[mythtv-users] Meta-data for multi-part episodes

[Raymond Wagner]

On 12/30/2011 03:25, Marcus Larsson wrote:
> I have copied a big portion of my TV-series to my hard-drive as iso-files i.e. my files contain more than one episode.
>
> Is there any possibilty within mythtv to grab metadata for such files?

At current, no.  Further, MythVideo hashes all content to check for 
moved files.  Any attempt to "fake it" using symlinks or hardlinks to a 
single file will just result in MythVideo getting confused, as it 
assumes the the multiple copies are a moved file, and it will update the 
database entry to match.

There are currently plans for a major rework of the database schema 
during the 0.26 development cycle.  The intent of the schema change is 
to decouple the metadata from the files themselves, with a separate 
table matching the two together.  This will allow one metadata entry to 
reference a sequence of files, and potentially allow multiple metadata 
entries to reference a single file.