thetvdb.com metadata questions

[craigrs84]

I haven't done anything with season/episode at this stage, but I thought I might eventually update the NextPVR database to include the season and episode info if this was included in the result returned from thetvdb.

I noticed yesterday that some of my recordings have a season # and episode # in the event_details column in the scheduled_recordings table.
I looked in my EPG file and the season # and episode # weren't there so I'm wondering if this is something NextPVR is doing? If NPVR is responsible, I wanted to report that the episode and season #s are not accurate - in the example below it should be season #32 and episode #8. Definitely not complaining; I appreciate all the work you put into this



See example below:

<Event>
<OID>1122571</OID>
<Title>Nature</Title>
<SubTitle>My Bionic Pet</SubTitle>
<Description>Prosthetics help disabled animals survive.</Description>
<ChannelOID>7168</ChannelOID>
<StartTime>2014-04-10T05:00:00.0000000Z</StartTime>
<EndTime>2014-04-10T06:00:00.0000000Z</EndTime>
<FirstRun>false</FirstRun>
<OriginalAirDate>2014-04-09T00:00:00.0000000</OriginalAirDate>
[COLOR="#FF0000"] <Season>31</Season>
<Episode>8</Episode>
[/COLOR] <Rating>TV-PG</Rating>
<Audio>stereo</Audio>
<Aspect>16:9</Aspect>
<Quality>HDTV</Quality>
<Genres>
<Genre>Episodic</Genre>
<Genre>Other</Genre>
<Genre>Series</Genre>
</Genres>
<UniqueID>EP00003054.0467</UniqueID>
</Event>

[mvallevand]

That is odd usually they are wildly off taken from the unique id. Mine show that wrong as 04 67. What is your data source?

Martin

[sub]

I noticed yesterday that some of my recordings have a season # and episode # in the event_details column in the scheduled_recordings table.
I looked in my EPG file and the season # and episode # weren't there so I'm wondering if this is something NextPVR is doing? If NPVR is responsible, I wanted to report that the episode and season #s are not accurate - in the example below it should be season #32 and episode #8.

That's definitely nothing to do with the new thetvdb functionality. If these columns are populated, it must have been the info that was in the EPG, or you're running some utility like IGL which populated it.

[mvallevand]

Nope iGL doesn't populate it, since in the standard skins nothing displays it. carpeVideo's utility might.

Martin

[craigrs84]

That's definitely nothing to do with the new thetvdb functionality. If these columns are populated, it must have been the info that was in the EPG, or you're running some utility like IGL which populated it.

Thanks. I was running guide plus for a few days so it must be a remnant of that. I thought I had cleared the EPG and reset it prior to that recording though, but I must be mistaken.

[sub]

What EPG source are you using?

[craigrs84]

That is odd usually they are wildly off taken from the unique id. Mine show that wrong as 04 67. What is your data source?

Martin

My data source is mc2xml using the microsoft feed. Can you help me to understand the UniqueId field? Is that something that can be used to translate to the actual season # and episode #, or are you saying that it is usually unreliable?

Here's a snippet taken straight from my xmltv file (which is no longer using GuidePlus):

<programme start="20140412230000 -0500" stop="20140413000000 -0500" channel="I22.28461234.microsoft.com">
<title lang="en">Nature</title>
<sub-title lang="en">My Bionic Pet</sub-title>
<desc lang="en">Prosthetics help disabled animals survive.</desc>
<date>20140409</date>
<category lang="en">Episodic</category>
<category lang="en">Other</category>
<category lang="en">Series</category>
<episode-num system="onscreen">3108</episode-num>
<episode-num system="ms_progid">1.EP000030540467</episode-num>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">EP00003054.0467</episode-num>
<audio>
<stereo>stereo</stereo>
</audio>
<previously-shown start="20140409000000" />
<subtitles type="teletext" />
<rating system="VCHIP">
<value>TV-PG</value>
</rating>
</programme>

[sub]

Yes, it's the onscreen episode-number causing this:

<episode-num system="onscreen">3108</episode-num>

[craigrs84]

oh i didn't even see that. Thanks for clearing that up.

[mvallevand]

What do Believe and Mad Men show tonight for that field?

Martin