[mythtv-users] How does (should) mythtv match repeats?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 18:25:41 UTC 2008


On Feb 7, 2008 1:12 PM, Chris Simmons <chris at greenplace.f2s.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed recently that myth has sometimes been recording repreats of
> shows.  I use UK EIT information for my scheduling data.  I'm running
> atrpms 0.20.2-172.fc8.
>
> To take an example, I've set up myth to record "Torchwood" any time on
> BBC2.  But it recorded a showing on Wednesday, with description
>
> "Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood and becomes part of the team
> as they investigate a mysterious alien meat supply. Some strong
> language. 4/13."
>
> and now it wants to record a showing thats obviously (to a human) a repeat:-
>
> "Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood and becomes part of the team
> as they investigate a mysterious alien meat supply. 4/13."
>
> As you can see though the description isn't an exact match.  Presumably
> myth decides shows are repeats only if the description is an exact
> match?  I've also seen other minor differences in repeats like
> corrections for typos, removing a comma etc and ended up having to
> delete these recordings.
>
> So my questions are
>
> 1) Does myth require an exact match?
>
> 2) Is this reasonable - wouldn't it be better if myth used approximate
> text matching with some kind of threshold or something?
>
> 3) Is there anything like this on the way for the .21 release?

If I'm not mistaken, Myth looks at episode number first - these must
be listed as different episodes.


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