[mythtv-users] Problems with detecting duplicate recordings due to subtle detail changes

Ant Daniel antdaniel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 15:45:39 UTC 2006


On 11/01/06, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <8e275cb70601110628s34fd5517w at mail.gmail.com>
>         Ant Daniel <antdaniel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Title: Lost
> > Episode: 24/25 - Exodus 2/3
> > Description: Drama series following the survivors of a plane crash who
> > are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a dangerous
> > world with many new threats. The column of smoke continues to billow
> > from deep in the jungle, and the survivors need to get to safety.
> > Claire must deal with the fact that the Others are after her baby.
> >
> > Title: Lost
> > Episode: Exodus Part 2
> > Description: Drama series following the survivors of a plane crash who
> > are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a dangerous
> > world with many new threats. The column of smoke continues to billow
> > from deep in the jungle, and the survivors need to get to safety.
> > Claire must deal with the fact that the Others are after her baby.
> >
> > In this case the obvious problem is the Episode. Throughout the series
> > the main difference here has been the nn/nn part in the Title.
>
> I've patched tv_grab_uk_rt to remove the episode number from the
> subtitle and output them as proper episode numbers in the XML instead
> which resolves these problems (though there are others with the
> Radio Times data).
>
> I did submit the patch to the xmltv guys a while back but haven't
> heard anything about it.
>
> Tom
>
> --
> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> http://www.compton.nu/

That would help. I just checked my machine and I'm on an older version
of xmltv. I will update and see if that helps. Unfortunatly Lost
session 1 is coming to an end so all that lovely test data is lost :(

Ant.


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