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Art S R wrote:
> 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.
See:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&group_id=46652&atid=446898&aid=1602952
it was changed in freevo-1.7.0
For other changes see:
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/ChangeLog
Duncan
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