[mythtv-users] mythtools

Bilge Tutak bilge.tutak at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 14:19:11 UTC 2007


Does vidupdate.pl tool updates the information for exported video
files? If so, what kind of a naming convention does it depend on?
Like, "SeriesName-EpisodeName.mpg" for example?

Thank you..

Bilge.

On 1/17/07, Ryszard <ryszard99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey there,
>
> the synchronisation script works quite well, and is such a handy thing to
> have... :-) and the updater seems to be working quite well as well (i did a
> bunch more testing yesterday), altho the interface is a little clumsy.
>
> anyway mythtools has a few dependencies, namely:
> LWP::Simple;
> HTML::TokeParser
> Cache::FileCache
> DBI (and the mysql driver)
>
> which are all perl libraries.  I re-wrote the parser yesterday and it was
> working fine, however today it seems the synopsis grabbing is broken.
>
> when using this, please take all care, and do a backup of your mythtv
> database before you make changes)
>
> if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know.
>
> regs
> Ryszard
>
>
>  On 17/01/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Ryszard wrote:
> >
> > quite a long time ago i wrote a set of tools that went to the (now
> defunct) tvtome.com site and put the data for TV shows into mythconverg.
> >
> > given now that tvtome has gone, i've gone and finally re-written the
> parser to work with tv.com.  i've done a bit of testing and it seems to work
> pretty well (at least for my limited selection of tv shows).
> >
> > there are basically two tools involved here:
> > 1) sync.pl - a tool that will have a look on your harddisk and in the
> database, and perform a syncronisation.  it will remove stuff in your
> database that is not on the harddisk, and put stuff in the database that is
> on disk and doesnt already exist.
> > 2) vidupdate.pl - a tool that will look in the myth database for a
> particular category (from the videocategory table) of video that has no
> plot.  it compiles a list of all these and will then go to tv.com to get the
> details for you, much like the IMDB tool does for movies.  on the down side,
> this is not integrated into either mythweb or mythfrontend, but is instead
> run from a command line.
> >
> > now since there are masses of tv shows available and people are recording
> and storing, i was wondering if anyone was interested in beta testing it.
> >
> > given that its beta the regualr caveats apply, ie back up your database
> and any important data before playing around with it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sounds interesting, where would I get these scripts?
> >
> >
> > I'm building a Myth test system as I am reluctant to "play around" with a
> working box. I might try those out on the test machine, but it will be a
> week or so before I could get around to it.
> >
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