[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1569: mythvideo grab-bag 'o crunchy goodness

[George Nassas]

On 25-Mar-06, at 7:10 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Still though, is sorting like-named videos alphabetically by path 
> really
> better than going by video ID?  I'll bet no one else in your house 
> knows
> which folder videos are in.  :)  And, I can say I never remember the
> folder names for videos I have (I don't have to since Myth does it for 
> me).

My videos are under categorizing folders such as Commercials, Humour, 
Movies and Music Videos so yeah I have a fair idea where a given vid 
comes from.

Something nasty about video id is that it gets reassigned when you 
rearrange your folders which is something I do occasionally. So, there 
is an unpleasant randomness to the ID.

I don't think this merits extensive discussion but the point is a tie 
breaker has to be chosen for the duplicate title situation and using 
filesystem position gives predictable, if obscure, behaviour while 
time-of-scan is harder to understand.

> Why not just take that part out of the patch and we can sort the issue
> on #1354?

I need those changes for folder view to work when you're using the 
database as your source.

To my mind a unicode-aware sorting solution would involve deriving a 
class from QPtrList<Metadata>, reimplementing QPtrList::compareItems to 
do the right thing based on the current ordering criteria and then 
calling QPtrList::sort. Easy enough to do but there don't appear to be 
any patches queued up for that so I'm reluctant to kneecap this one on 
the chance that something better might appear someday.

After the dust settles one of us or somebody else can look at that and 
also adding a table so people can add articles for their own languages. 
That's a biggish change that deserves its own ticket, not ones 
mentioning grab-bags or square brackets.

- George