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

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 22:13:36 UTC 2011


On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Richard Morton
> <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Can anyone give an overview about how (and where) the metadata lookups
>>>> > actually happen?
>>>>
>>>> dare I say, this is open source?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the mythtv-users mailing list. Not all users can write, or even
>>> read, code.
>
>>
>> But the person asking is asking where it happens (in the code). So his
>> question is how to navigate the code base which is not a stupid question if
>> like me they have never worked on large software projects.
>>
>
> On my system I have /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb.py and
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py which I think is code
> to do lookups in themoviedb.org and thetvdb.com.
>
> However there surely must be some logic above this which determines
> whether a movie or a tv lookup should be made. you may need to go into
> the mythvideo c++ code to find where and how these are called.
>
> Perhaps it would be easier to just use the mythtv naming conventions?

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