[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

Mike Carron jmcarron at starstream.net
Fri Jun 20 05:31:24 UTC 2014


On 06/18/2014 09:40 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net 
> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>
>> I have several files of TV shows and movies that I have moved into 
>> the Video Library that I'm trying to acquire metadata for. The file 
>> names are generally very intuitive for a human reader but evidently 
>> not for a metadata grabber. Is there a reasonable way to manually 
>> acquire metadata and attach it to the relevant file?
>>
>> -- 
>> mike
>> _______________________________________________
>
> The quickest way is to probably just go to either The TVDB or The 
> Movie Database websites and find the correct inetref value and 
> populate the inetref field in MythVideo manually. Or else try and 
> determine what change needs to be made to the file naming to improve 
> results.
***
What I was able to do was use the TVDB and the Movie Database to 
construct workable file names. I have some work yet to do but my video 
library appearance is definitely improving. Thanks for the suggestion.

mike

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