[mythtv-users] Is there a metadata update api for recordings

[James Linder]

> On 3 Oct 2021, at 6:26 am, <ajp at cantabrian.co.nz> <ajp at cantabrian.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I am trying to tidy up my recordings and organize them better. Big task – lots of Dr Who. 
>>  
>> At the moment the only supported way I can find for changing the title and subtitle, which is all I am wanting to do, is via the Myth Frontend. I am running Kodi on Windows as my frontend but I have the Myth frontend on my server. I am running 0.29.
>>  
>> The current method is to find the recording on Kodi and then update on Myth frontend via VMware remote console. It works, but it’s a bit tedious.
>>  
>> It would be helpful to have an api call to update metadata, but from my searching this doesn’t seem to exist, so I thought I would ask just in case I missed something. I am happy to update via DB queries but it is difficult to figure out a supported query.
>>  
>> Any extra info or practical suggestions welcome.

Tony without doubt it can be done with mysql. I’m at the very first stages (generic meta data chaos) so I can’t offer real suggestions
perhaps
$ mysql -umythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
describe table-name
etc resulting in
$ mysql -umythtv -pmythtv mythconverg < my-list-of-changes

but DO do $ mythconverg_backup.pl
before you start messing around

James

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> There is a call Dvr/AddRecordedCredits which will add names of actors, directors, etc.
> 
> There is an api Dvr/AddRecordedProgram which adds a recording including all the metadata. This will fail if you try it with an existing recording. I am not sure how this would be used. It seems that it would need you to put a file in the recording storage group and then call the api to add it to the database.
> 
> What metadata are you trying to update? Is the existing metadata job in MythTV not working for you? You should be able to just invoke the metadata lookup job to fill in metadata. If that fails to find the correct show you can first fill in the initref correctly, then metadata lookup should work. If the initref is not filled in correctly, you can enter it on the recording rule for future recordings.
> 
> Note that in the latest MythTV version there are multiple metadata lookup methods for TV shows (themoviedb, thetvdb, tvmaze). Also the TVDB lookup API is changing soon, and old versions of MythTV will not support the new API.
> 
> Peter
> 
> Peter,
> Thanks for the reply.
> The plan is to organize my recordings using subtitles . My example being Dr Who, for which I have a lot of episodes and they are a mess. I need to add correct subtitles with episode and season details. I was thinking to either do this by modifying MythWeb or by invoking something from Kodi – I am not currently planning on doing this on the back end.
> My research suggests there isn’t an update api.
> Cheers
>  
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