[mythtv-users] Mythvideo Title Matching?

[Richard Lainchbury]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Richard Lainchbury <freexe at gmail.com>wrote:

> On my 0.24 mythtv
>
> I have lots of video in a series that I have labelled :
>
> 1x01.avi
> 1x02.avi
> 1x03.avi
> ...
>
> And myth video just seems to give the same incorrect title to all the
> videos.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Robert McNamara <
> robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Mythvideo nicely picks up descriptions and cover art for some movies I
>> > have and not others of similar vintage. The ones it misses seem to have
>> > short title or titles I know to be movie remakes. My guess is that it
>> > just fails if the filename has multiple matches.
>> >
>> > If thats the case is there a way for me to see what its choices are, and
>> > if so how I can disambiguate the title?
>>
>> .24 added automatic metadata fetching upon video scan for newly-added
>> files.  If the title has multiple identical or near-identical matches
>> (anything within a levenstein distance of 5), MythVideo will note in
>> the log that there were multiple acceptable matches for title x and
>> leave it alone, preferring that the user provide that input.  For
>> those titles, you use the traditional "highlight item, press W" (or
>> highlight item, open context menu, Item Details->Retrieve Details).
>> If there are multiple matches, you will be presented with a menu to
>> select from them.  If there are no matches because the item is
>> misspelled or has junk in the title, then you will get no results.
>>
>> Robert
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>
Also, If I'm not using a supported file naming scheme, shouldn't mythvideo
ignore my files and leave the titles alone?

Richard
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