Only show episode instead of episode - season

[ItsLaguna]

Hi, first of all thanks for this, it's kind of crazy RPC isn't part of VLC natively.

As the title says, I was wondering if instead of Episode - Season, it'd be possible to make it display only the Episode if the filename follow the "showName episodeNumber" scheme instead of "showName seasonNumber episodeNumber".

Some stuff that I watch doesn't have more than one season and it's kind of weird having to name every file with the S01 and have it shown.
I know: first world problems, but it'd be nice if this was possible 😄

I tried messing with the format.js but with my inexistent knowledge all I could do was change the display order of episode - season since it irked me a bit considering the order in the filename has to be Season / Episode.

Thanks.

[greendoescode]

I'm so sorry I'm only just seeing this! Of course I can try, lemme have a look.

[ItsLaguna]

Thanks for looking into it!

I have another question that isn't completely related, but wasn't sure if opening another issue would be better or if it is within the scope of the script/plugin, but looks like that playing videos via the Media Library doesn't pick up the showName, seasonNumber or episodeNumber from the filename, instead sets the whole filename (minus the extension) as the showName.

If it's a limitation of VLC or the Media Library, forget that I mentioned this 😄

[greendoescode]

Thanks for looking into it!

I have another question that isn't completely related, but wasn't sure if opening another issue would be better or if it is within the scope of the script/plugin, but looks like that playing videos via the Media Library doesn't pick up the showName, seasonNumber or episodeNumber from the filename, instead sets the whole filename (minus the extension) as the showName.

If it's a limitation of VLC or the Media Library, forget that I mentioned this 😄

So sorry - my fibre cable has been cut and the silly isp is estimating the 13th of may for a fix. I can't get online at home for the meantime so I'll see what icdan do

[ItsLaguna]

No worries, there's no rush and sorry to hear that 🫤

[greendoescode]

No worries, there's no rush and sorry to hear that 🫤

You'd hope it would be fixed by now but alas, it isn't. Seeing as it's a simple fix it is annoying 😕

[ItsLaguna]

Well that is disappointing to hear, it's almost as if they're looking forward to losing a customer 😅
Hopefully it all gets sorted out!

[greendoescode]

Okay it's back! Let me have a go. Is it a possible to have one of your files to test with? Anything works - I just personally don't have anything currently.

[ItsLaguna]

Here it is.
Had to upload to Google Drive as Github doesn´t allow .mkv files as attachment 😅

As you can see it shows Season and Episode correctly (I edited one of the files so it showed up this way)

But if you rename the file to Test E01, it won't show just the episode number, but the whole filename.

[greendoescode]

#75 Should be addressed in this - is this the system you would want?

[ItsLaguna]

Not quite, as it'd require me to disable the seasonnumber and it'd be counterproductive having to manually enable/disable the config each time, or at least that's how I'm understanding it 😅

It's more of a:
If the show doesn't have seasonnumber (e.g S01) in the filename, only display episodenumber.

As shown in my earlier comment, currently shows:

VLC Media Player
Showname (Test)
Seasonnumber (S01) | Episodenumber (E01) (order is tweaked because I manually set it so)

What I'm asking basically is for it to just show Episodenumber if the filename doesn't contain Seasonnumber.

[greendoescode]

Currently, it works via the metadata. I don't believe the filename gets passed anywhere currently but I can have a look at adding it in like that.

[ItsLaguna]

With the file (or any file really) I shared, changing it to anything (like S02E86 for example) it does change, same for any other file as long as it's .mkv, of course.

[greendoescode]

Oh! The metadata is automatically passed from the filename by VLC 🤦 It doesn't pass anything if no season number is there, hence no episode number either.

[ItsLaguna]

Yeah, it appears "borked" instead 😅

Where it'd display the title, it displays the whole filename and then "playing" at the bottom, ideally it'd display the title and the episode number at the bottom (instead of "playing") if there's no season number.