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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:09:59 +1100<br>> From: jyavenard@gmail.com<br>> <BR>>> On Monday, 12 October 2015, Mark Perkins <<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com"><font color="#0072c6">perkins1724@hotmail.com</font></a>> wrote:<br>>> Just received the following notification. Is Schedules Direct available in Australia yet? I tried Shepherd some time ago, but hated how it joined back-to-back episodes into a single recording.<br>>> Plus it broke my entire recording history due to changed programids. Unhappy days:<br>> <BR>> Never had any issues with shepherd. <br><br><BR><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> </div><div>So how do you stop MythTV constantly re-recording episodes? I've just installed Shepherd on a test system, see snippet as follows:</div><div> </div><div> title | subtitle | programid |<br>+---------------------+----------------------------------------------------+----------------+<br>| The Big Bang Theory | The Date Night Variable/The Decoupling Fluctuation | |<br>| The Big Bang Theory | The Date Night Variable/The Decoupling Fluctuation | |<br>| The Big Bang Theory | The Pants Alternative/The Wheaton Recurrence | EP100797097183 |</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Whenever there are back to back episodes of a tv series they just keep getting re-recorded because MythTV always interprets it as a generic unidentifiable episode (where no programid provided which there shouldn't be because it is not a single episode). Or alternatively where a programid is included it skips whichever episode misses having its programid listed. Title/subtitle duplicate detection doesn't help because the episodes can be in any order, from any non consecutive series.</div></div></div></div></div> </div></body>
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