[mythtv-users] metadata lookup, movies with year in filename

Michael mythtv at blandford.net
Fri May 22 15:22:31 UTC 2020


On 5/22/20 7:54 AM, Ryan Patterson wrote:
> In an effort to help with metadata lookup I started adding the release 
> year for movies to my mythvideo files as specified in the wiki.
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
> Now every TMDB metadata look up fails with no results found.  What am 
> I doing wrong?
>
> filename: 'A Simple Plan 1998.mkv'
> metadata lookup:
> 2020-05-22 10:48:26.979709 I  Running Grabber: 
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -l en -a US -M A Simple Plan 
> 1998
> 2020-05-22 10:48:31.220878 I  Running Grabber: 
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -M A Simple 
> Plan 1998
> 2020-05-22 10:48:32.824585 I  Running Grabber: 
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -M A Simple 
> Plan 1998
> 2020-05-22 10:48:33.678813 I  Metadata Lookup Failed: No Results A 
> Simple Plan 1998 0 0
> 2020-05-22 10:48:33.879168 I  No results found for A Simple Plan 1998 0 0


I don't think you are doing anything wrong.  :)


It just doesn't work as expected.   There was a thread on this list on 
5/10 titled 'metadata' discussing a possible patch to improve the situation.


I found it easier now to just manually match titles than expect the 
parser to get it right.


Michael




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