[mythtv-users] MythVideo - Automatic Scan Problem - 0.24-fixes/r27420

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, agraham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Having renamed the first episode of the "Xfiles" from "Pilot" to "01 Pilot"
> and rescanned, there appears to be no material change i.e. no addition
> metadata, indicating thetvdb.com was not used.
>
> How do I hint to MythVideo it should use the thetvdb.com?
>
> Albert.

Remove the material entirely, name properly, re-add, rescan.  Because
the item was already there, the metadata just followed the rename.

Also note that "XFiles" is not a show.

Robert