[mythtv-users] mythvidexport questions

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/25/2014 11:06 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> Question #1: Do I have to create all the subdirectories manually?

Assuming it has permissions to do so, it will create sub-directories as 
needed.

> JOBID=10854
> TITLE=Doctor Who
> SEASON=0
> EPISODE=0
> SUBTITLE=The Girl in the Fireplace
> 2014-02-25 07:03:38.744343 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Using recording --
> Doctor Who - The Girl in the Fireplace
> 2014-02-25 07:03:38.749982 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Attempting TV
> export.
> 2014-02-25 07:03:47.314381 I [5805] mythvidexport.py Falling back to
> generic export.

The original Doctor Who, and the Doctor Who starting from 2005 onward, 
are broken into two separate series.  Since the title "Doctor Who" is an 
exact match for the first series, it is attempting to find an episode 
named "The Girl in the Fireplace", failing, and falling back to a 
generic export, which defaults to just the title.

http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/121-doctor-who
http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/57243-doctor-who

> I get a similar result of
> "Videos/Masterpiece Classic.mpg" when trying to export an episode of
> "Downton Abbey".

Can't explain that one, but it's probably a similar situation.

> Question #2: Where does the metadata actually come from?

It's pulling the data from your defined television and movie metadata 
grabbers. Unless changed from their defaults, those will be pulling data 
from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org, respectively.

> The most
> hilarious one was attempting to export a Saturday Night Live episode,
> and having it go to "Movies/Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking
> Truth.mpg" (unfortunately I'm not joking). Here's the output from that
> one:
>
> ==============================================================
> JOBID=10857
> TITLE=Saturday Night Live
> SEASON=0
> EPISODE=0
> SUBTITLE=
> 2014-02-25 08:56:53.994347 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Using recording --
> Saturday Night Live -
> 2014-02-25 08:56:54.002832 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Performing Movie
> export with local data.
> 2014-02-25 08:56:56.314946 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Import complete
> 2014-02-25 08:56:56.315290 I [7857] mythvidexport.py Copying
> myth://Default@mongoliad.gregandeva.net/1653_20140202053400.mpg to
> myth://Videos@mongoliad.gregandeva.net/Movies/Texas Chain Saw Massacre:
> The Shocking Truth.mpg

This one is actually the fault of MythTV's internal metadata library. 
There's an issue that periodically pops up where it will match a TV 
series on thetvdb, fail to match the specific episode, and then pull 
metadata using that id from themoviedb.  Saturday Night Live and Texas 
Chain Saw Massacre are both id 76177 on their respective sites. 
According to the logs, mythvidexport saw that metadata had already been 
pulled for the recording, and just used that.

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=76177&lid=7
http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76177