AMC struggling with anime movies

[gimmeth]

Filebot is incorrectly sorting anime movies as anime TV shows. I believe it is due to the presence of CRC hash in the filename, and apparently it is finding some sort of weird DB entry where the movie is classified as a TV show. This is incorrect behavior though: for instance, it did this with Grave of the Fireflies - absolutely a movie that never had any sort of TV show release.

Three questions to come out of this:

1) Do you know of any way around this? I can only think there would have to be behavior in place that first checks for valid movie matches, THEN checks for anime-like characteristics to determine whether it is a western TV show or an anime.
2) I doubt what I just described is possible given the current feature set, so is it possible to disable anime detection via AMC?
3) Semi-related - is it possible to change absolute vs season ordering preference via AMC?

Thanks!

[rednoah]

1.
If you post the file name then I can have a look at seem if something can be done about this. Anime are notoriously ambiguous though.

2.

You can (and should) force Movie/TV Show/Anime mode or force ignore files via labels, e.g. label as Movie to force TheMovieDB, Series to force TheTVDB, Anime to force AniDB, or other to ignore all files. Alternatively, folder names such as Movies/TV Shows/Anime may also be used to force a specific mode.

You can't disable Anime, but you can force Movies/Series/Anime mode (via labels, depending on your setup).

3.
Anime Mode / AniDB supports absolute numbers only. Series Mode / TheTVDB with absolute numbers is a really bad idea if your files use airdate season/episode numbers, because the numbers won't match up.

[rednoah]

So I've run a few tests:


1.
This is what happens with movie/series/anime auto-detection:

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Rename episodes using [AniDB]
Auto-detected query: [From Up On Poppy Hill]
Fetching episode data for [Coquelicot-zaka kara]
[TEST] Rename [[Doki]_From_Up_on_Poppy_Hill_(1920x1038_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[8CD1FE1F].mkv] to [Anime/Coquelicot-zaka kara/Coquelicot-zaka kara - 01 - Complete Movie.mkv]
Rename episodes using [AniDB]
Auto-detected query: [Grave of the Fireflies]
Fetching episode data for [Hotaru no Haka]
[TEST] Rename [[Doki]_Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(1280x692_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[4F3DACFE].mkv] to [Anime/Hotaru no Haka/Hotaru no Haka - 02 - Part 1 of 2.mkv]

That's pretty much as good as can be expected. From Up On Poppy Hill / コクリコ坂から / Coquelicot-zaka kara is a perfect match, and Grave of the Fireflies / 火垂るの墓 / Hotaru no Haka is pretty good as well, since it got the Anime correct, and considering it's split into multiple episode entries on AniDB none of which match the filename.


2.
This is what happens if --def ut_label=Movie is set to force movie mode:

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Rename movies using [TheMovieDB]
Auto-detect movie from context: [[Doki]_From_Up_on_Poppy_Hill_(1920x1038_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[8CD1FE1F].mkv]
[TEST] Rename [[Doki]_From_Up_on_Poppy_Hill_(1920x1038_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[8CD1FE1F].mkv] to [Movies/From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)/From Up on Poppy Hill (2011).mkv]
Rename movies using [TheMovieDB]
Auto-detect movie from context: [[Doki]_Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(1280x692_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[4F3DACFE].mkv]
[TEST] Rename [[Doki]_Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(1280x692_Hi10P_BD_FLAC)_[4F3DACFE].mkv] to [Movies/Grave of the Fireflies (2005)/Grave of the Fireflies (2005).mkv]

3.
I was considering checking for a perfect movie match like From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) to override the CRC32 checksum Anime rule. The the file names don't contain the movie year, so it wouldn't help in this case anyway.

For tricky/ambiguous cases like this you'll have to use label to tell the amc script what you want, but you should be doing that anyway to avoid bad matches.