[mythtv-users] MythVideo - Automatic Scan Problem - 0.24-fixes/r27420
agraham
agraham at g-b.net
Wed Dec 15 04:42:51 UTC 2010
On 12/15/2010 04:25 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>
> On 15 December 2010 14:06, agraham <agraham at g-b.net
> <mailto:agraham at g-b.net>> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/2010 02:35 AM, Robert McNamara wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:06 PM, agraham<agraham at g-b.net
> <mailto:agraham at g-b.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to MythTV 0.24 and noticed that video
> metadata is
> created/updated automatically - which is great, however it
> seems to get it
> wrong a lot of the time.
>
> For example, I have a directory called
> /mythtv/videos/XFiles/Season X/
> (X=1-9) and within each directory I have files named
> "Title.mpg" (title
> being that listed here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_episodes).
>
>
> This is not a valid MythVideo naming scheme. See:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
>
> According to your link it is a valid naming scheme and it meets the
> 1st use case:
>
> _Filenames_
> A Movie Title.mpg <-------------- this is how all my files are named
> Title s01e01 Subtitle.mpg
> Title 1x01 Subtitle.mpg
> Title Season 1 Episode 1 Subtitle.mpg
>
> Robert, do you know if it is possible to disable auto scanning
> completely?
>
> Albert.
>
>
> Hence why you'd be getting bad metadata, as it would be looking up the
> titles as Movies (www.themoviedb.org <http://www.themoviedb.org>) rather
> then as TV Episodes (the*tvdb*.com)
>
> Anthony
>
Ahh, I understand now, I never knew about the thetvdb.com. I assume I'll
still have to manually clear all metadata manually now and start
renaming files.
Thanks.
Albert.
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