[mythtv] problem with eit-cache

[Markus Schulz]

Am Monday 04 May 2009 schrieb Otto Kolsi:
> Janne Grunau wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:57:42PM +0200, Markus Schulz wrote:
> >> I'm searching for a potential bug inside the eit-parser for the
> >> program guide.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> These two shows are running consecutively but the first has the
> >> _wrong_ title but correct description.
> >
> > I'm seeing this error too.
>
> This is exactly what I've been seeing for some time now (months?).
>
> What I noticed was that titles/descriptions got mixed when programs
> had overlap. So the endtime of the first program could be e.g. 2sec -
> 45sec later than the starttime of the second program. Can you check
> if you have the same situation?
>
> I verified this with myth and outside Myth with several different
> applications (dvbsnoop etc). I also wrote some quick hackish code to
> fix some of these overlaps. That fixed the problem for me and I
> haven't actually checked whether overlaps or title/description
> corruption still occurs.
>
> I'd like to figure out what really is causing this and of cource to
> find a proper fix for it :) Janne, I think you mentioned briefly in
> IRC that one possibility would be to allow disabling of the "overlap
> fixing algorithm" in eit.cpp because we now have multirec and it
> doesn't hurt so much if programs have small overlapps..

But if overlapping is triggering this error how and where in myth-eit 
code is a query which only updates either the title or the description 
to get these mixes? Furthermore, in my case i see no overlap...

msc