[mythtv-users] Channel Line-up change and previously recorded

[Jay Foster]

On 5/25/2018 1:26 AM, John Veness wrote:
> On 24/05/2018 21:34, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> I ... was just wondering if people keep their lineups around forever 
>> (I have non-watched recordings from 2013 still) so their displays are 
>> not #xxxx on each recording..
>
> Here in the UK, channels often change number, so I too have lots of 
> recordings that show #xxxx for the channel name, which looks ugly. 
> Even worse, sometimes new channels take over an old number, so 
> recordings that were originally recorded on, say, Drama, may change to 
> say they were recorded on ITV3, which is positively misleading!
>
> It would involve a database schema change, but I think the best 
> solution would be to save the channel *name* for each recording in the 
> recordings table, and use that when displaying in the UI, rather than 
> doing a lookup of the number in the channels table. This would use 
> slightly more disk space but would be slightly quicker (one fewer 
> lookup) and would retain what channel a recording was made on, even if 
> that channel moves or is renamed later. This seems more "correct" 
> behaviour to me.
>
> John
> -- 
> John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
>
>
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I concur with John and give his idea a +1.  This also affects the 
Mythweb statistics page.
Jay
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