[mythtv-users] Myth recording duplicates when subtitle is null

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/04/2008 11:14 PM, Al B. wrote:
> I feel like this has been asked before, but I searched for a while and
> didn't find anything specifically for this scenario.  I've got a "record at
> any time on this channel" rule setup for Battlestar Galactica.  Sci-Fi must
> be having a Battlestar marathon going right now because I've had a bunch of
> episodes recorded in the past few days.  However, today I noticed that I had
> around 10 seemingly identical episodes recorded.  Same title, same
> description, same programid,

If "this" episode and your previously-recorded episode both have
programid's, then all else is irrelevant and only the programid is used
to determine whether the show is a dup.

>  BUT the subtitle (for some reason) is null.  I
> have my duplicate policy set to subtitle and description.
> My assumption here is that this is by design and Myth is erring on the side
> of caution and recording all of them since the subtitle is null.  Can anyone
> confirm this or is there possibly another explanation?  Thanks,

My assumption is that you used MythWeb to delete the previously-recorded
episodes of BSG and you either need to upgrade to a more current
0.21-fixes ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5048 ), or you need to go
to the Previously Recorded screen in mythfrontend and change the
episodes that were deleted from MythWeb--or just let your system record
them and delete them, again.

Mike