[mythtv-users] mythepisode - mythweb unofficial addon

[Chad Oppliger]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Chad Oppliger <chadopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nice feature addition, thanks.
>>
>> Sadly my myth database seems to think it hasn't recorded a lot of episodes that in fact it has, well at least I now know why it keeps recording the same CSI episodes over and over again!
>>
>> One small comment, would be much nicer to use if the initial TV Episodes page was some sort of summary page with the A-Z links rather than dropping straight into a page that takes a couple of minutes to render, longer than the php timeout for most people it seems.
>>
>> Great stuff.
>>
>> Andre
>>
>
> That's interesting that it takes that long.  It takes about 10 seconds
> to display all shows on my system and about 5 seconds for current
> shows.  And I don't like that.  I think it may have something to do
> with the size of your oldrecorded table.  Mine only has about 120
> recordings because I rebuilt my system.  When I display the main page
> I check to see if you have previously recorded a show and if so make
> it green on the main page.  I think if you have a huge DB that process
> takes a long time.  If you go add the following it might speed things
> up, but will not show the recorded shows in green on the main page.
>
> handler.php
> add:  $getrecorded = 0;  If you want the shows to show up in green
> change it to 1.
>
> tmpl/default/show.php
> change: if (in_array_cin("$data[1]", $recordedshow)) {
> to:  if (($getrecorded) && (in_array_cin("$data[1]", $recordedshow))) {
>

I forgot to mention there are two instances of this that need to be
changed in show.php


> This would bypass the db check and I think speed things up.  I would
> like to do something like you suggested where the main page doesn't
> have to load all 10000 + show listings.
>
> Remember on the episode listing page for a particular show the default
> is to display shows that you haven't recorded.  By selecting "Display
> All Episodes" it should display everything.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Chad
>