[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10747: [PATCH] Autogenerate originalairdate for new episode repeats

Karl Dietz dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
Sat Oct 20 06:37:22 UTC 2012


On 20.10.2012 06:21, Bradley Baetz wrote:
>> Note, also, that mythfilldatabase will always autogenerate a programid
>> from XMLTV data when safe to do so (when we have season and episode
>> information).  So, if Shepherd must stuff data directly into our
>> database instead of using mythfilldatabase like everyone else, perhaps
>> it should be fixed to do proper programid generation, like our XMLTV
>> code, instead of adding a hack in here to work around Shepherd's
>> shortcomings?
>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/programs/mythfilldatabase/xmltvparser.cpp#L525
>
> Shepherd doesn't stick anything directly into the db - it has a
> tv_grab_au script that mythfilldatabase calls. But the metadata it has

its a good thing if the finally change their default mode of operation

> access to doesn't have episode/season information, so there's not
> anything able to be used to generate an episode id. Basically, all it
> can rely on is title, subtitle (often), and (sometimes) a description.

thats funny, for my guide feed I use series title and episode title
to look up season number and episode number over at tvdb which is
available in the shepherd postprocessors, too. :-)

http://svn.whuffy.com/browser/trunk/postprocessors/tvdb_augment_data

Regards,
Karl


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