<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 10/14/2012 06:47 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:<br>
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On 13 October 2012 00:10, Joseph Fry wrote:<div class="im"><br>
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mtdean wrote:<br>
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This is where we're going. You will put them in Video Library to make<br>
them available to MythTV. Where you see them will be up to you.<br>
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This sounds great! I too, have been importing stuff into Watch<br>
Recordings, because I haven't really liked the Video Library.<br>
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My only wish with regard to this would be that mythtv could be aware that<br>
a particular episode was imported and somehow know not to record it again.<br>
I know it would be hard because the metadata wouldn't necessarily line up<br>
with the recording rules... but if that could be overcome (perhaps by doing<br>
metadata searches on scheduled recordings and comparing to previously<br>
imported episodes) it would be pretty awesome.<br>
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I get around this today with a modified version of mythmediamonitor<br>
<a href="http://nowsci.com/mythmediamonitor/" target="_blank">http://nowsci.com/<u></u>mythmediamonitor/</a><br>
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Which also inserts into the oldrecorded table.<br>
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but glad to hear built in support is coming in the future.<br>
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But there's no possible way that mythmediamonitor would be able to pull the same (TMS-copyrighted) description, and it shouldn't be able to pull the TMS-proprietary (not-for-external-use) DataDirect Program IDs, so you'd have to use hacks like "subtitle-only" duplicate matching--and hope that the subtitles are identical in the TMS data and on the metadata site (and I've seen /many/ that aren't). That means you'd lose the performance advantage you get from using pre-computed ID matching versus string matching (so it would increase your scheduler run times).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For most shows, there is other unique information that both schedules direct and other services offer, such as original air date.</div></div>