[mythtv-users] TMDB v TVDB for Television Shows

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Frank,

Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 6:50:11 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:31 AM, jim <jim_32766 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> A few of the television shows that I record are consistently being matched
>> to the incorrect metadata. In each case there is a movie in the TMDB that
>> has the same reference number as the television show in the TVDB. Is there
>> a way to ensure that only the TVDB is used for these television shows?
>>

>  0.27.4+ has this feature: it prepends the reference number with ttvdb.py_
> or tmdb3.py_

> That said, it only does this for new rules/recordings. It will be up to you
> to update your rules and old recordings, no automatic conversion is done
> for existing stuff.

Manage Recordings >> Recording Rules > select rule > Metadata Options and
> insert ttvdb.py_ in front of the number.
> For individual recordings, you can quickly update an entire series with
> database commands:

> mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg
> <enter database password>
> Update a series all at once, for example:
> update recorded set inetref='ttvdb.py_258744' where title = 'the following';

> Check your progress with:
> select inetref,title,subtitle from recorded order by title;

As far as I have seen it does this if there is no programid telling it
that it's a series. MV... for movies, EP... for series and none if
there is no season/episode info.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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