[mythtv-users] EIT vs. Radio Times listings

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sun Jan 9 22:08:26 UTC 2011


Alex Tomlins wrote:

>I'm based in the UK, and currently using EIT for listings info. 
>This is working well in most cases, but for some shows the duplicate 
>detection doesn't work very well.  This is usually due to the 
>descriptions being slightly different (and no subtitles present).
>
>I was wondering if switching to using xmltv with the Radio Times 
>grabber would be better in this regard.

Doubt it - seems the same problems :( I suspect it's the same data, 
just munged via different routes.

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