[mythtv-users] Changes to tmdb? Video details lookup failing.

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

> >> I typically name all my video files with the title and year, and
> >> historically this has nearly eliminated any issues where I had to
> >> manually scan for details and select the proper movie from a list.
> >>
> >> However I just noticed today that in most cases, my queries fail.  A
> >> quick jaunt to the tmdb page, and searching using "wild bill 2011" for
> >> example, fails.
> >>
> >> Was there a change recently to tmdb or mythtv that would cause the
> >> lookups to fail.  Is there new advice on file naming that will help
> >> insure a successful scan?
> >
> > TMDB v2 API is no longer available, you've got to use tmdbv3.py. The
> > issue with this, is that TMDB also doesn't find any results when you
> > search a title and it includes the year (such as "wild bill 2011", go
> > ahead and try it on their website). The new V3 API accepts the year,
> > which is exactly what we want. The issue is that there is no way for
> > MythTV to know via a filename if part of the filename is the year it
> > was released. Ideally, we'd be allowed to put it in parentheses (such
> > as "wild bill (2011)"), but currently MythTV strips out everything in
> > the parentheses.
> >
> > Unfortuantely, I don't know of a workaround for this other than
> > manually entering the inetref into mythtv before doing the scan.
>
> So essentially.... we just need to parse the file name, and if it
> finds a 4 digit number at the end of the name, between 1900 and
> <current year>, assume it's a year and submit it as such.  If it
> fails, then resubmit with it in the title?
>
> I may need to dust off my python skills ;-).
>

What happens to 2012?
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