Incorrect interpretation of "New" as show title in UK Freeview EIT for Channel 5 group

[Joe Bryant <tenminjoe@…>]

Using off-the air EPG in the UK, the backend picks up lots of showings of a show it thinks is called "New".

However, it seems Channel 5 is labelling various different shows with a "New" prefix to flag new episodes. E.g. the show is called "The Gadget Show", but Channel 5 list it as (I guess) "New: The Gadget Show", and Myth interprets that as a show called "New" with episode title "The Gadget Show".

I appreciate that it's likely that Channel 5 are at fault, but it would be great if Myth could fix up the data.

Note that this affects Channel 5, Channel 5+1, and 5* (and I suppose is likely to affect 5 USA, although I see no examples just now).

[Nicolas Riendeau]

Hi Stuart!

I am assigning it to you since you addressed one of those recently and can, hopefully, replicate the problem on your side.

If it turns out I am mistaken, please feel free to unassign yourself.

Thank you!

Nicolas

[Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta@…>]

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[Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta@…>]

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[amlopezalonso@…]

Hi,

How has been this fixed from the FE's point of view?

Quite many spanish TV channels use to prefix titles with one certain string which could be "CINE: ", "EL PELICULÓN: ", and so on. Plus, title could be surrounded by (single/double) quotes, as in "CINE: 'The Hulk'".

IMHO, ideally, it would be nice to have some user-defined, prefix-stripping option which could be independently applied either to program search/recording functions or to EPG display (or both simultaneously).

Just some thoughts.

Kind regards, Antonio

[Karl Egly]

Antonio, please open a new ticket for spanish TV. We can create a fixup for spanish TV if you can provide

• samples of the actual EIT data transmitted (output of "dvbsnoop -n 1 0x12" while tuned to the relevant channels, pick some examples of all variants - here is a sample of the data I need ​https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=898 )
• a list of original_network / transports / services that these should be applied to (see ​https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/eithelper.cpp#L1058 )

Making the EIT fixups configurable and fast is not so easy.