[mythtv-users] setting up Video Library

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:50, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:18 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Looks like I need to play around and figure out what an "inetref" is.
>>
>> It also appears that I chose a particularly bad example to test with.
>> The Doctor Who episodes aren't really the things I want to save in the
>> Video Library, as they are continually rebroadcast and can always be
>> re-recorded ("it's only TV" :-) and they seem to have worse-than-most
>> problems with the metadata. I just picked these because I have a lot of
>> them on the recordings list at the moment. I may try with some other
>> series (e.g. "Downton Abbey") and see how that works.
>>
>
> This is the link for the episode mentioned above:
>
>
> http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78804&seasonid=16353&id=327378&lid=7
>
> I believe the 'id' is what you want for inetref, in this case 327378.
> Bascially, for shows that don't get automatically populated, go to the
> website, find the correct one, and manually enter the inetref. Then it
> should work.
>
>
> For television shows, the inetref is the identifier for the whole series,
> not the specific episode.  Shows are identified by their series, season
> number, and episode number.
>

Which is what I specified above. The complete info for the specific episode
mentioned is in the link, but for just the show/series itself, I called
that out as the id field. Could have been clearer, I guess, but I figured
that seriesid and seasonid should be pretty obvious about what they are
referring to.

Tom
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