[mythtv-users] EIT vs. Radio Times listings

[Alex Tomlins]

On 10/01/11 11:31, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 10/01/11 11:06, Alex Tomlins wrote:
>> On 09/01/11 22:08, Simon Hobson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Ok, I did some more digging, and it seems that I don't have any
>> programid's at all.
>>
>> mysql> select count(*) from program;
>> +----------+
>> | count(*) |
>> +----------+
>> | 13536 |
>> +----------+
>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>
>> mysql> select count(*) from program WHERE programid = '';
>> +----------+
>> | count(*) |
>> +----------+
>> | 13536 |
>> +----------+
>> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>
>> Is this normal when using EIT? From searching the mailing list it would
>> seem that other UK users do get programid's when using EIT listings
>> information.
>>
>
> I switched from 0.23-fixes to 0.24-fixes, Fedora 13, ATrpms, a couple 
> of days ago.  I use EIT only.  Both before and after the switch, some 
> recordings show a Programme ID entry in Watch Recordings > I > I and 
> some don't.
>
> John P
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Thanks for the feedback.  I did a channel rescan in mythtv-setup, and 
now I'm getting some programid's though (only around 1200 out of 16000 
so far).

That should hopefully address some of the duplicate detection issues.

Going back to my original question, I'm thinking that the only real 
benefit of the RT listings over EIT is getting 14 days of data.

thanks,
Alex

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