[mythtv-users] Season and episode data

[Don Brett]

On 7/20/2014 6:22 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
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> On Monday, July 21, 2014, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:perkins1724 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Highlight the recording, press M to bring up menu, select
>     Recording Options then select Change Recording Metadata, then edit
>     away.
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> In master, provided your theme has been upgrade, you can even search 
> for metadata there.
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> It will automatically fill the season and episode # if found.
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> Note that there are two things at play in regards to recordings 
> metadata. Both are similar, but in fact independent of one another and 
> it can make things difficult to understand.
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> A recording is linked to a recording rule. A recordings rule has its 
> own inetref, a link to either TMDB or TVDB. Along a season and episode #.
> When a new recording is started, that metadata information is copied 
> into it.
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> A recording itself has its own inetref, and season and episode #.
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> If you have a recurring recording, you are best to modify the 
> recording rule metadata, so future recordings will have the proper 
> information.
> If it's a one off, or want to modify previousl recordings, you have to 
> modify the recording metadata.
>
> Hope that clarifies thing a bit, it's confusing. Or let say that I was 
> confused at first.
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Outstanding!  That was exactly what I was looking for.  Entered the data 
and re-ran mythvidexport and it worked.  Thanks for the tip...and 
explanation.


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