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

[jedi]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:01:39PM +0200, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> On 21/05/14 22:50, merc1984 at f-m.fm wrote:
> > Anyway, I give up.  For some reason Title/Subtitle does not work, but
> > setting Title and Season/Episode does.  I have to go in and modify the
> > inetref for 90 shows for Danger Man alone, so Myth will fetch the
> > metadata.  Then I have other series' to do.  And it seems I'll never get
> > the episode photos even though it's in thetvdb, so have to do with the
> > season picture for all shows in a season.
> > 
> > I tried to suggest improvement to Myth, but it'll apparently never
> > happen.  At least I tried.
> 
> If you would read all replies more careful, you would have noticed that
> everything you asked for already works in Myth. It looks like PEBCAK...
> 
> With a bit command line foo you can easily add the show name to the
> beginning of the file name in a whole directory. I'm sure there are
> graphical tools too.
> 
> And as I wrote earlier, episode images show in mythvideo fine too. I
> even posted a link with a screenshot.

    Ultimately, as a practical matter, the titles of your files should
sort correctly in a standard file manager. If they aren't doing that,
then chances are they won't in MythTV either.

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