[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

[William Jacoby]

On 6/21/2014 9:42 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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.
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You should really visit Filebots forum at http://www.filebot.net/forums/ 
as rednoah 
<http://www.filebot.net/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=54&sid=363da0cfaebfbf508329ebb8e08c36de> 
is extremely helpful. Also note the most recent version has dropped 
support for JAVA 6.  So you'll need either Java 7 or 8.
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