Read Metadata from Recording

[Taddeusz]

I'm trying to scrape data from thetvdb for my video conversion program. The problem I'm having is that the show title from the filename has no spaces. Putting that in as a search sends back no results. I'd like to keep this as generic as possible but I can't think of another way to get the title with spaces.

I'm trying to figure out how to read the end of a recording to retrieve the title. I could get the other data I want but I've noticed the season and episode numbers that SageTV gets are not always the most accurate. At the very least it could give me another option if I fail to find anything from thetvdb.

I'm using vb.net right now.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

I'm trying to scrape data from thetvdb for my video conversion program. The problem I'm having is that the show title from the filename has no spaces. Putting that in as a search sends back no results. I'd like to keep this as generic as possible but I can't think of another way to get the title with spaces.

I'm trying to figure out how to read the end of a recording to retrieve the title. I could get the other data I want but I've noticed the season and episode numbers that SageTV gets are not always the most accurate. At the very least it could give me another option if I fail to find anything from thetvdb.

I'm using vb.net right now.

Welcome to my hell

There are 2 things you can do...
1. Scrape the AiringID from the filename and then use the airing id to lookup the mediafile. If you are running outside sagetv, then you can use the neilm's webserver or the sagex remote apis to convert an airing id to a mediafile's title.

2. Process the CamelCase file by adding a space after each captital letter (except for the first one).

Phoenix/BMT will primarily use the first case, but will also use the second case if the first case fails.

TVDB is very picky in their search criteria. Sometimes even being 1 character off will result in no hits.

Good luck

[Taddeusz]

Well, I figured out how to do it. My original issue was that I didn't know I could get the length of the file. So, I basically read the last 8Kb of the file and then split it to an array using ";" as the delimiter and then search through that array and split each one using "=" as the delimiter searching for "Title" as the first element in the array.

I then decided that I should grab EpisodeName if ExternalID starts with "EP".

Assuming the metadata is there, now that I can pull the full title and episode name I can query thetvdb for the title. Now I just have to figure out parsing XML with vb.net.

[Taddeusz]

Great news! I figured out how to parse XML. I have all the data I need being captured from thetvdb including the poster. Now I just have to implement atomicparsley to write the metadata to the video file and I'll be golden!