[mythtv] Help! - PATCH for selective ignoring of duplicate programs

[Panix]

Im glad to see someone work on this.  This will be a nice feature.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
To: <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: [mythtv] Help! - PATCH for selective ignoring of duplicate programs


> Attached is a patch to allow selective ignoring of duplicate programs.
It's
> *supposed* to do the following:
>
> - Added a column "overridesuppression" to the PROGRAM table.  Setting this
> to non-NULL, non-zero will allow a single instance of a program to be
> recorded regardless of whether it is a duplicate.
>
> - Added a column "ignoreduplicates" to the RECORD table.  Setting this to
> non-NULL, non-zero will allow an entire show to always ignore duplicates.
>
> The 'overridesuppression' worked fine on my setup.  However, the
> 'ignoreduplicates' seemed to cause a problem, as follows;
>
> I have 3 instances of the following program in the upcoming days:
>
> Title: "Insomniac with Dave Attel"
> Subtitle: "Chicago"
> Description: <same description, didn't feel like pasting it>
> Chanid: 1026
>
> Program 1:  starttime = '20030515220000' endtime = '20030515223000'
> Program 2:  starttime = '20030516000000' endtime = '20030516003000'
> Program 3:  starttime = '20030518220000' endtime = '20030518223000'
>
> This show exists in my OLDRECORDED table with the same title, subtitle &
> description.
>
> When using my patch, with 'ignoreduplicates' = 1 in the RECORD table, the
> 3rd instance (Program 3) is simplpy absent from the "Fix Scheduling
> Conflicts" screen.  I'm sure it's some idiosyncrasy with the SQL query,
but
> I'm not enough of a SQL guru to figure it out.  Can someone take a look at
> this?
>
>
> Also, I seem to have found a bug in the duplicate-detection (probably also
> SQL related), and this was *without* my patch.  With the same 3 shows as
> above, only the 1st and 3rd instance are suppressed as duplicates; the 2nd
> one showed up as unsuppressed.  I'm thinking it's something to do with the
> fact that it starts at midnight?  Anyone?
>
> -JAC
>


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