from the documentation:<br><br>vidupdate.pl<br> This script goes and updates mythconverg.videometadata with data from<br> <a href="http://tvtome.com">tvtome.com</a>. It scans videometadata for any show that has a plot of 'None'.
<br><br> As filenames are rather aribtrary, the user is prompted for the name of the<br> show, the season and the episode. from this information vidupdate builds the<br> title in the form of SHOW - SnnEnn - Title.
<br><br> If more than one show matches, vidupdate will display all matches and prompt<br> for the one you would like. For example CSI will match CSI, CSI New York and<br> CSI Miami.<br><br> After you have selected the show you would like, vidupdate will go and grab
<br> all the episodes available and prompt you for the one you would like. You<br> must type in the number on the lefthand side that corresponds with the episode<br> you have chosen.<br><br> This has not been extensively tested, and with there is a patch outstanding.
<br><br> After you have chosen the episode, the information is displayed and you are<br> prompted for to update mythv.<br><br> When cycling thru' your shows, videoupdate will remember your previous show.
<br> You can enter 'skip' to skip the current show, or quit to exit. control-c<br> will also quit without any nasty side-effects (if you quit in the middle<br> of a write to the database, just after you confirm to add the data, something
<br> nasty _may_ happen, its just too hard to test for.)<br><br> videoupdate.pl now will also check the series you're adding against the<br> video categories you may have set up. Each series should have its own category,
<br> and the what you enter as the series name must be exactly what you have entered<br> as the category.<br><br> if a category is not found, it will default to zero.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 17/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bilge Tutak</b> <<a href="mailto:bilge.tutak@gmail.com">bilge.tutak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Does vidupdate.pl tool updates the information for exported video<br>files? If so, what kind of a naming convention does it depend on?<br>Like, "SeriesName-EpisodeName.mpg" for example?<br><br>Thank you..<br><br>
Bilge.<br><br>On 1/17/07, Ryszard <<a href="mailto:ryszard99@gmail.com">ryszard99@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> hey there,<br>><br>> the synchronisation script works quite well, and is such a handy thing to<br>
> have... :-) and the updater seems to be working quite well as well (i did a<br>> bunch more testing yesterday), altho the interface is a little clumsy.<br>><br>> anyway mythtools has a few dependencies, namely:
<br>> LWP::Simple;<br>> HTML::TokeParser<br>> Cache::FileCache<br>> DBI (and the mysql driver)<br>><br>> which are all perl libraries. I re-wrote the parser yesterday and it was<br>> working fine, however today it seems the synopsis grabbing is broken.
<br>><br>> when using this, please take all care, and do a backup of your mythtv<br>> database before you make changes)<br>><br>> if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know.<br>><br>> regs
<br>> Ryszard<br>><br>><br>> On 17/01/07, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Ryszard wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > quite a long time ago i wrote a set of tools that went to the (now<br>> defunct) <a href="http://tvtome.com">tvtome.com</a> site and put the data for TV shows into mythconverg.<br>> ><br>
> > given now that tvtome has gone, i've gone and finally re-written the<br>> parser to work with <a href="http://tv.com">tv.com</a>. i've done a bit of testing and it seems to work<br>> pretty well (at least for my limited selection of tv shows).
<br>> ><br>> > there are basically two tools involved here:<br>> > 1) sync.pl - a tool that will have a look on your harddisk and in the<br>> database, and perform a syncronisation. it will remove stuff in your
<br>> database that is not on the harddisk, and put stuff in the database that is<br>> on disk and doesnt already exist.<br>> > 2) vidupdate.pl - a tool that will look in the myth database for a<br>> particular category (from the videocategory table) of video that has no
<br>> plot. it compiles a list of all these and will then go to <a href="http://tv.com">tv.com</a> to get the<br>> details for you, much like the IMDB tool does for movies. on the down side,<br>> this is not integrated into either mythweb or mythfrontend, but is instead
<br>> run from a command line.<br>> ><br>> > now since there are masses of tv shows available and people are recording<br>> and storing, i was wondering if anyone was interested in beta testing it.<br>> >
<br>> > given that its beta the regualr caveats apply, ie back up your database<br>> and any important data before playing around with it.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Sounds interesting, where would I get these scripts?
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > I'm building a Myth test system as I am reluctant to "play around" with a<br>> working box. I might try those out on the test machine, but it will be a<br>> week or so before I could get around to it.
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