2016-02-22, 01:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 2016-02-22, 01:10 AM by silverblade.)
Hi
I'm in the UK and new to NextPVR (and XMLTV stuff generally) and finding in general that it works great on My Windows 7 PC with my ClimaxDigital USB DVBT stick.
However when I use Record Season (new episodes on this channel) I get repeat episodes recorded as well - an example would be the Dragon's Den programme on BBC2 which shows on Sundays and is then repeated on Mondays (on the same channel). The series itself is not a repeat but the Monday show is.
When I look in the NextPVR EPG there is nothing to indicate that the Monday show is a repeat. I tried with other software (eg arcsoft totalmedia that came with the tuner) and that looks the same too. However my 10 year old Sony HD recorder does handle this correctly so I assume that somewhere in the EPG info that is broadcast in my area for this show there is something to denote it is a repeat. Am I correct in assuming all devices/tuners would use the same EPG data or could my HD recorder be getting it over the air from somewhere else?
I took a peek inside the npvr.db3 database using sqlite_export_cmd and exported the epg_event table into a libreoffice spreadsheet and saw that the "first_run" field is actually set to Y for absolutely every programme on every channel and that the "original_air_date" is 0001-01-01 for everything, so I guess from that there is no way these duplicates can be prevented (and so many series do repeat shows in the same week these days).
I did try searching first but didn't find anything to specificall address this.
cheers
SB
I'm in the UK and new to NextPVR (and XMLTV stuff generally) and finding in general that it works great on My Windows 7 PC with my ClimaxDigital USB DVBT stick.
However when I use Record Season (new episodes on this channel) I get repeat episodes recorded as well - an example would be the Dragon's Den programme on BBC2 which shows on Sundays and is then repeated on Mondays (on the same channel). The series itself is not a repeat but the Monday show is.
When I look in the NextPVR EPG there is nothing to indicate that the Monday show is a repeat. I tried with other software (eg arcsoft totalmedia that came with the tuner) and that looks the same too. However my 10 year old Sony HD recorder does handle this correctly so I assume that somewhere in the EPG info that is broadcast in my area for this show there is something to denote it is a repeat. Am I correct in assuming all devices/tuners would use the same EPG data or could my HD recorder be getting it over the air from somewhere else?
I took a peek inside the npvr.db3 database using sqlite_export_cmd and exported the epg_event table into a libreoffice spreadsheet and saw that the "first_run" field is actually set to Y for absolutely every programme on every channel and that the "original_air_date" is 0001-01-01 for everything, so I guess from that there is no way these duplicates can be prevented (and so many series do repeat shows in the same week these days).
I did try searching first but didn't find anything to specificall address this.
cheers
SB