Show and Episode Lookup no metadata

#1

I recently switched from wmc with wtv files to tvheadend. I have tvheadend recording natively to .ts format… There appears to be no metadata embedded in a .ts?

I have spent some time trying to get mcebuddy to find the metadata online successfully (and can as long as it is simply showname - s01e01) however if there is any additional information the lookup fails. My tvheadend output is something like… showname - s01e01 - channel name - record date.ts

What happens is that any additional information gets added to either the showname or the subtitle field causing mcebuddy to fail to look up the proper information online.

I used a mass renamer to remove all additional information from the file names… and end up with just showname s01e01 however I end up having duplicate file names as I typically have multiple recordings of the same episodes (that i later review and ensure they are properly recorded) so i would need to be able to name my pool of yet to be processed shows as showname - s01e01 -2 or (2) or [2) just to delineate a duplicate however it seems any additional characters get processed into either showname or subtitle.

i wonder if a checkbox could be added to “only use s01e01” and showname as identifier… ignore any information after s01e01 is found… i could have showname - s01e01 - anythingiwantbutitisignoredbymcebuddy.

Perhaps when mcebuddy finds special characters it could remove them AND what is inside. for example i tried doing as follows [02] showname s01e01 and mcebuddy removed the [ ] and the showname became 02 showname

Thank you!!

#2

We constantly update MCEBuddy to support new naming conventions. If you can provide us with sample naming conventions for the following we can see how to add support for it:

  1. Series shows (those with season / episodes)
  2. Movies
  3. Sports
  4. News
  5. Documentaries / etc
#3

Thank you for the reply! it isn’t even so much requesting a new naming convention, it’s more of trying to focus mcebuddy to “latch on” to even just showname and season/episode information and EXCLUDE other erroneous data in the string. It seems now that any additional text in the naming scheme that is not show name, subtitle, season/episode, original air date, gets “glued” to whichever of those variables it is nearest to.

#4

for example original showname [12] Carnival Eats gets passed to lookup as 12 Carnival Eats

–> No match found, checking for special characters in the Title
–> Found special characters in the Title, trying to match Title information after removing special characters : 12 Carnival Eats
–> No match found, checking for special characters in the Title

#5

2019-10-04T12:45:13 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Trying to match nPVR/SiliconDust series showname -> 23_Carnival Eats-S04E14
2019-10-04T12:45:13 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Looking for Season/Episode information in text
2019-10-04T12:45:13 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Pattern 1, Found Season/Episode information in text, Season:4, Episode:14
–> Looking for Premiere Year information in text
2019-10-04T12:45:13 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Successfully matched nPVR/SiliconDust series filename metadata
2019-10-04T12:45:13 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData --> Video Tags extracted from file/name metadata ->
Title: 23_Carnival Eats
SubTitle:
Description:
Network:

#6

MCEBuddy needs a pattern to match.

However it also allows you to define your own title correction patterns in the Metadata correction button Conversion Task -> Expert Settings page using a simple wildcard pattern or if you want more control you can use a Regex pattern match and correction.