[mythtv-users] Should Videos be considered Recorded?

[Karl Dietz]

On 22.05.2013 17:12, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> Karl Dietz wrote:
>> On 22.05.2013 16:41, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>>> Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>>> Which comes right back to what Mike said previously about false
>>>> positives on every movie with a duplicate title, which is specifically
>>>> why MythTV uses more than just the title for duplicate matching.
>>>
>>> I can live with that. How likely is it that there are two movies with
>>> the same title AND any of my few favourite actors in it?
>>
>> That is a very interesting question that someone can answer by
>> downloading the imdb data files and calculating some numbers.
>>
>> Here are two examples of common movie names. If you have one classic
>> movie in your collection and it gets shot again with well known actors
>> your chances for a name collision between library and wish list are not
>> to bad.
>
> Ok, to minimize clashes you could create a separate rule for each actor.

Huh? How do 10 rules with one actor each change anything over 1 rule
with 10 actors? You're only changing the clashes per rule, but that's
not so interesting.

> And if I miss a move, it's fine by me. I'm watching too much TV anyway...

You could hack up a script that compares upcoming recordings to some
list and just add "never record" overrides for each. Put it into a
cronjob and its fire and forget. Wrap it into a web page and you can
manually inspect it, click "aye" or "nay" and be sure to not miss
something.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/DVR_Service#GetUpcomingList
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_Service#GetVideoList
Hmm, I don't see a method for disabling less then the complete rule on
the wiki. Either its not documented, yet, or there is a gap.

> Back to the OP's problem, does anybody has a better solution? I would be
> interested too.

As he wants to look at mythweb's movie search and get an indication if
he already has a movie of the same name in his xbmc library I'd simply
do that.
A local hack that just strikes out all upcoming programs if an entry in
the xbmc library (or mythtv's video table) exists which matches by
title doesn't sound so hard to come up with.

Regards,
Karl

PS: The answer heavily depends on the specific use case, so there is no
one-size-fits-all recipe.