Diaoul/subliminal — Issue #60: Make bierdopje_showids.cache human readible + editable
Author: rintje
Created: 2012-01-28 13:42:00+00:00
State: open

It is a known problem that resolving the TVDB show ID by show name sometimes fails, at least when using the bierdopje plugin. This may happen when the show name contains strange characters, like in Grey's Anatomy. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to steer subliminal into the right direction, other than renaming the movie files to match bierdopje show names.

However, it would be easy to fix this by editing the bierdopje_showids.cache. This would effectlively make the cache both a cache and an override config file at the same time. (maybe change the filename to bierdopje_showids). The only problem is that this file is not in an readible format (binary?)

My suggestion: change the cache file format to a simple, uncoded text format.
For example: TAB so that the file would look like:
greys anatomy	73762
grey's anatomy	73762
CSI: NY	73696
CSI NY	73696
.....