[mythtv-users] Dup detection broken in some cases - how to fix?

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 02:00:14PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Once again, I think the record too much is a better plan.  If you have 
> "broken" guide data, you can prevent the recordings by marking the 
> episode (on one channel) "Never Record".

One of the big features of Myth is that it's supposed to 
automatically manage the recordings, both in terms of selecting 
when to record a show and when to delete it.  If I have to manually 
cull the upcoming recordings list, write custom rules for 
everything and/or sift through piles of "extra" recordings to 
manually delete the dupes then most of the "It Just Works" factor 
is lost.

Although we've been talking about punctuation in terms of dupe 
checking, it also has a negative impact in the searches, too.  For 
example, one day I saw "Back to the Future, Part III" in the guide 
and tagged it for recording.  At some later date the Zap2It listing 
was changed to "Back to the Future Part III" (without the comma) 
and the recording was therefore dropped from the list when Myth got 
it's "tommorow's data" update.  In this case ignoring punctuation 
was erring in favour of recording too little instead of too much.

Whether we're searching or matching dupes, there is little reason 
to believe that a single comma would be the defining difference 
between two unique shows.