[mythtv] Channel changing Bugs...

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Wed Apr 9 21:55:35 EDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 07:39:17PM -0400, Andy Davidoff wrote:

> On Apr 09, at 19:11, Matt Zimmerman encoded a 0.9K recording:
> > The current simple method has some useful benefits.  For example, you can
> > throw away and regenerate the channel table and your scheduled recordings
> > are intact.
> 
> If you want to use videosource and channel number to identify a channel in
> the channel table, then those columns should be added to the record table.

It was an example.  The point is that for a given video source and channel
number, the channel ID is always the same.

> > It's also easily interpreted by visual inspection.
> 	select channum+sourceid*1000 as inspect_me from channel

My point was that the current chanids have an inherent meaning, and that
this is useful.  I'm not suggesting that we get rid of chanids (are you?).

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 - mdz


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