File scanner question

[Derek]

I'm having some trouble letting PVD scan my hard drives for movies and automatically create records for them.

The problem is that I have a lot of movies that are split into CD sized chunks and the individual video files are inconsistently named. However, the movie files are in folders that do follow a consistent naming convention, so before my collection grew too large, I could find them without too much trouble.

Is it possible to get the file scanner to use the name of the folder that contains the video files as the title of the movie and then just append all the video files within that folder as the actual video to play?

[rick.ca]

Yes. Regex match patterns found anywhere in the file path. Your configuration will need to include a regex that recognizes the consistent pattern in the folder name. Place it first or high in the list so it matches before any others do.

[Derek]

Thanks rick.ca.

Just looked at Regex. Ouch! Looks like I might have to put some time into learning how to use it.

[minolotus]

Please give us a short notice when you have earned the black belt of regex.  Such knowledge would be very welcomed here.

I tried to get into regex last year and got nearly insane. It starts simple but if you try to get the cases on the edge it becomes really crazy. A short hint: I found it difficult to adjust the regex expressions in PVD as you could not immediately recognize the outcome. Therefore I use a software called Flexible renamer (http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/). When entering regex expressions the result is directly shown in a preview.

[rick.ca]

You could have used nostra's Regex Tester (download).