[mythtv-users] Proposed scheduler change - feedback please

[Steven Marcotte]

The user should *always* have the option to override the computer.  I
have two shows that run at the same time, Smallville and Enterprise. 
Most of the time, but not always, I want to watch Smallville.

However, if I've already seen the Smallville episode, or if Enterprise
looks interesting, I'll change the conflict resolution to temporarily
recode Enterprise.

If MythTV only uses the show's priority for conflict resolution, I'll
need to change Enterprise to a higher priority before the recording, and
change it back after the recording.  How is this easier for users?

It may be easier to program and maintain, but IMHO this will be a bad
thing for users.

Quattro


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:25, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> 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?