Avoid duplicate recordings (NZ)

[Jaggy]

I read a message the other day on geekszone that in NZ the tivo was able to avoid recording dups from at least TVNZ7 which got me to looking at my tvguide.xml & I discovered it now has things like this in it.
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">1014022 . 10269880 . </episode-num>

Could this be used to stop it recording dups for us??

[sub]

What did you use to generate this xmltv file?

Do you know what the two numbers are, and is it on all your shows, or just selected shows?

[Jaggy]

I'm using EPGCollector (DVB-T version attached) & I have no idea what the two numbers mean but they do appear to be on most shows & I assume tivo must be using something like this to avoid dups??

[sub]

Can you think of any shows that have repeats on TV1/2/3? So that we can see they have the same id.

[Nistrod]

OK, I would like to chip in here. I'm in Aus, but we seem to be getting similar data.
#1 & #2 are listed as Ep 13, #3 is Ep 13.

Does this help?

Cheers



#1
<programme start="20120518203230 +1000" stop="20120518213000 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Phryne in on the hunt for escaped prisoner Murdoch Foyle. Will she discover the truth behind her sister's mysterious disappearance? CAST: Nicholas Bell</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V013S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

#2
<programme start="20120520220500 +1000" stop="20120520230000 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Phryne in on the hunt for escaped prisoner Murdoch Foyle. Will she discover the truth behind her sister's mysterious disappearance? CAST: Nicholas Bell</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V013S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

Whereas #3
<programme start="20120513220554 +1000" stop="20120513230134 +1000" channel="705">
<title>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</title>
<desc>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</desc>
<category>Murder strikes close to home when a young girl is found drowned in Aunt Prudence's water fountain on the eve of a lavish fancy dress party. Phryne and her aunt work together to investigate. CAST: Miriam Margolyes</category>
<rating>
<value>PGR</value>
</rating>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">/DR1022V . /DR1022V012S00 . 0</episode-num>
</programme>

[sub]

Nistrod, where do your xmltv files come from?

Do all shows have these, or just some?

Can you zip and attach a complete file?

[Nistrod]

Its an app called EPG Collector, that examines the OTA guide.
I've attached a zip file, but it looks like only certain channels have them, and the data is in different formats!

[JonnyCam]

I just used the option in epg collector to create episode tags fromt he numeric part of the CRID info.

I looked at a couple of programs between TV3 & TV3 +1, and found they were the same

Code:

(TV3)
<programme start="20120514225000 +1200" stop="20120514232000 +1200" channel="1920">
    <title>Nightline</title>
    <desc>Your late edition news, weeknights with Sacha McNeil</desc>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">38537 . 4220471804058 . </episode-num>
  </programme>

(TV3 +1)
<programme start="20120514235000 +1200" stop="20120515002000 +1200" channel="1926">
    <title>Nightline</title>
    <desc>Your late edition news, weeknights with Sacha McNeil</desc>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">38537 . 4220471804058 . </episode-num>
  </programme>

Not sure if that is a good test, but I couldnt think of any programs which they repeat within the week or so of my guide data.

[Jaggy]

I did the same thing with the same result between TV3 & TV3+1 but I don't think that's a good test..... I also couldn't think of anything on TV2, TV2 or TV3 that was repeated within the week........ unlike on TVNZ7, ChoiceTV & CUE where there are heaps repeated every day.

[sub]

I wonder what these ones mean. ie, news reports with same id, but different days. It's unlikely they'd be broadcasting repeats of the same news on different days.

<programme start="20120513110000 +1200" stop="20120513113000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>

<programme start="20120514100000 +1200" stop="20120514104000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>

<programme start="20120515110000 +1200" stop="20120515113000 +1200" channel="1405">
<title>News Report</title>
<desc>No synopsis available</desc>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns"> . 33004 . </episode-num>
</programme>