Hi all,
I've searched the archives but did not find any mention of the following
problem. I also looked in local_conf.py and freevo_config.py to see if
there might be something I could tweak there, but came up empty. I'm
running Freevo 1.6.3.
Under certain conditions, when all the recorded programs in a directory
have the same title (such as with a TV series), the names displayed in
Freevo are truncated and only the last word of the program title is
displayed. For example, "Samantha Brown Passport to Latin America"
displays as "America" for each of the recorded episodes. Here's what I
found:
1) The program titles are retrieved from the <movie title> tag in the
fxd file that's created along with the avi recording.
2) If there are four or fewer recordings in the directory that have the
same program title in their respective fxd files, then the complete
title, as specified in <movie title>, is displayed for all recordings
3) If there are more than four recordings that have the same title,
then only the last word in the title is displayed.
4) If the recordings have the same title, but the title is no more than
two words, then the truncation problem does not occur. For example,
"Globe Trekker" displays correctly even when there are more than four
programs with the same title. If the title consists of three or more
words, then only the last word is displayed.
5) If there is at least one other recording in the directory that has a
different title in its fxd file, then all recordings will display their
respective titles properly.
6) I tried varying the title in one of the fxd files to make it
slightly different so that it would allow the titles for the other
recordings to display properly. For example, I changed the title in one
fxd file to each of the following: "Samantha Brown_Passport...",
"Samantha Brown Passport...", "samantha brown Passport...", and
"SamanthaBrown Passport...". However, Freevo seems to ignore certain
characters, case and spacing when analyzing the titles, so these title
variations are still deemed to be identical and the problem still occurs.
7) I finally determined that if I pad a space at the beginning of the
title in one fxd file (" Samantha Brown Passport..."), Freevo treats it
as a unique title and thus allows all the programs to display their
complete titles. However, the title of the program with the modfied fxd
entry displays its title shifted over one space due to the leading blank.
I didn't notice this problem in the default recording directory since
there were a mix of program titles stored there. However, when I
organized my recordings into separate directories for each TV series,
that's when I ran this problem, since all the programs in a given
directory would have the same <movie title> in their fxd files.
Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid/fix this problem? I know I can
manually alter a title (as noted in #7) or add a dummy fxd file to the
directory with a dummy or blank <movie title> (which, unfortunately,
creates a dummy line entry when viewing the program list in Freevo), but
I'm looking for a cleaner solution.
Thank you.
Art
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