMT web config page (it's under Phoenix -> Fanart/Metadata Options). BMT 4.3 added this feature. Afterwards, you can move the files BACK into the import folder. The next rescan, Sage will detect them all, BMT will give them nice, full metadata, but this time WON'T move them to the recordings screen (if, you, indeed don't want them there).

[jbowdach]

Sounds perfect After I remove the import directory, how do I get it to delete the file from sage's database?

[Fuzzy]

a full rescan should do it, but if you removed the folder itself as well as the files, it wont. this is because if it sees a vid containing folder missing, it thinks that source is just temporarily gone. in this case, you need to delete them from the recordings screen in sage.

[jbowdach]

Okay, so I was able to remove them and they disappeared from the SageTV Recordings window. Here is what I did: Rebooted Server, uninstalled BMT, and reinstalled BMT, emptied my import folder, relaunched SageTV, scanned for media, move import videos back into import folder, rescan. Now, for some crazy reason, I cant get them to import back into Videos. They say they import, and I can see them in BMT's web access, but I cant see them in SageTV.


Also, When I check on the files in BMT, they are still marked as "SageTV Recordings"
I made sure to uncheck the option to tag imported files as recordings before adding the import directory, yet no go.

Any more suggestions? Thanks so much for your help!

[Fuzzy]

You didn't specify in your post, but did you disable the 'Import TV Media Types as Recordings' setting in BMT before moving them back in?

Also realize, that BMT adds quite a bit of time to the import process, as it interjects itself in the import process, so it may take a bit longer for them to show up, especially if its a ton of files.

[jbowdach]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

You didn't specify in your post, but did you disable the 'Import TV Media Types as Recordings' setting in BMT before moving them back in?

Also realize, that BMT adds quite a bit of time to the import process, as it interjects itself in the import process, so it may take a bit longer for them to show up, especially if its a ton of files.

I did disable the 'Import TV Media Types as Recordings' prior to putting moving the files back.

Whats strange is it was very quick before to import my ~700 video files, and if I manually go into a file in BMT and uncheck the "SageTV Recording", it immediately is seen in Videos

[Fuzzy]

Only other thing I can think of is that there is something else telling sage that they are recordings, besides BMT. Do you still have a bunch of .properties files for the videos? Sage will pull the data from them, i believe including the fact that they are recordings.

[jbowdach]

Nope, I deleted all my .properties and .nfo files earlier. BMT has tons of data on all of the files, even after the reimport.

I may just try a uninstall of SageTV, renaming of the directory to (old), and installing a fresh copy and see if that helps. Its a PITA, but maybe it will work

EDIT: Def didnt work, it imported ALL of the files into Recordings on the Fresh Install, but I may have forgotten to disable the setting in BMT before the import so I will try again

EDIT2: Okay, on a fresh install, everything where it is supposed to be. Now, unfortunately, nothing has any metadata (except the recordings), and BMT isnt being helpful at the moment

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jbowdach

Nope, I deleted all my .properties and .nfo files earlier. BMT has tons of data on all of the files, even after the reimport.

I may just try a uninstall of SageTV, renaming of the directory to (old), and installing a fresh copy and see if that helps. Its a PITA, but maybe it will work

EDIT: Def didnt work, it imported ALL of the files into Recordings on the Fresh Install, but I may have forgotten to disable the setting in BMT before the import so I will try again

EDIT2: Okay, on a fresh install, everything where it is supposed to be. Now, unfortunately, nothing has any metadata (except the recordings), and BMT isnt being helpful at the moment

A couple of things...
1. by default, bmt will not import anything in as a recording... did you enable it? is it enabled? (in the web ui, Configure -> Fanart/Metadata Options -> Import TV Media Types as Recordings")

2. is the Automatic scanner enabled. By default, automatic scanning may be disabled, which may be why on a fresh install, you have no metadata. ie, you haven't scanned them yet. So, you'll need to scan them from the web ui.

[jbowdach]

It was enabled, which started this whole mess, but it is now disabled. The automatic scanner is also enabled. It sees some of the files, mostly movies, but TV Shows are almost entirely without metadata.

My TV Shows are organized by Show/Season ##/Show - S##E## - Episode Title.mkv/avi/ts/mpg so I'm not sure why it wouldnt pick them up.

Appreciate the assistance, these forums are so much better than BTVs (recently converted)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jbowdach

It was enabled, which started this whole mess, but it is now disabled. The automatic scanner is also enabled. It sees some of the files, mostly movies, but TV Shows are almost entirely without metadata.

My TV Shows are organized by Show/Season ##/Show - S##E## - Episode Title.mkv/avi/ts/mpg so I'm not sure why it wouldnt pick them up.

Appreciate the assistance, these forums are so much better than BTVs (recently converted)

So, are you expecting the automatic updater to do it, or are you scanning them using the web ui? As I mentioned before, I think the automatic scanner is disabled by default, so if you added your files, then turned on the automatic updater, then those files would not be updated, and you'd have to use the web ui to scan them.

The file naming that you are using is standard naming, and it should would, if it can find the Show in TVDB.

[jbowdach]

I would like the auto scanner to do all the meta it doesnt seem to be doing it. I have double-checked in the Pheonix Settings on the BMT WebUI, and "Automatic Fanart\Metadata" is enabled, and "import as TV recording" is disabled. It seems to work if I manually initiate a scan of a specific folder (say, Fringe for example), but its not working automatically. The TV metadata provider is set to tvdb as well. Any other place I should be looking?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Fuzzy]

The auto scanner will only scan when the file is imported into sage. If the file is already imported, when the auto scan gets turned on, I'm not sure it will work.

[jbowdach]

Thats good to know. Im gonna manually scan the library, and then try and add something and see what happens. Will let you know.

[stuckless]

I also just noticed that import as tv was enabled by default in the last build, and that's a bug I never meant to have import as tv enabled by default, so my apologies for the frustration that this has caused

[sabre]

For the life of me i cant get rid of the "recording" tag from videos. My steps are (tried many forms) - move file from video import directory, delete from SageTV recordings, rescan, move file back to import directory, rescan (i have also tried to rename the recording, and stop service and restart in between).

They always end up back in TV recordings. I have BMT not to move TV to recordings (these are movies anyway, but since tagged recording by me, but now i want to remove that tag and get them back to movies).

[jbowdach]

Okay, thanks to everyones help I am making progress. I am able to scrape everything, but now instead of displaying the episode names for the files in SageTV, it says "Fringe (S01E08)", etc instead of "Episode Title (s01E08)". My manual scraping seemed to include the title, but the display seems to default to the show name.

Any suggestions? Thanks again!

EDIT: I just noticed that Phoenix metadata\fanart isnt a menu under setup - detailed setup - advanced. Should it be? I remember it being there before.

EDIT 2: So I deleted all my .properties files, and Sage went back to displaying the filename. When I manually 'update metadata' for a particular series (because doing the whole library doesnt seem to work), it works perfectly. Confused?