[mythtv-users] MythTV stops recording shows

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 4:38:01 PM, you wrote:

> Hoi Eric,

> Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 4:30:34 PM, you wrote:

>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi Michael,
>>>
>>> Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 3:53:09 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/27/2015 09:38 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>>> With my grabber, that reaches some 14 days in the future, they become
>>>>> more detailed, when they are nearer. The most detailed source only
>>>>> reaches 4 days. So it can happen that at first it can happen it is
>>>>> seen as a duplicate, because detail description and episode info is
>>>>> missing and then when the details arrive, it is scheduled as a unique
>>>>> new episode.
>>>
>>>> In theory, if detailed description and episode info is missing, the
>>>> episode should be marked as a generic (defined as any show whose program
>>>> ID, subtitle, and description are empty; or whose program ID is empty
>>>> and category type is series; or (for Schedules Direct users) whose
>>>> program ID ends with '0000').
>>>
>>> Good. But with me then most of the time description is not missing,
>>> but only contains generic info about the series. So they are matched as
>>> duplicates.

>> And they have a non-zero/non-empty program ID?  Which matches a
>> previously recorded program ID?

>> Eric
>> _______________________________________________

> No. Because of missing episode info no program ID is created. I can
> not find reliable sources for all channels for that info. And for the
> channels I can, not to far in the future. So matching is then only
> done on the description, which as said is rarely empty.

> It's already a lot better, for before there was no episode info for
> any channel at all. So description was the only source for duplicate
> matching.

But further thinking. It would be handy if there was a specific way to
give info through xmltv for the type field (series, movie, sports,
...). That would mean either adding to the xmltv standard or adopting
a definition for handeling multiple category (genre) fields. Like a
set prefix and a defined set: (type-series, type-movie, type-sports,
type-unknown, ...)??


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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