[mythtv-users] tmdb3.py with/without year

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > According to the documentation here
> >     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
> > "Note: Adding the year in YYYY format to a movies filename will help
> > with duplicate matching."
> >
> > But I've noticed that adding the date to a movie causes tmdb3.py to
> > (sometimes) return no results.
> >
> > For example, the following returns many results (25 to be exact):
> > # tmdb3.py -M "Predator"
> >
> > However, the first one is what I want, and the metadata shows
> > <year>1987</year>, so I'll add that to the filename, and maybe it will
> > filter out all the extraneous results.  Nope, now I get zero results:
> > # tmdb3.py -M "Predator 1987"
> >
> > I've tried this for many titles, where leaving out the date gives lots
> > of matches, but adding the date gives zero matches.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?  Maybe my tmdb3.py is too old?  It's version
> 0.3.7.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
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> Currently adding the year doesn't give you any additional info (as
> you've found out, it actually makes it return zero results). This is
> because while the API for http://www.themoviedb.org/ support adding
> the year in queries, MythTV does not parse the year from the filename
> and tmdb3.py doesn't support any options for specifying the year.
> There has been debate in the past regarding this, but nobody has
> stepped forward to do anything about this (and the devs of these
> particular features have it working the way they want)..
>
> It used to work, as V2 of the API supported searching for a title with
> the year included in it, but IIRC V3 removed this functionality.
>

And there doesn't appear to be any way to manually enter the inetref any
longer, either... Or is this a theme issue? (I'm using MythCenter)
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