I watch a show called “vice news tonight”. It is monitored, it downloads just fine, etc. To watch it, however, I must goto videos/files/name of show as its simply not recognized. The shows in the file have blocks instead of check marks although the folder has a check mark on it. The show is simply not recognized under TV either watched or unwatched. I have tried everything I could think of including removing the files, cleaning the library, updating the file, etc. Its very strange.
Ok, I have a show which does not appear in the normal tv list. I am using kodi for a player. The only way I can access this show is to goto videos/files/tv instead of the normal tv list. Sonarr recognizes the show. On reflection I am sending this to the wrong place. I no longer think this is your problem but is a problem with kodi. That being the case I am going to see what kodi has to say. Once I get it solved I will get back here and abase myself for a complaint that wasn’t your fault.
I went to kodi and posted there. Evidently there is a problem with tvdb. I switched it to the moviedb and it was recognized. Apparently tvdb is making changes. I was also told that “episode ###” was wrong and was supposed to be “S##E##”.
The problem seems to be that each episode needs to have the season/episode (S??E??) in the episode name. I am now renaming, and making sure, its in the name and then everything is dandy. The odd thing is that never used to be a problem.
My other problem is that I have 2 shows that I need to encode the episode so that the voice is in sync with the video (using handbrake). I have two shows with this problem, Vice New Tonight and Real Time with bill Mayer. My downloads for these show seem to be sdtv. I will change that and see if that fixes that problem.
Oh, one other thing. I have noticed that whilst Vice is downloading just fine it seems to disappear from the calendar after it downloads which seems odd, but not a problem.