[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12887: Billing order is lost in the credits table

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#12887: Billing order is lost in the credits table
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     Reporter:  mythtv@…              |      Owner:
         Type:  Bug Report - General  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor                 |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  MythTV - General      |    Version:  0.28.0
     Severity:  medium                |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                     |
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 There is no way to order the list of actors in a program to reflect the
 billing order. I use tv_grab_sd_json and the XML it produces has the
 actors in billing order but the process of adding them to the credits
 table removes the order. You can see this clearly in mythweb, just pick
 any movie.

 As a work-around for my purposes I have added a column to credits thus:

 alter table credits add column localrank int auto_increment primary key;

 I'm not proposing this as the solution but it works for me as the XML from
 the grabber has the actors in billing order and mythfilldatabase adds them
 to the credits table in that order. I can get the starts with this query:

 select name from credits, people where credits.person = people.person and
 chanid = CCCC and starttime = SSSS and role = 'actor' order by localrank
 limit 5;

 I don't know what the best solution would be, possibly a rank column
 (tinyint) and have mythfilldatabase use a counter that increments for
 every addition to the credits table but the EIT processor would have to be
 changed too and I don't have a clue what that does. Finally the frontend
 and mythweb would have to be changed to use the rank.

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