qorbiter and TV-Shows

[maverick0815]

Hello guys, I am having a little trouble making sense of how qorbiter handles TV-Shows.
Lets say I have a number of different TV-Shows with multiple seasons. The I put them in the filesystem is by having a folder that names the Show and then subfolders with the respective seasons (i.e. Season1, Season2...)
All in all no problem. I have also tagged those shows with there Episodes properly. With the onscreen orbiter I would go to sort them after filenames and navigate to the show>season>episode and select the episode I'd like to watch.
With qorbiter I go to video>TVshows and then I am presented with a number of buttons pertaining to the shows, however each season bears the name of the show and nothing else. So I have to guess, which one is the season I want to watch, trusting the sort order is ascending.
I have tried changing the view with the help of attribute, but I think I'm missing something.
What is your experience so far?

[phenigma]

My experience is that there is no Filename sort provided by qOrbiter and having television shows in the list creates a massive mess.  I am unable to use qOrbiter for choosing media.

J.

[Marie.O]

iOrbiter uses a mix. When you select Video / Program - it shows a master selector, ie. NCIS:LA - selecting that will give you a list of all files with that tag sorted by filename with the filename displayed. Works for me.

[phenigma]

posde, anyway of doing that for non-Apple devices?  I for one will never have one.

J.

[Marie.O]

It just uses the i* metapher and some of the UI ideas of the first iPods. Works just fine on any modern browser.

[phenigma]

oh... I had no idea that was a thing.  Sneaky.   

J.

[Marie.O]

I've started a new git project under LinuxMCE https://git.linuxmce.org/linuxmce/iOrbiter.git - needs the JSON plugin to support now playing correct.

[golgoj4]

thank the person who decided they knew what users wanted without asking anyone...nothing to do with qorbiter.

*writing the meta-data scanner
*spending endless hours fucking up and people yelling at you
*finally get some measure of correctness, and some decisions were made to manipulate (read:combine) the fields coming back to the datagrid. HINT: it wasnt ME!

Why was it done? Because  Because THEY wanted something to look a certain way in old orbiter. Instead of bothering to fix the root problem.

Still pissed. I have about 20 different series and they all look like crap because of this choice.
good day.

[Marie.O]

I have about 20 different series and they all look like crap because of this choice.
good day.

I don't have as many, but I feel your pain on the few that I have as regular videos. The only way that I have managed to easily work this out on the regular Orbiter is by using Option / Search / and typing the season and episode numbers.. ie. s03e1 and scroll from there.

Not nice.

[phenigma]

What change was this?  I don't even list my TV shows in LMCE because of how messed everything becomes.  I'm all for reversing any changes that caused issues!

J.

[golgoj4]

Checked in addition of 'Browse By File' last night. waiting for new build.