[mythtv-users] Changes to tmdb? Video details lookup failing.

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Fri Sep 27 01:53:52 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> I typically name all my video files with the title and year, and
> historically this has nearly eliminated any issues where I had to
> manually scan for details and select the proper movie from a list.
>
> However I just noticed today that in most cases, my queries fail.  A
> quick jaunt to the tmdb page, and searching using "wild bill 2011" for
> example, fails.
>
> Was there a change recently to tmdb or mythtv that would cause the
> lookups to fail.  Is there new advice on file naming that will help
> insure a successful scan?
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TMDB v2 API is no longer available, you've got to use tmdbv3.py. The
issue with this, is that TMDB also doesn't find any results when you
search a title and it includes the year (such as "wild bill 2011", go
ahead and try it on their website). The new V3 API accepts the year,
which is exactly what we want. The issue is that there is no way for
MythTV to know via a filename if part of the filename is the year it
was released. Ideally, we'd be allowed to put it in parentheses (such
as "wild bill (2011)"), but currently MythTV strips out everything in
the parentheses.

Unfortuantely, I don't know of a workaround for this other than
manually entering the inetref into mythtv before doing the scan.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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