[mythtv-users] tmdb3.py with/without year

[Thomas Boehm]

On 12/01/15 03:21, Matt Garman wrote:
> According to the documentation here
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
> "Note: Adding the year in YYYY format to a movies filename will help
> with duplicate matching."
> 
> But I've noticed that adding the date to a movie causes tmdb3.py to
> (sometimes) return no results.
> 
> For example, the following returns many results (25 to be exact):
> # tmdb3.py -M "Predator"
> 
> However, the first one is what I want, and the metadata shows
> <year>1987</year>, so I'll add that to the filename, and maybe it will
> filter out all the extraneous results.  Nope, now I get zero results:
> # tmdb3.py -M "Predator 1987"
> 
> I've tried this for many titles, where leaving out the date gives lots
> of matches, but adding the date gives zero matches.

Try again with the year in brackets like "Predator (1987)" and from
within mythfrontend. This way the movie will not include the year in the
name of the movie in mythfrontend and the year will be omitted in the
query. Doesn't help you though with automatically selecting the right
movie...