TV Movies not identified

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

I have a music documentary library where movies made for TV are not identified. They are on IMDB and shown as a made for TV movie. I initially set it up as movie content type, so I changed it to mixed content which I assumed would cover movies and TV and got the same results. I also assumed that if it was mixed content and used they Identify feature that I would find a reference to a TV db, but it was the same a movie content type. This was frustrating and I believe should be much more straight forward. Here are a couple of the movies:

On the Wall: Thirty Seconds to Mars (2014)

A Tribute to Les Paul (2007)

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

I suggest you keep the library as "movies" and then you use "identify" to fix the matches. Fill in the IMDB ID field and nothing else and hit "search." I have had quite good luck fixing made for TV movies that way. If you have something that is like a documentary but broadcast in multiple parts then it can often be matched as a TV show but it needs to be in a TV library in the form.

This will use TheTVDB to get matches

TV Shows <- The TV library points here

_______ShowName (year)

____________Season 01

__________________ShowName (year) - s01e01 - Optional Name.ext

__________________ShowName (year) - s01e02 - Optional Name.ext

__________________and so on for the shows in season 01

 

The sXXeYY part is very important as that is what Emby's matching works off of for TV shows.

The (year) can be left off if the name is unique.

That works for me with very rare exceptions.

I keep the made for TV movies in my movie library and my TV documentaries or mini-series in my TV directory. I guess you could use "mixed" content but I do not trust that library type for anything.

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

Thank you for the suggestion, but that is what I first tried. What you will find is that Emby does not do a IMDB lookup and depends on another DB to have the IMDB id, so even though you have the IMDB id it doesn't help.

[Happy2Play 9783]

What providers do you have enabled?  I just tested "A Tribute to Les Paul (2007)" and it does not appear on TMDB or TVDB, but does appear on OMDB.

Actually they both only appear on OMDB.  But relatively no data.

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{"Title":"A Tribute to Les Paul","Year":"2007","Rated":"N/A","Released":"01 Feb 2007","Runtime":"N/A","Genre":"Music","Director":"Hank Lena","Writer":"N/A","Actors":"N/A","Plot":"N/A","Language":"English","Country":"USA","Awards":"N/A","Poster":"N/A","Ratings":[{"Source":"Internet Movie Database","Value":"7.7/10"}],"Metascore":"N/A","imdbRating":"7.7","imdbVotes":"N/A","imdbID":"tt0804911","Type":"movie","DVD":"N/A","BoxOffice":"N/A","Production":"N/A","Website":"N/A","Response":"True"}

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by Happy2Play

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

Thanks. It didn't occur to me to activate additional DBs. I added OMDB for all the categories, but after a complete metadata refresh it still is not picked up. Still no casts & crew or image. That doesn't make sense. There was plenty of metadata for On the Wall in the OMDB.

[Happy2Play 9783]

There are none listed on the provider for A Tribute to Les Paul (2007) as shown above.  But for On the Wall: Thirty Seconds to Mars, yes there is more info, but no images for either.

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{"Title":"On the Wall: Thirty Seconds to Mars","Year":"2014","Rated":"N/A","Released":"25 Feb 2014","Runtime":"46 min","Genre":"Music","Director":"Andrew McAllister","Writer":"N/A","Actors":"Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, Tomo Milicevic","Plot":"Behind-the-scenes of one of music's most celebrated rock bands. Join us, as we hit the road with Oscar-nominated actor and front man Jared Leto, and his fellow band-mates, Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic. Our cameras are embedded with Thirty Seconds to Mars, as they tour through Colorado, Utah, and Northern California, before returning home for a once-in-a-lifetime headlining concert from the legendary Hollywood Bowl. Along the way, you'll be given an all-access pass to the LoveLustFaithDreams World Tour, and treated to insight from the band, interviews with the crew, a pit stop at a local radio station, a motorcycle adventure, interactions with a cult-like fan-base, and much more. Plus, you'll get front row seats to performances at The Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, The Great Saltair in Magna, Utah, and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. ON THE WALL: THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS is a slice-of-life documentary and rock concert rolled into one. And you can only see it on AXS TV. Produced by Carson Daly Productions and Striped Blazer Productions in association with AXS.","Language":"English","Country":"USA","Awards":"N/A","Poster":"N/A","Ratings":[],"Metascore":"N/A","imdbRating":"N/A","imdbVotes":"N/A","imdbID":"tt3563864","Type":"movie","DVD":"N/A","BoxOffice":"N/A","Production":"N/A","Website":"N/A","Response":"True"}

