[mythtv] db schema, metadata and season/episode numbering

Torbjörn Jansson torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se
Wed Apr 11 14:18:43 UTC 2012


> On 4/11/2012 07:02, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> > Comments? Is there a better way maybe that I have not thought of yet?
> 
> The XMLTV format supports an <episode-num> field, and within that the
> "xmltv_ns" system format, using three fields, separated by periods,
> defining the season, episode, and part numbers.  Any work towards
> populating the new season and episode fields directly from the guide
> data should be done through processing of that field.  Any attempt to
> parse season and episode number from other formats such as "onscreen"
> or
> "dd_progid", or other fields like subtitle, will be prone to error.

Yes i agree, getting good guide data is step one, but it won't fix my
existing things recorded over the last 5 years or something like that.

What I was going to do was a onetime update of the old stuff.




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