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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Roger,

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 2:47:24 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 23:33:14 +0200
> Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> >>>>>> 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%.  

> According to https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12141#comment:1
> grabber SxEx is never used for recordings. 

> SxEx can only be derived from a metadata lookup with a known episode
> title, or be entered manually.

>> >> I suspect that the SxEx is not prioritised more highly from the
>> >> EPG data simply because historically it rarely ever existed so was
>> >> never factored much into the logic.  

> I believe US networks have/had a habit of re-ordering episodes and
> re-numbering them.
> I've also found UK series where metadata 'episode title'/SxEx differs
> from my EPG 'episode title'/SxEx.

> So a recording of "Series S2E7" is meaningless: no data is better
> than wrong data.

> If that isn't a concern, then a grabber that fills in episode title from
> SxEx would result in your recordings getting a SxEx.

> Without an episode title there's not much you can do currently.

Thanks for the info. But I beg to differ. Your statement "no data
is better than wrong data." is wrong in this context you are actually
stating "no data is beter then unverified data" with which I disagree.
Episodes are regularly recorded out of order and the season episode
numbering is the only way to but them in order so I need it.

I guess I will have to make a wrapper around the metadatalookup.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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