[mythtv-users] tmdb.py script question

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Tue Nov 23 01:07:57 UTC 2010


On 11/23/2010 01:53 AM, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Johan<johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be>  wrote:
>>      
>>> It looks like as if, when multiple movie descriptions are offered by TMDB,
>>> the "update details command" did not update the metadata with the most
>>> likely movie, but inserts nothing and marks the entry as processed.
>>>        
> And for reference, fuzzy title matching *does* occur, but if the edit
> distance between a film title and possible candidates is too great, it
> is considered to be "not close enough," and thus the grab for that
> item is stopped.  This is the only sane way to handle automatic
> metadata grabbing with any degree of accuracy.  So MythVideo *does*
> take the "most likely movie" when presented with multiple options.  It
> just does so within reason.
>
> Robert
> _______________________________________________
>    
I the case of The fast and the furious TMDB offered 5 choices,
of which 2 identical(1955 and 2001) and 2 close matches. . Also here it 
would
have been a 50% (25%) hit and miss, so better not insert anything.

Always good to understand the reasoning behind the logic.

Johan


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