[mythtv-users] Is CRID an international standard?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/28/2014 06:28 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 28 November 2014 at 11:13, Angela wrote:
>
>> Myth should have on option to use the programID/seriesID for scheduling or
>> ignore them. I submitted a request:
> Considering duplicate detection using programID when generated from
> XMLTV data is broken

Yes.

>   (can't tell difference between season 1 episode
> 11 and season 11 episode 1, for example)

Actually it can.  The first has a 111 and the second a B01 at the end of 
the program ID.  This has been this way for many years, now.

And if there's any time when the program ID would be impossible to 
represent with our structure (i.e. any episode of season 36+ or episode 
100+ of any season, no program ID is generated, so MythTV uses the 
user-specified duplicate matching method (i.e. subtitle + description or 
whatever).

>   with no sane resolution on
> the horizon, this would be a good move and one that I would make use
> of*.

Actually, there is--and it's the /only/ sane resolution.  The resolution 
is likely to be (or at least should be) the removal of the code that 
generates program IDs from XMLTV data, since auto-generating them from 
generally bad, or at the least, imprecise, data is a broken approach 
when we already allow user-specified duplicate matching methods on a 
per-recording rule basis.

The problem with auto-generating is that it breaks when 2 series have 
the same title.  So, after you watched all 24 episodes of Battlestar 
Galactica from the original 1978 TV series (all in season 1), MythTV 
would think you've seen all 13 episodes of season 1 of the 2004 
Battlestar Galactica TV series, and you'd either have to clear your 
recording history for the first 13 episodes of Battlestar Galactica 1978 
or disable duplicate matching to record the new series.  Better would be 
to use the data the listings provider gave and /not/ fake a program ID.

Mike