[mythtv-users] setting up Video Library

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2014, at 12:32, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
>
>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:50, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:18 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>> > You can store an inetref against a recording rule, so recordings will
>>> > automatically pick up the correct series, but when searching for
>>> "Family
>>> > of Blood", the TheTVDb API returns nothing, so there's simply nothing
>>> > beyond manual intervention we can do on this end.
>>>
>>> Looks like I need to play around and figure out what an "inetref" is.
>>>
>>> It also appears that I chose a particularly bad example to test with.
>>> The Doctor Who episodes aren't really the things I want to save in the
>>> Video Library, as they are continually rebroadcast and can always be
>>> re-recorded ("it's only TV" :-) and they seem to have worse-than-most
>>> problems with the metadata. I just picked these because I have a lot of
>>> them on the recordings list at the moment. I may try with some other
>>> series (e.g. "Downton Abbey") and see how that works.
>>>
>>
>> This is the link for the episode mentioned above:
>>
>>
>> http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78804&seasonid=16353&id=327378&lid=7
>>
>> I believe the 'id' is what you want for inetref, in this case 327378.
>> Bascially, for shows that don't get automatically populated, go to the
>> website, find the correct one, and manually enter the inetref. Then it
>> should work.
>>
>>
>> For television shows, the inetref is the identifier for the whole series,
>> not the specific episode.  Shows are identified by their series, season
>> number, and episode number.
>>
>
> Which is what I specified above. The complete info for the specific
> episode mentioned is in the link, but for just the show/series itself, I
> called that out as the id field. Could have been clearer, I guess, but I
> figured that seriesid and seasonid should be pretty obvious about what they
> are referring to.
>
>
> The inetref to give to MythTV would be 78804, not 327378.
>
>
Ahhh....I see where I was confused. I was looking at the example on the
Wiki, and it used American Chopper in the screenshots, and I misread the
URL. Completely. Not enough coffee at the time, that's my excuse, and I'm
sticking to it!
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