[mythtv-users] Strange scheduling behavior: duplicate events in "Upcoming Recordings" in MythWeb

[David Engel]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:27:19PM -0700, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 12:07 PM, David Engel wrote:
> > Only one showing of House is scheduled to record.
> > 
> >> "The Event"                        11.1 KNTV-HD 08 20:55-22:05  1 5 5  A 5 2
> >> "The Event"                         8.1 KSBW-DT 08 20:55-22:05  4 17 17  A 1 2
> > 
> > Both showings of The Event are scheduled to record.  That's expected,
> > though, because generic episodes on different channels aren't assumed
> > to be the same.
> 
> Generic episodes don't generally have episode descriptions like "The Event" does.

Non-generic episodes usually have subtitles.  What are the programids?
If programids are present, nothing else matters.

> At the very least mythweb is broken since it is not reporting the same thing as the front end. Currently it is showing duplicate
> recordings for "House: Office Politics" while re-running the above test shows duplicates of "The Event". MythWeb while not
> showing an episode title, is showing a complete description of the episode.

I'll leave that for the mythweb guys to sort through.

> BTW, I continue to refer to mythweb because the mythweb format for Upcoming recordings is readable whereas the frontend listing
> is so cluttered with events that are not going to record that it is hard to follow.

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David
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