[mythtv-users] Scheduling program across multiple days

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/24/2008 06:04 PM, Anthony Arobone wrote:
> I've been running some version of 0.21 for a while now.  But they all 
> seem to generate the same problem.  First I was on svn18314 and now I 
> went back to svn18116, both seem to be messing with the programming 
> schedules on one particular channel, 69-1, which is KSWB-HD or 
> FOX-HD.  The scheduling data it pulls from SchedulesDirect is correct, 
> but within 9 minutes later it becomes corrupted and shows one program 
> with a schedule that spans multiple days.  Almost like mythtv is doing 
> some post processing??  Has anyone seen anything like this?  I'm 
> wondering if there is something in my DB that is maybe messed up since 
> I only ever see it happen on this one channel, and strangly enough 
> only ever seen it happen on Tuesdays (when i'm trying to record House).
>
> If there is anything I can provide to help out please let me know. 
>
> When I run mythfilldatabase I can see the correct schedules for all 
> the programs on that day.  And like I said above, if I wait about 10 
> minutes, then look at the schedules again one program get's spanned 
> across multiple days, which in turn makes all the rest of the programs 
> for that day disappear.  I've linked to a couple of images from when 
> it has happened.  691-correct is just after mythfilldatabase has 
> finished, and 691-error is 9 minutes after that.  The last link is 
> from today.  So weird.

Sounds like you have EIT enabled on that channel and you're getting (the 
usual) garbage (you'd expect in the US).  You can't use both Schedules 
Direct/XMLTV /and/ EIT on the same channel.

Check mythtv-setup carefully and disable EIT (on both the video source 
and channel(s) ideally).

Mike