[mythtv-users] duplicate shows being recorded
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 12:27:28 UTC 2008
On 02/09/2008, James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2008, at 4:29 PM, David Watkins wrote:
>
> > 2008/8/23 James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org>:
> >> Has anyone noticed lately a lot of duplicate shows being recorded? I
> >> have been getting a ton of them and went into the schedule and it is
> >> set for dup detection on subtitle and description.
> >
> > I find that matching on subtitle *then* description is more likely to
> > do what I want.
>
>
> That is how I have been running since day one. Something has happened
> lately. I have to go in a manually say never record on a bunch of
> shows. One just recorded the same show twice in one week. I have not
> changed anything so it must be the guide data. The only thing I can
> see but don't know if it has changed is at the end of the Description
> it has 'CC, Rerun' added. I don't know if that has always been part of
> the description or if it comes from other flags and is being added by
> Myth. I get the data from SchedulesDirect.org
If the subtitle and description information match, do the problematic
showings have different episode IDs in the listings data. I have no
direct experience of SD, but recall that the episode ID can be used
/before/ the subtitle/desription is taken into account.
Nick
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