[mythtv] [patch] duplicate checking using programid

David Engel gigem at comcast.net
Thu May 6 20:41:36 EDT 2004


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:11:39PM -0400, Dave Alden wrote:
>   I've made a "first stab" at adding in programid duplicate checking.  

Excellent!  I can scratch that off my todo list now.

I'm in the middle of something else right now, but will check out your
patch and get it committed in a few days if it looks alright.

>   o  "Progid; Sub & Desc" - if the programid is not null use it
>         to compare, otherwise compare the Subtitle and Description
> 
>   o  "Progid; Sub" - if the programid is not null use it to compare,
>         otherwise compare the Subtitle
> 
>   o  "Progid; Desc" - if the programid is not null use it to compare,
>         otherwise compare the Description

I'm thinking the Progid check should be implicit with anything except
"None".

> I didn't add it to the recordoverride db, even though it has the title, 
> subtitle and description fields.  I started to, but then I realized it

recordoverride is going away very soon so it doesn't matter.

> ps  I tried attaching the patches to the message, but they got moderated
>     due to their size.  In the interest of hoping to get some feedback

Unless they're really huge, you can gzip/bzip2 them before attaching.

David
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