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Improving runtime for tvshows
posted by RazzeSTAFFMOD on June 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM
Hey everybody,
I would really like to see better runtimes for tvshows. The main problem where it fails are specials and changes of season runtime. So the quickest patch would be to have a runtime on each episode and have a fallback to the tvshow runtime. But I think it would be even better to also have a runtime on the season. So it can check episode runtime -> empty? -> take season runtime -> empty? -> take tvshow runtime. This will vastly improve the data and be a selling point for tmdb on mediacenters and scrobble sites.
Cheers
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 5, 2015 at 10:44 AM
Hi Razze,
I actually have a ticket for per episode runtimes here. I would think defaulting this value if it hasn't been set makes sense.
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on September 30, 2015 at 6:46 PM
Also wondering if you use the real duration time of the episode, of the time of the episode + commercial breaks..
Everytime i check a show it has the "real" runtime, but for some shows i noticed that people (not mods) have edited to, for example 60 minutes, if the scheduled airtime is an hour, even though the episode is only 42-45 minutes long. I vote for the "real" runtime. :-P
Reply by Uli666
on October 3, 2015 at 9:47 AM
I agree with both Razze and Marr. Tv shows runtime should be more accurate and absolutely refer to actual duration (without commercial breaks, that can vary every time).
Reply by itachi42
on November 16, 2015 at 7:59 AM
Also episodes from Special Season such as (The Walkind Dead, Sherlock,..) they only last a few minutes but right now they registered as full 45 minutes episodes.