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

Ryan Patterson ryan.goat at gmail.com
Sun May 24 12:17:03 UTC 2020


Thanks for the replies.  I'll go back to my old naming convention.

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Ryan Patterson


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:05 PM Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Michael,
>
> Friday, May 22, 2020, 11:44:48 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 5/22/20 2:25 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> >> Hoi Ryan,
> >>
> >> Friday, May 22, 2020, 4:54:33 PM, you wrote:
> >> I think you should put the year in between brackets:
> >> 'A Simple Plan (1998).mkv'
> >>
>
> > Unfortunately, that is not what the naming guide suggests:
> > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>
>
> > I have spent considerable time trying to make it work the way it is
> supposed to for mythtv.
>
>
> > Putting the date in ()s is the standard for most other tools like
> > plex though.    If you put it in parans, mythtv ignores the date.
> > If you add the date per the guide, it doesn't strip it when querying
> > for metadata and you won't find the movie.   Either way it doesn't
> > really work correctly or as expected.
>
> > Michael
>
> With series that works for me in MythVideo, but it could be a
> difference between the ttvdb lookupscript and the imdb lookupscript.
> It could be a bug in the imdb lookupscript where the parentheses are
> excluded of the name before a search is done.
> If I find time I might checkout the python script.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
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>
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