Before I jump in the deep end of the pool, can anyone confirm whether the path and filename structure below will import correctly into Channels DVR? I have a rather large library that is completely structured this way and would rather avoid blowing up my DVR instance because of unsupported filenames.
/Media/TV Shows/Family Guy/Season 1/Family Guy - S01E01 - Death Has a Shadow.mp4
Yes that is supported. You would add /Media/TV Shows under Imports > TV
Can I import files with multiple episodes in a single file or would I need to split into two files?
Example: Modern Family\Season 11\Modern Family - S11E17-E18 - Finale.mp4
It will expect 2 files. This is a limitation with the guide data.
If you want to keep it as a single file, just take the second episode number out of the file and your list of episodes will just be missing one. But things will work fine.
Is there a manual way to spoof this? As some cartoons record with multiple episodes per 30 min time slot it would be helpful to fill out the season. Not looking for it to go to the correct location in the file just looking to avoid needing to split the file.
I see you posted another thread about this, but if you can't match up to Zap2It or you don't like the match, you can always manually edit the metadata: