[mythtv-commits] Ticket #8535: Add ability to filter recording schedules by season
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#8535: Add ability to filter recording schedules by season
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Reporter: Jason Musits <jmusits@…> | Owner: gigem
Type: patch | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone: unknown
Component: MythTV - Scheduling | Version: Unspecified
Severity: medium | Resolution: invalid
Mlocked: 0 |
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Changes (by mdean):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
program.syndicatedepisodenumber does not contain any usable information
for filtering by season (see below). The syndicatedepisodenumber is a
string whose format is decided by the producers of a show--there is no
standard for its construction. Therefore, parsing the
syndicatedepisodenumber to determine season or episode information is
unreliable, at best. And, the syndicatedepisodenumber may not be provided
for a large percentage of users. The only users for which the
syndicatedepisodenumber is generally usable are those XMLTV users whose
listings providers specify an "xmltv_ns" episode-num (versus the
"onscreen" episode-num values, which is what syndicatedepisodenumber is
designed to hold--see the documentation for episode-num at
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/xmltv/xmltv/xmltv.dtd ).
Anyone wanting to be able to use ordinal season and episode information
should not attempt to parse such information from any existing fields
(syndicatedepisodenumber, programid, ...), but should instead add columns
to the database for season and episode numbers and modify XMLTV, EIT, and
DataDirect (Schedules Direct) grabbers to properly (directly) pull such
information from listings, when present, and save it directly to the
database.
Furthermore, we're actually in the process of removing extra information
from ProgramInfo, not adding new information. Also, when adding
additional information to ProgramInfo, it should be added to the end, not
inserted randomly into the middle--where inserting into the middle
requires a significant amount of changes so that all users agree on the
meaning of each field.
Below is a random sampling of syndicatedepisodenumber values, just to show
they're not parsable.
{{{
5139
S115
FF08120
102405
040
16246W
710A/711A
HD010605
LIKI104
92/466618
CAB103
091209
}}}
If you choose to use syndicatedepisodenumber in your recording rules,
anyway, you should do so using a "Custom Recording Rule"/"Power Recording
Rule".
Thank you for the patch. If you have any additional questions about, for
example, how to add the season and episode ordinals to program, please
follow up on the mailing lists.
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Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8535#comment:1>
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