[mythtv-users] what do do about wrong data in myth video?

[Marco Nelissen]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Dan Armbrust
> <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Christopher Oattes
> > <mailinglist at cjo20.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23 Dec 2011, at 20:56, Dan Armbrust wrote:
> >>> You seem to have nailed the source of the problem exactly.  I wonder
> >>> why my unsupported title format makes it goof up and run off to the
> >>> wrong data source?  Especially when it seems to have found the correct
> >>> ID?
> >>
> >> As I understand it, if a program has a series/episode filed set to a
> non-zero value in MythTV, it treats it as a TV program, if not it is
> treated as a movie. I have no idea how the metadata lookup actually works,
> but if different tools are used to determine the inetref and actually fill
> in the metadata in MythTV then one may support your file format, the other
> may not - this would produce the result you are seeing.
> >>
> >> As I said, this is a complete guess. You could try setting the series /
> episode values yourself and seeing whether it fixes the problem.
> >>
> >> Sorry I can't be more help
> >>
> >> Chris.
> >
> > Hmm.  Interesting.  I'll have to do more experiments.  Maybe after the
> > holidays, someone will drop in who knows more about the way metadata
> > lookups are handled.  Seems to me like a subtle bug has been
> > uncovered.
> >
> > It's one thing for it to fail to support the format of the filename...
> > but it should fail gracefully... not make it worse.
> >
> > Can anyone give an overview about how (and where) the metadata lookups
> > actually happen?
>
> dare I say, this is open source?
>

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