[mythtv] Re: Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

[Tony Lill]

Aran Cox <spin667 at mchsi.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:38:36PM -0500, Tony Lill wrote:
>> William Uther <willu.mailingLists at cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
>> > I really like Isaac's idea of using the original show priority.
>> 
>> Bad, bad idea! Most of my priorities are set to get around
>> deficiencies in the scheduler. I think I only have one based on the
>> actual 'desirability' of the show.
>
> I guess I interpret priority as "how important is the show to me."
> So, using it as a factor in determining what to delete when the disk
> is full is perfectly natural.  Also, using priority in the autoexpire
> code is far less complex than all the other "solutions" proposed in
> this thread.  

Well, I look at the recording priority as a RECORDING priority. If
you think a priority based autoexpire is best (I agree that it's nice
and simple and behaves in a very deterministic manner), then perhaps a
separate autoexpire proirity would be better.

> Or, if you have issues that require monkey games with priority, try
> adding another tuner card.  Nothing solves scheduling conflicts like
> another card!

As long as you pay for the extra satellite reciever!
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