[mythtv] Proposed workaround for scheduling problem with overlapped recording rules (bug #3242)

[Subbyz]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, David Engel wrote:

> This is already being looked at.  The most likely change is going to
> be to prefer rules that want to record over ones that don't except for
> kDontRecord.  It just hasn't been tested enough.

I'd be happy to help test the patch if it is available.

Your mention of kDontRecord brings up another point.  I tried to find a way 
to mark a recording rule as kDontRecord through the UI, but there doesn't 
appear to be.  Did I miss something?

The reason I'd use it is I have a recording rule that records all programs 
with genre = "Documentary" as a very low priority rule.  But there are a 
couple of programs that are marked as "Documentary" in the listings that are 
really just thinly disguised reality programs, which I despise.

I'd like to have a way to tell Myth *NEVER* to record these few programs no 
matter what even though they would normally be recorded under the 
"Documentary" rule.  Seems like a kDontRecord rule with a high priority that 
matches that particular undesireable show title would handle that correctly, 
if there were just some way to set it up through the UI.

Unfortunately, the "never record" override appears only to apply to a 
particular episode of a show rather than any episode of that show title. 
But again, I may be missing something.

Anyway, I hope the patch keeps my workaround fix what considers the record 
rule priority, since that also helps handle this case, unless there is some 
other way to set a permanent "dont record" rule or override.  Right now, I 
have been handling it by making the custom recording rule exclude the 
undesired shows in the SQL, but that gets rather unwieldy fairly quickly if 
it's more than a few shows to be excluded.

subbyz