[mythtv] Re: Re: Ticket #255: Improved scheduling of consecutive programs with pre-roll/overrecord

William Uther willu.mailingLists at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sat Oct 1 06:58:21 UTC 2005


On 01/10/2005, at 1:14 PM, mythtv-dev-request at mythtv.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:25:52 -0500
> From: David Engel <gigem at comcast.net>
> Subject: [mythtv] Re: Re: Ticket #255: Improved scheduling of
>     consecutive    programs with pre-roll/overrecord
> Message-ID: <20051001022552.GA24054 at opus>
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:26:09PM +1000, William Uther wrote:
>
>> While I was trying to be complete, that is a lot of things to
>> consider.  Settings for all of them would be major featureitis.
>>
>
> That's still an understatement!

:)  Yeah.  I just wanted to try and list all the options.  Actually,  
that isn't all of them.  I was also considering having separate  
preference sets for different users.  That way the kids could set  
their own preferences and the machine could pick what to record (they  
each get 100 "Dollars" to spend on ranking programs).  Unfortunately,  
I think tactical voting would become rife and the fights would continue.

>> So, here is what I would do:
>>
>> Separate pre/post-roll and soft time adjustments.  Each show gets
>> gets four settings: hard and soft, pre and post time adjustments.
>> There are also global defaults that get used as initial values for
>> these four settings for new shows.  There are also the following
>> global settings:
>>
>>  1a) Reschedule higher priorities (boolean), or
>>  1b) Later showing priority delta (integer)
>>  2) Reschedule soft time adjustments (boolean)
>>  3) Soft end time adjustment priority delta (integer)
>>  4) Propagate soft time adjustments (boolean)
>> [much more deleted]
>>
>
> Great.  When can we expect your patch? :)

I'm working on it - we'll see how my spare time holds out.  Prefs UI  
is unlikely to be done by me.

> I'm only partly joking since I would dearly love to see how someone
> else would approach the scheduling task and come up with working code.

We'll see what I come up with.  I hope it isn't too different from  
what is there...

Be well,

Will         :-}



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