[mythtv-users] setting up Video Library

[Raymond Wagner]

On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:50, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 21:18 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> 
>> > You can store an inetref against a recording rule, so recordings will
>> > automatically pick up the correct series, but when searching for "Family
>> > of Blood", the TheTVDb API returns nothing, so there's simply nothing
>> > beyond manual intervention we can do on this end.
>> 
>> Looks like I need to play around and figure out what an "inetref" is.
>> 
>> It also appears that I chose a particularly bad example to test with.
>> The Doctor Who episodes aren't really the things I want to save in the
>> Video Library, as they are continually rebroadcast and can always be
>> re-recorded ("it's only TV" :-) and they seem to have worse-than-most
>> problems with the metadata. I just picked these because I have a lot of
>> them on the recordings list at the moment. I may try with some other
>> series (e.g. "Downton Abbey") and see how that works.
> 
> This is the link for the episode mentioned above:
> 
> http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78804&seasonid=16353&id=327378&lid=7
> 
> I believe the 'id' is what you want for inetref, in this case 327378. Bascially, for shows that don't get automatically populated, go to the website, find the correct one, and manually enter the inetref. Then it should work.

For television shows, the inetref is the identifier for the whole series, not the specific episode.  Shows are identified by their series, season number, and episode number.
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