[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

[Mike Carron]

On 06/20/2014 02:54 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
>> On 06/18/2014 09:40 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
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>> On 19 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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>> I have several files of TV shows and movies that I have moved into the Video
>> Library that I'm trying to acquire metadata for. The file names are
>> generally very intuitive for a human reader but evidently not for a metadata
>> grabber. Is there a reasonable way to manually acquire metadata and attach
>> it to the relevant file?
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>> mike
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>> The quickest way is to probably just go to either The TVDB or The Movie
>> Database websites and find the correct inetref value and populate the
>> inetref field in MythVideo manually. Or else try and determine what change
>> needs to be made to the file naming to improve results.
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>> What I was able to do was use the TVDB and the Movie Database to construct
>> workable file names. I have some work yet to do but my video library
>> appearance is definitely improving. Thanks for the suggestion.
> For renaming, I highly recommend filebot. http://www.filebot.net/
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> As it guesses the names from the same databases as mythtv and xbmc use
> in their databases it is pretty well guaranteed to succeed.
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Filebot definitely looks good but it is no longer available from the 
Ubuntu Software Centre, Ubuntu One is being discontinued. I'm not having 
a lot of luck finding an Ubuntu version anywhere, Ubuntu apps directory 
just directs me back to the Software Centre.

mike