To be frank, I still don’t understand why it’s impossible to manually edit metadata for movies and TV series, as IMDB (or at least its integration with Infuse) is SO inconsistent.
Two examples:
For the Japanese tokusatsu series Spectreman (only ONE season with 63 episodes), I have correct names for episodes until no. 21 - then everything else is named “Episode no. whatever” and so on;
In the case of the old “Dick Tracy” serial from 1937 (with 15 episodes), there’s absolutely no metadata available despite it having the appropriate entry on IMDB.
Technically it’s a Movie Series where episodes were show in a theater often weekly before the main feature. It’s not a TV series.
I don’t have the movie I linked to above but I’m guessing it’s a compilation of the individual movie episodes.
Very easy answer, since TMDB is a user supported source, no one has yet entered the individual episode names for the ones missing. You can join TMDB and enter them if you have them as long as you follow their contribution guidelines.
Another issue I have encountered: the miniseries Sense and Sensibility from 1981 can be found, but the artwork related to it (when showing it alongside other TV series) only displays a generic folder icon. How to fix this?
Here you go - it is the 1981 version, whose metadata exists and can be chosen - the only problem is the lack of artwork when seeing the series alongside others.
They are automatically created by the ripping software; I often have to pick each DVD chapter manually instead of ripping the full disc, as there are lots of extraneous chapters/shorter filler files in each DVD. Never had a problem with this for all other series.
Now I see the same problem happening with the Mansfield Park miniseries - it finds the metadata fine, shows a nice screenshot when clicking on the series, but the folder artwork is nonexistent.
I don’t use merkava - all my episodes have the video.ts and audio.ts files. Added “1981” to the series name, to no avail - so the issue really is with the file format, then.
Which makes absolutely no sense, since all other series have the same file structure but not the same problem - including Emma now, from the same Jane Austen DVD boxset.
P.S.: scratch my Emma comment - the artwork showed fine for the 200x version, not the 1972 one - the moment I changed it to the latter, artwork vanished. Does “clear cache” fix this maybe?
