OK, the date may be coming from TVDB, but the only changes I have made was to upgrade MCEBuddy to latest version. This was not an issue before the upgrade, so I imagine that something has changed in MCEBuddy to cause the date to be different. It “appears” that it has something to do with the time, because if I manually add in the time to the recording by renaming the file, I get the following results:
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt _20191020.mp4 - MCEBuddy labels it as 2019-10-19 (1 day early, which doesn’t match)
OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2019-10-20T00:00:00
RecordedDateTime: 0001-01-01T00:00:00 SeriesPremiereDate: 0001-01-01T00:00:00 CopyProtected: False SageTV FileID: SageTV MediaFileID: 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Checking for metadata title and ID correction 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Checking for metadata type correction 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Forcing show type -> Series INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Downloading Series details 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Overwrite title from internet -> Default INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Skipping downloading Banner file INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Recording Type Show INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Checking TheTVDB --> Looking for Premiere Year information in text --> No episode name to match --> Looking for Premiere Year information in text **--> Found series match on TVDB by Original Broadcast Date. Updated video tags -> **** Title: NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt**
** SubTitle: Oct 19 Sat
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt _20191020_18301900.mp4 (only change is to manually add 18301900 (time begin, time end) to file name). - gets labeled correctly “SubTitle: Oct 20 Sun”
OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2019-10-20T18:30:00
RecordedDateTime: 0001-01-01T00:00:00
SeriesPremiereDate: 0001-01-01T00:00:00
CopyProtected: False
SageTV FileID:
SageTV MediaFileID:2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Checking for metadata title and ID correction
2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Checking for metadata type correction
2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Forcing show type → Series
INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Downloading Series details
2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Overwrite title from internet → Default
INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Skipping downloading Banner file
INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Recording Type Show
INFORMATION> 2019-10-30T15:32:23 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Checking TheTVDB
→ Looking for Premiere Year information in text
→ No episode name to match
→ Looking for Premiere Year information in text
→ Found series match on TVDB by Original Broadcast Date. Updated video tags →
Title: NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt
SubTitle: Oct 20 Sun
MCEBuddy will then process the same exact file differently, even though the date is correctly specified in the filename, ONLY IF the time is manually added to the filename.
Per the support page:
Metadata Extraction and Renaming from Files and Downloading from the Internet
- If no embedded/extracted metadata is found, then MCEBudddy look at parsing metadata from the filename. Currently it supports the following formats:
SHOWNAME_AIRDATE_AIRTIME.<ext>where AIRDATE is in YYYYMMDD format and AIRTIME is in HHMMHHMM (Start and End) format ( AIRTIME is optional). The underscore can also be substituted with a dash.
It says AIRTIME is optional, but apparently if you don’t have it, a daily, dated program will give the wrong information (1-day prior). Not sure if it is time zone related. I am East Coast USA time zone, (GMT -4). This recording begins at 6:30pm and MCEBuddy starts working on it at 7:02pm. Appears to be a date/time bug to me.
This happens on all daily recorded dated programs:
Rachel Maddow Show
Watch What Happens Live
Thank you.