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

[Greg]

On 12/30/2011 07:19 PM, Dan Armbrust wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Use a supported naming scheme and it won't get it wrong in the first place.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
> So, I try this:
>
> Rescue Me/Rescue Me 05x21 - Jump.mkv
>
> Which, seems like it should be supported from my reading of the wiki
>
> And it still gets it wrong:
>
> It gets:
>
> Title:  Rescue Me 05x21 - Jump
> Subtitle: Jump
> (and that is all)
>
> (In this case, however, it doesn't replace half of the text with junk
> from doing the show identifier lookup on the wrong DB)
>
> Which then displays as
>
> Rescue Me 05x21 - Jump - Jump
>
> It seems to be the hyphen that is confusing it, even though it is
> supposed to ignore those?
>
> This seems to work:
>
> Rescue Me/Rescue Me 05x21 Jump.mkv
>
> as does this:
> Rescue Me/Rescue Me [05x21] Jump.mkv
>
> Which is what I guess I'll settle on.
>
> My wishlist for these metadata issues is:
>
> 1) KISS.  Let the user define their own pattern(s) which are evaluated
> before the -try-to-parse-anything- magic
> 2) Make the -try-to-parse-anything- bit smarter when it comes to
> figuring out that it got it wrong.  When it does get it wrong, just
> use the users filenames.
>
> Maybe I'll have time to look at 1, someday.
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I use this naming convention Rescue Me S01E01.mkv and it never gets it 
wrong...I think you are making it much harder than it should be..