[mythtv-users] setting up Video Library

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 23:32:20 UTC 2014


On 1/22/14, 6:06 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 17:22 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
>> The trouble is that where Schedules Direct is giving "Dr. Who", "Family 
>> of Blood", TheTVDb contains "Doctor Who (2005)", "The Family of Blood 
>> (2)", and the two are too far apart for the metadata grabber to identify.
> OK, I checked, and I plead guilty to not being sufficiently precise, and
> so I want to correct myself. I actually am getting "Doctor Who" from SD.
> So the default file name is "Doctor Who.mpg", not "Dr. Who.mpg" as I
> erroneously reported. So I presume that means "Doctor Who: Family of
> Blood" and "Doctor Who (2005): The Family of Blood (2)" are still too
> different to be matched. I know that type of "fuzzy matching" is a very
> hard problem, so I'm guessing this problem is not really fixable,  and I
> will just have to live with "Title - Subtitle", using the info that I do
> have. It may be that some other recordings would be close enough to
> match, but I don't think there's any way to say "use Title - Subtitle
> only if there's no match from ttvdb".
>
> I don't suppose there's any way to make use of the programid? For this
> example, the programid is EP007501780038.
>
> I would still like to try running ttvdb manually to be sure that it's
> working at all and actually being executed, so I'll look into that more.
>
> --Greg
>
>
>
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I'd have to look up what I did, but I recall setting the series title,
then setting episode and season for some problematic series. Myth then
filled in the episode name from IMDB data.


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