@Luke is the overview suppose to cut off?  And no director/actor (people) added to the item.  Information only exists via OMDB.

[Luke 42081]

Is the full overview in the metadata editor?

[Happy2Play 9783]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Is the full overview in the metadata editor?

No the same appears.  Have not really done any testing with only OMDB to see it it happens on all OMDB metadata but will test a couple items and update in a few.

[Happy2Play 9783]

@Luke I see what is happening with Plot/overview.  The plugin is using Short plot where above json is Long.

here is Short

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{"Title":"On the Wall: Thirty Seconds to Mars","Year":"2014","Rated":"N/A","Released":"25 Feb 2014","Runtime":"46 min","Genre":"Music","Director":"Andrew McAllister","Writer":"N/A","Actors":"Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, Tomo Milicevic","Plot":"Behind-the-scenes of one of music's most celebrated rock bands. Join us, as we hit the road with Oscar-nominated actor and front man Jared Leto, and his fellow band-mates, Shannon Leto and ...","Language":"English","Country":"USA","Awards":"N/A","Poster":"N/A","Ratings":[],"Metascore":"N/A","imdbRating":"N/A","imdbVotes":"N/A","imdbID":"tt3563864","Type":"movie","DVD":"N/A","BoxOffice":"N/A","Production":"N/A","Website":"N/A","Response":"True"}

Still not sure on People in this example though.

Edited July 9, 2020 by Happy2Play

[Happy2Play 9783]

Tried a regular movie and no actors/people were written to nfo/database from OMDB data.  

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{"Title":"Bumblebee","Year":"2018","Rated":"PG-13","Released":"21 Dec 2018","Runtime":"114 min","Genre":"Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi","Director":"Travis Knight","Writer":"Christina Hodson","Actors":"Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Jason Drucker","Plot":"On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, Charlie Watson discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.","Language":"English","Country":"China, USA","Awards":"2 wins & 11 nominations.","Poster":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjUwNjU5NDMyNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNzgxNjM2NzM@._V1_SX300.jpg","Ratings":[{"Source":"Internet Movie Database","Value":"6.8/10"},{"Source":"Rotten Tomatoes","Value":"91%"},{"Source":"Metacritic","Value":"66/100"}],"Metascore":"66","imdbRating":"6.8","imdbVotes":"127,245","imdbID":"tt4701182","Type":"movie","DVD":"02 Apr 2019","BoxOffice":"N/A","Production":"Paramount Pictures","Website":"N/A","Response":"True"}

 

[Luke 42081]

On 7/8/2020 at 9:17 PM, Happy2Play said:

@Luke I see what is happening with Plot/overview.  The plugin is using Short plot where above json is Long.

here is Short

Still not sure on People in this example though.

@Happy2Play what value do you think we should use?

[Happy2Play 9783]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

@Happy2Play what value do you think we should use?

I would have expected People (director, writer, actors) to be be written, as for Short or Long overview I personally would expect Long as the way OMDB truncates Short the overview would suggest more and you don't have anymore.

I am guessing the people by name are just currently not used from OMDB.  As long as we document this I don't see a issue.  But if OMDB is the only source there will be the question of why we did not write said available info.

[Luke 42081]

I think we may have ignored it because it's giving it to us in a comma delimited list but I'll have to review. Thanks.

[Luke 42081]

@Happy2Play yes this is exactly what's going on.