[mythtv-users] Automatically changing EIT title to title and subtitle.

[Nick Morrott]

On 13/07/2009, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We like to save our childrens recordings and now we have to export them
>  > because of the naming. Those are named like "title : subtitle" and there is
>  > not real subtitle. And those are always separate listings in the watch
>  > recordings view.It would be much easier to use If I just could change the
>  > naming automatically. I did it once with phpmyadmin, but would not like to
>  > maintain it manually. I use DVB EIT to get the program data.
>
>
> If I am understanding correctly (an example would have been useful) it
>  sounds like something the listings grabber should do.

As it's EIT related, it may be possible to use an EIT fixup within the
EIT parser and only have it affect your local/country EIT data.
However, it would likely have to be general (i.e. all titles having a
colon might be split into title and subtitle and it might effect
titles that are actually okay).

>  I am sure UK Radio Times has support for this.

It does, on a title by title basis.

A workable EIT/XMLTV suggestion would be to use on of the
tv_grab_dvb_xxx grabber(s) which grab the EIT data and dump it to an
XMLTV file. This file could then be post-processed to update
titles/subtitles before finally importing into mythfilldatabase. EIT
scanning would be turned off in MythTV itself, so you might lose any
last-minute guide updates. There's always a trade off :)

You could always write a simple BASH/SQL script that postprocesses the
data in the database too, and limit it to those program titles causing
a problem.

Cheers,
Nick

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