[mythtv-users] Integrating non-traditional program sources into MythTV (won't tell you what it 'was:')

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jul 23 15:55:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:14:31AM -0400, David Shay wrote:
> To me, this analogy breaks down in two key ways.  From a UI
> standpoint, made-up times just would seem kind of strange.  Do you
> just list all available content with invented times starting from
> right now, without repeats, then just stop the grid when you run out
> of content?o

Indeed; you do exactly that.  Why not?

> Then, from a code standpoint, this is very much
> totally-unscheduler-like.  Having spent a few days in the scheduler
> code working on a patch for something else, I can confidently say that
> this kind of thing would be a total rewrite of the pretty much the
> entire scheduler.  It is completely reliant on times and dates as a
> key component of its logic, and making ones up just to effectively do
> some regexp searching and intelligent downloading/DB inserting seems
> like overkill.

The scheduler doesn't need to do the actual recording for IPTV pseudo
channels...

Cheers,
-- jra
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