[mythtv-users] myth video file naming issues

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/14/2011 12:58, Dan Armbrust wrote:
>>> Alternatively, what are the formats that it expects, what can it parse?
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing
>>
> Thanks.
>
> Hmm.  Must be the brackets that many of my files have which is hosing
> the parser.
>
> Title [01x05] - Subtitle
>
> I don't suppose I can modify the parser without recompiling things?

Nope.  It will require a recompile of libmythmetadata.  The relevant 
code can be found here...

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmythmetadata/videometadata.cpp#L974

The problem is that use of parentheses, brackets, and braces in the 
title and subtitle are assumed to be release years or dates or other 
unwanted information.  Those are carried through and handled after the 
primary regular expression, with the entire contents being removed.  As 
such, they could not be handled like the other spacer characters which 
are outright removed.

Proper handling of season and episode in brackets would require that the 
regular expression match opening and closing of those characters, which 
will involve back references and other more complex capabilities of 
regular expressions.  If you are good with regular expressions, feel 
free to try to make this work and submit a patch.