[mythtv-users] Manually adding program descriptions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/27/2009 12:06 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know of any ramifications or altering/adding descriptions
>> on recorded programs in the recorded table?
>>     

If your listings data includes programid's (as does Schedules Direct 
data), there will be absolutely no effect on scheduling or operation of 
MythTV.  If your listings data does not include programid's, 
adding/modifying a description can affect duplicate matching until you 
delete the episode.  However, if the shows generally don't have 
descriptions, it's likely they're "generics" in which case it will have 
no impact on duplicate matching.

Currently there is no UI for changing descriptions, so the only real 
ramification of changing the descriptions is all the ramifications that 
go along with directly editing the contents of the DB.

Note that I'm hoping to find time to add a UI for editing descriptions 
before 0.22 is released...

>> The only obvious thing I could think of would be recording schedules,
>> but assuming there are no schedules affected by the change, are there
>> any problems this might cause?  Specifically, I have a backlog of
>> "Bill Moyers Journal" and "NOW on PBS" which I have set to record in
>> the same time slot each week.  More often than not, they have no
>> description and I'd like to add them.
> I am not sure about this however, I see that if you do a
>
> mythfilldatabase --refresh today
>
> daily that the descriptions will be correct most of the time. When its
> 2 weeks ahead some programs do not have this information.

But tomorrow's listings are always downloaded, so the only way there 
could be a difference between using --refresh-today and not is if they 
actually add the descriptions the same day the show airs (technically at 
some point after you downloaded descriptions yesterday, but before 
now).  Of course, there would also be a difference if you don't run 
mythfilldatabase every day, but anyone in the US should be running it 
every day for best results.

Mike