[mythtv-users] Missing season episode numbering while it is there

[Mark Perkins]

On 2 April 2019 12:41:05 pm Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Hika,
>
> Sunday, March 31, 2019, 5:27:40 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Hoi All,
>
>> I have for over a year noticed that season episode numbering often
>> does not show on a recording. I maintain the graber I use and know it
>> was supplied. I see when pressing info that the data is there as a
>> correct SxEx statement is shown, but metadata shows zip. I see this
>> most often when there is no episode title. Actually then the failure
>> is 100%.
>
>> My present guess is that before entering graberdata a ttvdb check is
>> done on the episode title, which obviously will fail on absence of
>> such a title.
>
> So nobody has ever seen anything like this or has a clue about what is
> happening?

My understanding is that a missing subtitle (episode title) would be 
considered inaccurate EPG data (for a "valid" ttvdb episode). I handle this 
by getting the grabber to check for missing data (like subtitle), and 
update data (like description) from ttvdb before xmltv load. helps greatly 
with duplicate detection processes and data consistency.