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

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Fri Sep 27 22:54:24 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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I agree. I think we need to strive for a system where if the file is
named according to the standard we've set, that it can find the
correct title and retrieve the correct metadata without user input
100% of the time.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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