[mythtv-users] Problems with Screenshots (RePost)

Werner Mahr werner at vollstreckernet.de
Tue Sep 22 20:54:25 UTC 2020


Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020, 22:12:12 CEST schrieb Roland Ernst:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:03 PM Werner Mahr <werner at vollstreckernet.de>
> 
> wrote:
> > Thank you for the wrong hint with the right info beside it, I think this
> > one
> > could only be solved by accident. In my eyes this behaviour is a bug, but
> > I'm
> > sure it won't be threated as one till a series with a slash in the name
> > comes
> > up.
> 
> The file parsing method within mythtv has a special rule for multiple dots
> inside the file name.

I know, but having the correct filename for the screenshot in the database and 
then constructing it from the directory name is just wrong, it's either 
useless construction, or useless data saved.

> I do always enter on special video/tv-series names the correct inetref
> value in
> I -> Change Video Details -> Edit Details
> One gets this value by searching on tmdb.org or themoviedb.org and it needs
> to
> prepend this number with either 'tmdb3.py_' or 'ttvdb.py_" inside the field.
> 
> Then I perform the actual search by
> I -> Change Video Details -> Retrieve Video Details
> 
> This makes searching much easier, giving more accurate results.

Sure, but it works against the meaning of automatic. If there are entries in 
both places (which should happen either, but it happens), then manual action 
is needed of course, but if there is a naming sheme, naming the files right 
should be most if not all that needs to be done.

Beside the fact that I would have to change theme for entering that stuff, as 
Terra doesn't show this field.

-- 
MfG usw.

Werner Mahr




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