[mythtv-users] subtitle matching rule not working

[Bill Williamson]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Michael T. Dean<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2009 08:10 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:
>>
>> We have a new channel in AU called "Go!" which is showing reruns.  I
>> have a rule set up for Seinfeld as "any time any channel" and "match
>> duplicates using subtitle."
>>
>> The show shows up in the list as:
>> Seinfeld: "The Watch"
>> and so on, so it has a subtitle.  Despite this it will NEVER match
>> duplicates.
>>
>> How can I debug this?  I've also tried "subtitle then description"
>> which made no changes.
>
> Have you actually recorded that episode with that subtitle, yet?  If not,
> it's not yet a duplicate.  If so, I'd guess your old recorded episode and
> the new program listings episode both have programid's (that differ), so
> it's not seen as a duplicate.


They don't match as dupes on the upcoming recording screen, and myth
records all of them every time. (so I'll have 2-3 of each episode
already recorded)

Why should program ID matter when I tell it to match via subtitle?  I
know that shepherd is very dicky with its programids...