[mythtv-users] Lots of upcoming "Not Listed" programs

[David Watkins]

On 22/10/06, Peter Dash <peter.dash at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I can tell this is new in 0.20. Basically anything that you
> schedule as 'record in this timeslot each week' (or day) that isn't
> actually on for that week (or day) will show as 'not listed'. I've
> mostly gotten around it by changing the schedules to 'find and record
> one showing each week' (or day).
>
> Unfortunately freeview can makes the results of this a bit hard to
> predict because of the way BBC3 & 4 tend to show episodes of some
> programmes like Robin Hood one week ahead of BBC1 & 2. I've found that
> I'm having to do a bit more manual tweaking of the recording schedules
> to make sure I don't catch the wrong episode and might just go back to
> old way and put up with all the 'not listed' entries in the upcoming
> recording screen - at least for these shows anyway.
>

I use "Record anytime on this channel', since that seems least likely
to miss a recording.  Duplicate detection generally works, though I
sometimes get two copies of each episode. It seems that the BBC
generally gives the initial showing different details from the first
repeat.  Subsequent repeats do however get correctly recognised and
are not recorded.  Changing duplicate detection to work on description
only fixed this in at least one case, but I don't usually bother.
Works well for reruns of old stuff that I 'm still catching up on (
Simpsons, King of the Hill), that tend to get shown at odd times.