[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #643: Program matching multiple recording schedules behaves unexpectantly

[Hal Burch]

Mike,

Thank you for the pointers to that discussion.  After some time, I had
figured out what the point of the code was, but it's nice to see it
confirmed.

My alternate patch (sceduler-double-alt.patch) maintains the "more
specific wins" rule.  It only changed the behavior in the case of a
tie of specificity.  My proposed behavior is to take the one that
doesn't mark the recording as inactive or repeat first.  If there's
still a tie, take the one with the higher priority.

This allows overrides to still win, regardless of what that override
specifies. Also, if you want to specify that a particular timeslot per
day or per week or per channel should behave differently ("don't
record it on SpikeTV, because of their interstatial ads"), that will
be honored.  On the other hand, you can reasonably do it without
having to deal with what I feel is quirkiness (the order of adding the
recording schedule mattering).  I still had to add the second schedule
as a "custom record", but at least it behaves the way I expect it to.

 - Hal