[mythtv] Ticket #2677: Find One, finds them all

[John P Poet]

On 11/13/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> #2677: Find One, finds them all
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>  Reporter:  John Poet <jppoet at gmail.com>  |        Owner:  ijr
>      Type:  defect                        |       Status:  new
>  Priority:  minor                         |    Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  mythtv                        |      Version:  0.20
>  Severity:  medium                        |   Resolution:
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> Comment (by martin at longhome.co.uk):
>
>  I presume you are using the RT grabber?
>
>  Guessing here, I could be wrong, but the duplicate checking uses the last
>  4 digits to distinguish episodes within a series. The fact that these all
>  end in 0000 is probably tricking the scheduler into thinking they are
>  generic episodes, and hence is recording them all.
>
>  I suppose a suitable fix would be to be able to switch off matching using
>  programid, and only match using the title, subtitle and description - I
>  don't beleive this is currently possible. My understanding is that if
>  programid data is present, the duplicate checking method chosen will be
>  ignored and the programid data will be used irrespectively. I personally
>  use the EIT data, along with a new duplicate checking method (see ticket
>  2655).
>
>  How about a patch to switch off programid matching for a specific
>  schedule? I'm guessing it would need a schema upgrade, unless I could work
>  it using an existing column. I'll have a look into it. Any thoughts?
>  Potentially a new dup-check method could be created, but then we would
>  have a conflict as to which is the default. xx_grabber people would go for
>  the programid method, whereas EIT people would go for subtitle else
>  description / subtitle & description.

Probably the only solutions is to add another option to the Dupe
Checking.  Right now the user can select None, subtitle, description,
subtitle & description.  ProgramID is never mentioned, yet seems to
override the other options if present.

BTW, I only use data-direct for my listings.

Thanks for thinking about this.

John

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