[mythtv] Inconsistent star ratings

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jan 23 16:42:17 UTC 2017


On 01/23/2017 11:01 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the UI 
>> inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>>
>> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly by 
>> XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored as a 
>> float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent which 
>> makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The different 
>> ratings I get are:
>> - Recording list: 1-10
>> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
>> - mythweb: 1-5
>>
>> Jan.
>
> Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a 
> DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than necessary.

Some background. I think the idea was to use a value that could then be 
applied to whatever base we chose:

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7810#comment:1

and the rest of the thread.

Mike


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