[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10747: [PATCH] Autogenerate originalairdate for new episode repeats

[Karl Dietz]

On 13.10.2012 14:33, Bradley Baetz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Karl Dietz
>
>> Another notch towards
>> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-October/341420.html :D
>
> Well the issue is that the metadata just isn't there. EIT has accurate
> times, mostly accurate titles, and often nothing else, and online
> listings don't have any unique identifier.
>
> The ideal scenario would be to get the program titles and times from
> EIT, filter the titles (to remove "New episode" and "Includes Sneak
> Peak" and the like) and somehow line up the other metadata from
> shepherd. That's a somewhat difficult problem to solve, even before
> having programs that are often 10-30 minutes later than the EIT times,
> combine two adjacent programs into one (even when one is new and one
> is a repeat) and so on.

exactly.

The best idea I came up with was getting the shared metadata database
running and then using a hybrid approach to hash EIT events and connect
them to proper metadata.

Hybrid as in "automatically based on manually created rules" (Channel X
uses title Y to refer to series Z) with manual matching for all that's
left.

Regards,
Karl