add a toggle to treat episodes with incomplete info as repeats

[ajlill@…]

Up here in the Great White North, a lot of channels don't provide complete data for a lot of programs especially, but not alway, when they are repeats. The default myth behaviour of recording these can easily fill up your disk, or you max episodes, since it's usually The Simpsons, which is on 24 hours a day. This patch uses a new column in the recorded table, ignoreincomplete int(11), to toggle whether or not to treat these programs as repeats. The patch does not contain the bit to update the schema to add the column.

[gigem]

How many series actually have this listing problem? Unless it's a large number, you should use a Custom Record to exclude generic episodes. There is an example in the Custom Record dialog called "Exclude unidentified episodes" for doing this. Combine it with the "Match an exact title" example and it should do what you want.

[anonymous]

30 and counting. A lot of canadian stations put out this bogus show info whenever they are showing a repeat and the american station they bought the show from is showing something else.

Besides, I was brought up to believe that computers were meant to work for you, not the other way around!

[ajlill@…]

Updated patch to 0.20

[danielk]

please update the patch to head...

[stuartm]

Requested info not supplied after 30 days.

[Tony Lill <ajlill@…>]

Gee, the ticket is two years old, why so impatient now ;-)

[sphery]

In current MythTV (including 0.21-fixes), you may create a recording rule and specify a "Duplicate In" value of "Exclude unidentified episodes" (see [12433]), which tells MythTV not to record the episode if it's a generic episode.

• On Apr 12, 2006, this ticket was closed/wontfix with a recommendation to use a Custom Recording rule specifying "Exclude unidentified episodes."
• On Apr 23, 2006, the reporter re-opened the ticket saying that over 30 rules would need to be changed to custom rules, so it's too many for custom rules.
• On Jan 6, 2007, [12433] made it possible to specify "Exclude unidentified episodes" without using custom rules.

Since the new filter checks that category is series and that the programid ends with '0000', it overlaps the code that sets generic (in programs/mythfilldatabase/main.cpp around line 716), so you should get the same behavior by using the "new" "Exclude unidentified episodes" dupin value on a normal recording rule without needing a new filter.