Serviio

Hi!

I'm currently testing Serviio as an alternative to Kodi.
In Kodi, I always used TMDB as movie source and named all my movies with the expected names.

Here an example:
~/Mount/Medien/Filme/Spielfilme/Action/Mission Impossible$ ls
'Mission - Impossible - Dead Reckoning Teil Eins (2023).mkv'
'Mission Impossible Fallout (2018).mkv'

(Multiple movies to a movie set are always in the same folder)

Unfortunately serviio detects the wrong movie:
2024-11-25T17:19:46,737 INFO [MediaFileIndexer] Added file '/mnt/media/Medien/Filme/Spielfilme/Action/Mission Impossible/Mission Impossible Fallout (2018).mkv' (title: ماموریت غیرممکن) to Library

I tried some variations of the name but nothing helps.
Only to include the imdb id makes it working:
2024-11-25T17:04:06,886 INFO [MediaFileIndexer] Added file '/mnt/media/Medien/Filme/Spielfilme/Action/Mission Impossible/Mission Impossible Fallout (2018) (tt4912910).mkv' (title: Mission: Impossible - Fallout) to Library

But I cannot rename my whole library.

To understand why Serviio acts different to Kodi (and Jellyfin!) I created a TMDB account with API key.
So it is possible to search manually: https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/search-movie

But every query string for this movie results in the correct movie.
So why behaves Serviio different than other scrapers and how can it be changed?

Greetings, Tippi

Serviio also uses TMDB for it's metadata scraping. While I have encountered a rare file that isn't identified correctly, so far it's been extremely rare I've needed to use the IMDB ID number. I have had to do that with a handful of TV shows, but for those I have each series in a separate folder and I only put the IMDB ID in the folder name, not each individual episode file. The biggest issue with TV shows is how often they remake a series so the same name applies to different shows. For example, There's been several Twilight Zone series, Hawaii 5-O, Doctor Who, and more. For movies it's quite rare I need to use the IMDB tag.

For your Mission Impossible example, you might try this: "Mission Impossible - Fallout (2018).mkv". That hyphen might make a difference.

Hi Dan, thanks for your answer!

Unfortunately, your naming doesn't work either:


It seems that Serviio makes a query to TMDB I don't understand. Perhaps because the folder is named "Mission Impossible", but strange, because "Dead Reckoning" is detected correctly.
I tried almost every combination for this movie (but not with colons for obious reasons). Nothing helps except IMDB ID.

Not sure how many movies are queried wrong, but probably more than I can see in the first step. This indian name stood out immediately.
Perhaps there is a way in Kodi to export nfo-Files for every movie and tv show, so Serviio uses this instead of online services. Have to think about it

Yes, Serviio can use NFO files. Unfortunately, it's a master toggle, so you would need a NFO file for each media file. You can't just add an NFO file for select media files and have Serviio use them and continue using the online data source for the others.

In general I don't put movies with the same name in a single folder with the same name, although I do have two exceptions. I have Star Trek and Star Wars folders for each movie franchise, and do have each movie within that folder. I can't see anything in your naming structure that is triggering the incorrect information. When I used Bing Translate on the Persian words, it comes back as "Mission Impossible", although why it's adding that tag at the end I have no idea. I've never seen that on any of mine when I peek at the log.

In the Serviio console, under the Metadata tab, do you have a preferred language assigned to the metadata retrieval? I have English in mine, but I gather from your folder naming that your native language isn't English.

Thanks for the hint with nfo-files, in this case that is not an option. Too annoying to create an nfo file for every new movie.

Your structure of movies seems to be the best way. I moved the movie into an own subfolder and now everything is correct:



Creating own folders for all movies in franchises could be a little pain in the ass ...

I have more movies with this problem, some can be easily identified because of foreign language. Here a screenshot from VLC:


First one is Mission Impossible.
Second one is this movie https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1101273-the-witch , but should be https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/530254
... File name is "The Witch - Subversion (2018).mkv". Could be the same problem with multiple movies in one folder.
Third one is this movie: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1289925
... But I don't know which of my movies should this be, because I don't have a movie with "great" or "clash" in the file name and I don't see a possiblity to get the real filename for this entry (or do you?).

PS: you can directly search in TMDB with the strange movie names.

Yes, in Serviio in the settings, the language is set to "Deutsch" (german). I really want my movies listed with the german title (or my wife gets angry...).

That is certainly "interesting". I've never seen that before. Hopefully @zip will see this. He's the developer of Serviio and really the only person that has the ability to dig into issues like this.