[mythtv-users] Changes to tmdb? Video details lookup failing.

[Raymond Wagner]

On 9/27/2013 5:02 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>>> So essentially.... we just need to parse the file name, and if it
>>>> >>>finds a 4 digit number at the end of the name, between 1900 and
>>>> >>><current year>, assume it's a year and submit it as such.  If it
>>>> >>>fails, then resubmit with it in the title?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>what happens to "The Kiss 1896"?
>>> >>
>> >
>> >There needs to be some indication that it is a Year and not part of
>> >the title. How about something like
>> >
>> >Office Space -1999-.ext
>> >
>> >Where the value between the - - is determined to be the year?
>> >
> I disagree... we should not need to use a delimiter in the file name.
> Titles that end in 4 digit years between 1900 and the current year,
> are very uncommon.  By default we could simply assume a 4 digit
> numeric string between 1900 and the current year at the end of the
> title is the year the movie was released.  Sure there are exceptions,
> but far fewer than the issues we have if we don't specify a release
> year.

That just seems inherently wrong to assume the user has added extra crap 
to the filename.