>[snip] > > The Daily Show has always been a good example for the "generic" > episode problem. They always used to only list the generic "A > humorous slant on top news stories." with the generic programid. > Ever since John Edwards announced his candidacy, or was it when > Bill Clinton was a guest, they've been pretty good about always > having descriptions for new episodes but still use the generic > description when they show re-runs or if the guest hasn't been > determined yet. > > As it stands now, myth's "Record new episodes only" generally > sees generic episodes as out of date and marks then as repeats. > Whether they should be assumed to be old or unknown and therefore > possibly new is debatable. However, recording new episodes for > TDS generally works except they sometimes don't have the guest > list for the week in by Monday and so Monday's show may still > be generic even though it is a new show. > > Another approach to TDS, Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" or other > shows that have a regularly scheduled time, repeats throughout > the day and no descriptions would be to have something like a > daily FindOne. In other words, say I set TDS once a day at 11pm. > If it couldn't record at 11 then try 1am then 10am so that it > would record once per 24 hour period. The same would be useful > for weekly shows. Record "Discoveries This Week" (never a desc.) > once from Fri at 5pm until the next Fri at 5pm. Same for "Best > week Ever", "Topic A With Tina Brown" or any other such show for > current events where the description isn't available ahead of time. > > -- bjm > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
That sounds to me like a great idea. I've been wanting the exact same thing myself, and have been considering how to impliment it (not being a dev) I was thinking about writhing a script to mess with the database to show that specific episodes are the same, or something. If there were native support for something like this, that'd be great. Here where I live, The Daily Show airs for the first time at 8pm, then again at 10:30, then at 7am and 4pm the next day, monday through thursday, with the 4pm on both friday and monday being a repeat of the one on thursday. Those four are always the same episode, rerun or new, and usually all have a generic discription, or when there is a real description, it's only on the first two at 8 and 10:30. It'd be great to be able to tell myth that "these are all the same; these are the new ones." In my case, I can do the rerun checking manually without a problem, but I'd really like to have it be able to record any showing to be able to work around conflicts. Also, if each "new" episode could have a different id in the database, such that keeping a certian number of episodes worked right, that'd be good. -Nate
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