[mythtv-commits] Ticket #6531: [PATCH] Change in mythfilldatabase to make life easier for xmltv users,

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#6531: [PATCH] Change in mythfilldatabase to make life easier for xmltv users,
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 Reporter:  anonymous                  |          Owner:  stuartm
     Type:  Patch - Feature            |         Status:  infoneeded
 Priority:  minor                      |      Milestone:  0.25
Component:  MythTV - Mythfilldatabase  |        Version:  Trunk Head
 Severity:  medium                     |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  mythfilldatabase, xmltv    |  Ticket locked:  0
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Changes (by stuartm):

 * status:  accepted => infoneeded


Comment:

 The problem I have with fuzzy matching is the potential for false
 positives which would be much more serious than false negatives here. The
 user would probably not notice the error until they started watching
 recordings and found the wrong channel was recorded. At least when
 requiring manual intervention this is unlikely to occur.

 The threshold of 0.9 is high but I'd still like to see some stats on the
 number of false positives in testing given the size of the sample (DVB-S
 in Europe would be a decent and varied sample set). This has the potential
 to be more useful than the patch attached to #9417 but only if it achieves
 an extremely low or zero error rate.

 Our preferred fix for this has always been for work to be done on
 'lineups' at the xmltv end but this appears to have stalled. If xmltv was
 responsible for matching up channel names, frequencies or service ids to
 the xmltvid then the results would be much more reliable. Therefore this
 patch would only be an interim solution at best.

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