[mythtv-users] Is SeriesID field of program used for anything?

[Xander Victory]

> The seriesid is automatically generated using an ELF hash of the title 
> when importing XMLTV data.  It must be a unique value for a given 
> title, or--if possible--unique for a given series.
This is my current situation - the guide data (Australian Freeview) 
supplies a series CRID (much the same as the UK), my grabber sends this 
to mythtv in the xml, mythfilfilldatabase uses it with the patch i made 
for it. (I'm still on 0.24 btw)

>
> Note that it's generally not used for scheduling
This is mainly what I wanted to know; does ANYTHING else use the value?

> Note that seriesid is not used for duplicate matching.  Instead 
> programid is used.  See  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching
Sorry if I confused, I know that programid is used for that.

Currently, if NO season/episode info is available (and it's not a 
movie), my grabber outputs <episode-num 
system="dd_progid">crid://whatever_network_said</episode-num> - thus 
removing to issue of them having none generated by mythfilldatabase
Conversely if there IS season/episode info that it finds and outputs, 
the dd_progid element is left out, leaving mythfilldatabase to generate 
the hashed one.

The patch I referenced enables mythtv to extend recording time based on 
the current/following info in EIT.
It works well enough as is, however it must fall back to title (without 
subtitle) matching for episodes with season/episode info (and therefore 
a mythfilldatabase generated programid). This means that e.g. with 
double episodes of The Simpsons, the first episode's recording keeps 
recording until the 2nd ends; THIS is what I want to fix.

I want to know if it is safe for me to change the seriesID that programs 
get from "crid://network/networks_series_id" to 
"crid://network/networks_series_id/networks_program_id" so that the EIT 
current/following patch always has both IDs to work with.