[mythtv-users] 0.25 Exclude Generic Episodes

[David Engel]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:26:39AM +1000, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> Sorry I've already deleted the offending recordings however there are many
> upcoming episodes, here is one example, I can let this record if need be,
> currently I've manually setting these to not record
> 
> mysql> select * from program where title = 'Peppa Pig' AND subtitle = '';
> +--------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+---------------+---------+-------+-----------------+-----------------+--------+-----------+------+----------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+----------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+----------+---------+---------------+-------+------+-----------+---------------+-----------+
> | chanid | starttime           | endtime             | title     | subtitle
> |
> description
> | category | category_type | airdate | stars | previouslyshown |
> title_pronounce | stereo | subtitled | hdtv | closecaptioned | partnumber |
> parttotal | seriesid  | originalairdate | showtype | colorcode |
> syndicatedepisodenumber | programid | manualid | generic | listingsource |
> first | last | audioprop | subtitletypes | videoprop |
> +--------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+---------------+---------+-------+-----------------+-----------------+--------+-----------+------+----------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+----------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+----------+---------+---------------+-------+------+-----------+---------------+-----------+
> |   4022 | 2012-08-08 14:04:00 | 2012-08-08 14:10:00 | Peppa Pig |
> | The pre-school adventures of a cheeky and slightly bossy little pig
> called Peppa, who lives with her mummy and daddy and little brother George.
> Sometimes these adventures involve a few tears but they always end happily.
> | children |               |    2012 |     0 |               0
> |                 |      0 |         0 |    0 |              0 |          0
> |         0 | 123928631 | NULL            |          |
> |                         |           |        0 |       0 |             4
> |     0 |    0 |           |               |           |

What is your guide source?  For programs which don't have programids,
MythTv only considers them generic when both the subtitle and
description are empty.  In this case, you have an empty subtitle and
what looks like a boilerplate description.  Unfortunately, MythTv
doesn't know that description is boilerplate and doesn't mark the
prgram as generic.

At this point, you've got a couple of, and maybe more, reasonable
options.  One you can use a custom recording rule for "Peppa Pig" that
doesn't match empty subtitles.  Two, you can change the duplicate
detection for your existing rule to "Subtitle then description".  With
the latter, MythTV will record one of the generic episodes, but then
wonn't record any more unless the boilerplate description changes.

David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net