MPAA Rating Issue

[starfire]

Hi,

Just trying out BMT for the first time (previously just used IMDB plugin).

Some of my files were missing parental ratings so I used the web interace to re-scan my videos and asked it to update all files but unfortunately this seems to have set nearly all my parental ratings to "NR"

How can I get it to set them correctly? If I choose a single film I can click Find Metadata.. I then choose IMDB as the source (note I have to keep choosing this it doesn't seem to remember the setting), hit search, choose the one I want and I can see the correct parental rating has been pulled back, eg 12A. I then hit save but it resets the parenal rating to NR ?! Can you explain how this should work?

Thanks!


edit: looking at the properties file created it seems to have 2 "Rated=" entries, is that the issue?, eg:-

Director=

Director=Michael Bay

Genre=Sci-Fi/Thriller

Genre=Thriller

Genre=

Genre=Action

Genre=Action/Sci-Fi

Genre=Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller

OriginalAirDate=1123801200000

Rated=12A

RunningTime=8160000

Writer=Alex Kurtzman

Writer=

Writer=Caspian Tredwell-Owen

Writer=Caspian Tredwell-Owen;Alex Kurtzman

Year=2005

Rated=NR

ScrapedBy=Phoenix

ScrapedDate=1310640277703

[stuckless]

BMT is configured to know about the ratings that is familiar with SageTV. 12A (as far as I know is not one of those ratings). When bmt encounters a rating that it does not know about, then it discards it and uses a default rating.

[starfire]

I am in the UK, the film above was "The Island".

12A is valid BBFC rating in the UK, see http://www.bbfc.co.uk/, so I guess this is what it gets when BMT queries IMDB ?

How can I force BMT to fill in the MPAA rating (I see on imdb.com it's PG-13) instead of BBFC then?

Thanks.

[starfire]

Using this URL it gets the MPAA rating (PG-13):

http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=&t=the+island

So I think the issue is down to me being based in the UK and the BMT call to IMDB resulting in BBFC ratings being returned as IMDB detected I'm in the UK?

Any way around this please?

[stuckless]

BMT/Phoenix uses a ratings.properties file to map the ratings to a common set of ratings that SageTV knows about.

The current file looks like this..

# SageTV MPAA Ratings
G=G
PG=PG
PG-13=PG-13
R=R
NC-17=NC-17
AO=AO
NR=NR

# Custom MPAA Ratings
# Custom Rating = SageTV Rating
PG13=PG-13
PG\ 13=PG-13
NC17=NC-17
NC\ 17=NC-17

# default MPAA Rating
default/Movie=NR

# SageTV Parental Ratings
TVY=TVY
TVY7=TVY7
TVG=TVG
TVPG=TVPG
TV14=TV14
TVM=TVM

# Custom TV Ratings
# Custom Rating = SageTV Rating
TV-Y=TVY
TV\ Y=TVY
TV-Y7=TV7
TV\ Y7=TV7
TV-G=TVG
TV\ G=TVG
TV-PG=TVPG
TV\ PG=TVPG
TV-14=TV14
TV\ 14=TV14
TV-M=TVM
TV\ M=TVM
TVMA=TVM
TV-MA=TVM
TV\ MA=TVM

# default TV Rating
default/TV=TVM

If you created a file in SAGE_HOME/userdata/Phoenix/metadata/ratings.properties then you could map 12A to PG-13 (close enough) by adding this line

12A=PG-13

Or, if you'd rather, you can add 12A a valid rating to the file by adding a line like..

12A=12A

Note, you don't need to copy the existing property entries, just create a new file and add your custom entries to it.

For these changes to be picked up, you might need to restart the sagetv server process

[starfire]

Brilliant, thanks very much for your help!