[mythtv-users] Metadata lookup: confusion between TV and Movies

[HP-mini]

On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 08:25 +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> My guide data isn't perfect: you can't tell from it alone whether a
> particular show is a movie or a series. It's also not perfect in that
> the year of first transmission is also not reliable.
> 
> So I need to add inetnums manually in many cases. But when I do it's
> uncertain which of the two sites myth will then try to pull artwork from.
> 
> So how about enabling the user to tell myth where to get the data from?
> Perhaps by prepending a T to the number if it refers to a TVDB entry,
> and M if it's a movie?
> 
> By the way: it is also possible for someone to have recordings of shows
> that have the same reference number on both sites, but there would be no
> way of giving them their own artwork. In order to resolve that the
> namespace according to which artwork is stored in the storage group
> would need to be changed, with a corresponding change in the myth URL
> schema.
> 
I believe that if series &/or episode number is not equal to 0 then the
recording is treated as TV (for metadata lookup).
Works that way here..