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Hey,

I didn't know the episode level metadata supported that, I will update accordingly.

There will be no <role> information as none is provided for guest stars, it will just be <actor><name>.

Take Care

Hey,

I've added this in there...does this only need to contain the guest stars or also cast from the series level also?

Let me know.

Take Care

Thanks!

It only needs the guest stars. Episodes inherit series level cast.

Hey,

Thanks for the info, please update to the latest version of the xbmc plugin through auto-update.

Take Care

Brilliant! That's working. Thanks again.

Is it possible to generate the thumbnails automatically like at the serie's level?

Or create "Guest Stars" tab, at the episode level, based on the Cast tab?

I've noticed that there can be some variation in the way that guest stars are loaded into Metabrowser, depending on how TheTVDB have been delivering it.

So far, I've seen:
1 - Actor Name|Actor Name|Actor Name
2 - |Actor Name|Actor Name|Actor Name|
3 - |Actor Name| Actor Name| Actor Name
4 - Actor Name,Actor Name,Actor Name
5 - Actor Name, Actor Name, Actor Name
6 - Actor Name (role), Actor Name (role), Actor Name (role)
7 - Actor Name (role)|Actor Name (role)|Actor Name (role)

This hasn't been a problem until now, but this new functionality (creating the separate actors for .nfo) doesn't appear to take into account anything but the first two. The third one results in actors with a space at the start of their name, and the 4th and 5th result in one actor with all of names comma separated. The 6th and 7th result in actors having the role as their name.

Hey,

Can you please list a couple of shows for which the guest stars have commas or roles in the name?

I will add splitting of commas as well as pipes and trim the names so there should be no spaces in the front of the names.

Take Care

Conan (2010) has commas.

Commander In Chief has spaces after a pipe.

The Collector S03E13 The Exorcist has the role.

Hey,

Thanks, I've updated the plugin to split on both the Pipe and Comma...I will now also look for roles in parenthesis and add it as a <role> in the nfo and leave the name in the <name> tag.

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I would like to raise a flag in assuming that if there is parenthesis then it is a role. Here some examples I found where the parenthesis are used to differentiate people(IMDB convention).

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=72108&seasonid=3514&id=74121&lid=7
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=71663&seasonid=2742&id=55613&lid=7

Hey,

Thanks for the info, I have taken into considerations roman numerals in parenthesis and will not add it as a role if it matches.

Take Care

Guest Stars appears fixed, but Writers is still frequently showing up as:

instead of

Writer Name|Writer Name|Writer Name

Not sure about other fields that support multiple names/values.

Hey,

I'm sorry I don't get what you mean...the writer's are stored in the <credits> tag for the episode...I don't think this is saved to the <actor> nodes nor does <credits> support multiple values (as far as I know), thus is comma delimited.

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