[mythtv-users] Inconsistent program naming in EIT guide on FreeView (UK DVB)

[junk]

Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 2/27/07, junk <junk at giantblob.com> wrote:
>   
>> FWIW, I noticed, browsing through the Myth sources, that the EIT guide
>> scanner scanner goes to some lengths to match duplicate programs in the
>> face of inconsistent guide data - it seems to score programs based on a
>> count of words in common between the two showings - but the recording
>> scheduler does a dumb textural compare. (specifcially eit.cpp,
>> score_match() versus ProgramInfo::IsSameProgram()). Can any of the
>> developers comment on why this is done differently and whether the
>> scheduler would benefit from using the same heuristic?
>>     
>
> If you're willing to get stuck into the code, I suggest you look at
> some of the recent svn commits that add support for series linking etc
> on Freeview (part of the newish Freeview Playback standard).
>
> I'm not sure if all channels have implemented it yet though - I think
> Ch 4 and 5 were due to do so in 'first quarter 07'
>
>   
Thanks, this might be worth a look. Does it fall back to the regular 
mechanism if this data is not available?

-- jeek
> regards
>
> Mark
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