Add-on:The TVDB
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The TVDB
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TheTVDB.com is a TV Scraper. The site is a massive open database that can be modified by anybody and contains full meta data for many shows in different languages. All content and images on the site have been contributed by their users for users and have a high standard or quality. The database schema and website are open source under the GPL.
Installing
This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:
- Settings
- Add-ons
- Install from repository
- Information providers (v16 and higher)
- TV information
- The TVDB
- Install
Scraper settings
- Use DVD order
- Use DVD order instead of broadcast order.
- Use absolute ordering (single season)
- Treat show as having only one season so that file names only require episode numbers. Often used for single series and anime. See here for how to name such files.
- Enable fanart
- Download Fanart or not.
- Prefer posters
- Download posters instead of banners. Be sure to also toggle the layout setting for your skin: For Confluence (default skin) see: Add-on:Confluence/Settings#TV_shows
- Language
- Language to use for summaries and other metadata.
Understanding Season Ordering on theTVDB.com
To get a match for episodes you need to understand thetvdb.com data has 3 different ways of ordering the episode numbers;
- DVD Order
- Absolute Order (aka Single Season)
- Aired Order
In the configuration of the TVDB Addon if neither of the 2 tick boxes for DVD Order or Absolute Ordering are ticked then the order of episodes will be in Aired Order and this is the default listing order for the the TVDB addon.
You can see these options on thetvdb.com at the bottom of the page and when trying to match the order with how your files are named, you can confirm it with the page URL eg. http://www.thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=seasonall&id=71361&lid=7&order=absolute the other options in this case were DVD and aired.
Please note that there is a global setting for these and also each folder has it's own setting which can be checked via Video->files->"highlight show folder"->context menu->change content->settings. The folder's setting has precedence over the global setting.
It is also important to understand thetvdb.com does not have absolute ordering for some shows and thus ticking the Absolute Order button may result in the episode number not being found and thus no match found or an incorrect match. Additionally whilst absolute ordering may exist on thetvdb.com, that data may not be available to the scraper due to the way thetvdb.com feeds that data out - see the section on debugging show matching (yet to be written).