[mythtv-users] Log output of user jobs via MythLog class?

[Nicolas Krzywinski]

Am 03.05.2014, 03:02 Uhr, schrieb Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>:

> Setting a season / episode at the recording rule level makes sure that it uses the correct grabber as can get successful hits in the wrong database (ie a hit in The Movie Database for a tv series). Setting non zero season and episode values will prevent the Movie grabber being used.
I can not remember exactly, but I think there were problems with specifying both, season and episode numbers as I set up my recording rules and wanted to fetch artwork. Therefore I set up the season number only. And as it is not a single recording rule, specifying the episode number would be wrong.

> Actually, did I read somewhere a while ago that EIT doesn't have subtitle info? Or did I just make that up?
There may have changed something really recently!
Because suddenly there is much more text in the recording list, have a look at it here (compare the episodes of the tv series "New Girl" from 26.03. and 27.03. with 02.04. and 03.04.):
http://www.site7even.de/temp/mythtv-eit-data-changed.png


Am 03.05.2014, 04:34 Uhr, schrieb Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>:

> On 5/2/2014 7:58 PM, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote:
>> Does anyone know where to contact Raymond Wagner, the author of
>> mythvidexport?
>
> He responded a few days ago.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2014-May/363299.html
Waaah! :D ... should read more carefully

Ok, so I have some questions:

- Why does mythvidexport.pl fetches metadata at all?
Everyone can use the option at recording rule level to fetch metadata.

- Why does mythvidexport.pl fetches metadata though there is local data?
There is a comment in the script, telling "# good data is available, use it", but it doesn't

- Would it help to give --listingonly?
There is the comment "# force use of local data" in the script, but it is the second if condition (after the above mentioned), so it would only reach there if the above does not match...
And I have some problems to interpret "listing provider" because I don't know the term combination and translators does not help here... what is meant with "listing provider"?

- For a recently processed movie (for which I did not had the season/episode problems apparently) mythvidexport.pl went fine, but it fetched english metadata.
One solution would be to use the existing metadata (as mentioned above), but besides from that how would I fetch german metadata with mythvidexport.pl?

- Recordings with german umlauts or french diacritical signs I get "Error: ascii"
Is it possible to use utf?

- What does "Error: an external system call failed" mean?
Well, it means of course that there were problems when contacting an external system ... :D but which system it is talking about? This is reproducible for some recordings.

- Minor: if there is a failed mythvidexport.pl processing, the video library contains an additional empty entry. Subsequent failed runs increases those "ghost entries" :D but they disappear after a rescan of the video library.


In case s. o. is in buffer overflow state now, purge your mem and read this short wannabe statement:
I want to use mythvidexport.pl to move each recording including the existing metadata (wherever it came from) to the video library into its corresponding subdirectory.


Thanks in advance, don't hurry with answers as I am busy as well... ;)
Nicolas

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