[mythtv] Ticket #9685: Duplicate detection doesn't work with Power Search

David Engel david at istwok.net
Wed Mar 23 18:55:37 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:11:49PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/23/2011 08:09 AM, MythTV wrote:
> > #9685: Duplicate detection doesn't work with Power Search
> > --------------------------------------+------------------------------------
> >       Reporter:  michal@…              |      Owner:  gigem
> >           Type:  Bug Report - General  |     Status:  new
> >       Priority:  major                 |  Milestone:  unknown
> >      Component:  MythTV - Scheduling   |    Version:  0.24-fixes
> >       Severity:  medium                |   Keywords:  power search duplicate
> > Ticket locked:  0                     |
> > --------------------------------------+------------------------------------
> >   When using a Power Search custom schedule, duplicate detection doesn't
> >   work.
> >
> >   Please see the attached dumps of schedule configuration page and a
> >   matching programs list with recording status.
> 
> Michal,
> 
> Can you please change "Check for duplicates in:" to "Subtitle then 
> Description" (or just "Description") and let us know if that works 
> properly?  It looks to me like you're telling MythTV to use subtitle for 
> determining which episodes are duplicates, but the series has no 
> subtitles--so MythTV assumes they're all unique (or "generic") episodes.

Ugh.  I got totally sidetracked thinking there was a fundamental
problem elsewhere in the power search code.

You're probably on the right track, Mike.  However, since the
descriptions appear to all be the same (making them useless) and there
probably aren't any programids, I think Michal is out of luck.  We
would need a new dupcheck method which treats all programs (with the
same title) as duplicates for this particular case to work.  This type
of case is obscure enough that I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

David
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David Engel
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