[mythtv-users] Lots of upcoming "Not Listed" programs

[Nick]

On 24/10/06, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <5387cd30610231154w2cbd3fdfw11efcaad39fb8c6e at mail.gmail.com>
>         knowledgejunkie at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm finding myself creating (and replacing existing rules with) more
> > and more custom power rules to cover most/all eventualities with such
> > differences in the RT data - some showing of a series will have the
> > subtitle in the titles, others separately. Some series will have the
> > episode number in the subtitle, others will not, so basic
> > subtitle/description matching does not work.
>
> You shouldn't see episode numbers in the subtitle if you have the
> latest grabber as they put my patch in to extract them and save
> them as proper episode numbers in the XML output.
>
> There is a small bug where they occasionally miss out the spaces
> around the number which confuses it - I have a patch for that which
> I need to send in.

Please send it in. I'm using the grabber with the current
epnumber/subtitle patch and it misses most if not all Law and Order
episodes on Five and Hallmark where the subtitle is something like
"18/25-subtitle"

> I've never seen a series where the subtitle moves around either -
> there are a few shows where the subtitle is effectively in the title
> which is annoying, but it tends to be consistent in my experience.

It is normally consistent on the same channel, but I've had problems
when across channels, the subtitle has been in the title on one
showing and subtitled normally on the other. Then there's the fact
that some shows with abbreviations in their title (let's use the LAO
example again, grrr) get listed with both, so the scheduler fails to
find some showings because the titles no longer match.

I'd love to know if there's a contact at the RT so they can fix up the
data (esp when it breaks the grabber like the current FiveUS data
is...)

Nick

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