[mythtv-users] Mythtv is recording shows that have already been recorded?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/30/2007 10:42 AM, Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007 01:07:32 am Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>   
>> I'm a touch surprised here that no one has pointed out that Scrubs is
>> one of, oh, half a dozen shows, I think, with which TMS has *bad*
>> genericism problems.
>>     
> ok, that makes sense.  now, asking 'cause i don't know, but some folks have 
> said that if you use SD and have the programid, that the subtitle/description 
> isn't used for matching, just the programid is.  is that true?  do they use a 
> generic programid for episodes that they don't have subtitle/description 
> info?

Generic programid's are not used for comparison.  Instead, it will "fall
back" to the selected dup check method (i.e. subtitle and description or
whatever).

Mike "wondering if I should have typed the whole description up" Dean
(but still don't want to spend the time :)