[mythtv-users] Two questions regarding mythvideo

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using mythtv + mythvideo for quite some time now.
>
> First question: I noticed in an upgrade from .21 -> .22 that mythvideo
> seems to process filenames differently. In 0.21, for the most part, I
> had no issues when it would scan filenames - it would simply remove
> stuff between brackets, such as []{}() so the filename would display
> cleanly. In .22, that doesn't seem to work and mythvideo is guessing the
> filenames wrong, putting almost random numbers in the season/episode
> boxes and random stuff from the filename in the Subtitle box. I've tried
> to edit the metadata so the filename would display correctly, but it
> doesn't appear to work - the listing in the browse screen is incorrect,
> but if you go to 'Edit Metadata' the changes show up (most of the
> time...) Am I doing something wrong? There's got to be a couple hundred
> if not more incorrect entries, so changing them will take an awfully
> long time.

Because MythVideo as of .22 supports both TV and Movie material, it
must necessarily parse the filenames for season and episode.  With
very few exceptions, it does this without issue.  The exception is
when... um... let's call it "trading" filenames... are used.  If one
were to put, for example, "x264" in the filename, this may throw off
the regexp that parses filenames and set episode number to "264."

For information on file naming conventions supported by MythVideo, see:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing

> Second question is regarding the "Mark as Watched" option. I tried
> setting this, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is it supposed to mark
> stuff in the Browse screen in some way? It can be time consuming to go
> through each file individually and look at the metadata to see if the
> item is watched. Or is there an option I've missed?

The watched status flag can be used to filter the display of items by
watched or unwatched (see the Filter screen), and the themer has the
power to use a statetype to indicate that an item has been watched (no
theme uses it TTBOMK, but I added it pre-.23... or was it .22?)

Robert