[mythtv-users] Manually adding program descriptions

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 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...

Very cool...thanks for all the info.  I might write a quick perl or
php web ui in the mean time.

>
>>> 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

In the case of the programs I was specifically interested in, they air
tonight and still have no description even on zap2it.com.  I think
this is because the subject of those shows can occasionally change
last minute depending on current events.  Lately they almost never
seem to even attempt to publish a description by air time.

Thanks again.

Tom