[mythtv-users] adding files from elsewhere to myth

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/14/2012 09:42 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 10/14/2012 06:47 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> On 13 October 2012 00:10, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>>>>   mtdean wrote:
>>>>>> This is where we're going.  You will put them in Video Library to make
>>>>>> them available to MythTV.  Where you see them will be up to you.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This sounds great! I too, have been importing stuff into Watch
>>>>> Recordings, because I haven't really liked the Video Library.
>>>> My only wish with regard to this would be that mythtv could be aware that
>>>> a particular episode was imported and somehow know not to record it
>>>> again.
>>>>    I know it would be hard because the metadata wouldn't necessarily line
>>>> up
>>>> with the recording rules... but if that could be overcome (perhaps by
>>>> doing
>>>> metadata searches on scheduled recordings and comparing to previously
>>>> imported episodes) it would be pretty awesome.
>>>>
>>> I get around this today with a modified version of mythmediamonitor
>>> http://nowsci.com/**mythmediamonitor/<http://nowsci.com/mythmediamonitor/>
>>>
>>> Which also inserts into the oldrecorded table.
>>>
>>> but glad to hear built in support is coming in the future.
>> But there's no possible way that mythmediamonitor would be able to pull
>> the same (TMS-copyrighted) description, and it shouldn't be able to pull
>> the TMS-proprietary (not-for-external-use) DataDirect Program IDs, so you'd
>> have to use hacks like "subtitle-only" duplicate matching--and hope that
>> the subtitles are identical in the TMS data and on the metadata site (and
>> I've seen /many/ that aren't).  That means you'd lose the performance
>> advantage you get from using pre-computed ID matching versus string
>> matching (so it would increase your scheduler run times).
>>
> For most shows, there is other unique information that both schedules
> direct and other services offer, such as original air date.

But my point is that only the things I've described (and, so, not 
original air date) are used for duplicate matching, so the hack is 
likely less useful (and possibly has more disadvantages) than may be 
apparent at first glance.

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

Mike