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

Graeme Wilford gwilford at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 14:41:02 UTC 2006


Tom,

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:
> >
> > 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.

Any chance you could post the patch somewhere or mail me a copy? The
latest version of xmltv I've tried (0.5.40) doesn't seem to contain
your patch and I was thinking about hacking the script myself or doing
a post-import database fixup.

Cheers,
Wilf.
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