[mythtv-users] Scheduling/ extended description confusion...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/01/2011 04:36 PM, Blammo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> And just to clarify for the archives, the issue here was specifically
>> the use of both Schedules Direct /and/ EIT on the same channel.
>>
>> MythTV does not support the use of multiple listings sources on a single
>> channel.  Therefore, users must choose only one of Schedules Direct,
>> XMLTV, or EIT for each channel.
> If that's an official statement going forward,

forward and backward, fwiw

>   that's unfortunate.
> Prior to present version, I've used SD + EIT for literally years, with
> ZERO issues. Having EIT present to make last minute changes (national
> events, president speech, etc) to make sure I get the right program at
> the right time, has been welcome, and useful.
>
> Honestly, this sounds like something in the matching algorithm is
> messed up. I don't have EIT debugging running, but I would hope that
> merging EIT data into existing data should meet some fairly strict
> criteria. It's ODD it would only change the program description, and
> not time or program title.

We don't have a "matching algorithm," and we have never supported the 
mixing of multiple listings sources.  That you never saw problems before 
(including problems with duplicate matching) is a wonder.

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1770

among others...

Mike