Hi Gibble,

Yes, that is something i have in the back of my mind. I might get a release out soon (1.9), then make that an item to tackle for the the next release (1.11).

The guide grabber i use updates itself, so i may model it on how i observe it working.

BigB.

Hi all,

I've posted another revision, but if no one else has had any issues, i'm thinking i might do a release. Mainly because the old one is 4 months old. Please post if you have noticed any major issues.

BigB

PS. Thanks for all the feed back.

I second that motion.

Christ, how did you install the tmdb.pl script? I tried it on my test rig and it tossed errors.

What instructions did you follow? I'm using R5.5. Thanks!

-sTv

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RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)

What was the error? Was it on installation or execution of the script?

I assume the latter in which case you will need to update libxml2 (if I recall correctly). If it is more than this, then you should start a new thread so as not to convolute BigB's thread.

Yes, I remember xml errors during installation...but it's been a few weeks since I tried it, so I don't remember the specifics. Thanks!

-sTv

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R7.3 Backend
CPU: 1.8 GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Drives: 500Gb IDE; IDE DVD-RW
Mobo: eMachines
Tuners (Analog): PVR-250
Tuners (Digital): DCT-6200 Motorola Cable Box, HDHomeRun (OTA + cable)

bigB, we need to get you on R6 so, you can test your script! I'd be happy to include it if you like.

Hi Cecil,

What do you need from me to get this onto R6? Although the current version doesn't auto update, i would like to keep this in mind when it is added to R6.

Initial thoughts are: prohibit execution by root, and download updated versions into the home directory of the user. Both of which will be taken care of by the script.

The philosophy of the script is unmanned scheduled execution.

BigB.

PS. I really want to get a release out before adding any more features.

Version 1.9 released.

Download here
Release Notes

Enjoy,
BigB.

PS. No changes have been made since Rev 49.

I don't need anything from you other than testing them in R6. I can package the script as part of linhes-scripts.

BigB,
Found a couple of others items as I check out the latest:
1) Non-season episodes.
For example, Little Britain had "Little Britain Abroad" which in TVRage is identified as "Special" season. The scanner is confusing this with Season 1.
Link: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-4255/episode_list


2. Related to this is that sometimes "Season" is identified as "Series". I note British shows tend to use "Series" quite a lot and TVRage also uses "Series" if that was how the show was labeled. For Little Britain again it uses "Series". So I had to change the name of the directories from "Series 1" to "Season 1" to get the desired result from the scanner.

3. It would be good to have a way to exclude certain directories which may never be resolvable in any meaningful way. Given the desire is to be automatic, this may be more productive than identifying all the directories that should be done. A way be to define an "rc" file such as "/etc/mythtv-scanner-excludes.rc" or perhaps you will eventually need a generic "rc" file anyway and use a command such as "exclude:" within it. A mechanism such as rsync may also be appropriate so you can put ".exclude" files in the directory (or parent directory) of interest.

4. It would be nice to have a companion script which can reset all of the info for the files of specific directory. Using my example of Little Britain Abroad, I would like to be able to reset all of the episode info to a NULL (as if any scanner had never been run) value by specifying the directory. The reason is simplicity because the alternative is to know what the erroneous titles are and find them in Video Manager one by one.


As always, thanks for your great work!

C

Hi Christ,

Thanks for your comments.

I'll extend the functionality of mythvideo-cleaner with the ability to reset the data for a given path/file.

As for excluding a directory from the scan, the best idea i heard todate is a nfo file in the directory to be excluded.

BigB.

One more thought. I just changed some permissions to allow the "folder.jpg" to be created. Nice touch BTW.

Now typically I have my hierarchy similar to:
../TV Shows/Show Name/Season 1/S01E01 EpisodeName

the script will create a "folder.jpg" in the "Season 1" folder but it does not create a "folder.jpg" in the "Show Name" directory. For now what I have done is cimply copy one up manually to make all look "pretty"

C

Hi Christ,

It is meant to put a symbolic link in the show name folder. Looking at the code, it appears that the poster image is used instead of the folder.jpg file.

BigB.

Not quite sure what you mean by that. There was no image in the show folder; link or otherwise. I believe Video Manager will only access the covers directory for the actual media itself. Perhaps the link was not created?

Hi Christ,

Suppose:
.../Show Name/folder.jpg
.../Show Name/Season 1/folder.jpg
.covers/S01E01 EpisodeName.avi.jpg

What the script should do is
.../Show Name/folder.jpg links to .../Show Name/Season 1/folder.jpg

There was an error where it actually did this (confirmed)
.../Show Name/folder.jpg links to .covers/S01E01 EpisodeName.avi.jpg

I have fixed this problem. Not sure why you didn't get .../Show Name/folder.jpg created at all, permissions perhaps??

BigB.