[mythtv-users] Manually adding program descriptions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/27/2009 05:32 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Michael T. Dean says:
>   
>> If your listings data includes programid's (as does Schedules Direct
>> data), there will be absolutely no effect on scheduling or operation
>> of MythTV [by manually adding descriptions].  If your listings data
>> does not include programid's, adding/modifying a description can
>> affect duplicate matching until you delete the episode.
>>     
> In the case where a program only has generic programids (ends in
> 0000), which case applies?
>   

Generic programid's are programid's, so it will have no effect.  
Basically, if 2 programs are being compared and both have a programid, 
the programid is considered the definitive identifier and 
title/subtitle/description are ignored for the purpose of dup matching.

And, by default, generic episodes are always recorded, just in case, so 
dup matching is not performed on generic episodes.  Note that you can 
specifically disable recording generics with the "Exclude generic 
episodes" filter(s).

Mike