Craig Sanders wrote:
i've noticed duplicates in the schedule listing in vdr.
i use tv_grab.au and xlmtv2vdr to import xmltv listings into vdr. vdr also populates the schedule automatically based on the DVB electronic program guide. i don't know if it's different elsewhere, but the EPG here in Melbourne gives you the details for the current program (on the current channel) and the next program.....this is why i use xmltv to get the next few days worth of program guides.
what is happening is that instead of replacing the schedule entry imported by xmltv2vdr, the DVB listing is added to the schedule, so i end up with schedules like the following:
12:00 - 12:30 Stateline [1] 12:03 - 12:30 Stateline [2] 12:30 - 13:00 Australian Story [3] 12:30 - 13:00 Australian Story [4] 13:00 - 13:40 Foreign Correspondent 13:40 - 14:00 Wild Tails 14:00 - 15:00 Naked Planet 15:00 - 15:30 Pilot Globe Guide
is there any way to make vdr replace a listing rather than add a new one?
this would eliminate duplicates and make it more accurate (the DVB program guide is more up-to-date than the xmltv listing). The DVB entry also has more data (the xmltv listings here usually don't have any details about the program, little more than just the name and the time, while the DVB listing invaribaly has a summary description of the program).
e.g. with the two duplicates above, the first of each pair is from xmltv and has no description, while the second is from DVB and has a useful description.
[1] Stateline (G) Repeat
[2] Stateline VIC news and current affairs presented by Kathy Bowlen. Feature stories and regional reports, interviews with state political, business and community leaders.
[3] Australian Story (G) Repeat
[4] Australian Story The Gathering Storm Pt:2 - Continues the saga of Beth Heinrich, and her 40-year love affair with with a married priest who went on to become Australia's most senior Anglican bishop.
note that the program titles aren't always identical. sometimes there are minor differences in spelling, abbreviations used, or upper/lower case or start/stop time. i think that the best way to handle this is to consider the DVB guide data to be correct, and any conflicting schedule entry to be false....i.e. if a DVB entry is in the same time period as a schedule entry, then just delete the schedule entry.
BTW, this is worse than just a cosmetic annoyance. it also causes duplicate recordings if an Auto-Timer is set in vdradmin....it notices that the schedule says there are two programs on the same channel at the same time that match the auto-timer criteria, so it records both.
craig
I also have this issue. I think there is a patch that is supposed to address this problem. See http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Disable-double-epg-entrys-patch
The patch adds the following options to VDR's EPG setup menu:
Period for double EPG search (min) [minutes] extern double Epg entry [delete/adjust] Mix intern and extern EPG [yes/no] Disable running VPS event [yes/no]
I haven't been able to verify how well the patch works yet but it certainly seems to be removing at least some double entries.