[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Differentiate TV Shows From Movies

[Mark Perkins]

> On 21 May 2014, at 9:07 am, merc1984 at f-m.fm wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014, at 14:29, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> Try setting the season and episode number in the video metadata. Non zero
>> values for season / episode seem to be the best way to get the correct
>> grabber to be used.
> 
> Yes this works.  I 'E', then set the Title to Danger Man, and set the
> Season and Episode, Save and have it fetch the metadata, and sure enough
> it gets the storyline, director, date, and other info.  But it does not
> get the correct image appropriate to the episode, which thetvdb has.  It
> always shows McGoohan's picture.  This is far better than it was, but I
> don't understand why it doesn't fetch the episode image?

Someone else will confirm but I don't think MythTV handles episode level artwork, only season level artwork. I don't think episode artwork is in the recording screens either.

> 
> 
>> I suspect it all comes down to the naming convention and file / folder
>> structure you are using. Perhaps give a full example of the folder names
>> / file names you are using and people can comment.
>> 
>> The accepted conventions are found here:
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>> 
>> I use a Plex compatible structure which is quite defined and seems to
>> give me pretty good results in Mythvideo.
>> 
>> https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200028098
>> 
>> Essentially for a TV show I have:
>> 
>> /Path/to/TV/"Show Title"/"Season ##"/"Title - S##E## - Subtitle.mp4"
>> 
>> Where /Path/to/TV/ is a folder defined in my Mythvideo storage group.
> 
> Thank you, but this does not sort the episodes in order in the
> directory.  Mine is set up as 
> ~/Videos/Series/Danger Man/01-01 - View from the Villa.mpg 
> ~/Videos/Series/Danger Man/01-02 - Time to Kill.mpg 
> ... etc.  So:  Season-Episode - Name.mpg .  
> 
> How did that other format get accepted when it doesn't sort files in
> order, and uses more directory paths than necessary?  I mean, I don't
> mean to question the way things are, but it doesn't seem optimal.
> 
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The folder hierarchy is optional, I don't think myth needs any info from the folder name if the file name is good.

What do you mean "doesn't sort files in order"? What order are you looking for? And more directory paths? I don't think myth needs any folder paths if the necessary info is in the file name.

The options available seem pretty versatile to me.

Surely one of the dozen options available will suit?