[mythtv-users] subtitle matching rule not working

[Bill Williamson]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Michael T. Dean<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> But you now seem to be trying to "fix" duplicate detection for episodes
> where there's no subtitle (as you've now realized that if you don't break
> your data, Myth will do the right thing for shows with subtitles).  However,
> an episode without a subtitle is a special episode--a generic episode--so
> it's treated completely differently, anyway.  If what you're trying to do is
> tell Myth to not record "generic" episodes, what you /actually/ want to do
> is to specify the "Exclude generic episodes" filter on the recording rule.
>
> So, a) don't mess with any programid's (whether the episode has a subtitle
> or not) and b) use an "Exclude generic episodes" filter if you don't want
> generics.  The idea behind the cron-job script someone recommended you run
> is completely broken.


The big problem I have is that we have simulcast channels (ABC1 vs
ABCHD for example) and a LOT of our shows (especially kids shows) do
not have subtitle information due to bad info from the providers.
This means that it records two copies each show (due to a record on
any channel rule).  This especially misses with daily kids shows that
I ahve set to "keep last 4", because we only now get the last TWO.  I
don't like "restrict to this channel" rules as often shows will be
shown on ABC2 if you miss them on ABC1.

Any suggestions?  I hope you can see how the situation led to the
person who gave me the script's way of thinking at least, even though
we now know it to be wrong.

The obvious solution (to me?) is that shows that are daily
(playschool/etc) and news shows should automatically have a program id
set by the grabber with the date/morning of the show?

How would this be handled in the US with SchedulesDirect and a 3
channel lineup with an SD channel, a 95% clone HD channel, and a
second SD channel showing new stuff and reruns of the first SD
channel?