[mythtv-users] Video Metadata

[Tom Hayward]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Chris Gentle <gentlec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Further investigation shows that filenames for banners and cover art is in
>> the database and image files have been downloaded to the banners etc.
>> storage group. But nothing shows on the frontend still, under any theme I
>> choose.
>>
>> No one else has had this issue?
>
>
> I'd like to resurrect this thread from a few days ago because I still
> believe there's a bug here somewhere and I'd like to nail it down.
>
> As a test this morning, I moved all of my videos to another location and did
> a scan.  That effectively cleaned everything out of the database.  Then I
> moved in a single series that MythVideo has never shown metadata for since I
> upgraded to 0.25.  I did another scan and watched the
> /var/log/mythfrontend.log file.  It seemed to do what I expected.  It
> scanned and found the series and then started trying to grab the metadata.
> However, here's a little bit of what it logged:
>
> Aug 17 10:18:31 lenny mythfrontend[26437]: I MetadataDownload
> metadatadownload.cpp:222 (runGrabber) Running Grabber:
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -M monk
> Aug 17 10:18:31 lenny mythfrontend[26437]: I CoreContext videodlg.cpp:3263
> (customEvent) No results found for monk 7 6
> Aug 17 10:18:32 lenny mythfrontend[26437]: E MetadataDownload
> metadatadownload.cpp:190 (findBestMatch) No adequate match or multiple
> matches found for monk.  Update manually.
> Aug 17 10:18:32 lenny mythfrontend[26437]: I MetadataDownload
> metadatadownload.cpp:222 (runGrabber) Running Grabber:
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -M monk
> Aug 17 10:18:32 lenny mythfrontend[26437]: I CoreContext videodlg.cpp:3263
> (customEvent) No results found for monk 7 5
>
> I have the following in my ~/.mythtv/ttvdb.conf file:
>
> [series_name_override]
> Monk:78490
> monk:78490
>
> I put both in there because I wasn't sure of the case sensitivity.
> Obviously, ttvdb.py didn't use this file as it should have. The file is
> located in the home account of the user running the frontend.  Do we have a
> bug here?

Does anyone know if there is a ticket for this bug? I've got a patch
that fixes it. The configuration file is read correctly, but the -M
option didn't honor the overrides.

Tom