[mythtv-users] Re:Duplicate episodes being recorded - but shouldn't

[Tony Maro]

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:30 AM, Michael J. Sherman wrote:
>
> 
> Just a "me too" report. Nothing changed as far as my setup (haven't even 
> managed to get upgraded to 0.14 on my production systems yet), some 
> shows are now recording duplicates. Shows that I've been recording for 
> several weeks (like the new SG-1s, which come on at 9 and repeat at 11) 
> used to not record dupes, and now do, starting this week. I haven't 
> changed any of the recording profiles, so my only guess is that maybe 
> zap2it did something... Dunno if upgrading to 0.14 will help or not 
> (should finally get to that later today).

Well, I searched my database using phpMyAdmin and found that the 
episodes that are being duplicated contain the same tile and subtitle, 
but they don't have a description field.  Other shows and episodes are 
getting the description just fine.  And it looks like next weekend's 
Stargate has already downloaded a proper description.

However NONE of the Monk episodes have descriptions now.  I don't know 
how to check if this is a problem with a change in data format, or just 
a problem that zap2it doesn't have descriptions for these online.

So I guess the matching is apparently set to not detect a duplicate if 
the description field is blank, even if a subtitle is present?

-Tony