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

On 12 January 2012 18:07, nospam312 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The One Lenny Henry (6th Jan)
>>> The One Jasper Carrott (9th Jan)
>>> The One Griff Rhys Jones (16th Jan)
>>> (and from a bit ago that started the three new episodes above)
>>> The One Ronnie
>
>> Just updated.
>> Cheers,
>> Nick
>
> Do not know if a good idea to change this or not but I have noticed on
> iPlayer this series is "officially" called "The Ones"

Might be best to keep them as they are currently fixed up "The
One...". Don't really want to change the title *again*.

> Does anyone know the history of subtitles containing a repeat of the
> programme title?

Both the release (0.5.61) and development versions output this data
for all listings processed, when the debug flag is on. The CVS
versions exposes more titles and the majority of my recent fixups
since before Christmas aim to handle such titles when I notice them.

> I noticed several shows over the Christmas period having this problem
> (mostly Christmas specials) and another upcoming programme called
> "World's" has the same issue?
>
> World's: World's Scariest Plane Landings
> World's: World's Greatest Heroes
>
> Do you think it a good idea to automatically remove the programme
> title from the subtitle if it starts with the programme title?

The release version of the grabber will automatically remove the title
if seen in the subtitle, *if* the format of the subtitle is "$TITLE:
$SUBTITLE". For other titles, debug output is generated if the title
is seen in the subtitle. The CVS version additionally removes the
titles if the subtitle contains "$SUBTITLE: $TITLE".

These two fixups handle quite a few titles (~50 in this morning's
run). As these automated fixups seem to work well I plan to automate
the same when hyphens are detected in lieu of colons.

Some programmes which contain the title at the start of the subtitle
field should not be automatically altered. Consider the following from
the current listings:

Chuck / Chuck v the First Date
House / House Divided
Zigby / Zigby, Superhero


It's difficult and time consuming, but the current balance of
automated fixups and manually additions to the fixups file works well.
If upstream data providers could pre-empt the need for these fixups,
all the better.

Cheers,
Nick


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