[mythtv-users] Should Videos be considered Recorded?

Thomas Boehm mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net
Wed May 22 15:12:43 UTC 2013


Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 22.05.2013 16:41, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>> Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 
>>> Which comes right back to what Mike said previously about false
>>> positives on every movie with a duplicate title, which is specifically
>>> why MythTV uses more than just the title for duplicate matching.
>>
>> I can live with that. How likely is it that there are two movies with
>> the same title AND any of my few favourite actors in it?
> 
> That is a very interesting question that someone can answer by
> downloading the imdb data files and calculating some numbers.
> 
> Here are two examples of common movie names. If you have one classic
> movie in your collection and it gets shot again with well known actors
> your chances for a name collision between library and wish list are not
> to bad.

Ok, to minimize clashes you could create a separate rule for each actor.
And if I miss a move, it's fine by me. I'm watching too much TV anyway...

Back to the OP's problem, does anybody has a better solution? I would be
interested too.


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list