[mythtv] don't autoexpire the show you are watching

[Henri]

I guess i miss-understood "preserve episode", that will only
stop the maxEpisodes from deleting the show...

any ideas on how to best do this? (block both autoexpire and
maxepisodes from deleting a show you are currenlty watching)

henri


On 11 Jun 2005, henri <henri at asu.edu> wrote: 

> 
> what would be the best way to have the (front or back)end
> not autoexpire (or max episode limit) the show you are
> currently watching?
> 
> doesn't happen often, but it's sort of annoying. you are in
> the middle of a show and you get kicked out to the recorded
> show listing and the show you were in the middle of watching
> is no longer there.
> 
> it seems to me that it should be as easy as setting the
> preserve bit on the show that is currently playing
> 
> setting should be easy enough, just do it in: 
> 
> void PlaybackBox::startPlayer(ProgramInfo *rec)
> 
> but where to un-set it? do we get a signal of some sort when
> the thread that launches NuppleVideoPlayer is done?
> 
> or, should i do it in tv_play.cpp? (and use the statestr
> change?)
> 
> to cover the case where the show was already preserved (or
> two front ends watching the same show) doing a +1 then a -1
> to the value would bring it back to what it was before.
> 
> which would imply a change from boolean to int for
> ProgramInfo.preserve
> 
> i'm going to start looking into this, but if someone has
> quick answers to the above questions that would be great :)
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> henri
>