[mythtv-users] Duplicate recordings because of bad SD data?
f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
Wed Aug 18 05:15:42 UTC 2010
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:15:05 -0500
> From: Robert Eden <rmeden at yahoo.com>
> On 8/17/2010 6:14 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> > P.S. TMS policy: If they ever air something with totally bogus
> > programid's (because they thought that an episode wasn't a repeat
> > when it actually was), will they -ever- reuse that programid on
> > the -correct- episode when -that- airs? Or are they guaranteed
> > to always gensym a new one, even if that means that there will
> > be programid's in their database that are bogus because they are
> > spurious repeats of other episodes?
> It's a safe bet TMS will never intentionally (mistakes happen!) re-use a
> program-id. If one is assigned in error, that ID is effectively retired.
Excellent! Then the upstream screwups shouldn't cause Myth to fail to
record something; redundant recording is a much softer failure mode.
Thanks again.
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