[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Jun 21 14:32:32 UTC 2014


On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:47:29 -0700, you wrote:

>
>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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> mike
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> ***
>>> 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/
>>
>> As it guesses the names from the same databases as mythtv and xbmc use
>> in their databases it is pretty well guaranteed to succeed.
>***
>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

It looks as though you can download it from SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot/files/filebot/

You would need to manually install it with dpgk.


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