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

David Asher david.asher at caviumnetworks.com
Mon Apr 17 01:14:22 UTC 2006


The problem is the channel isn't always in the lineup...  For example, I 
downloaded an episode of Monk I missed on my DirecTV TiVo, but I don't 
get USA on my mythbox.

David.

Steven Adeff wrote:
> 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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