[mythtv-users] The dangers of automated metadata lookup

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Doug Scoular <dscoular at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

This has happenned before - there was a mention on this list. Again it
was using the ttvdb id number against themoviedb database and pulled
inappropriate content from some NSFW movie.

I think it has to do with your guide data not having series and
episode numbers, although if it finds the show on ttvdb I cannot
fathom why it would be programmed to then get the metadata from
themoviedb. But I am not a programmer so there you go.

Was this in "videos" or "recorded"?