[mythtv-users] Strange scheduling behavior: duplicate events in "Upcoming Recordings" in MythWeb

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/09/2010 06:48 AM, E. Westbrook wrote:
> On Sunday, I got two simultaneous recordings of "Meet the Press", both 
> apparently recorded on channel 4_1 on my pcHDTV HD3000, almost 
> identical except for start time.  Here's a dump of the 'recorded' 
> table for them:
>
> INSERT INTO `recorded` (`chanid`, `starttime`, `endtime`, `title`, 
> `subtitle`, `description`, `category`, `hostname`, `bookmark`, 
> `editing`, `cutlist`, `autoexpire`, `commflagged`, `recgroup`, 
> `recordid`, `seriesid`, `programid`, `lastmodified`, `filesize`, 
> `stars`, `previouslyshown`, `originalairdate`, `preserve`, `findid`, 
> `deletepending`, `transcoder`, `timestretch`, `recpriority`, 
> `basename`, `progstart`, `progend`, `playgroup`, `profile`, 
> `duplicate`, `transcoded`, `watched`, `storagegroup`, 
> `bookmarkupdate`) VALUES
> (1041, '2010-11-08 03:08:00', '2010-11-08 04:12:00', 'Meet the Press', 
> '', 'Scheduled: Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.); Senator Jim Demint 
> (R-S.C.); what''s next for the GOP; Anita Dunn, Ambassador Karen 
> Hughes, Marc Borial and Mike Murphy analyze the results of the midterm 
> elections and look ahead to 2012.', '', 'vs01', 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 
> 'Default', 55, '', '', '2010-11-08 03:08:16', 7723998800, 0, 0, 
> '0000-00-00', 0, 0, 0, 27, 1, 2, '1041_20101108030800.mpg', 
> '2010-11-08 03:10:15', '2010-11-08 04:10:15', 'Default', 'Default', 1, 
> 0, 0, 'Default', '0000-00-00 00:00:00'),
> (1041, '2010-11-08 03:10:00', '2010-11-08 04:12:00', 'Meet the Press', 
> '', 'Scheduled: Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.); Senator Jim Demint 
> (R-S.C.); what''s next for the GOP; Anita Dunn, Ambassador Karen 
> Hughes, Marc Borial and Mike Murphy analyze the results of the midterm 
> elections and look ahead to 2012.', '', 'vs01', 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 
> 'Default', 55, '', '', '2010-11-08 03:10:02', 7485788700, 0, 0, 
> '0000-00-00', 0, 0, 0, 27, 1, 2, '1041_20101108031000.mpg', 
> '2010-11-08 03:10:00', '2010-11-08 04:10:00', 'Default', 'Default', 1, 
> 0, 0, 'Default', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
>
> This puzzles me.  Unfortunately, I didn't happen to notice beforehand 
> what the schedule generated for this show.
>
> Any thoughts where I should dig further to understand why this happened?


Since there's no programid in these episodes, MythTV falls back to the 
rule-specified duplicate-matching method.  Because there's no subtitle, 
they will be seen as 2 different episodes for all duplicate-matching 
methods except Description.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching

Mike