[mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is ignored?

Gregory McLean gregm at gxsnmp.org
Wed Sep 24 17:47:45 EDT 2003


Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:11 PM
>>To: Development of mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is
>>ignored?
>>
>>
>>"Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>>For a program to be considered a duplicate, it must match 'title',
>>>'subtitle' (episode) and 'description' EXACTLY.  If any of them
>>
>>are blank,
>>
>>>Myth assumes that there is no way to differentiate between
>>
>>shows and assumes
>>
>>>that they're all unique.
>>
>>Ahh, I see.  How unfortunate.
>>
>>In my case the title and subtitle are exactly the same, but the
>>description is empty.  It would be nice if there were a setting to get
>>it to ignore empty descriptions.  That way I could get it to treat the
>>programs the same if title + subtitle match exactly (and both
>>descriptions are empty).
>>
>>How hard do you think it would be to add this?


One would _assume_ that the programs are duplicates if they match? To me 
the above sounds like a duplicate. Both descriptions are empty and the 
titles and subtitle are the same unless I'm missing some subtle thing 
somewhere.



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