Abbreviated show names don't work for Title

[mythtv-dev@…]

When parsing the filename to create the title for the video, the system removes all dots (periods), however, when there are multiple single characters these are likely an abbreviation. Examples

House M.D G.I Joe

The issue is that when a lookup is done against tmdb, thetvdb, there is no match as what is searched is "House M D" or "G I Joe".

There are 2 ways to solve this. In the metadata Lookup, or in the logic to parse the filename. Metadata lookup would cover more areas, however, at this point, the user may have altered the name, so we should lookup exactly what they have asked.

Pull will be attached shortly.

[mythtv-dev@…]

added ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/64

this has the fix, and associated unit tests.

[Karl Egly]

I added some unit test to see how it works out, see [f8a238e076]. I'd prefer it to return "House M.D." and "G.I. Joe", but I'm not sure if that can be done without improving other cases for the worse.

[rcrdnalor]

See ​http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2014-June/365200.html for a workaround:

> for Example "Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" gets parsed as "Marvels
> Agents of S H I E L D" which does not get matched on thetvdb?

manually set the inetref or add the mistakingly parsed title as override 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ttvdb.py#User_configuration_file

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

We have moved all bug tracking to github [1]

If you continue to have this issue, please open a new issue at github, referencing this ticket.

[1] - ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues