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Recording wrong shows CuriousGeorge 08-12-2005
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Posted by CuriousGeorge on August 12, 2005, 1:15 pm
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 My MCE 05 setup is occasionally recording incorrect shows. For example, I
have a series setup for Nova on PBS and the past few weeks it has been
recording other shows that it thinks are part of this series (completely
unrelated shows). It still seems to record Nova correctly, but what's up
with the extra stuff? I've seen the same with some other series I have
setup, like King Of Queens.

Anyone else seen this?




Posted by Steve Punter on August 12, 2005, 4:37 pm
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 This has been commonly reported on this newsgroup. I have a THEORY about why
this happens, as I discovered a flaw in the data structure of the EPG stored
in MCE. I came across this in the process of building my own stand-alone
scheduler for MCE.

Each episode in the Zap2It data is made up of a 10-digit number, where the
first 6 digits are the code for the series and the last 4 digits are the
sequence number of the specific episode. However, Microsoft breaks this
number incorrectly and ONLY uses the left-most 5 digits for the show ID.
Because of this IT IS POSSIBLE that up to 10 different shows would carry the
same first 5 digits in their ID. If this is truly what MCE is doing "under
the hood", then it explains why it makes this error. However, I've never
been able to PROVE that my theory is correct.
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Steve Punter
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