[mythtv-users] Multiple duplicated recordings

[Alex Tomlins]

On 12/08/13 21:32, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 04:29 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 08/12/2013 04:21 PM, Alex Tomlins wrote:
>>> I'm have an 'any time on any channel' rule set up to record Top 
>>> Gear.  At the moment there are one or 2 episodes of this where all 
>>> 6+ showings of it are recorded (Dave likes to repeat things a lot).
>>>
>>> I'm using xmltv (UK Radio Times) for listing data, and the episodes 
>>> with the problems are the ones with no series/episode information 
>>> that therefore don't have a programid in Myth.  If I understand 
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching correctly, this should 
>>> fall back to the duplicate detection method in this case, which I've 
>>> set to Subtitle and Description.
>>>
>>> Looking in the database, the subtitles are all blank, and they all 
>>> have exactly the same description
>>
>> Blank actually means NULL and, in MySQL, NULL != NULL (i.e. you can't 
>> compare subtitle for equality if there is no subtitle--else it will 
>> /always/ compare as different).
>
> OK, actually, it's not NULL, but we treat an empty subtitle as a 
> "generic" episode when using "subtitle and description" meaning we'll 
> record it, regardless of the duplicate matching mechanism, just in 
> case it's new.
>
>> Therefore, change your duplicate detection mechanism to "subtitle 
>> then description", which will use subtitle if it's available, 
>> otherwise it will use description.
>
> Still the right fix.
>

Doh! I sent my last message before seeing this one.

I'll give this a go, and just keep an eye on things for a bit. Thinking 
about it a bit more, I think the problems were before I switched to 
XMLTV, so with luck it won't be a problem any more.

thanks for your help,
Alex

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