[mythtv-users] The dangers of automated metadata lookup

Doug Scoular dscoular at cisco.com
Mon Jun 25 22:57:08 UTC 2012


Hi All,

Just thought I'd let people know that mythmetadatalookup
can lead to some unexpected situations...

I had a rather awkward moment with mythtv the other day when
mythmetadatalookup came across my recording of
  "Jamie's Great Italian Escape" and used thetvdb.com
to find the series metadata under ID 80319. Unfortunately,
and I don't quite know why, it then decided to grab the
artwork for that ID under themoviedb.org rather than
using the correct images found at thetvdb.org.

The result was it grabbed artwork from a rather explicit
adult movie. Not really what you expect when you are looking
for images of the "naked chef"... or maybe it is!

Fortunately I *didn't* stumble upon this when my in-laws and
wife's sister's family were visiting.

Is there a way to, perhaps, exclude adult content being
downloaded by the wonderful mythmetadatalookup binary ?

Cheers,

Doug


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