[mythtv] Recording series with different titles on DVB
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 31 17:51:07 UTC 2010
On 07/31/2010 01:20 PM, Rune Petersen wrote:
> On 2010-07-31 18:05, Mark wrote:
>>> My DVB-C provider (Yousee) has decided to put episode
>>> information in
>>> the event title, which mythtv interprets as different programs.
>>>
>>> Since mythtv already can store the seriesid from the
>>> content_identifier_descriptor I was thinking of either add a new
>>> query for services, or modifying some of the existing queries to
>>> prefer the seriesid over the title.
>>>
>>> any comments are welcome.
>>>
>>> Also if someone could point out to me where the queries are located
>>> I would be grateful.
>>
>> I may be way off the mark here, but wouldn't the best way to address
>> this be an eit_fixup?
> AFAIK according to the DVB standard it is perfectly legal to have
> different titles for different episodes/events in a series.
>
> With better/any "record series" support, this issue would not
> exist.Also it would allow for improvements to the recording GUI
> (series could be handled differently).
>
> Personally I'd much rather fix the issue in a general way, rather then
> just adding a fixup for my provider.
Power Recording Rules are the answer.
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.5
Mike
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