[mythtv-users] Manually adding program descriptions

[John Drescher]

>> 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.
>

I have not investigated but I have noticed this helps with my SO's
favorite show (soap opera). Before I added this 90% of the time I got
a generic description instead of the episode description.

John