GetPeopleAndCharacterListInShowInRole

[JREkiwi]

How does the this get populated?

Is there an associated api for setting these values?

John

[tmiranda]

John,

There is, but I can't remember off the top of my head and I do not have access to my Sage setup. Look at the record listener in the OSD and see what happens if the user presses Record while an Online Video is playing. If the download is a music file it adds the Artist information. I *think* that is what you are looking for.

Tom

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

John,

There is, but I can't remember off the top of my head and I do not have access to my Sage setup. Look at the record listener in the OSD and see what happens if the user presses Record while an Online Video is playing. If the download is a music file it adds the Artist information. I *think* that is what you are looking for.

Tom

Also BMT populates those fields as well but I believe on default yes sage get's it from the embedded guide metadata.

[JREkiwi]

I understand how AddShow() and SetMediaFileMetadata() populate the values that can be retrieved via GetPeopleInShowInRole(), but how would the Character part of GetPeopleAndCharacterListInShowRole() get populated?

John

[Fuzzy]

My guess is they are only populated from zap2it... probably a good recomentation to get rolled into the API for 3rd party use...

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

I understand how AddShow() and SetMediaFileMetadata() populate the values that can be retrieved via GetPeopleInShowInRole(), but how would the Character part of GetPeopleAndCharacterListInShowRole() get populated?

John

John,

Sorry, I missed the part about "CharacterList".

[JREkiwi]

Just resurrecting this before I send an email of to SageTV. Anyone discovered how the data is populated for retrieval by GetPeopleAndCharacterListInShowInRole() and the other CharacterList APIs as there's no corresponding Set commands.

John

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

How does the this get populated?

I've often wondered that myself. Actors are set via the Actors metadata, but I've never seen a property for the Characters.

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Also BMT populates those fields as well but I believe on default yes sage get's it from the embedded guide metadata.

BMT uses a fudging technigue, derived from nielm (i think) Basically, when I set the Actors I set each element to be "Real Name -- Character". Later, in code, when i build up a Cast member, I parse the Actor element for '--' and then I separate out the real name and character name.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I've often wondered that myself. Actors are set via the Actors metadata, but I've never seen a property for the Characters.



BMT uses a fudging technigue, derived from nielm (i think) Basically, when I set the Actors I set each element to be "Real Name -- Character". Later, in code, when i build up a Cast member, I parse the Actor element for '--' and then I separate out the real name and character name.

Yeah the separation is exactly what I did way back when in smw.

[Opus4]

I believe it correlates the info from the airing's detailed info for the stars and the cast member info from the Series Info (select an airing, then choose "View Series Information"), both of which SageTV gets from Zap2it. If the character name for an actor is not in the series info, you will only see the actor's name on the detailed info screen.

If your question is how or whether you could add custom actor <-> character name info to the series info for an airing... I don't know.

- Andy