Schedules Direct vs. Zap2It Episiode ID differences

[bienson]

I'm running GBVPR v1.0.16 and switched over to Schedules Direct (of course).

I had a setting to record a TV series for entire season (halfway - recorded), and noticed that the Unique episode ID are different from zap2it vs. Schedules Direct, thus resulting in GBVPR re-recording episodes I recorded before the switch over to Schedules Direct (SD) data.

The likely reason is the "uid" vs newer "program ID" from schedules direct. It looks like SD is formatting it with a few zero prefixes.

For example:

Zap2it based data: (from recording-dump.xml)
<recording>
<filename>G:\GBPVR\Samantha Brown Passport to Latin America\Samantha Brown Passport to Latin America_EP9245640008_Cusco, Peru.mpg</filename>
<channel>71 TRAV</channel>
<status>READY</status>
<startTime>2007-07-11 17:00:00</startTime>
<endTime>2007-07-11 17:30:00</endTime>
<title>Samantha Brown: Passport to Latin America</title>
<subtitle>Cusco, Peru</subtitle>
<description></description>
<uid>EP9245640008</uid>
</recording>

vs. SD download (zap2it.xml):

<program id='EP009245640008'>
<title>Samantha Brown: Passport to Latin America</title>
<subtitle>Cusco, Peru</subtitle>
<showType>Series</showType>
<series>EP00924564</series>
<originalAirDate>2007-06-27</originalAirDate>
</program>


So UID vs. Program ID

..EP9245640008
EP009245640008

exra zeroes.

Should I expect SD to have the same episode numbering or is this the way it is since it's a new data source? Should SD not be preformatting with extra zeroes?

Is this something to mention at Schedulesdirect.org?

Thanks.

[whurlston]

It's not just a Schedules Direct thing. This is the new schema from TMS. Program ID is now 14 characters instead of 12. MCE is reflecting the change as well. Yahoo did too until the data went away.

[sub]

I posted some SQL somewhere here a couple of weeks back that would update the existing IDs in the GB-PVR database to match this new TMS layout. If you do a search you'll be able to find it.

[toomanyhandles]

a post with a walkthru is here:

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=4

[bienson]

Thanks for the explanation and tip. I'll look into trying the SQL command in the next few days.