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Hello,
I noticed a weird thing when you want to see all the video where you can see an actor with the program XBMC. I will try to explain, Excuse me for my poor english
For example, there is a actor who was in Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse, Tahmoh Penikett. In XBMC, if I want to see all his appearances, I will see


and for [Episode], all the episodes of Battlestar Galactica (112!!!), but not those of Dollhouse which is more convenient.
I think there is a difference on how the actors were presented for these two TVShows, but I can figure it.

Do you know why there is a difference of presentation and if it can be changed ?

Thank you in advance

Hmm, I'm not actually sure what XBMC does to determine wether to show an Actor in individual episodes as opposed to a TV Series as a whole. I was going to suggest it utelises the "Guest Stars" field we have, but I'm not so sure it does.

Maybe someone else with a bit more knowledge on this could help? Alternatively, it might be worth asking this question over on the XBMC forums too.

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The actor I choose is a lead actor in both shows, and is not in the guest stars line. That's why I couldn't understand why a difference appears.

Indeed, I'm not sure why either. I'm not sure if XBMCs database simply links "main" actors to every episode of a series, or does something a bit more clever. That's why I suggested maybe posting there too.

I did a quick google for some more information on it but couldn't find a lot.

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If XBMC does it like that, why it doesn't act the same way with Dollhouse episodes ? if there is a difference, I think it's more due to the infos themselves than the way the program organizes them.

That's what I don't know either I don't see any per-episode field that could define a main actor so XBMC should either be getting that info from the main series entry (in which case, I don't know why it'd do it for Dollhouse but not BSG), or possibly gets it from another source.

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By main actor, I mean actors you see at the end on the mainpage of the serie, below fan arts & posters. They define as actor playing in the TVshow so normally, XBMC indicates that they play in the TVshow by

but for an odd reason, for some TV shows it also add all episodes. The name I has chosen is an exemple, but the phenomenon is the same with all actors indicated for "Battlestar Galactica", because he has a TVshow with a normal presentation and one which is not.

And no for the other sources, I just use TVDB.

By searching more examples, I find another strange thing. With the TVshow Community, this phenomenon appears only with 5 episodes.
So If I look the "filmography" of an actor, i will see


[Episode]Football, Feminism and You (Community)
[Episode]Introduction to Film (Community)
[Episode]Introduction to statistics (Community)
[Episode]Pilot (Community)
[Episode]Social Psychology (Community)[/code]

I search if there is a significative difference between them and the others but nothing comes to my mind.

I will ask in XBMC forums if they have an idea.
Thank you for your help

Let us know what they say. I'd be interested to know the answer to this too

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