[mythtv-users] wrong description for many recordings

[Marco Nelissen]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/2009 10:52 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>
>> In the last few weeks I've noticed that many shows have the wrong
>> description. For example, I record Curious George and Dragon Tales for
>> my 3 year old from the local PBS station, and while it still records
>> them OK and the show name is correct, about half the time the
>> description is wrong and seems to be taken from some soap opera.
>> Today I noticed that it had recorded an episode of This Old House, but
>> given it the description of a How I Met Your Mother episode.
>> Any ideas as to what might be going on here? I'm using SchedulesDirect
>> for guide info.
>
> That sounds like you're using /both/ Schedules Direct (or XMLTV) and EIT
> data on the same channels.  That configuration isn't supported.  The EIT
> will stomp all over the non-EIT data causing exactly the kind of confusion
> you're seeing.

Indeed EIT was enabled. Seems strange that it would allow me to
configure both when that doesn't actually work.