[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport User Job Fails

[Mike Carron]

On 06/30/2014 12:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 6/30/2014 12:16 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>> If it is a regular show that does not have season/episode data, 
>> mythvidexport will fail. If it has a description that doesn't match 
>> what is in thetvdb.com then mythvidexport will fail. The failure mode 
>> is the External system call failed.
>
> If the description does not match, then it doesn't matter, because the 
> description is never used for matching anyway.  If the season and 
> episode is lacking, it will try to use the episode subtitle. If the 
> subtitle cannot be matched, it will revert to a generic export that 
> defaults to using just the title.  In none of these cases should it 
> crash, or report that the external grabber has crashed. Crashing 
> should always be considered abnormal behavior, and something to be fixed.
>
> If the external grabber is crashing, as indicated by "External system 
> call failed", then we need a traceback to figure out why.
>
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I would be glad to generate a traceback if I had a clue how to do it, 
I'm not familiar with Python.

mike