[mythtv-commits] Ticket #5816: Guide rating for programa data from tv_grab_uk_rt produces nonsensical results

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#5816: Guide rating for programa data from tv_grab_uk_rt produces nonsensical
results
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 Reporter:  lists at benlancaster.co.uk  |        Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  defect                    |       Status:  closed 
 Priority:  minor                     |    Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv                    |      Version:  head   
 Severity:  low                       |   Resolution:  wontfix
  Mlocked:  0                         |  
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Changes (by stuartm):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 Adding grabber specific hacks is not a solution and won't happen, we've
 spent the last two years removing such hacks because they are a pain to
 maintain.

 XMLTV makes no recommendation on the multiples used,merely that the rating
 should be in the format "N / M". It doesn't specify that N or M should be
 integers, but that is implied. We might store the value as a string
 instead of a float but that has display issues - themers can't easily
 represent differing schemes with star images for example.

 On systems with multiple and differing different sources you'd have rating
 information which didn't relate in a straight comparison. You wouldn't be
 able to setup recording rules for all films with 5 stars, if one scheme
 was rated out of 5 and the other out of 100.

 I'm not really sure why Myth uses a 4 star rating internally, by far the
 most common multiple is 5 (5,10,100). I think this could be changed to 5
 or 10 but it needs some discussion first. It would at least match up with
 other areas both mythmusic and mythvideo use 10 and this sort of UI
 consistency is what we're moving towards.

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