[mythtv-users] setting up Video Library

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Jan 23 02:18:28 UTC 2014


On 1/22/2014 6:06 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 17:22 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
>> The trouble is that where Schedules Direct is giving "Dr. Who", "Family
>> of Blood", TheTVDb contains "Doctor Who (2005)", "The Family of Blood
>> (2)", and the two are too far apart for the metadata grabber to identify.
>
> OK, I checked, and I plead guilty to not being sufficiently precise, and
> so I want to correct myself. I actually am getting "Doctor Who" from SD.
> So the default file name is "Doctor Who.mpg", not "Dr. Who.mpg" as I
> erroneously reported. So I presume that means "Doctor Who: Family of
> Blood" and "Doctor Who (2005): The Family of Blood (2)" are still too
> different to be matched. I know that type of "fuzzy matching" is a very
> hard problem, so I'm guessing this problem is not really fixable,  and I
> will just have to live with "Title - Subtitle", using the info that I do
> have.

You can store an inetref against a recording rule, so recordings will 
automatically pick up the correct series, but when searching for "Family 
of Blood", the TheTVDb API returns nothing, so there's simply nothing 
beyond manual intervention we can do on this end.


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