[mythtv-users] UK: Strictly Come Dancing E1S12, looks like a dupe

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 22:35:36 UTC 2014


Hoi Hika,

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 12:28:11 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Roger,

> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 12:19:25 AM, you wrote:

>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:53:35 +0100,
>> <mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>>>
>>> Quoting "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>>>
>>>> On 09/17/2014 10:25 AM, Tim wrote:
>>>>> As Hika pointed out they both have the same programid for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> Just create a "record this showing" override rule to ensure you get 
>>>> them both--that's the way to work around bad listings data.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've done that and it is a workaround but I was lucky to notice it. I 
>>> normally check upcoming recordings in mythweb with duplicates switched 
>>> off. I think I only noticed it because the first episode to record was 
>>> marked as E2S12. Does the programid come from the listings data? I use 
>>> tv_grab_uk_atlas and if so I should report it so others don't get 
>>> disappointed.
>>>

>> Myth constructs it from the title, series id and season/episode.

>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/browser/mythtv/mythtv/programs/mythfilldatabase/xmltvparser.cpp#L541

>> I don't follow though. According to the BBC website, Show 1 is
>> scheduled for 26/9. Presumably Show 2 won't be until 3/10 ? And
>> Atlas should only currently be going up to 30th. So it seems to me
>> that the Launch Show was E1 and Myth has called it right. 

>> And won't your recorded Launch Show be s00e00 because Myth doesn't
>> store the season/episode (and your not using metadata lookup) ?
>> Atlas may well have marked it as e01 when you recorded it. 

> As far as I can see Myth doesn't construct it. It comes from the
> grabber or the grabber source. I, with my dutch xmltv grabber only get
> a programid for films. Everything else doesn't have one.


> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

And to add to that metadata lookup is whole different story that works
with the inetref that comes from either IMDB.com or theTVDB.com. You
can either retrieve and set it in your rules or mythtv tries to get
the right one based one the name etc.



Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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