[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Differentiate TV Shows From Movies

[Karl Dietz]

On 21.05.2014 18:05, jedi wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 5/21/2014 11:01 AM, Fred Hamilton wrote:
>>> So my question is: Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could
>>> manually customize the sort order but keep the metadata correct?
>>> I originally had the SxxExx file names with the Exx numbers in
>>> production order, so they were sorted correctly but the metadata
>>> for most of them were wrong (except for the episodes where prod
>>> and air order happened to be the same).  I'm willing to put some
>>> time into this, but would like to be as efficient as possible.
>>
>
>      Customize the grabber or make one of your own.
>
>      It sounds like the grabber is only keyed off of the episode
> numbers rather than the titles of the episodes. There's no good
> reason you can't match by title and essentially allow the episode
> number to be whatever you want.

to put it in your own words (or close)... patches appreciated :D

I do match against thetvdb by episode title in my guide feed and the 
next stumbling block will be multiple different episode titles depending 
on the broadcaster (yeah).

>      If you think your data is broken, the easiest approach by far
> is simply to repair that data. That's the beauty of all of the app
> data being in an SQL database.
>
>> MythTV only supports one episode sequence, currently, and if you
>> wish to be able to use the metadata grabbers, that sequencing must
>> match the primary sequence found on TheTVDb.com, which is typically
>> going to be the order in which it was aired.  If you wish to
>> customize the sort order properly, you need to add an additional
>> database table and some additional code to break episode numbers out
>> of the common table, allowing you to select what sort order to
>> prefer.

patches appreciated, too :D

Regards,
Karl

PS: Sorry, but I couldn't pass that opportunity. Instead of hacking up a 
"works only for me" you (the people) might as well invest the effort 
into improving our common core.

PPS: Fred, try to put .mxml files with the preferred order/metadata next 
to the video files. I've done that for non-public productions but it 
should work equally well to override the upstream metadata.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_Universal_Metadata_Format
I have not thought it through (or tested it), but you should be able to 
manually run the grabber and store the result into files, then edit them 
and put them next to the episodes.