[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2787: Finnish EIT fixup

[Mr. Demeanour]

osma ahvenlampi wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
  >> It also has the negative effect of a user on the stable release
>> suddenly start losing recordings due to an automated update
>> of the fixup rules, without them having done a thing. Take for
>> example the show "T4: Smallville". If you have a recording rule setup
>> for that show, and then an update causes the "T4:" to be removed, then
>> the show is now named "Smallville" and the recording rule won't match
>> so the show won't be recorded. From a users perspective, this is a
>> bad thing, and is why i won't be implementing it.
> 
> True enough. However, I was thinking of this from the other angle: the
> network changes the program title mid-season, causing the exact same
> problem for the user. This has happened this fall twice to programs I
> record: once to Sopranos (where one episode had (K15) appended to the
> title), and to South Park, which acquired an idiotic title prefix as
> the channel rescheduled it. In both of these scenarios, the same
> service would have helped users. It's a matter of a viewpoint.
> 
> Then again, I'm not convinced enough of this to write the code myself either.

I think they are currently using monkeys to maintain this data; it seems 
  very slapdash to me, with spelling misteaks, grammatical errors, and 
quite a lot of inconsistency in formatting and stuff (like the "T4" 
nonsense).

Given that nobody uses the EIT data except from equipment that is 
more-or-less programmable, it seems obvious that there's not much point 
in doing it at all, unless the data is sufficiently consistent to be 
processed automatically. So my guess is that they'll have to smarten up 
their act pretty quickly, if they want to avoid a lot of complaints.


-- 
Jack.