[mythtv-users] mythtools

Wed Jan 17 15:12:09 UTC 2007

from the documentation:

vidupdate.pl
          This script goes and updates mythconverg.videometadata with data
from
          tvtome.com.  It scans videometadata for any show that has a plot
of 'None'.

          As filenames are rather aribtrary, the user is prompted for the
name of the
          show, the season and the episode.  from this information vidupdate
builds the
          title in the form of SHOW - SnnEnn - Title.

          If more than one show matches, vidupdate will display all matches
and prompt
          for the one you would like.  For example CSI will match CSI, CSI
New York and
          CSI Miami.

          After you have selected the show you would like, vidupdate will go
and grab
          all the episodes available and prompt you for the one you would
like.  You
          must type in the number on the lefthand side that corresponds with
the episode
          you have chosen.

          This has not been extensively tested, and with there is a patch
outstanding.

          After you have chosen the episode, the information is displayed
and you are
          prompted for to update mythv.

          When cycling thru' your shows, videoupdate will remember your
previous show.
          You can enter 'skip' to skip the current show, or quit to exit.
control-c
          will also quit without any nasty side-effects (if you quit in the
middle
          of a write to the database, just after you confirm to add the
data, something
          nasty _may_ happen, its just too hard to test for.)

          videoupdate.pl now will also check the series you're adding
against the
          video categories you may have set up.  Each series should have its
own category,
          and the what you enter as the series name must be exactly what you
have entered
          as the category.

          if a category is not found, it will default to zero.


On 17/01/07, Bilge Tutak <bilge.tutak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does vidupdate.pl tool updates the information for exported video
> files? If so, what kind of a naming convention does it depend on?
> Like, "SeriesName-EpisodeName.mpg" for example?
>
> Thank you..
>
> Bilge.
>
> On 1/17/07, Ryszard <ryszard99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey there,
> >
> > the synchronisation script works quite well, and is such a handy thing
> to
> > have... :-) and the updater seems to be working quite well as well (i
> did a
> > bunch more testing yesterday), altho the interface is a little clumsy.
> >
> > anyway mythtools has a few dependencies, namely:
> > LWP::Simple;
> > HTML::TokeParser
> > Cache::FileCache
> > DBI (and the mysql driver)
> >
> > which are all perl libraries.  I re-wrote the parser yesterday and it
> was
> > working fine, however today it seems the synopsis grabbing is broken.
> >
> > when using this, please take all care, and do a backup of your mythtv
> > database before you make changes)
> >
> > if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please let me know.
> >
> > regs
> > Ryszard
> >
> >
> >  On 17/01/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Ryszard wrote:
> > >
> > > quite a long time ago i wrote a set of tools that went to the (now
> > defunct) tvtome.com site and put the data for TV shows into mythconverg.
> > >
> > > given now that tvtome has gone, i've gone and finally re-written the
> > parser to work with tv.com.  i've done a bit of testing and it seems to
> work
> > pretty well (at least for my limited selection of tv shows).
> > >
> > > there are basically two tools involved here:
> > > 1) sync.pl - a tool that will have a look on your harddisk and in the
> > database, and perform a syncronisation.  it will remove stuff in your
> > database that is not on the harddisk, and put stuff in the database that
> is
> > on disk and doesnt already exist.
> > > 2) vidupdate.pl - a tool that will look in the myth database for a
> > particular category (from the videocategory table) of video that has no
> > plot.  it compiles a list of all these and will then go to tv.com to get
> the
> > details for you, much like the IMDB tool does for movies.  on the down
> side,
> > this is not integrated into either mythweb or mythfrontend, but is
> instead
> > run from a command line.
> > >
> > > now since there are masses of tv shows available and people are
> recording
> > and storing, i was wondering if anyone was interested in beta testing
> it.
> > >
> > > given that its beta the regualr caveats apply, ie back up your
> database
> > and any important data before playing around with it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sounds interesting, where would I get these scripts?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm building a Myth test system as I am reluctant to "play around"
> with a
> > working box. I might try those out on the test machine, but it will be a
> > week or so before I could get around to it.
> > >
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