Version 1.7.1.2- Tool to scrape TV Show Information for the WDTV Live Hub [9/17/2012]

chauncey wrote:

Will this work with DVD ISO files?  I have my TV shows ripped as ISO and named Show Name - S1D1, etc. 

No, this package won’t work that way… and I have no intentions of doing that right now…  It’d have to be smart enough to know which episodes are on which disk, and that is EXTREMELY challenging because, for any given TV series, there might be more than one DVD release that was authored differently, and the TV Database doesn’t allow for that.

… but what I did as a workaround to that issue was create Symbolic Links for each EPISODE on the DVD to the ISO itself.

So my directory looks like this:

lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E01.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 1.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E02.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 1.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E03.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 1.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E04.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 1.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E05.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 2.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E06.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 2.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E07.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 2.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E08.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 2.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E09.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 3.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E10.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 3.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E11.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 3.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E12.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 3.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E13.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 4.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E14.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 4.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E15.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 4.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E16.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 4.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E17.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 5.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E18.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 5.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E19.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 5.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E20.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 5.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E21.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 6.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 25 21:41 JAG.S01E22.iso -> /share/TV Shows/JAG/Season 1/Disk 6.iso

 So note how four episodes (1 through 4) all point to the same ISO.    

Works perfectly; and SymLinks take very little space.