[mythtv] RFE

[Torbjorn Jansson]

On 2018-02-04 11:10, Dag Nygren wrote:
> Hi devs!
> 
> I know this might not be the right list, but hope that
> you still read it, please.
> 
> Here in Finland we have an absolute crazy way
> the TV companies sets up the titles of the programs
> as they will add the age limit in parenthesis at the end.
> Like "Survivors (12)", "Paradise Hotel (16)"
> 
> And as the age limit can be different for different episodes
> it gets really bad for the scheduling.
> 
> Say you watch something, find it interesting and press record
> to catch the upcoming episodes.
> Then if the next episode happens to have a different age rating
> it will still not be recorded :-(
> 
> So could we get a way to tell Myth to disregard everything
> in parentheses at the end of the title ?
> Or perhaps even more generic:
> Ability to add a regexp list that is always applied to the
> recording rules?
> 
> I know I can set the rules as a SQL select and that is what I have been
> doing., but this is quite messy to set up at the moment.
> 

where do you get the guide data from?
xmltv or eit?

if it is eit then it sounds like you need to write a custom eitfixup for your 
provider.
as i remember it you have one function to cleanup the eit data and there is a 
table that triggers the fixup when eit is collected on the correct network id 
or similar.
(this is just from memory, was a while since i worked on eit fixups)

if you use eit then perhaps you should swap to xmltv as guide data?
it is generally of much better quality than eit.
there is a xmltv grabber for xmltv.se already built in to xmltv and i believe 
that source of data covers a lot of scandinavian channels, not just swedish.
see: http://xmltv.xmltv.se/00index.html