[mythtv-users] mythvidexport questions

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 2/25/2014 11:06 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
>
>> Question #1: Do I have to create all the subdirectories manually?
>>
>
> Assuming it has permissions to do so, it will create sub-directories as
> needed.
>
>  JOBID=10854
>> TITLE=Doctor Who
>> SEASON=0
>> EPISODE=0
>> SUBTITLE=The Girl in the Fireplace
>> 2014-02-25 07:03:38.744343 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Using recording --
>> Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace
>> 2014-02-25 07:03:38.749982 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Attempting TV
>> export.
>> 2014-02-25 07:03:47.314381 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Falling back to
>> generic export.
>>
>
> The original Doctor Who, and the Doctor Who starting from 2005 onward, are
> broken into two separate series.  Since the title "Doctor Who" is an exact
> match for the first series, it is attempting to find an episode named "The
> Girl in the Fireplace", failing, and falling back to a generic export,
> which defaults to just the title.
>
> http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/121-doctor-who
> http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/57243-doctor-who
>
>  I get a similar result of
>> "Videos/Masterpiece Classic.mpg" when trying to export an episode of
>> "Downton Abbey".
>>
>
> Can't explain that one, but it's probably a similar situation.
>
>  Question #2: Where does the metadata actually come from?
>>
>
> It's pulling the data from your defined television and movie metadata
> grabbers. Unless changed from their defaults, those will be pulling data
> from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org, respectively.
>
>  The most
>> hilarious one was attempting to export a Saturday Night Live episode,
>> and having it go to "Movies/Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking
>> Truth.mpg" (unfortunately I'm not joking). Here's the output from that
>> one:
>>
>> ==============================================================
>> JOBID=10857
>> TITLE=Saturday Night Live
>> SEASON=0
>> EPISODE=0
>> SUBTITLE=
>> 2014-02-25 08:56:53.994347 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Using recording --
>> Saturday Night Live -
>> 2014-02-25 08:56:54.002832 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Performing Movie
>> export with local data.
>> 2014-02-25 08:56:56.314946 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Import complete
>> 2014-02-25 08:56:56.315290 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Copying
>> myth://Default@mongoliad.gregandeva.net/1653_20140202053400.mpg to
>> myth://Videos@mongoliad.gregandeva.net/Movies/Texas Chain Saw Massacre:
>> The Shocking Truth.mpg
>>
>
> This one is actually the fault of MythTV's internal metadata library.
> There's an issue that periodically pops up where it will match a TV series
> on thetvdb, fail to match the specific episode, and then pull metadata
> using that id from themoviedb.  Saturday Night Live and Texas Chain Saw
> Massacre are both id 76177 on their respective sites. According to the
> logs, mythvidexport saw that metadata had already been pulled for the
> recording, and just used that.
>

You can improve your results by entering non-zero season and episode
numbers in the associated recording rule to indicate that it's a TV series
instead of a movie. Also, if it already has an incorrect metadata id,
you'll need to correct that as well. Setting that ID is the best way to
ensure you get the correct metadata.

Karl
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