[mythtv-users] adding tmdb ids to videos?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Justin,

Sunday, March 26, 2017, 6:28:54 PM, you wrote:

>> I'm still on a .27 version of myth, and mythvideo has a few movies that it couldn't find
>> metadata for.
>  
>> I'm trying to figure out how to manually tell it the tmdb id for those movies.
>  
> In a frontend select the recording in "Watch recordings" and press m




> Hika,


> I believe the question was about videos, not recordings. I'm having
> the same issue. I've tried adding a year to the end of the file
> (e.g., "The.Dark.Knight.(2008).m2ts") and changing tmdb3.py to do
> searchMovieWithYear, but it doesn't work. And I don't want to
> hand-enter all of the plot, etc, for a lot of movies and TV shows.


> Is there a way to do this via filenames instead of having to go through the UI?

Sorry my mistake. There have been several threads about naming in
mythvideo in the past few months! Look in the archives.


> Thanks,
> -justin
>  
>  to get the menu. "Recording Options" -> "Change Recording Metadata"
>  and update the Inetref. If it is from tmdb then "tmdb3.py_" followed
>  by the number. If it is from ttvdb then start with "ttvdb.py_". Press
>  OK.
>  Next go back to the menu and now select "Job Options" -> "Begin
>  Metadata Lookup"
>  After a few minutes the metadata should be there.
>  
>  
>  Tot mails,
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Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
Zonder leven is er geen hoop
Het eeuwige dilemma
Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"

De lerende Mens