[mythtv-users] Moving foreign TV shows to videos

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Kenneth Emerson
<kenneth.emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our local PBS channel has been broadcasting several mystery series from many
> different countries (Sweden, Germany, France, Italy).  Some examples are:
> Detective Montalbano, Don Matteo, and Maigret.  Schedules Direct has all of
> the correct information about each show (in English) which shows up in the
> Title, Subtitle and episode description.  I would like to save these
> episodes in my permanent video library and get it out of the Recordings
> directory; however, I cannot figure out how to move the English titles and
> description into the video metadata automatically.  When I try to use
> mythvidexport, it fails when (I'm assuming) it fails to find the episode in
> the TMDB in English.  Even if it could find the correct episode in the
> original language (which does exist in the TMDB), I wouldn't want the native
> language descriptions.  I currently have about 70 - 100 of these shows I'd
> like to move and would prefer not to have to enter this metadata manually.
> I'm hoping someone else in MythLand would have encountered this before and
> have some ideas on how to automate this.


They are unlikely to be in TMDB as they are TV programmes, not movies.
And all 3 series you mention have English metadata on thetvdb.com.

So if you name the episodes correctly mythtv will scrape the data.
This seems kinda wasteful given that your epg seems to give you the
correct info anyway! But it's only bits and bytes of download, so
maybe that doesn't matter.

Lucky you getting these shows!