[mythtv-users] Episode numbers in MythTV

[Nick Morrott]

On 12 August 2010 10:11, Jason Chambers <lists at purplish-monkey.com> wrote:
> On 12/08/2010 08:51, Glenn Sommer wrote:
>>
>>   <programme start="20100826003500 +0200" stop="20100826013000 +0200"
>> channel="TVK.dr.dk">
>>     <title lang="da">En fri mand</title>
>>     <desc lang="da">Anden del af krimi-serien fra 1996 med Ole Ernst
>> som den røveridømte Frank der forsøger at vende tilbage til et liv
>> uden kriminalitet.
>> Sendt første gang 25.12.96</desc>
>>     <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">2/2</episode-num>
>>     <video>
>>       <aspect>4:3</aspect>
>>     </video>
>>     <previously-shown />
>>   </programme>
>> --- STOP ---
>>
>>
>> When using mythfilldatabase, it does not seem like the episode numbers
>> gets filled into the database.
>> Looking in the program table, "partnumber" and "parttotal" are always 0
>>
>> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> What about the "syndicatedepisodenumber" column in the same table?
>
> I don't know the history behind the partnumber/parttotal fields, but I was
> checking the data after the Radio Times made changes to its format.  Like
> yourself, I was expecting that the numbers would go in partnumber/parttotal
> too.
>
> However I then found the results were actually going into
> syndicatedepisodenumber instead.  They get entered in a format of
> 'E<episodenum>S<seasonnum>'.

I am planning to work on a patch (unlikely before 0.24 comes out) that
will provide support for series/episode/part numbering when provided
by EIT or XMLTV data.

Cheers,
Nick

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