[mythtv-users] Multiple duplicated recordings

[Alex Tomlins]

Hi all,

I'm have an 'any time on any channel' rule set up to record Top Gear.  
At the moment there are one or 2 episodes of this where all 6+ showings 
of it are recorded (Dave likes to repeat things a lot).

I'm using xmltv (UK Radio Times) for listing data, and the episodes with 
the problems are the ones with no series/episode information that 
therefore don't have a programid in Myth.  If I understand 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching correctly, this should 
fall back to the duplicate detection method in this case, which I've set 
to Subtitle and Description.

Looking in the database, the subtitles are all blank, and they all have 
exactly the same description, for example:

mysql> select generic, starttime, subtitle, description from program 
where title = 'Top Gear' AND programid = '' and starttime > now() and 
endtime < '2013-08-15' order by starttime;
+---------+---------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| generic | starttime           | subtitle | description |
+---------+---------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|       0 | 2013-08-13 17:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
|       0 | 2013-08-13 18:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
|       0 | 2013-08-14 08:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
|       0 | 2013-08-14 09:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
|       0 | 2013-08-14 13:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
|       0 | 2013-08-14 14:00:00 |          | Jeremy Clarkson, James May 
and Richard Hammond put three cars at home on both the race track and 
the streets of suburbia to the test. |
+---------+---------------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
6 rows in set (0.01 sec)

All 6 of these are scheduled to record at the moment.

Can anyone suggest why this is happening?

thanks,
Alex

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Alex Tomlins
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