[mythtv-users] Season/Episode: guide listing grabber vs. metadata grabber

[John P Poet]

The metadata grabbers have to guess a bit. One consequence of this is that
the Episode information can in some cases be wrong, with an example being
for multiple episodes broadcast on the same day.

SchedulesDirect provides "syndicated episode" data which is far more likely
to be accurate. Other listing providers may do the same.

In MythTV v35, if you choose to sort the tv shows by season/episode, it is
using the metadata grabber information. In MythTV v36, it will prefer to
use the listing grabber information if it exists, and fall back to the
metadata grabber info otherwise. If neither is available, it falls back to
the original airdate.

This leaves the issue of displaying the season/episode information in myth.
Themers have the choice to display "s01e01" or "1x1" (both of those from
the metadata grabber) or "syndicatedepisode" (which displays as S1E1).
Right now, there is a mechanism for a theme to "depend" on some data to
exist which can then determine how data is formatted. However, it is
limited in its flexibility.

My question is, should I extend the flexibility to give themers the option
to format the data one way if syndicatedepisode exists, and another if it
does not, and another if the subtitle does not exist, and ....

Or, do I take the choice away from the themer and just have "s01e01" and
"1x1" automatically return the syndicated episode information in preference
to the metadata grabber information?

Thoughts?

John
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