[mythtvnz] Programmes in series being identified as movies

Ross Williamson ross at inertia.net.nz
Sat May 22 10:45:37 BST 2010


>> We've had an issue for a number of weeks now with a few (and only a
>> few) programmes that we have regularly scheduled to record being
>> identified as movies.
>
> Sounds weird, do you have the XMLTV data?

I have the latest data, not sure if this is the same all the time or if 
it is different on different days.

An example:

	<programme channel="tv2.freeviewnz.tv" start="20100525213000 +1200" 
stop="20100525223000 +1200">
		<title lang="eng">Private Practice</title>
		<desc>Things get too close for comfort when Addison, Pete and Sam must 
come together on a complicated case involving a dad-to-be who comes down 
with tuberculosis and threatens the future of his new family.</desc>
		<category>movie</category>
		<category>Drama</category>
		<rating system="SKY-NZ">
			<value>R16</value>
		</rating>
	</programme>


Apart from being "movie" in the first instance of the category node I 
can't see any unique identifiers in there. But MythTV shows the 
programme ID as "MV83207141", which is clearly a unique identifier.

Could this not be an issue with the listings at all (apart from the 
"movie" category clearly not being correct) but rather an issue with 
MythTV itself doing the lookups? Come to think of it it may have occured 
when I upgraded to 0.23 but I was not aware MythTV did any lookups of 
its own so did not look down that route.

If this is the case will fixing the listings so the category is "tvshow" 
rather than "movie" stop MythTV trying to grab movie details? If so, how 
can this be achieved?

Thanks!

Ross



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