[mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is ignored?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Gregory McLean
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:48 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is
> ignored?
>
>
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
> >>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:11 PM
> >>To: Development of mythtv
> >>Subject: Re: [mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is
> >>ignored?
> >>
> >>
> >>"Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>For a program to be considered a duplicate, it must match 'title',
> >>>'subtitle' (episode) and 'description' EXACTLY.  If any of them
> >>
> >>are blank,
> >>
> >>>Myth assumes that there is no way to differentiate between
> >>
> >>shows and assumes
> >>
> >>>that they're all unique.
> >>
> >>Ahh, I see.  How unfortunate.
> >>
> >>In my case the title and subtitle are exactly the same, but the
> >>description is empty.  It would be nice if there were a setting to get
> >>it to ignore empty descriptions.  That way I could get it to treat the
> >>programs the same if title + subtitle match exactly (and both
> >>descriptions are empty).
> >>
> >>How hard do you think it would be to add this?
>
>
> One would _assume_ that the programs are duplicates if they match? To me
> the above sounds like a duplicate. Both descriptions are empty and the
> titles and subtitle are the same unless I'm missing some subtle thing
> somewhere.

Myth checks for all three fields matching and non-NULL to be considered a
duplicate.

-JAC