[mythtv-users] Anyone else have guide data problems? (SchedulesDirect only)

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Brett Kosinski wrote:
>>
>> Actually, nope, Myth does *not* consider programs with no subtitle
>> when identifying duplicates.  I believe the rational is that, in the
>> absence of any subtitle at all, it doesn't have enough information to
>> determine whether or not the particular program is a dup, so it errs
>> on the side of caution (good thing, too... new episodes of The Daily
>> Show and The Colbert Report both show up on my system with no subtitle
>> (and ironically, the episodes with a subtitle are *only* re-runs)).
>> And I'm not aware of any options which tweak this behaviour (at least
>> in 0.20).
>
> A new option that would allow programs without
> subtitle/description/episodeid data to be ignored for a particular rule
> would be great. This is useful for shows in syndication that are on a
> million times a day (The Simpsons, Dora the explorer, etc), where you
> don't want to record 3 different copies of the same no-identification
> episode on different channels, along with one copy that was identified
> properly in the guide data.
>

Yeah, what he said...

s/Dora the explorer/The Backyardigans/g

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