Re: UK-RT Grabber Prog Titles To Process Change Requests Thread

Nick Morrott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6 October 2010 19:53, John Veness <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29/09/10 22:42, John Veness wrote:
>> "Great TV Mistakes" and "Greatest TV Mistakes" are the same series. The
>> on-screen title is "Great TV Mistakes", so I guess all "Greatest TV
>> Mistakes" should be rewritten to "Great TV Mistakes".
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>
> I didn't see a reply to the above suggestion. Is the mailing list the
> best way to report these, or would they better be raised as bugs?

The above request was actioned on September 30th, but I didn't post
back to the list - sorry. Let me know if it's not working for you.

> In any case, I have a couple more suggestions:
>
> The series "Katy Brand vs" which appears with multiple titles (e.g.
> "Katy Brand vs Sugababes", "Katy Brand vs Sean Kingston") could be split
> into title "Katy Brand vs" or "Katy Brand vs..." and subtitle
> "Sugababes", "Sean Kingston" etc.

Added.

> A series on Sky 3 has titles like "Vinnie Jones' Excellent Adventure",
> "Dom Joly's Excellent Adventure", "Neil Morrissey's Excellent
> Adventure", "Minnie Driver's Excellent Adventure", which could be split
> with title "Excellent Adventure", subtitle "Vinnie Jones", "Dom Joly"
> etc. This might be a bit tricky as I've seen both "Vinnie Jones'
> Excellent Adventure" and "Vinnie Jones's Excellent Adventure", and
> obviously you'll want to exclude "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure".

Added.

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Patches or complete examples are always welcome for specific titles
users want to see improved (but please provide channel details) - I
don't have the time at the moment to check much more than the current
debug output gives me (and that's not a daily occurrence either, as
the slowdown of updates shows), but will commit any that are provided
and seem sane.

I will eventually add more logic to the debug routines to help with
identifying programmes where similarly-named programmes already have
their title and subtitle are being rewritten (the worst-case fixups),
but free time has been minimal to the extreme recently. Selfishly I'll
always prefer to fix titles that I'm either interested in or are quick
fixes, and updates that require ongoing monitoring or are of no
interest to me (like the above examples) fall to the bottom of the
pile.

I can't believe the fixups file already has >2700 entries...

Cheers,
Nick

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