[mythtv-users] Custom record rule not matching episodes with different (matching) title

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/07/2006 08:51 AM, Daniel Walton wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:13:54AM +0100, Nick wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The listing for this same episode on five (this coming Friday) still
>>>shows the episode as set to record, even though it has been recorded,
>>>and the subtitles are the same. However, one difference is the title
>>>in the listings for this upcoming episode is "Law & Order", not "Law
>>>and Order" that the just-recorded episode used.
>>>      
>>>
>>The search rule only determines which shows are candidates for
>>recording, but doesn't imply any grouping for dupe detection.
>>Since "L&O" and "L and O" are different series they are
>>dupe-checked independently.
>>    
>>
>Nick you could attempt to hack the mythfilldatabase code so that whenver it sees
>"Law and Order" it changes it to "Law & Order" (or the other way around if I
>have it backwards).  You would probably also want to make the same changes to
>all of the episodes in your "previously recorded" list.
>

Would be much easier to specify a script for the mythfilldatabase path 
and have the script call mythfilldatabase and then run the mysql client 
to update the program table.  Hacking the mfdb code would have to be 
done for every version of Myth you use from now until you quit watching  
L&O.

(Change oldrecorded and recorded once when you put the script in place 
and they'll be fixed forever.)

Mike