[mythtv-users] Holy porno coverart batman!

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Wed Oct 9 18:21:08 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> On 10/09/2013 01:39 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Preston Crow wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/09/2013 01:11 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Rob Jensen <bertaboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any reason why we can't populate these when we choose the
>>>>> appropriate item in the query for metadata?  It might require tweaking
>>>>> the initial metadata search query, but there should be no reason why
>>>>> we can't indicate whether an entry comes from ttvdb or tmdb in the
>>>>> select prompt.  Selecting from one metadata source then assigns the
>>>>> video as one of the options above and that assignment then becomes a
>>>>> dependency for the logic between importing data from ttvdb or tmdb.
>>>>
>>>> That doesn't work very well for mass metadata lookups (eg. when you
>>>>
>>>> hit the scan button and it does a metadatalookup for all new items).
>>>
>>> No, that works perfectly.  You do the lookup the way it's done now (or
>>> some
>>> other way, it doesn't really matter for this point).  When you get an
>>> index
>>> number from the external database, you save both the index number and a
>>> tag
>>> saying which database.  Then any future use of that index number will be
>>> restricted to only use that database, so you won't get images from the
>>> wrong
>>> database.  One option would be to prepend a tag for the database to the
>>> numbers. Another would be to have a separate field.  I can see advantages
>>> to
>>> both approaches, and it doesn't really matter how it's done, as long as
>>> it
>>> solves the problem.
>>>
>> No, that doesn't work perfectly. When I do a scan for metadata, I'm
>> not prompted with a list to pick the correct item, precisely because
>> my file names and the metadata lookup provide the correct result
>> without user intervention (ideally, as it should be). Sure there are
>> one offs, but requiring that for every item would be IMO a bad idea.
>>
>> And according to a previous poster, there already is a separate field
>> "the CONTENTTYPE column in mythconverg:videometadata"
>
> I think we agree that the scan should proceed without user input, magically
> getting most videos right and needing some help on ones that are named
> strangely or are just too generic.
>
>>>> Why can't we just name files appropriately with a SxxExx and that
>>>> means it's a TV show? (even accounting for specials and such that
>>>> aren't necessarily episodic, we could just use S00E00)
>>>
>>> Relying on how people name their files to avoid mixing up between
>>> databases
>>> is crazy.  Sure, there are advantages to having files named correctly,
>>> but
>>> that doesn't excuse the bug.
>>>
>> You're right. It's a good thing we don't tell people to do exactly that.
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>>
>> I thought the bug in question was where you give it an inetref number
>> and it gets confused if it's a TV show or video since both databases
>> use similar numbers.
>>
> I thought the bug in question was where the number was found by MythTV at
> one point, and then at another point it used that number to retrieve images
> from a different database from where it had found the number.  If you are
> correct, and this is an issue of a user having entered the number, then I
> would say that this isn't a bug. In that case, the only thing that needs to
> be corrected is to tweak the UI when entering a number to make it obvious
> how to specify what type of number it is.
>
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If what you say is the actual issue, then yes, I would agree that is a bug.


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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