[mythtv-users] Probably a dumb question..Myth History

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Aug 19 16:52:54 UTC 2015


On 08/19/2015 12:44 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/19/2015 10:12 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 08/19/2015 08:03 AM, Joey Morris wrote:
>>> My understanding from the wiki and previous discussion on the
>>> list is that Myth first checks the programid then falls back to the 
>>> duplicate
>>> matching setting if the programids don't provide sufficient info.
>>
>> To clarify, if both episodes have a program ID, that is used as the 
>> definitive answer of whether they are the same episode and the chosen 
>> duplicate matching method is ignored.  There is no such thing as 
>> "programids don't provide sufficient info," only "program ID does not 
>> exist on one or the other or both episodes."
>>
>> See, also, https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching
>
> So thinking about it, I'm guessing you meant generic program IDs when 
> you said ones that don't provide sufficient info.  That would make 
> your description pretty close, but I prefer to think of generic 
> program IDs as positively identifying the episode as "unknown" (and, 
> therefore, should be recorded just in case, unless explicitly excluded 
> by the recording rule).

And I should probably clarify the "pretty close" in my last comment.  
With generic program IDs, MythTV will not fall back to the 
rule-specified duplicate-matching method, but will always record generic 
episodes since a generic subtitle/description will not provide 
information about which episode it is (and if the subtitle/description 
is not generic, the program ID should not be, either).

Mike "disjointed thoughts and replies" Dean


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