[mythtv-users] Can't re-record some old recordings

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:08 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:48:32PM -0800, Karl Newman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:58:32PM +0100, Thomas Börkel wrote:
> > > > On 19.09.2013 00:30, David Engel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Your new program entries have a description, but your oldrecorded
> > > > > entry doesn't.  Is your recording rule set to subtitle-only or
> > > > > subtitle-then-description?  If yes, that's the cause.  The "forget"
> > > > > logic has always been rather simple minded in that it relises and
> > > > > subtitle and description to match.  I suppose I'll have to make it
> > > > > smarter adn use the duplicate check method in place.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, this works OK now in all cases with 0.27, however only in
> > > > mythfrontend. With MythWeb, there are still cases where it does not
> work.
> > >
> > > It will probably stay that way unless someone submits a patch for
> > > mythweb.  It's effectively been abandoned by its developers and is
> > > being left to die.  The good news is much of mythweb's funcionality
> > > will be incorporated into the built-in, backend web server in MythTV
> > > 0.28.
> > >
> > > Can you explain the MythWeb bug(s)? I've created a few patches for
> MythWeb
> > recently (for example, I fixed a typo in the "Default" button to cancel
> an
> > override from the Upcoming Recordings screen). I might be able to fix it
> > for you.
>
> Mythweb needs the same type of change that was made to the frontend
> in:
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/567cba3184db and
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/d2231e90b3f5
>
> David


Thanks for the info David. The change is not quite trivial and there's a
lot going on in those patches that I need to understand. I don't know if
I'll get around to it... Sorry Thomas!

Karl
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