[mythtv-users] EIT vs. Radio Times listings

[John Pilkington]

On 10/01/11 11:06, Alex Tomlins wrote:
> On 09/01/11 22:08, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> Alex Tomlins wrote:
>>
>>> I'm based in the UK, and currently using EIT for listings info. This
>>> is working well in most cases, but for some shows the duplicate
>>> detection doesn't work very well. This is usually due to the
>>> descriptions being slightly different (and no subtitles present).
>>>
>>> I was wondering if switching to using xmltv with the Radio Times
>>> grabber would be better in this regard.
>>
>> Doubt it - seems the same problems :( I suspect it's the same data,
>> just munged via different routes.
>>
> Ok, I did some more digging, and it seems that I don't have any
> programid's at all.
>
> mysql> select count(*) from program;
> +----------+
> | count(*) |
> +----------+
> | 13536 |
> +----------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> select count(*) from program WHERE programid = '';
> +----------+
> | count(*) |
> +----------+
> | 13536 |
> +----------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> Is this normal when using EIT? From searching the mailing list it would
> seem that other UK users do get programid's when using EIT listings
> information.
>

I switched from 0.23-fixes to 0.24-fixes, Fedora 13, ATrpms, a couple of 
days ago.  I use EIT only.  Both before and after the switch, some 
recordings show a Programme ID entry in Watch Recordings > I > I and 
some don't.

John P