TV Searches

TBC

Movie Searches

For movies Oversight uses the following searches:

ONLINE_NFO

Searches nfo files at bintube and binsearch websites.
Excellent for scene release filenames.
OK for movies with distinctive titles in the filename.
Bad for movies with filenames consisting of a few common English words. eg Wanted.avi
Bad for remakes with smae titles.

IMDBTITLE

Extracts the main keywords from the title , removes any format info (eg DVDRip),

and then searches the web for those words and "imdb" and picks the first one.

Good for movies with distinctive titles in the filename.
Hit an Miss for Remakes unless the year is specified in the filename.
Poor for Scene release filenames.

IMDBLINK

Extracts the main keywords from the title , removes any format info (eg DVDRip),

and then searches the web for those words and "imdb" ,and selects a link which occurs significantly more often than other links.

OK for scene releases.
Good for movies with distinctive titles in the filename.
Good at not picking anything if it can be confused with a remake. (Low false positives but then needs another search method to finish the job)

IMDB

Similar to IMDBLINK but only searches the imdb.com site via a public search engine. This is more tolerant of unknown formatting info in the file compared to using IMDB's own search - which can throw up odd results eg..

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=transformers+2+2009 vs http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=transformers+2+2009+site%3Aimdb.com