[mythtv-users] MythmetadataLookup again

[Stefan D]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/16/2011 12:38 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Stefan D wrote:
> >>> That is what was a little confusing for me, since that information says
> >> exactly which episode and season it is. And i couldn't understand why
> that
> >> information is not valid to find what episode and season the recording
> is,
> >> episode 11, season that started airing 2010. But what is logical to a
> human
> >> isn't the same thing to a computer or that is not information that
> thetvdb
> >> API supports.
> > There are multiple problems-- the field is subtitle, not "description of
> > what season and episode and year it is."
>
> In other words, the season and episode information belong in other
> fields--specifically the <episode-num> element--and the year of
> broadcast belongs in the "start" attribute of the <previously-shown>
> element.  See
> http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd .
>
> If you're getting your data from EIT, and it really contains such broken
> data, you need to create an EIT fixup for your provider.  (Search here
> for more information on them/examples of previous commits with EIT fixups.)
>

Now, i'm using xmltv, tv.swedb.se. Maybe i should look at EIT data if that
looks better?


>
> >> (Hmm, would it be completely wrong to add "Del 11 av 23 säsong 2010", as
> >> the Swedish translation for the episode name? As it is now, there is no
> >> Swedish translation for any episode. Maybe i could check with thetvdb
> >> forum. Because then it would work, yes?)
> > Yes, it would work.  It would still be invalid data/not the correct data
> > for that field, but it would technically work.
>
> Though it might(?) break metadata lookup for anyone using Swedish with
> valid listings data (i.e. from some other source).
>
>
As it is now, no one independent of what data they use, can identify
specific episodes of House in Swedish since the episode name is empty in
thetvdb.org. If i understand everything right i cant break anything for
anyone else.


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