[mythtv-users] Moving foreign TV shows to videos

[Alistair Grant]

I'm in the process of writing a python script that automatically archives
all recordings with HandBrakeCLI.  It iterates over each recording,
converts the video with HandBrakeCLI and creates a .mxml file that includes
the title, subtitle, season, episode and description.  When next scanning
for changes in videos it then picks up all the information, including the
description.  (I haven't looked at mythvidexport, so I should probably be
using it).  But this sounds like it will give you the basics for everything
you want to do.

I'm not home until the weekend, so if you don't receive a better answer
before then and are still interested, let me know and I'll make it
available for you to knock into shape.

Cheers,
Alistair



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Kenneth Emerson
<kenneth.emerson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Our local PBS channel has been broadcasting several mystery series from
> many different countries (Sweden, Germany, France, Italy).  Some examples
> are: Detective Montalbano, Don Matteo, and Maigret.  Schedules Direct has
> all of the correct information about each show (in English) which shows up
> in the Title, Subtitle and episode description.  I would like to save these
> episodes in my permanent video library and get it out of the Recordings
> directory; however, I cannot figure out how to move the English titles and
> description into the video metadata automatically.  When I try to use
> mythvidexport, it fails when (I'm assuming) it fails to find the episode in
> the TMDB in English.  Even if it could find the correct episode in the
> original language (which does exist in the TMDB), I wouldn't want the
> native language descriptions.  I currently have about 70 - 100 of these
> shows I'd like to move and would prefer not to have to enter this metadata
> manually.  I'm hoping someone else in MythLand would have encountered this
> before and have some ideas on how to automate this.
>
> -- Ken E.
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