[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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.

There will be some java dependencies too, you can either use gdebi to
sort that, or simply try to install with dpkg -i - the output will
tell you what packages are missing. Install them with apt-get and that
will sort it all out.