[mythtv-users] UK scheduling problem (news in the middle)

[Another Sillyname]

2008/9/27 Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com>:
> In the UK it is quite common for a programme to start in the evening and
> then stop halfway through. Prime time nightly news is then broadcast and
> then previous programme concludes after the news.
>
> It is scheduled this way. It is particularly common with films broadcast
> on ITV1 and Five.
>
> My myth settings are such that only the first part is being recorded.
> Clearly if I spot such a situation I can manually record both parts.
>
> Has anyone else come up with a solution for this?
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It's quite hard to come up with a simple fix for this because of the
way the broadcaster(s) sends the program ID usually as XXXXX#1 and
XXXXX#2.  The way the duplicate detection code is written is to look
at the XXXXX part and it'll then see the episode as the same episode.
A fix (if one of the coders was willing to do it) would be to detect
the presence of the #Y element and realise it needed to record both
parts....I don't know how much work this would entail though.