[mythtv-users] Proposed scheduler change - feedback please

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting steve at nexusuk.org:

> 
> As some of you probably know, the scheduler is having some big changes 
> done to it ATM.  A question has come up on the -dev list and I want to ask 
> the opinion of all the users:
> 
> In MythTV 0.13 and lower, if 2 different shows of equal priority 
> conflicted then you could tell it to always make one override the other 
> when the same 2 shows conflicted in the future.  In MythTV 0.14, the 
> ability to set new overrides like this was removed although it still pays 
> attention to the overrides that were already set up before upgrading.
> 
> The proposed scheduler changes are planned to completely remove this 
> functionality and go to a purely priority based conflict resolution 
> system.  I believe this is a Bad Thing since as far as I can tell, that 
> would make the conflict resolution more difficult to control, less 
> flexible and less intuitive.  Especially for those of us with only a 
> single tuner (and so many more conflicts).
> 
> I'd like your opinions on the matter - do we keep this functionality in 
> in addition to the priorities (like it is in 0.13) or rip it out 
> completely leaving only priorities?
Just a comment on conflicts, somewhat unrelated:

If two shows overlap by one minute (A common problem if you don't run a
round-to-nearest-5-minutes script on your program DB and record anything on
NBC), the end result that one recording should be completely disabled.

A better method would be to cut short the early recording or start the next one
late.  (Of course, this should be user-configurable.)  Of course, the user
should be warned about the overlapping portion.