[mythtv-users] mythvideo can't use ttvdb.py for absolue-numbered tv shows

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ick. I was hoping to avoid that if someone had modified the regex/input
> fields to accept something like <show>_a123.avi , like it does for
> <show>_S01E01.avi and do the appropriate lookup.

ttvdb.py doesn't do any filename parsing, all that logic is in
MythVideo, which only supports season/episode data.  To implement it I
would have to add database values for absolute numbering, add a new
command line option to supported scripts (which means breaking the
grabber spec) and write logic into MythVideo to try to guess which the
user was attempting to express, all of which is a lot of twisty code
for very, very minimal gain (versus simply requiring that the user use
the supported season/episode combinations).

Robert