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

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Fri Oct 15 16:20:55 UTC 2010


David Watkins wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> 
> I'm running 5.55.
> 
> It looks like from your xmltv snippet the subtitle field has been
> dropped?  Is that because it no longer contains usefull information,
> which also explains (I think) why Mythtv's "Subtitle then Description"
> duplicate detection is no longer working (with my old xmltv version).
> 
0.5.55 here also. Looks like it's time for an upgrade...

Unfortunately, so much has happened here recently I'm not sure if that's going 
to occur much before December. Rats.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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