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

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>
> I saw something on XMBC for this where if season number was set to zero, ie
> bleach_S00E145 then the grabber would then look at absolute numbering.
>

Except Season 0 is specials (and it's how TVDB reckons specials too)
so using it as a trigger is not possible.

Robert