[mythtv] MythGame PC game scanning bug?

[Marc Alban]

Marc Alban wrote:
> As a workaround I tried using the "OTHER" game type for my PC games and 
> the problem was resolved.  Maybe the offending code can simply be 
> removed since it is a special case for scanning PC games, which doesn't 
> seem to be needed since "OTHER" apparently to works fine.  Is there a 
> specific reason why PC games have a special case?
>
> Marc
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I found the changeset where this code was added, which claims to fix 
adding and launching PC games: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6782

I'm not sure what the problem was or how this is supposed to fix it.  My 
best guess is that this is meant to treat each PC game as its own "game 
player".
The game players name would then be used as the path to the game 
executable.  That doesn't seem to conform to the way the rest of the 
system works.
In order for the game to be recognized it still has to be scanned so a 
dummy file would need to be put in its own directory to be scanned.  
Also no
command line arguments could be defined.  None of this seems like the 
intended usage, but is the only think I can come up with.  Am I missing 
something?

The suggested way to add PC games on the user-list and wiki is to create 
a directory with the game executables (or scripts with call the 
executables) and
then have the system scan that under the "PC" game type.  The game 
player command is just left blank.  This is also matches with how the 
rest of the system works and seems to work as expected (for the "OTHER" 
game type).

Marc