[mythtv-users] duplicate recordings, new card

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 02:36:50 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:51 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:36:31AM +0000, Nick Morrott wrote:
>> On 30/01/2009, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:06:50PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> >  > On 01/29/2009 06:06 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>> >  >> I'm guessing because the programid field is not empty, the scheduler
>> >  >> is using this information in preference to the subtitle info - and
>> >  >> determining that there are 2 unique showings of "Beating the Bully" to
>> >  >> be recorded.
>> >  >
>> >  > Yes.  If programid is present on both episodes, it is the final
>> >  > authority, regardless of specified duplicate matching method.
>> >
>> >
>> > Based on my setup, I can get 2 copies of the same show recording
>> >  at the same time just if the description is a little different.
>>
>> Are you choosing "subtitle then description" as your duplicate
>> detection method for these recordings? If consistent subtitles are
>> present, the descriptions will not be checked. However, if the
>> description field is being checked, any minor differences will result
>> in multiple scheduler matches. Consistency checking of the source
>> listings would help to prevent this situation.
>
> There are problems with only title/subtitle matching. Sometimes multi-part
> episodes will crop up. I just started poking around with this and already
> found an example of this. If I just matched on title and subtitle it looks
> like I would only record one part of "Encounter at Farpoint".
>
> Ideally, the guide source would only have keys pointing to the detail
> data for things like title, subtitle and description. Something like
> farpoint would be referenced as TNG.101.a and TNG.101.b or somesuch.
>
> "season" based rules would be very handy.

Consider yourself lucky to be getting subtitle, its mainly blank in NZ
EIT (which is where most myth boxes get their data).


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