[mythtv-users] Duplicate recordings because of bad SD data?

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:00:56 -0500
    > From: Robert Eden <rmeden at yahoo.com>

    > On 7/21/2010 7:17 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
    > > The CC data for the two programs has an overlap of 65%, which is
    > > normally crappy when I compare two showings of something; a true
    > > repeat should be up in the 90's modulo commercials and padding at the
    > > beginning and end of the recording.  This overlap is crappy because
    > > the CC data for the two showings has small differences throughout.
    > > (If anyone would like to analyze them completely, I can send them;
    > > each is about 20K.)  If this sort of retitling is what TMS considers
    > > a significant difference, fine, but I've also seen cases where the
    > > overlap is 95% and yet programid's differ.

    > Based on your analysis, I think without question that is a re-editing of 
    > a show, and the Producer considers it a new episode, so Tribune does too.

Yeah.  That's good to know---I had no idea TMS did that.

I probably have other examples where it's clearly identical.  I can
try to find them, or just wait for the next one---if historical data
from something that aired weeks or months ago is too old for them to
figure out what happened, I can wait for the next occurrence.

[In which case, the question is, "-Why- are they dinking with the narration?"]

    > The EpisodeIDs *should* differ.  At least in this case. MarcT may have a 
    > better example to bring up to TMS.

I think so.