[mythtv-users] Holy porno coverart batman!

Richard Hulme peper03 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 9 21:02:14 UTC 2013


On 09/10/13 00:21, Rob Jensen wrote:
> On 04.10.2013 16:48, jyavenard wrote:
>
>> The only way to get rid of that issue would be doing what XBMC does: when
>> you add folders to the video database, you specify if that video contains
>> movie or TV series.
>> It goes even further in functionality: you can specify a metadata grabber
>> for each of the folders added to the library.
>>
>> So when setting the videos storage group: you set the type of content it
>> has...
>> People would have to split their TV content from the movies...
>
> There's no need to base the logic on directory structure, we should be
> leveraging the CONTENTTYPE column in mythconverg:videometadata.  Valid
> entries (I believe since 0.25) are:
> MOVIE
> TELEVISION
> ADULT
> MUSICVIDEO
> HOMEVIDEO
>
> We should be able to use these values to specify which metadata scripts to run.

Using the contents of this column (which doesn't actually appear to be 
accessible via the UI), or following a certain naming convention for 
filenames doesn't help incorrect metadata lookups for recordings.

I've never investigated the ins and outs of metadata lookups but it's 
not just an issue affecting videos.

Richard.



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