[mythtvnz] Testers needed for MythKiwi Bulk Meta Grabber program

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Initial reaction - it needs to better identify what is a TV show.
>
> for example stargate.atlantis.s02e13.critical.mass.ws.dvdrip.xvid-saints.avi
> is not picked up as a TV show.

similarly brideshead.revisited.e09.orphans.of.the.storm.xvid.ac3.avi
a very british coup #2.avi


then as it is doing processing i get a whole swag of:

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /var/lib/mythtv/videos/The Kenny Everett Television Show -
Series 3/The Kenny Everett Television Show - S03E04.avi.
File not found: '/var/lib/mythtv/videos/The Kenny Everett Television
Show - Series 3/The Kenny Everett Television Show - S03E04.avi'
Failed to open /var/lib/mythtv/videos/The Kenny Everett Television
Show - Series 3/The Kenny Everett Television Show - S03E04.avi.


Exiting... (End of file)
mv: cannot stat `00000001.jpg': No such file or directory


Does it matter that I am not doing it on a the backend? I guess that
would throw up such errors.

>
> Have you ever considered using thetvdb.com (which has a well defined
> api) and/or themoviedb.org (ditto).
>
> Imdb apparently doesn't like scraping which is why myth is moving to
> tmdb. See recent discussion in mythtv-user mailing list.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Hayden Lovett <hayden.lovett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need some testers with MythVideo collections to try out a new program I
>> have just released called MythKiwi Bulk Meta Grabber.
>>
>> It uses Ryan Pisanis IMDB.com grabber for the movies and Steve Adeffs
>> TVRage.coms grabber for the TV shows.
>> It will automatically detect if the video has SxxExx format (The Simpsons
>> S10E04.avi) and use the appropriate script to grab the plot, duration,
>> rating...  and generates a poster for the TV shows using MPlayer.
>> There is a set and forget option which makes best fit for each video so you
>> don't need to sit in front of your computer hitting enter after each video.
>> Dam useful for large collections.
>>
>> Let me know how it goes.
>>
>> Download here or in the Downloads section at mythkiwi.com
>>
>>
>>
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