I tried out using the tvdb.com and initial matching rate is pretty impressive.
- 294 series out of 514 matched with imdb.com_series
- 349 series out of 514 matched with tvdb.com
- 389 series out of 514 matched with tvdb.com and imdb.com_series combined.
<site movies="imdb.com.bing,imdb.com.imdb" series="tvdb.com,imdb.com.imdb_series"></site>
- 394 series out of 514 matched with tvdb.com and imdb.com_series combined with title/subtitle alterations prior to process.
To boost the number of matchings I alter a few guide.xml titles and subtitles prior to mdb processing through script. Unfortunately the some of the grabbed titles and subtitles needs some changing in order to get matches. Without change there is a no-match for sure. Would be nice if it was possible to do that in WG++ too? Some samples via some arrays of mine:
Titles_to_modify := {"American Chopper": [": The Series"] ;appends ": The Series" to title
, "Gold Rush": [": Alaska"] ;appends ": Alaska" to title
, "CSI": [": Crime Scene Investigation"] ;appends ": Crime Scene Investigation" to title
, "Castle": [" (2009)"] } ;appends " (2009)" to title
Titles_to_exchange := {"Gold Divers": ["Bering Sea Gold"] ;exchanges "Gold Divers" to "Bering Sea Gold"
, "Top Gear USA": ["Top Gear (US)"] ;exchanges "Top Gear USA" to "Top Gear (US)"
, "CSI NY": ["CSI: NY"]
, "CSI Miami": ["CSI: Miami"] }
Titles_to_exchange_back := {"Bering Sea Gold": ["Gold Divers"] } ;exchanges "Gold Divers" to "Bering Sea Gold"
Sub_titles_to_modify := {"American Chopper": ["Part"] ;removes "Part" from sub-title
, "Friends": ["T.O.W", "The One with"] } ;replace "T.O.W" with "The One with"
Anyway 394 out of 514 matched is very good considering 57 was a no-match (due to wrong title/subtitle from source site or the series simply doesnt exist in either database) and 63 probably are re-runs.
- I were hoping the annoying "Error downloading page. The operation has timed out." that makes the mdb processing take the triple amount of time it should, was gone when using tvdb.com, but it is still there. Somebody explained the timeouts on imdb site was countermeasures against bottraffic, but that cannot be true, cuz if so thetvdb has it too. Even though mdb processing with tvdb.com is much faster compared to if using imdb.
- Most importantly episode output does not have the same format as the output for imdb.com_series.
imdb = s4e10
tvdb = S4 E10 and it can also be S4 E10.0
Could the different formats be unified? Preferably to imdb format, cuz my scripts already uses it.
Regards
Jagad