[mythtv-users] How do programme categories work?

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 16:50 +0100, George Poulson wrote:
> Does anyone know how MythTV selects the "Category" that is applied to
> each programme?

Not 100% sure, but I think from your listings data.

I have in my Schedule Direct things like (which I think is the same
showing you had):
  <programme start="20180622203000 +0000" stop="20180622210000 +0000" channel="24438">
    <title>5 Live Formula 1</title>
    <sub-title>French Grand Prix: Preview</sub-title>
    <desc>5 live's F1 team look ahead to all the action at this weekend's French Grand Prix.</desc>
    <category>Sports talk</category>
    <category>Auto racing</category>
    <category>Sports non-event</category>
    <category>series</category>
    <episode-num system="dd_progid">EP012986480255</episode-num>
    <previously-shown start="20180622" />
  </programme>

which seems reasonable.

I have the radio channels all set to invisible so I can't
(easily) check what myth thinks other than by looking in the database
directly:

    MariaDB [mythconverg]> select title,category,category_type from program where title = "5 Live Formula 1";
    +------------------+-------------+---------------+
    | title            | category    | category_type |
    +------------------+-------------+---------------+
    | 5 Live Formula 1 | Sports talk | series        |
    | 5 Live Formula 1 | Sports talk | series        |
    | 5 Live Formula 1 | Sports talk | series        |
    | 5 Live Formula 1 | Sports talk | series        |
    +------------------+-------------+---------------+

I also see that my SD data does match the category that myth shows for
the TV version.

> In some cases the applied category is just plain wrong, and sometimes
> just weird.. (apologies if the formatting of this pasting from
> Mythweb is lost or corrupted but the programme "5 Live Formula 1" has
> been categorised as "Music/Ballet/Dance")

Is it coming from EIT perhaps?

Ian.