[mythtv-users] getting MythVideo to display TV-episode-subtitle/screenshot rather than show-title/season-cover-art

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Jan 2 23:06:49 UTC 2012


On 1/2/2012 17:39, Tomas Aronsson wrote:
> The metadata grabber, Ttvdb.py, still expects "Season" so do
> not rename the directory to your localized season before
> you've got the metadata.

The metadata grabbers don't expect anything.  They aren't aware of the 
filename, they don't care about the filename.  They only work on 
whatever data MythVideo passes to it on the command line.  The filename 
is parsed the first time it gets scanned into MythVideo, and any 
subsequent time you tell it to reset all metadata.  At such time, it 
uses "Season" or "Säsong" or whatever string your currently selected 
translation has defined.

The title is searched for using the '-M' argument, after which the 
inetref and parsed season and episode numbers are used to pull specific 
episode information with the '-D' argument.  If season and episode 
cannot be parsed from the command line, such information is pulled from 
the title and subtitle with the '-N' argument.  At no time is the 
grabber script told what the filename in question is.

> The gallery view also considers a video to be a TV episode if
> the metadata "title" is identical to the parent directory.

No.  The various views all behave identically in regards to a single 
video.  A video is considered to be a TV episode if and only if it has a 
season and episode number defined.  If a video has a subtitle and no 
inetref, MythVideo will first try to find a matching TV episode using 
the title and subtitle, before falling back to the movie grabber.  If 
only a title is defined, or an inetref is defined with no season and 
episode number, it will instead consider it to be a movie.

The only behavior similar to what you speak of is the image search for 
folders.  MythVideo only stores information for individual videos, not 
folders, so it has to make guesses at runtime about artwork to use for 
folders.  If a directory has video content within it, MythVideo will 
select artwork from one of the videos within to display.  If a directory 
has other directories within it that in turn have videos, this 
grandparent directory will only receive artwork if there are videos 
contained therein with the title matching the name of the directory.  
For example:

This will receive artwork due to matching grandchild title...
Castle (2009)/Season 1/1x01 - Flowers For Your Grave.mpg

This will not receive artwork due to a mismatch with the guide data (it 
must be exact)...
Castle/Season 1/1x01 - Flowers For Your Grave.mpg

This will receive artwork from the video directly below it...
Movies/1941.iso

This will not receive artwork...
Movies/Comedy/1941.iso


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