[mythtv] Next Scheduler Patch

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Tue Mar 2 16:53:48 EST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:47:11PM -0600, David Engel wrote:

> Nothing's been implemented, but I have been thinking about it.  I
> think the way to handle this is have the scheduler treat a card being
> used for live TV as unavailable for some amount of time(*).  This will
> force it to schedule around the live TV as much as possible.  Then,
> have the scheduler make another pass using any live TV cards as a last
> resort.
> 
> (*)How long should this time be, 30 min., 1 hour, 2 hours, forever?

If you want to be very clever, I'd say "until the end of the current
program" based on the current channel the user is watching.

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 - mdz


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