[mythtv-users] Subtitle then Description duplication check giving surprising results

[Nick Morrott]

On 14 October 2010 23:07, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> David Watkins wrote:
>>
>> I'm struggling with a scheduler issue and it would be helpfull if I
>> understood the difference between the duplicate detection methods:
>> "Subtitle & Description" and "Subtitle then Description".
>>
>> I've read the wiki page
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching
>>
>> but I have to say that though it might leave me better informed, I'm
>> non-the wiser.
>>
>> It seems to me that if the Subtitle and Description both have to be
>> the same it doesn't matter whether you compare them together, or
>> separately?
>>
>> Could someone be kind enough to provide a bit more detail - I'll
>> update the wiki myself (assuming I understand the explanation).
>>
>>
>> This is the Issue I'm having.
>>
>> I've previously always used "Subtitle then Desctiption" when recording
>> series because otherwise repeats tended to cause multiple recordings.
>>
>> Recently however I've had to change to "Subtitle then Description"
>> because new showings are being marked as "Previously Recorded" or
>> "Earlier Recording" even though no previous showing exists.  They
>> therefore aren't being scheduled to record.
>>
>> I'm running  and old versioni of 0.21-fixes (0.21.20080304-1) and
>> haven't upgraded anything for ages so I'm assuming that either I've
>> got database corruption or something about the guide data has changed
>> (I'm using the rt_UK xmltv grabber).  There has been a bit of an
>> upheavel recently with the uk_rt feed and there do seem to be some
>> changes in the guide data.  I've noticed the series number appearing
>> in the subtitle field meaning every episode of a series has identical
>> Title and Subtitle fields. The description fields look nice and unique
>> though.
>>
>> I did think of posting on the xmltv users forum but the xmltv data
>> looks right enough to me.  Here's one example of a new showing next
>> week that mythtv is marking as previously recorded if I use Subtitle
>> then Description duplicate detection.
>>
>> <programme start="20101020210000 +0100" stop="20101020220000 +0100"
>> channel="channel4.com">
>>   <title>Grand Designs</title>
>>   <sub-title>series 10</sub-title>
>>   <desc lang="en">Kevin McCloud follows interior ..... </desc>
>>   <category lang="en">Home and property</category>
>>   <episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 5/12 . </episode-num>
>>   <subtitles type="teletext" />
>>  </programme>
>>
>>
>> I've trunctated the description field but, needless to say, there's no
>> previous recording with a matching description.
>>
> I've had a similar problem with the same series, plus a few others where the
> Radio Times seems to have started putting "series nn" in the subtitle field.
> Really useful. The answer to this is to change your duplicate match to
> Description only. Seems to work most of the time.

What version of XMLTV are you both running? The series/episode
numbering detection and extraction routines were overhauled in the
0.5.58 release to better handle the large increase in episode number
data being provided:

<programme start="20101020210000 +0100" stop="20101020220000 +0100"
channel="channel4.com">
  <title>Grand Designs</title>
  <desc lang="en">Kevin McCloud charts the progress of interior designer...
  <category lang="en">Interests</category>
  <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">9.5/12.</episode-num>
  <video>
    <quality>SDTV</quality>
  </video>
  <subtitles type="teletext" />
</programme>


Cheers,
Nick

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Nick Morrott

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