[mythtv] Schedules Direct Original Air Date not longer correct

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:03 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> The correct solution is probably to modify mythfilldatabase such that it sets originalairdate to the airdate, if originalairdate is not valid and previously shown is false?

That would be one approach, although I
admit to not having enough examples of
XMLTV sources to know if that would
cause more/differnet problems.

I would suggest the true correct solution
is to determine what is necessary for
"proper" scheduling(*), and then insure
that the sources can provide that
information.

That might require a formal proposal
to the EIT standardization committees
and/or the XMLTV project to accept and
provide a new optional entity (original-airdate,
or a new-episode tag for XMLTV?)).

The easiest solution is often over-record
(if in doubt, record).  You can never go
wrong recording too much, but can easily
go wrong recording too little.




(*) Proper is always in the eye of the
beholder, but I suspect we can mostly
achieve a essential consensus across
all projects that wish to record content.