[mythtvnz] Choice TV - how to avoid repeats? (EPG pretty hopeless)

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:06:08 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >I use tv_grab_nz-py and the Choice TV data is pretty low grade. The
> channel
> >repeats shows 2 or 3 times a week, and the description info is very
> generic.
> >
> >Take an example: Urban Secrets is on Monday 7.30, Tuesday 4.00 am and
> >Tuesday 10.00 am. The description is generic, ie no episode sepcific info:
> >"There are secret places, unknown history and great characters that lie
> >buried behind the everyday and tourist trails. Each episode of Urban
> >Secrets takes viewers on a stunning and intriguing... (G)" It is much the
> >same on their website.
> >
> >So how the hell do I avoid recording every showing of every episode and
> >taking up 3x too much disk space?
> >
> >(Probably easier to download it, at least internet pirates properly name
> >their files!)
>
> Actually, the EPG on ChoiceTV is excellent - the best of any of the
> channels I watch.  Although they do occasionally miss doing it (or put
> the wrong values), normally they provide the right fields to mark all
> programmes with series and episode numbers.  If you find one of the
> three Urban Secrets for this week, and then use the I command twice to
> go to the "Program Details" screen, you will see that it shows a
> "Programme ID" with a value of "USEC01_01".  That breaks down as
> "USEC" = the code for "Urban Secrets", which will never change, "01_"
> is the series number and the final "01" is the episode number.



OK I saw that in mythweb just after I posted.



>  MythTV
> uses that data (if provided) in preference to all other methods in
> deciding what is new and what is a repeat.  So just tell it to record
> all of Urban Secrets and it will work just fine.



I'll try that and see what happens.


>  The other channels
> do other strange things usually, rather than use the correct
> documented methods that ChoiceTV does.  But because their stuff is
> usually visible, like TV2's in the Description data, you notice it.
> ChoiceTV has it done correctly, but it gets hidden away by MythTV.
>
> BTW TV3 now also provides the right sort of data (using another
> different format) in the background fields - most of their programs
> will show a "Program Number" on the Program Details screen, like E22S8
> for Bones tonight.  I think they are very silly to have the series and
> episode numbers reversed like that, but it does work.
>
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