[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport User Job Fails
Mike Carron
jmcarron at starstream.net
Tue Jul 1 05:05:09 UTC 2014
On 06/30/2014 12:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 6/30/2014 12:16 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>> If it is a regular show that does not have season/episode data,
>> mythvidexport will fail. If it has a description that doesn't match
>> what is in thetvdb.com then mythvidexport will fail. The failure mode
>> is the External system call failed.
>
> If the description does not match, then it doesn't matter, because the
> description is never used for matching anyway. If the season and
> episode is lacking, it will try to use the episode subtitle. If the
> subtitle cannot be matched, it will revert to a generic export that
> defaults to using just the title. In none of these cases should it
> crash, or report that the external grabber has crashed. Crashing
> should always be considered abnormal behavior, and something to be fixed.
>
> If the external grabber is crashing, as indicated by "External system
> call failed", then we need a traceback to figure out why.
>
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I would be glad to generate a traceback if I had a clue how to do it,
I'm not familiar with Python.
mike
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