Way to manually specify specific TMDB ID?

[zzqzzqzzq]

Would like a way to manually specify a specific TMDB ID, instead of autotag searching for one. (So one can have - relatively - consistent metadata, and file naming conventions)

For example...
The Korean movie "Exit" (from 2019 -- https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/572164)

Naming the file "exit.mkv", and running "autotag exit.mkv --movie --manual" returns the usual first 20 results, but none of those first 20 are the correct one. (There's 482 movies named Exit when searching site manually :-O -- So I'm not sure simply returning all results is a viable option either.)

Parsing a year from the filename might be enough too. (As searching "Exit y:2019" on the web returns 27 results, and the first result is conveniently the correct one.)

Got any thoughts?

For the time being, I've been using this tool: https://codeberg.org/PlimsollPunks/mkvtagger Which has an option to manually specify the TMDB ID if you don't like the first 20 results.. (But its an exception to work flows, yada..yada..yada..)

Thanks!

David

[jamerst]

You can include the year in the filename to narrow things down further, if you name it "Exit (2019).mkv" then it should apply the year filter when searching.

It would probably be possible to add an option to manually specify the TMDB ID if that's not enough.

It would cause problems if multiple files are passed though, if added as a command line option it would have to limit it to a single file. I guess it could be added as an extra option to the manual mode menu though

[zzqzzqzzq]

Good to know re the parenthesis, I tried the (obvious - or perhaps not) exit.2019.mkv but that didn't help.

I can see the problem if someone were to ./autotag movieA.mkv movieB.mkv -tmdbid 1234, but then again, if someone wants to such a thing, so?

The extra option inside the manual tagger is pretty much what mkvtagger does.

I dunno, I ran into the limitation once or twice and thought I'd report it.