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etienne66
Joined: 02 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Movies shouldn't have an episodeTitle |
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I keep updating the TvBus.tmpl and container.tmpl, but I think this is something that should be included in the distribution.
I see several occurances where the title is used for the episodeTitle and seriesTitle is used for the title.
I don't know why the field names have been swapped around. When they are corrected, everything works fine. This might require a change to the metadata files and the MetaGenerator since the fields have been used incorrectly in the past.
If the episodeTitle is left blank then you are left with "" on the Program page, but if it doesn't exist at all it replicates the Tivo behaviour for movies.
So here are the changes for TvBus.tmpl. There is two instances of each
| Code: | <episodeTitle>$escape($video.title)</episodeTitle> |
to | Code: | #if $video.episodeTitle
<episodeTitle>$escape($video.episodeTitle)</episodeTitle>
#end if |
| Code: | <title>$escape($video.seriesTitle)</title> |
to | Code: | <title>$escape($video.title)</title> |
The change for the container.tmpl is so that the episodeTitle will be shown when the program is not in a root folder and show the title when it is. Again this replicates the Tivo behaviour.
Change to the container.tmpl
| Code: | <Duration>$video.duration</Duration>
<Description>$escape($video.description)</Description> |
to | Code: | <Duration>$video.duration</Duration>
#if $video.episodeTitle
<EpisodeTitle>$escape($video.episodeTitle)</EpisodeTitle>
#end if
<Description>$escape($video.description)</Description> |
Thank you for listening.
Etienne
Last edited by etienne66 on Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:06 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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krkeegan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| That seems like a good change to me. |
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etienne66
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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I made a mistake in the container.tmpl, which I updated. It should have been EpisodeTitle and not episodeTitle.
Darn case sensitivity. 
Thanks,
Etienne |
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rjmitche
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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I think this mod has been incorporated into the latest windows installer build (correct?).
If so, what should the metadata file for a movie look like to take advantage of the changes?
This is what MasterCephus' (excellent) MetaGenerator program currently creates (genre, actors, etc. removed):
| Code: | title : Shrek
episodeTitle : Shrek
movieYear : 2001
description : An ogre, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey...
isEpisode : false
seriesTitle : Shrek
starRating : x6
mpaaRating : P2 |
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krkeegan
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| etienne66 would probably be the best person to ask. But I believe that episodeTitle should be blank or omitted completely. I am not sure about seriesTitle. |
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etienne66
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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krkeegan is correct.
Movies should not have a seriesTitle or episodeTitle if you want to keep to Tivo's standard.
You can add a time field if you want or pyTivo will default to the current time. The time field is reference to when you recorded the file and affects where it shows up on your NPL if you are sorting by date. |
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philhu
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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This is a good thing
I mentioned this behavior way back in Tivo Community post days, before we got our own forums.
This works perfectly
Episodes are now treated with dbl-quotes inside folders and the show name-episode title works as expected at the root level, showing showname and episode title.
This emulates exactly as the Tivo displays it's shows |
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PeteTV
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: |
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I installed the latest wgw snapshot (May 3rd - http://repo.or.cz/w/pyTivo/wgw.git) because I noticed it fixed ticket #1158 which references this thread. Problem is, it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.
Looking at the top post in this thread, it refers to changing the "episodeTitle" and "title" tags inside TvBus.tmpl. It appears the tags were changed inside the (upper) "vActualShowing" section but not inside the (lower) "showing" section. |
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PeteTV
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| PeteTV wrote: | Looking at the top post in this thread, it refers to changing the "episodeTitle" and "title" tags inside TvBus.tmpl. It appears the tags were changed inside the (upper) "vActualShowing" section but not inside the (lower) "showing" section. |
Hmmm... Well, it appears while making the change in both places does indeed fix the problem for movies, it also removes the seriesTitle for TV Shows.
In other words, now moves have only a "Title" when displayed on the TiVo (as it should be), but TV Shows no longer have an "Episode Title"... even if one is in the Metadata file. |
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MasterCephus
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:17 am Post subject: |
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I have updated the MetaGenerator where will not print out "episodeTitle". It will print "seriesTitle" & "title" for TV shows and just "Title" for movies...
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PeteTV
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| MasterCephus wrote: | I have updated the MetaGenerator where will not print out "episodeTitle". It will print "seriesTitle" & "title" for TV shows and just "Title" for movies... |
I'm not sure that's correct. Mind you, I'm not using the MetaGenerator (I'm on a Linux system), but it looks to me that with the changes outlined above, this works for a movie:
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title : Transformers
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and this works for a TV show:
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title : Stargate Atlantis
episodeTitle : Submersion
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When this is done, a movie shows only the title at the top and starts with the "(year)" in the description. And a TV show shows the series title at the top and the description begins with "episode title" (year). |
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MasterCephus
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Code: |
title : Stargate Atlantis
episodeTitle : Submersion |
I don't think the above should be right though...from what I have seen on the wiki and through my tests, it should be:
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seriesTitle : Stargate Atlantis
title : Submersion |
I have tested this and it seems to work (I am using wmcbrine's fork, but it's a couple of versions back...)
I thought that episodeTitle didn't do anything.
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krkeegan
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah we changed title and episodeTitle, I was under the impression that the use of title was incorrect. Let me look at this real quick. |
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krkeegan
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:20 am Post subject: |
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OK, so we use:
seriesTitle
episodeTitle
Title
So Title looks like it is equal to seriesTitle for TV shows. What is title set to for movies(I don't have any on my machine right now)? |
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MasterCephus
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| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:27 am Post subject: |
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so does my new release need to be changed?
I am doing the above...
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