[mythtv-users] better scheduling options through MythWeb?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 07 May 2015 22:17:38 -0400, you wrote:

>     As an end-user but not a programmer it seems that programs like 
>"SickBeard" have found a better way to complete a series. To be able to 
>type in the name of a series you would like to watch and have the 
>backend record, remove commercials, and transcode the episodes that we 
>have paid to receive, would make MythTV the best option for storing and 
>viewing video IMHO

That would be nice, but it depends on the quality of the EPG data to
be able to follow a series.  EPG data seems to be OK from Schedules
Direct, but it is pretty bad here in New Zealand and many other parts
of the world.  A lot of the satellite channels here do not have any
series and episode numbering at all, and the FTA channels that do try
to provide it often get it wrong, or change the format it is presented
in so an entire series gets re-recorded because it changed from one
year to the next.  Here is a small example from the Choice TV channel
for the program Bath Crashers:

mysql> select chanid,starttime,title,subtitle,programid from recorded
where programid like 'BCRA04%8%';
+--------+---------------------+---------------+----------+-------------+
| chanid | starttime           | title         | subtitle | programid   |
+--------+---------------------+---------------+----------+-------------+
|   1012 | 2014-02-17 05:29:00 | Bath Crashers |          | BCRA04 Ep 8 |
|   1012 | 2013-11-20 05:29:00 | Bath Crashers |          | BCRA04Ep8   |
+--------+---------------------+---------------+----------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

So I have two recordings of the same episode.  Except that
occasionally, they are not actually the same episode as they put the
wrong episide number into the EPG data for one (or even both!)
showings.

And Choice TV is actually probably the best provider of EPG data in
NZ.

Being able to automatically cut out ads is also a wonderful dream, but
it remains just that as the variety of ways ads are done prevents
anything like 100% detection of them.  Even a 1% error rate will cause
bad WAF if bits of a favourite program go missing.  Here in New
Zealand, the available detection algorithms in MythTV are pretty
useless, and you are lucky to 50% detection.