[mythtv-users] Acquiring metadata

[Anthony Giggins]

On 22 June 2014 13:12, William Jacoby <bonelifer at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 6/21/2014 9:42 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Worthington<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
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>  On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:47:29 -0700, you wrote:
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>  On 06/20/2014 02:54 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
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>  On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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>  On 06/18/2014 09:40 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
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> On 19 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net> <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> _______________________________________________
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> 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.
>
>  For renaming, I highly recommend filebot. http://www.filebot.net/
>
> As it guesses the names from the same databases as mythtv and xbmc use
> in their databases it is pretty well guaranteed to succeed.
>
>  ***
> Filebot definitely looks good but it is no longer available from the
> Ubuntu Software Centre, Ubuntu One is being discontinued. I'm not having
> a lot of luck finding an Ubuntu version anywhere, Ubuntu apps directory
> just directs me back to the Software Centre.
>
> mike
>
>  It looks as though you can download it from SourceForge:
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>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot/files/filebot/
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> You would need to manually install it with dpgk.
>
>  There will be some java dependencies too, you can either use gdebi to
> sort that, or simply try to install with dpkg -i - the output will
> tell you what packages are missing. Install them with apt-get and that
> will sort it all out.
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> You should really visit Filebots forum at http://www.filebot.net/forums/
> as rednoah
> <http://www.filebot.net/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=54&sid=363da0cfaebfbf508329ebb8e08c36de>
> is extremely helpful. Also note the most recent version has dropped support
> for JAVA 6.  So you'll need either Java 7 or 8.
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>
Sorry to Highjack this thread but is there anyway to override the parser?
for Example "Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" gets parsed as "Marvels Agents
of S H I E L D" which does not get matched on thetvdb?

Cheers,

Anthony
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