[mythtv-users] [mythtv] tv.com perl script patch

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 01:42:37 UTC 2006


On 4/14/06, David Asher <david.asher at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> First off: thanks for sharing this script.  I've been using it (v0.8)
> for a while.
>
> I noticed an interesting side effect of having a 0 chanid, however.
> MythWeb discards any programs with chanid == 0.  So, the imported
> programs can't be seen (or deleted).  Kind of annoying.
>
> I see two ways to fix this: 1. create a fake (non-zero) chanid in the
> channel table to give to imported videos, 2. have mythweb include the
> chanid == 0 programs (I wonder what the reason for this check is anyway).
>
> Both options seem like they could have nasty side-effects, though option
> 2 less wide-ranging.
>
> Overall I like the idea of a imported video "channel", but I suspect
> adding it to the channels table could wreak havoc on
> tuning/EPG/mythfilldatabase/etc.  Anybody have any ideas/opinions on this?
>
> David.

one thing I thought of was parsing the Network name from tv.com and
having an option where the user could specify the channel by number or
callsign then have it find what channel it is from the database so the
actual channel in your lineup is entered instead.

--
Steve


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