pyTivo Discussion Forum

[MasterCephus]

That's why I didn't want to use IMDB...it would be nice if they would open their data to freely distributed applications...

[MasterCephus]

So I think that movie-xml is dead. The guy who did movie-xml has teamed with someone else and the created themoviedb.org. It's in beta now and they don't have a published API just yet. So until they do, I am afraid movies will be dead in the water for now...

[PaulS]

Any chance that you might be able to take a peek at the Netflix API that they're releasing tomorrow? They're opening up their movie database for public consumption.

LINK

[MasterCephus]

At one point, I thought of redoing the MG...

I have some ideas that I would like to incorporate, but I need time. Maybe I will try to devote a little a day or so and try to go from there. If I did redo MG, I would definately make it where we could use multiple data sources. That way I could easily add another data source if one ever becomes available. That would be nice. I have some other ideas as well.

Maybe it's time to start thinking about MG version 2.

Really, I think if I do that, I might try to incorporate MG and my pyTivo Manager also....I have some ideas that maybe only I would like, but maybe others also.

[Chew]

I've been using pyTiVo for quite a while now, but I never got around to this until last night. Great app, thanks for the work.

Maybe this is a dumb question, I searched but couldn't find an answer.

Is there any way to update the app to get the TiVo to display a station logo for TV show content in the NPL? And is that even possible?

[MasterCephus]

unfortunately not...that's a Tivo thing that we can't manipulate. I am pretty sure that someone has asked this question somewhere around here and wmcbrine answered it better than I ever could.

[rdian06]

Hrmm. So you probably couldn't inject logos, but wouldn't the logos be keyed off of the channel the recording was from (relative to your Tivo guide data)?

So I have a hunch that if you set the displayMajorNumber, displayMinorNumber and callsign metadata values correctly (and pyTivo passes that data properly to the Tivo) then logos might work.

[philhu]

To set logos for programs, you would need to set the metadata to a valid channel on your tivo and build a logo 'slice' of data for a hacked tivo to process into channel logos.

I have a file of logos for almost all channels on all American service, but it would need to be customized for each specific Tivo/lineup. And loaded into a hacked Tivo that can process user data files, called 'slices'

I used to add 5-6 'channels' with program logos and would set the shows coming in to the specific 'channel' and the show logo would appear

I also had a channel showing last special guide update from my code, etc.

[joshuad156]

First, I want to so that your application is very nice for quickly and roughly putting together a metadata file.

Is there any way to have MG add the 'time' field for the metadata file, perhaps based on original air date. This way when the episodes are transferred to TiVo the date in TiVo represents the air date, and not the transfer date.

[MasterCephus]

I don't think so....that time is done by Tivo...not the metadata of the file. For instance, you watch reruns all the time. Tivo captures the time it was recorded, not the original airdate (otherwise you would have dates from the early 80's when you watch MASH). Tivo handles that. There is an originalAirDtae field that I capture, but that's for when it originally aired like you are requesting...but it doesn't (can't) work the way you want it to.

[rdian06]

[philhu]

Well, OrigAirDate is in the data from the TV DB stuff

BTW, I registered for the NetFlix API access, free, and CLEAN

They had a confirmation problem and I was told my reg will be done manually 'soon'

[joshuad156]

@MasterCephus: I think it would be convenient to have an option/setting that would cause the 'time' field in the metadata to be populated by the original air day, simply for sorting purposes.

For example, I download a whole season of episodes of some show. it's not very useful if the episodes all have the same 'datestamp' in TiVo (the day i transfered them). it seems FAR more useful to fake the recording date, as the original air date. Of course I have no idea what this may do to how soon the episode gets deleted, seeing as how my TiVo only guarantees 2 days of safety unless I change it by hand. All you have to do is set both the originalAirDate and time fields to the same data you get from TVDB.com and problem is solved.

@rdian06: That's one messed up problem you found there, and some seriously good documenting on what you found. I don't understand why they would put that functionality in there, I just can't make out a good case where it would be beneficial.

The change you describe to prevent sending the 'time' field seems like a usable solution. Much better than manually creating it every time i want to create metadata for an episode. Thanks!

[lrhorer]

[MasterCephus]

potentially.

dlfl is working with me to get the current version up and going, and I am working on a completely new version...hopefully by the first of december I will have a beta version of the new version...