Movie ratings not correct

[davesurfer 18]

So I'm just setting up a user for my kids, and I set their user to have a maximum allowed rating of CA-G or G (General). I test this out, and find a few movies like Cloverfield that's allowed! When I look up Cloverfield, it has a PG rating. However, in Emby Theater it shows it as only CA-G, which is totally incorrect! Besides manually editing metadata every time, why is this happening and how can I prevent these movies from showing up? Thanks!

Edited August 2, 2020 by davesurfer

[Happy2Play 9785]

IMDB is not used as a source.  You have TMDB and OMDB.  Since you are showing CA-G I can assume it is coming from TMDB as they show G for Canada, but OMDB has PG-13.  Then Emby prefixes country to rating.

            LoadRatings("ca", new[] {

                new ParentalRating("CA-G", 1),
                new ParentalRating("CA-PG", 5),
                new ParentalRating("CA-14A", 7),
                new ParentalRating("CA-A", 8),
                new ParentalRating("CA-18A", 9),
                new ParentalRating("CA-R", 10),
            });

So this is a issue with the provider having a potentially lower Rating for your country.

You have options here

1. Changing the metadata download order making OMDB first, but note OMDB does not do any country translations.

2. Manually applying a custom rating.

3. Updating the rating via TMDB as IMDB actually shows Canada as 14A rating.

1&3 will require a metadata Refresh, note updating TMDB will take a little bit of time to propagate

 

[davesurfer 18]

On 8/1/2020 at 6:58 PM, Happy2Play said:

IMDB is not used as a source.  You have TMDB and OMDB.  Since you are showing CA-G I can assume it is coming from TMDB as they show G for Canada, but OMDB has PG-13.  Then Emby prefixes country to rating.

            LoadRatings("ca", new[] {

                new ParentalRating("CA-G", 1),
                new ParentalRating("CA-PG", 5),
                new ParentalRating("CA-14A", 7),
                new ParentalRating("CA-A", 8),
                new ParentalRating("CA-18A", 9),
                new ParentalRating("CA-R", 10),
            });

So this is a issue with the provider having a potentially lower Rating for your country.

You have options here

1. Changing the metadata download order making OMDB first, but note OMDB does not do any country translations.

2. Manually applying a custom rating.

3. Updating the rating via TMDB as IMDB actually shows Canada as 14A rating.

1&3 will require a metadata Refresh, note updating TMDB will take a little bit of time to propagate

 

Thanks for the reply!! I tried to look but couldn't find where to change the order so OMDB comes first. I'm fine as long as OMDB has General rating which should be fine for kids, as that will be the highest rating allowed.

[Happy2Play 9785]

1 minute ago, davesurfer said:

Thanks for the reply!! I tried to look but couldn't find where to change the order so OMDB comes first. I'm fine as long as OMDB has General rating which should be fine for kids, as that will be the highest rating allowed.

Go to Dashboard-Library and select the movie library and scroll down to "Movie metadata downloaders:".

Note there are more option if you toggle the "Show advanced settings" switch at the top also.

I also just changed the rating on TMDB.

[davesurfer 18]

Ok thanks, I put the OMDB at the top. So besides waiting for 30 days I could refresh all metadata to get it to correct itself? Is there a way to put IMDB in there as a downloader/fetcher? I like the idea of IMDB as it can't be changed by just anyone. The fact that you were able to change go into TMDB and change the rating means that at any time my ratings could change, kinda like Wikipedia lol. 

[Happy2Play 9785]

IMDB directly can not be used as they want a lot of money to use their api system.  OMDB pulls there information from IMDB, but I don't know how often they pull updates as community ratings change.  Almost all online FREE providers are community driven, just some have more rules then others.

After changing the order you should be able to just refresh the item or your entire library to get the different information.  I would test on on a few items before doing the entire library.

[davesurfer 18]

Oh right that makes sense. As long as OMDB pulls info from IMDB then that should be good enough. So I can also do this for the TV library too I'm guessing? As OMDB also does TV?

[Happy2Play 9785]

Also note I just changed my language and country for Cloverfield and Refreshed the metadata and it updated to CA-14A.

Every provider has a different update interval.

2 minutes ago, davesurfer said:

Oh right that makes sense. As long as OMDB pulls info from IMDB then that should be good enough. So I can also do this for the TV library too I'm guessing? As OMDB also does TV?

Yes you can if you like.

 

In the end it really depends on whether you want US ratings or your countries ratings dependent on availability.

Edited August 6, 2020 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42086]

18 hours ago, davesurfer said:

Ok thanks, I put the OMDB at the top.

Omdb comes with drawbacks such as smaller casts and other things so generally I wouldn't suggest putting it at the top. But if you add a few movies this way and you're happy with it, then there's no problem.